NEW POST: The vital flexibility of EOTAS provision is at risk from the new SEND proposals, says Joanna Gibbs of SENsational Tutors. She says the lack of details about alternative provision and specialist tutors is worrying families who rely on it. www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-reform-...

I'm sorry to ask for help again so soon, it's just our epileptic girl Mango has been in hospital for 4 days and we've also had 5 very wonky kittens (two who can't walk) brought in. A miracle would be lovely 😭

Have seen this too many times. Nothing's too much for cute little kids, especially when there's a bonus of saviour kudos for the professionals involved. As adults, those same people are labelled liabilities, pushed out of sight as embarrassments and ignored. www.chuffin-ell.com/post/the-cos...

Errrrr … looks like one of the great achievement of AI is to pick up on patterns of mixed deliberate and indirect discrimination and … consolidate it as heightened deliberate discrimination.

Dear Stephen Timms... We ARE the fucking tax payers

Like this from @timharford.ft.com on how inclusive design principles can often help all users, not those just seen as traditionally excluded www.ft.com/content/4d8e...

To be clear: This is funding for what the State Department calls "civilizational allies" - MAGA-aligned people and parties in Europe, who share their disdain for human rights and their preference for ethnically pure societies and a totally unregulated internet

Learning Disability England has written an open letter to Prime Minister on health inequalities www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/learnin...

If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade

Hello it’s me, your semi-regular hustling for archive work post. Do you need something copied from the archives or perhaps some research completing, but can’t get there yourself? Pay me to go instead. I’m great!

In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.

NEW POST: While Government plans to restrict #EOTAS rights (and they are JUST plans), SEND parent, Eva Sheffield, explains how children with alternative education via what's often called "s19 EOTAS" face another battle: transport to access their provision www.specialneedsjungle.com/home-to-scho...

Disabled people’s organisations have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms Review and warn it has “diluted” disabled people’s concerns about possible cuts to their personal independence payment. #PIP #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...

I'm old now and am not going to win this battle, but one of the most depressing aspects of my career as a teacher has been seeing how little teachers and others in education care about the standard of resources they put in front of their students.

“Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.” @hetanshah.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/fbde...

In today's episode of reports which tell us what we knew all along...There is no overdiagnosis of autism, ADHD and poor mental health amongst young people. There's just diagnosis, for a variety of reasons, none of which relate to 'gaming the system' - but may relate to engaging with the system

Another front just opened up in the removal of educational rights from the most vulnerable CYP. 👇

15% of the general population die before they are 65 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?

"They hurt me dad" Disabled man forced into care homes, after direct payments stopped by Wolverhampton Council, who then used court proceedings in attempt to silence his family. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... CW: Institutional abuse, injury detail.

Friends! If you know anyone who is planning to train as a science teacher in September, please tell them that I am giving away FREE Kindle editions of “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” which is on many science teacher training reading lists and recommended by lots of science teachers

My review of Evolution. The BBC series, not the concept. But to be fair, I'm a big fan of both. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c6c0...

A very generous offer.👍

In his editorial on 6.7.2026 @jonsevers.bsky.social reflected on the new report published about white working class educational outcomes…. I am going to reflect back on this.. Long thread I have much experience (and years) of working in schools serving these populations successfully. 1/n

NEW at The Empty City On FIFA overturning the Balogun suspension A parable of a clever lawyer and a wise lawyer emptycity.substack.com/p/on-fifa-ov...

How long will it be before we start hearing people with disabilities and special needs being described once more as "useless eaters"? Because frankly, if I'm interpreting this right, that's what such culture warriors are thinking. Sorry to download. Feeling quite angry and bitter right now.

It's a collective psychopathy, which treats disabled people, elderly people and people with long-term conditions as disposable. We see it in the Covid-19 pandemic. We see it in the heatwaves. Their deaths are inconvenient reminders that a favoured policy is disastrous. So they must be dismissed.

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

LA whistleblower reveals senior managers 'laughed about denying help to children with SEND'. Confirms what families say they experience dealing with LAs, shocking but not surprising. Serves to underline that legal rights should be strengthened, not removed. www.itv.com/news/2026-07...

NEW POST: Measure What Matters & @romillyweeks.bsky.social ITV, disclose the testimony of an LA SEND whistleblower, exposing the toxic culture of obstruction rooted inside England's SEND services. It's not only unchecked, it's encouraged. Read it here: www.specialneedsjungle.com/toxic-cultur...

A reminder that DLD has wider impacts on learning, including maths. #DevLangDis

We have been told repeatedly that this is a poor climate to help foreigners, that no one wants to donate to this sort of thing anymore and we won’t get the money we need. Major donors have not stepped forward and we face a massive battle but we are NOT giving up on these guys. Please share 🙏

I know there's a million reasons why this man is a solid gold shit, but this is another one. There's always some cock in a suit who wants to bring back institutionalisation for cost reasons and they are always doing so because they are a solid gold shit.

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Ethnic minority women giving birth at Nottingham were denied interpreters, laughed at by staff and even had accents mimicked. Just some examples of the cruel treatment to be exposed by Ockenden on Wednesday.

Very sorry to read this. One of the good guys @nearlylegal.co.uk has gone. Andrew Milne is still here.

NEW ARTICLE! "Brexit as Democratic Crisis: Parliament, People & Prophetic Democracy" The Brexit crisis brought the UK's democratic institutions close to breakdown, culminating in an unprecedented assault on judges, Parliament & MPs. How did it happen? Free here! 🧵 academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

💬 “Some disadvantaged groups, particularly working-class girls, and many ethnic minorities, dramatically outperform at school, only to see those gains disappear in the labour market." Our report unpacks how gender, ethnicity, and place shape opportunity ⤵️ www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

Oh … and there is this - Trump’s “Retreaty of Versailles “

A mother whose son was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder at the age of three has said early intervention was key for supporting families facing learning disability challenges.

Either masterful trolling or an astonishing coincidence for the French to arrange for a humiliating instrument of surrender to be signed at Versailles.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Kiddo asked for his sandwiches to be cut into triangles. He did not specify that they had to be congruent.

This will hurt students with disabilities and their families. Donald Trump and Linda McMahon are trying to gut public education — we need to keep standing up for every student in America.

Completely fascinating report, including the detail that @hopenothate.org.uk shared intel that Russians were targeting the PM with UK police and were ignored. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Says the charlatan who told us that Brexit would not mean leaving the single market and that the Covid virus would not kill anyone…

“Autistic kids are being experimented on. Families are spending huge amounts, and losing everything”

Q: How did we survive in the old days without modern hygiene or medicine? A: Half of us didn't. 🧪 #science #medicine #progress

A lovely surprise for me this morning. An anonymous reader of my has gifted a two year renewal of my website plan, and one year renewal of my domain name. A very generous gift! Whoever you are- thank you on behalf of myself and my readers! #LectionaryPrayers

Some news: 🇺🇦 Next month I'm driving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I'll be delivering an evacuation vehicle, specially modified for saving lives in areas of the highest danger. But that's only possible if I can fundraise enough - £3,500. I'd be so grateful for any support you can give. donorbox.org/johnoxleydu