📚💡💭 Poetry books for 7-11-year-olds 🖋️🤔📚 With collections by Michael Rosen, Joseph Coelho, Brian Moses, Kate Wakeling, Neal Zetter, John Agard, Kaye Webb & more. Includes video, audio, lesson plan & activity links. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/poetr... #booktwitter

On crucial issues the BBC now barely even tries to report facts, only the perspectives of particular political actors on the facts, & without helping anyone understand which perspectives might be worthy of belief. This helped lead to Brexit & now it‘s helping to normalise fascism internationally

Oh boy!

The most appropriate way to target this is by (checks notes) waiting for the big boy to tell us what to do. Bullshit. There are laws on the statute books today. Enforce them. Co-ordinate action (hello Europol), but don’t leap to inaction behind a fig leaf.

“The new devices promise to reduce friction, eliminate note-taking, capture fleeting ideas and surface insights you didn’t think to ask for.”

In 2025, we used charts to help visualize the year’s biggest global tech stories, on topics as diverse as Tesla’s struggles, China’s rising EV dominance, the global AI race, data center spending, and the OnlyFans economy. Here are 10 of our favorites: restofworld.org/2025/charts-...

I see no lies here

Uganda October export earnings nearly double on coffee, gold receipts reut.rs/4qf91ok

GDPR: if a body camera is used during a ticket inspection, certain information must be provided immediately to the passenger concerned The most important information may be indicated on a warning sign, while other information may be provided in an easily accessible place.

Browse our lists of recommended books for children in primary schools, covering books for all abilities in EYFS, KS1 and KS2. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/rea... #kidlit #education

I do a Book Club subscription (see attached). for #buyastrangerabook day, in memory of his Dad, who died this year, @mjazzg.bsky.social is offering to buy a 6 month subscription for for someone who'll be by themselves at Xmas or working Xmas shifts in NHS. If you'd like it, get in touch. UK only.

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD

Age verification is safe, they tell us. There's nothing to worry about, they say.

In Tanzania the bicycle was both a declaration and an instrument of independence. In “Nyerere’s Bicycle of Self-Reliance,” Frank Edward reveals a familiar pattern by which cycling began in Dar es Salaam as a ruling-class import and developed into a practical local tool. ...

Link to check if your NHS Trust is using Palantir. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

PLEASE DONATE!! Please. Our donations keep Ahmed and his family alive. Please. 🙏

Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

A-men!

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.

Sudan Doctors Network says two of the victims were pregnant and calls for immediate action to protect Sudanese women.

This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).

Put populists under pressure and they crack every time. They always fall to pieces when they can't control the narrative. What's happening to Farage right now should have happened years ago. If the media had done its job, we'd all be in a much better place today! #FarageOut

New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Already? I thought AI was going to take over, and we were all going to spend the rest of our lives on the beach sipping champagne.

“Why are there still so many radi­olo­gists? In 2016, Geof­frey Hin­ton, often described as the “god­father of AI”, said they were already on bor­rowed time.

So how has that pre­dic­tion turned out, and what can we learn from it?”

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Most of the funds are in Belgium. @deweverbart.bsky.social must stop blocking their transfer to Ukraine, but Macron must also do his part. What France is doing there is unacceptable

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For clarity: "The" Customs Union means a joint EU seat and joint Rules of Origin at the WTO. "A" customs union just means easier import/export of some products from/to the EU. Those arguing for "a" customs union are doing so because they don't want to mention the Free Movement of the Single Market.

Namibia has seen little progress in data protection legislation this year, with the bill still pending Assembly presentation. Sierra Leone has completed the validation of its Data Protection and Right to Access Information Bill, which will be presented soon.

"Most billionaires get into anti-aging after they’ve made their first billion. Flip that — make sure your son doesn’t age until he’s made his first billion. How cool will it look if he announces his first IPO in an unbroken voice" #Parenting www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground: “He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another weird billionaire with too much power

Germany is Israel’s second-largest arms supplier, fifth-largest export partner, and one of its staunchest supporters.

Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism. As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them". Labour knows this and just carries on. www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

Soldiers on Benin's national television claim to have seized power reut.rs/3MkIHut

Great, looking forward to welcoming more self obsessed, greedy egotistical tech bros.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Israeli soldiers kill 55-year-old Palestinian and teenager in West Bank reut.rs/4a2Kbn4

A group of soldiers appeared on Benin’s state TV, announcing they had dissolved the government in what appears to be a coup in the West African nation.

Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal. Ridiculous. People punished for providing unpaid care. Complex rules and cliff-edge limits result in benefits withdrawn for going over by pennies. Thousands prosecuted. Meanwhile, no one charged for the Post Office scandal.

You can combine the pendant with your Meta Ray Bans and virtually guarantee that you’ll be the biggest asshole in any room you are in.

"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is Farage still facing scrutiny over his partner’s £885k Frinton home. Is it aggressive tax avoidance? Has he misled voters? Where’s the transparency? What’s happening? Just asking questions. #FrintonGate

OPINION: Until the industry pays a fair price and governments enforce real accountability, every bar of chocolate remains an unpaid moral debt.

How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage. Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar. Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...