Labour are announcing the FIRST Road Safety Strategy in over a DECADE! The aim: build a safer future for all road users. Target: cut road deaths & serious injuries by 65% by 2035. 4 people die on UK roads every day. 1 in 6 fatalieis involve drink driving. 21% of deaths are motorcyclists. 1/3

Reforms Council Head says parents and children should walk up to 10 miles round trip each day but won’t do it himself obvs 🤦🏼‍♂️

Kemi Badenoch is under pressure to act on the revelations that her shadow attorney general is representing the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, despite UK sanctions against him www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why Starmer’s Labour needs to lose the cautious approach The government needs to be more like Clement Atlee – prepared for big bold thinking to recover the nation’s economy By John Cole yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/why...

This is good but I think the massive increase in funding at the universal level that the article suggests must be also paired with an end to academisation to ensure that money goes to improving pupil provision and is not either banked or used to further inflate the salaries of MAT CEOs #edusky

Not a fan of Starmer or his Cabinet but I find the predictions that Labour can’t survive rathe puzzling, given that the Tories survived for 14 years despite having a succession of 5 incompetent, corrupt Leaders.

It's one thing to think that charity cannot be a substitute for the welfare state and for a healthy economic system that doesn't keep people in poverty. However, getting mad at people for doing charity is just absurd.

Led by Donkeys 👏👏

If he’s looking pensive in front of a cross, it’s because he’s thinking how it would look on fire in someone’s garden.

He is pushing credibility here. He says his business is threatened by tax increases.

The untold tale behind the Carol of the Bells How the Christmas classic got its start as a cry of Ukranian liberty and defiance | Tetiana Toma @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

An interpretation of the Carol of the Bells that adds a current twist. Merry Christmas @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social . Thanks for your satirical debunking of our so-called "leaders".

My Christmas article for this year. I should say that I find very few trolls on BlueSky, and that those who do try don’t tend to get very far. But just in case… @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Wombie wrote this about his friends but it is what we all thought of him too. Typical of him to have the perfect words for the occasion.

An interesting job for someone with creative ideas.

Mary Portas: ‘Voting Farage is not going to make the world better’

This practice, for example, is a form of abuse, particularly when used on children from chaotic, neglectful and/or abusive homes. A newly qualified teacher should be aware of this. So the CEO named here being appointed Chief OFSTED inspector was frankly gobsmacking. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

Maybe have a look at the salaries of the CEOs and business managers at all non-LEA schools. #EduSky

And don’t forget the privately owned social care providers. Cutting off their gravy trains would certainly help the national budget. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

A thread from this morning about inflexible systems. 🧵

Ooof. This is quite the response to the DfE's behaviour adviser blogging his opinion on the Mossborne safeguarding review. (If you haven't read the blog, I wouldn't bother, it's exactly what you'd expect.) Wonder what the DfE will do now? chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Exclusive: School governing boards are urging Ofsted to ensure cash-strapped leaders are using SEND funding for children and not to fill other budgetary holes schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-shoul...

Something that always strikes me about these reports is that parents withdraw their children when inflexible systems are put in place and they can't cope. So in the end it becomes a way of removing learners with higher levels of needs, whatever the original intention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC story on Mossbourne in Thurrock seems to see the trust admitting, or not denying,that it penalised pupils for parents missing parents evs, going into shops after sch, sock details: Pupils withdrawn from Mossbourne Federation schools in Essex - BBC News share.google/1812t1M5DUKd...

I will repost a second time - I hope that the days for this type of establishment are numbered and we can get back to joy and enthusiasm and get rid of fear.

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Thank goodness there is the common sense advice of stay at home if you are not well after all the school nonsense of ‘send them to school if unwell’.

I’m being triggered by getting a cup without a saucer. This is perimenopause. Probably.

Nigel says the BBC made shows like 'I ain't half hot mum' when he was growing up. It never made comedies about gassing the Jews. When Farage was 14 it showed the 'Holocaust' TV series which had a huge impact here as well as in Germany. Farage knew what he was doing share.google/RfLC6YYr4zZs...

The correlation between poverty and ill health is no secret, which is why we welcome the publication of the Child Poverty Strategy. Read what Sarah Arnold has to say about the recent development, then explore the facts and figures here: https://bit.ly/4oEOKrf

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Alas poor Nigel. We knew him.

Useful thread on the ADHD and ASD controversy.

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

Facial expression and tone of voice give away the bias of BBC presenters. Kunnsberg is the worst, but others too lack the impartial and professional manner for which the BBC were renowned.

Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Powerful analogy.

Lots of interesting connections here, this is the one where he fantasises about genetically engineered intelligence. He’s a walking oxymoron, a deeply dull son of a very clever father, who was one of the architects of the British welfare state.

Everything the British people needed to know about Boris Johnson, prior to voting for him. Great interview by Eddie Mair.

This man is basically just a posh lout. His school reports indicated this; his membership of the Bullingdon Club indicated this; his previous political record indicated this; his mass media appearances indicated this. How on earth did he ever get to be PM?

This is one of Ken Robinson’s TED talks that I missed first time around. And although he died in 2020, what he has to say is still crucially relevant today. #EduSky

This is clearly an intricate international conspiracy. The big question now is whether the democratic free west has sufficient cohesion left to deal with it. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

The new data on boys from low-income families in England is really striking. It’s a reminder of how important those early years are & why children need rich environments & warm, responsive adults from the very start. #ScotEduSky #EduSky #EY #EarlyYears #GIRFEC

Time to go after the companies that peddle this shit. What a world. Toxicity pays: food, fossil fuels, X,and purveyors of disinformation. Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

Farage at school by those who knew him best: www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Goldcrests at Titchwell yesterday afternoon #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds

Just imagine for a moment if these anecdotes were about a Labour MP — the mainstream media would be apoplectic and their political career would be instantly over. But, because it's Farage, the mainstream media will do absolutely nothing and he will be fine. I’ll happily be proved wrong. I’ll wait.