My 5 year old, understandably for someone born in 2021, asked earlier if everyone gets to be PM.

Went to Hardcastle Crags for the Bluebells but was treated to cuckoo flower and Greater Stitchworth (I think) as well #wildflowerhour

Although the sex breakdown of either perpetrators or victims isn't given in this, it feels like something the Government needs to address if it wants to tackle medical misogyny

🚨 Hundreds of NHS staff a year are being investigated for sexual misconduct with many allowed back to work even after being found guilty. Now Britain's top surgeon says enough is enough and a radical overhaul is needed to protect staff & patients: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Deep-Sea Sea Pigs: Scotoplanes, the Echinoderms that Walk the Abyss at 5,000m Depth

Said it before and I'll say it again, you don't need to agree with Zack Polanski's politics to call out what is quite clearly in my view, antisemitic caricaturing. And no, saying this doesn't lend him any political credibility. It just means we should critique his views and actions not appearance

A vote for Reform, is a vote for concentration camps. The reference to Green constituencies is a mere distraction from the violence cretins like Zia Yusuf wants to inflict on our communities.

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

Bradford's diversity is its strength. These repugnant views have no place in our communities, let alone in positions of power, making decisions about our schools, social care, and regeneration.

NHS management folk: See the post below and then go to this link: healthliteracy.geodata.uk Put in your work area and see how many people struggle with health literacy and health numeracy. And then pay more attention to the jargon you use with people who fall into those categories.

As this article says, there have been so many inquiries and investigations and recommendations and yet- here we (still) are

Jeremy Hunt crossed in front of my car as I drove friends home from the Lake District. Moments earlier, the news had announced the Health and Social Care Act had come into force that day

In a blatant act of provocation yesterday, Sadiq Khan allowed Christians to perform the Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square - a disgraceful show of dominance by a religion from the middle east.

It is genuinely abhorrent that a major festival would choose to book a headliner who released "Heil Hitler" *less than a year ago*. The muted outcry to it is truly chilling, too. We are deep into an antisemitism crisis that too many people want to ignore or deny.

maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/

This is extraordinarily brave. The detail of Charlotte's experience are sickening - as is the reminder that there is no 'privilege' that offers full protection. If our MPs are treated this way by both citizens and the state what hope is there for the rest of us? www.thetimes.com/article/923a...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

New Green Party childbirth policy just dropped

Student loans: how fair is our repayment system? Today our Treasury Committee is launching an inquiry into this very topic - and we’d like to hear from young people in particular. Anyone over the age of 16 in the UK can feed in to our inquiry here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

NEW POST: The Government’s use of unaccountable ‘experts’ for SEND reform is shutting down debate & excluding vital voices: those of parents and people across the sector who don't agree with them—and says Dr Kieron Smith, it's undemocratic: www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...

My reaction to the government's proposed SEND reforms, from Thursday. I can't see them working for my family. At a minimum, there needs to be stronger parental involvement and accountability, especially given the risks of the inclusion base approach: open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...

Anybody who tells you they know what happens next is lying to you.

Best thing I've read on the SEND reforms: personal, really lucid, great on the policy context jimlauder.substack.com/p/the-white-...

The government’s long-awaited reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities system are a missed opportunity to dismantle the barriers that continue to drive disabled young people out of mainstream schools, say inclusive education campaigners www.disabilitynewsservice.com/send-reforms...

My husband wrote about the SEND white paper - it's more personal than we'd normally share but the current system is crushing us and our kids and better reform is needed.

'Since my youngest son started primary school in 2023, I have been fighting to ensure that physical restraint, seclusion and suspensions are not part of his everyday diet.' My personal take on the Schools White Paper for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

And to what extent several outlets across the broadcast, print and online media find this newsworthy, as the Guardian senior political correspondent Peter Walker clearly does.

Need to digest but the WP balances a lot of bold, necessary ideas to move the system forward that I've long called for (eg on place based collaboration)... ... With gutting rights for my child, imposing an inclusion model I fundamentally disagree with, and what looks like very weak accountability.

The entire argument here is incompatible with properly valuing SEND. You can’t just start saying, how can it be right this one kid’s education is too expensive and looks like something I don’t understand.

This keeps me awake at night.

This is hellish. It is utterly shameful.

I’m sure I’m not the only woman feeling like this right now. Exhausted and antsy and so angry and sad and hopeless. We all knew what was happening, we all know how power and patriarchy works. We spend so much of our energy living with that knowledge.

Behind a paywall, but deeply disturbing. The 3m #Epstein ‘files are a vast careless jumble that takes shape the more you read. There are multiple sets of "soap on a rope" in the shape of vaginas; girls' disembodied limbs;+rich, often anonymised, men using punitive, humiliating terms for women.’ 1/

Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and I still vividly remember being confused and traumatized alongside my classmates. I think about these kids being terrorized by ICE, and I think that trauma will also stay with them well into adulthood. It's unforgivable.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.* The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

These people consider themselves patriots, but grovel to the leader of a hostile foreign country.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Worked out very well for me. If this hadn't happened, I'd probably never have tried Peter Gordon's Turkish eggs.

Very keen on this. Asking for a friend and his dual-national kids.

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Leaving my son's nativity and reflecting that Mary's story is a long way from the worst birthing experience I've heard this week #maternity