Social media + online harms: FWIW I think age is a red herring: -16 is a child anyway -there’s no age where addictive content / graphic violence / pro self harm magically become safe -what about vulnerable adults? We need to decide what is safe content and block what is not safe across platforms.

We’re not going to be able to stop prices rising. Not even by paying the war criminals who invaded Ukraine, won’t stop there unless defeated, and are waging hybrid war on all of Europe. We must not sell our principles. Selling them for magic beans is just more self harm.

Sadly there’s nothing particularly surprising about this. Deception is a core feature of abusive behaviour.

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🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12

In awe of Chaminda’s bloody-mindedness running a manual search on every school to work out what the Inclusive Mainstream Fund actually amounts to. #SEND

Face it, you've run out of things to say about the Labour leadership So here's my latest substack on the govt's plans to end the SEND crisis - and what it means to take parents' legal rights away Oh, and how it ties into the Labour leadership battle chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/send-refor...

These people are disturbed. Vile, coercive threats, victimising both migrants and anyone who doesn’t consent to the violence. People who make such threats should be locked up. Everyone else has a right to be safeguarded from them.

Perhaps if people started framing these stories as “Crypto-criminals seek access to worlds most sophisticated financial markets by buying politicians” the electorate might see what they’re being asked to facilitate.

This is really bad.

The epidemic of antisemitic violence is not about Palestine any more than the weekly murder of women and children is about ‘what they did’ to upset a man or the ‘stress’ he was under. Both have been regular events for many centuries.

I don’t agree with guns + violence. Yet the aim of getting this question asked was exactly right. Shame not followed up with his being held liable for EJ Carroll; not investigated cannot = exonerated over Epstein. And correct that you’ve no right to turn the other cheek on crimes against others.

In our meritocracy we're told if we work hard we'll succeed, but the reverse logic is if we don't succeed we haven't worked hard enough, & in that system immigrants and benefit claimants are seen as the least deserving, those who get something for nothing, driving a sense of meritocratic humiliation

NEW: People with the greatest housing needs are waiting months or even years *in the highest priority bands* of social housing registers In some areas, people in the highest priority band get social housing after average waits of more than two years By me: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Discharged without a plan, he punched staff in the head repeatedly, and nobody thought he should be taken into police custody? Why was that woman forced to be proof of danger when they already knew? You can never be unraped or unkilled: stop using women as tests of men’s ability to function.

Ivy League alums talkin’ math

Another public inquiry waiting to happen. Where this # of victims, there will be multiple perpetrators. Why does it take a public inquiry to properly investigate any kind of major public protection crime these days? Why don’t women + children ‘matter’ to police + where is national security?

I’m not that interested in the cover-up drama over Mandelson for the simple reason that what they certainly knew (because I did from the literal photos that were already in the public domain) SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFYING Unless women, girls AND natsec are very low down your priorities, of course

Ladies and gents, the leader of the free world. Who is currently having an imaginary conversation with the Pope, while he tanks our economy and raves about how we should support his final descent into the abyss.

For those who like to read the full report, our Educational Psychologists research covered in the press today can be found here #SEND:

My colleague, James, gives an overview of our new report highlighting the Educational Psychologist shortage and how this constrains ability for preventative work and early help to build inclusion outside of EHCP structures.

Critical shortage of Ed Pychologists and lack of plan to expand training numbers puts #SEND reforms (Experts At Hand) at risk of being undeliverable.

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30 years ago, in a different school, I was Chloe. It’s a crying shame we don’t have enlightened developmental understanding of trauma and behaviour. You do not teach kids to be well-functioning adults by scaring the living daylights out of them or crushing their self-esteem with constant criticism.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

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People are not fast learners when it comes to household-name abuse allegations… it pays to wait and see what transpires.

One of the worst things you can do to someone undergoing significant trauma is to isolate them from others who have insight and compassion for what they are going through. Just a terrible thing to have done to the families, for their long-term mental health, as well as dishonest.

Same for Palantir - they should not be offered contracts by govt departments or agencies in the UK which gives them leverage over critical state functions. It's an overtly evil organisation run by fascists.

Do I have to join some sort of a movement or can I just call it common sense to say I'd like mentally unwell people out of leadership positions if the products they make or the people they oversee have the ability to kill Karp, Musk, Trump, Hegseth... JFC, how hard is it fill positions of power?

When this is all done we should have a tax on everyone who said they had had enough of experts...

I mean, the alternative here is to provide enough psychiatrists to assess who needs to be off work if we don’t think GPs are qualified, but you can bet that won’t be the outcome… If they don’t know how unwell people are, why is it ok for those ppl’s treatment to be left in their hands??

Wait a minute. The FBI ‘made a mistake’ with warrants that meant they lost the chance to seize the blackmail recordings? That’s doesn’t sound like a mistake. It’s too convenient for anyone who would have been revealed as a perpetrator of rape *and* as compromised by various foreign intel services.

Shocking that we wouldn't let her come... and claim asylum too. The very smallest gesture against the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.

A victory for Trump, Putin and Netanyahu. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “To be honest, I don’t even understand now how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. In fact, it no longer exists.”

Several of us did try to point out that you cannot ultimately gain anything from sucking up to Trump. His character is such that you might as well try to make friends with a scorpion.

I have complicated feelings about Huntley’s fate. We shouldn’t have a system unable to protect life. But would I prioritise fixing it when we don’t have a system that protects children or women? And can I bring myself to regret the karma of Couzens getting a taste of the fear he inflicted on Sarah??

Trump doesn’t want Americans to know they’re in danger because he’ll look bad.

Speculating on how fast Winston Churchill would have arranged for a leak of some of the choicer Epstein files if he had experienced the misfortune of encountering Trump…

strange things happened in the polymarket markets on the attack on Iran — a lot of very heavy betting, strange odds movements and 12 very suspicious wallets: www.ft.com/content/2883...

NEW POST: A parent has launched a legal challenge against the Schools White Paper's #SEND consultation. @catrionamoore.bsky.social writes about the action's claim of an “irrational, unfair” fundamental change that “significantly weakens" children's legal rights www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...

Government has pledged to wipe 90 per cent of high-needs deficits, yet some councils will remain in financial trouble – and may face a clamour from families and schools to get statutory support before reforms https://schoolsweek.co.uk/will-reforms-fix-the-send-funding-crisis/

Eight years of this: "In one incident in 2019, Easom dragged Ms Burgess upstairs by the head, banging her against each step. In 2021, Easom placed a sheet over her head and strangled her." He could be out before retirement age.

Lisa Nandy says that the government is now considering quitting X. "The first job of government is to deal with the really serious issues around regulation" ... "But I do think symbols matter - the question you ask is very much up for debate. Its a debate we are having"

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.”

'Our ancestral land'? Leave us out of it!

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

The coverage is like everyday they wake up with total amnesia, knowing the truth of nothing. They never consider the ‘fairness’ of this towards victims, only ever the accused. The victims don’t get the same repetition every time it is implied they are lying. It’s a form of abuse.

I’d rather the BBC was busy investigating just what exactly he did to the trafficked victims of sexual abuse, than all this family psychodrama fluff. Also, he should be kept alive to face justice. But wellbeing? How much wellbeing has Virginia Guiffre, and goodness knows how many others?