"Ceasefire" has become one of many 'floating concepts' these days: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If only the same energy and resource had been put into the enquiry into the dodgy Covid contracts, which were worth billions: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Historically, prospective Cllrs have undertaken training prior to elections so they are fit to govern if elected: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Swimming pools and leisure centres? Local Authorities spend c. 80% of their income on children and adults' social care - which they are legally obliged to do. Let's see how #Reform get on with that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have you got the kind of job where you are asked to do work but often get this? "Unfortunately, the only renumeration we can offer is the knowledge that you have made a difference to the children and teachers' experience."

Like Michael Johnson and Usain Bolt and too few others, success comes from doing things differently, being a creator rather than a consumer www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

My word, how we need to remember #Mandela "The struggle is my life." Or even #Nietzsche's condemnation of 'slave moralities'. www.un.org/en/events/ma...

c. 500 million USD per day www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Last week I Googled Oliver Bolton Williams (newly elected #Reform Cllr for Royds, Bradford) and found this www.lanhydrock-estate.com/about: heir to £15m estate in Cornwall, trophy hunter, ex-Love Island. Try searching for him today and you'll struggle to find these things: funny how t'internet works

A shedload more for @privateeyenews.bsky.social to add to their list. Next issue likely to be a bumper edition. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ironic that Mahmood is first big beast calling for #Starmer's head when she's been the driver of a creeping authoritarianism, including constraints on the right to protest. This is a policy problem; changing the face of Blue #Labour won't wash. A new radical leftist agenda is essential for survival.

All very well blaming Kier but the top lot and hundreds of Labour MPs have fallen in line with a largely disastrous Blue Labour policy agenda. Even if they back a Burnham-led radically different programme, they will be viewed as disingenuous. Above all, this has been a values failure.

Eluded Morgan departure / resignation speech like a manifesto that was never heard. "Politics is faster and harder; it rewards noise over truth." An antidote: the values of fairness, solidarity and community, a commitment - first and foremost - to the working class. The antithesis of Blue Labour.

"Its about time we had a proper gander at propaganda" (Saju Ahmed) #Localelections

Has the penny dropped? Blue Labour is the cause of all this; it ain't Labour www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Yeah, I get it, but it doesn't mean I like this kind of 'lobbying' for youth services. It only seems to consolidate the policy drivers that seek to re-conceptualise #youthwork. The idea that youthworkers are educators appears long gone; crime prevention is top dog. www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

#Dawkins makes that classic philosophical mistake: asking what something is *for* without have first established what that something *is* #conceptanalysis #AI #consciousness www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#Tory attitudes to #cycling amaze me. They seem to find it impossible to imagine that residents, businesses and visitors could also be cyclists. And fail to appreciate that getting from A to B efficiently and whenever wanted is the epitome of the Sovereign Individual. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reggio Emilia, a must for all interested in the #philosophy of #education www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And yet #youthworkers are constantly told their mission is 'confidence-building'. Watching someone do something online is no qualification for actually being able to do it. Adventure is akin to an apprenticeship, it takes a while; whereas social media drives immediacy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@livingstreets.bsky.social Amendment 40, the sooner the better

Perhaps Trump works to a different calendar to most folk, such as that used by the Akan people of Ghana (six-day week)? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Echoes of the Manchester Ten and 'prosecuting rap' www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) has ceased its operations due to challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalisation of Palestinian human rights organisations: eurochild.org/news/defence...

Mon Dieu: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zadie Smith:

"Trump, reflective, calls for unity and a cooling of political rhetoric." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Why do you think so many people want to hurt you, Mr President?"

Sawe ran last 5k of London Marathon faster than UK parkrun record: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

"The recent protests have revealed some prejudices within society, which have been acted on in a way that has caused fear and victimisation." One wonders what the 'protestors' think now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Goodwin curve:

750,000 golf course members, in effect, control 2% of England's land area. And yet 1% of the population of England own fully half the land. As Dorling shows: the #housing 'crisis' is rooted in the #geography of #inequality: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost three-quarters of 18-29 year-olds are estimated to have backed Tisza, and a former ambassador to the US under Orbán, Réka Szemerkényi, told the BBC she was impressed by the messages that Hungary's younger generation had conveyed to their new leaders. #Youth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One wonders what Osborne and Cameron make of this headline, bearing in mind they also viewed #austerity as a perpetual process.

There are some jobs where to provide a good service requires flexible working - literally being present at different times depending on people's needs. These social practices are undermined by part-time-ism: the work plays 'second fiddle'/has to fit in with other less temporally-appreciative roles.

"I deeply believe that we are at a turning point in this nation my people, do you feel it?" gothamist.com/news/mejia-w...

The #Bicycle as Rebellion: Inside A Simple Machine and the Radical Case for Wanting Less: an inquiry into how we live, what we value, and what we are willing to trade in exchange for stability, comfort, and status. #TwoWheelsGood momentummag.com/the-bicycle-...

Typically, populists in government contribute to their own demise through cronyism and corruption. The issue is what harm do they do in the process and the extent to which they have disassembled democratic structures to protect themselves from removal.

Something in common? #MOT

Might there be such a thing as 'de-volving' (in contrast to e-volving) i.e. sometimes I think 'things' are going backwards? See also The Myth of Progress.

If we accept that faith is belief in something that cannot be proven then there's little room for manoeuvre, for negotiation, for third parties, for democracy. *God help us* sic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Geography: space, place and im/mobilities: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Trump still thinks carpet-bombing Iran will encourage the masses onto the streets in order to overthrow the regime.

A policy to get behind: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As predicted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... One can only imagine what Trump will come up with when he finds himself on the back foot.

An assessment that should trouble all whose thinking is dominated by 'cost-benefit analysis'. In whatever terms it is used, CBA is just another form of hegemony: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hungarians have a chance to change not only their country but the entire world, to chip away at the power of the global far right and re-establish democracy: "to go closer to the people, to let them ask questions and reply openly and honestly": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whilst "the move is designed to reflect longer life expectancy" it doesn't take account of the fact that the age at which we cease to live 'healthy' lives is decreasing - now 61. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting to reflect on the fact that folk will take different notes of the same meeting, which invites comparison and dialogue. And what we might lose if we sub-contract note-taking to AI.