‘A school environment characterised by a profound lack of empathy’ My only surprise about this depressing report is how long it has taken for the dark side of the Mossbourne cult to be acknowledged. A lack of care and respect for children was written into the formula and celebrated from day one.

How on earth does Richard Tice know what Farage definitely didn’t say when he was at school?

Join @togetheralliance.bsky.social and get ready to march on 28/3/26

Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social

Did the earth move for you? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

🌳 While the official #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign comes to a close today, our work continues because everyone deserves to feel safe, welcome and respected in our parks. 💚

We do indeed!

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

We did it. We hit our target in just four days! Thank you to everyone who donated so generously. If you have not made a donation yet, don’t hold back. It won’t be doubled ☹️ but it will be valued and appreciated!

We have hit our target in four days! Thanks to everyone who contributed. Please don’t hold back if you have not donated yet. It won’t be doubled 🙁 but it will be valued and appreciated.

What better day to make a contribution to our big fundraising push? Help @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social with you donation and it will be doubled by @biggive.bsky.social With your support we can make the outside world more welcoming to girls, young women and lots of other people too.

The concept of imaginative thinking - of which they are a) incapable and b) scared - is to be crushed.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Look around parks - who is missing? Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in. It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts. Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.

Young babies are protected by everyone around them being vaccinated and their mothers having booster doses in pregnancy. Such a senseless and unnecessary death. Kennedy junior and his anti-vax colleagues have blood on their hands.

My blog about the work we’ve been doing over the last year to @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social and what where we are heading next. Read to the end and find out how you can help. @biggive.bsky.social

This captures much of the frustration of today.

Something inside so wrong: Labi Siffre tells Tommy Robinson to stop using anti-apartheid anthem

“We improve spaces by taking them up’ Here’s to all the fabulous public spaces in London. Let’s make sure EVERYONE can take up public spaces everywhere @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social

Please go and see ‘Small Acts of Love’ at the newly reopened Citizens Theatre. Incredibly powerful and poignant play which deserved its standing ovation. Written by Frances Poet with Music and Lyrics by Ricky Ross. ( Bring hankies)

@islington-council.bsky.social - do the right thing and get the flags removed from Roseberry Avenue and Amwell Street. They've been up a week now.

None of main childhood vaccine uptake targets reached in England - as MMR uptake hits 15-year low

Last week, we were out & about talking to the public in Glasgow! At a time when hostility can feel overwhelming, it was deeply heartwarming to hear how much love, compassion & solidarity is out there. The message was resoundingly clear: Refugees are welcome here! 🧡 #partofthebiggerpicture🧩

Royal College of Surgeons is looking for a chair for their patient participation group. A complex and important role chairing PPG meeting and attending 10 @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social Council meetings a year, each one five hours long. Pay? Zero. How long before patient input is properly valued?

Today’s Epping judgement seems a decent reason to share this recent Healthwatch Hertfordshire report that paints a stark picture of what it’s really like to live in an asylum hotel. www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/news/2025-07...

I used to run the Foreign Office. This is my advice for today’s extraordinary White House meeting

Genuinely good news - a first step towards repairing some of the damage of the last 15 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

You may have seen that as of the end of June, NHS.uk will no longer be operating their feedback service. We want to reassure you that Care Opinion will continue to provide our feedback platform as normal. Here is a blog by our Director of R&D, James Munro: www.careopinion.org.uk/blogposts/12...

Something to cheer you up.

My annual reposting of my most important message.

I don’t say this lightly: I think the latest from @xkcd.com might be the best YouTube video I’ve ever seen. (3m37s)

Active travel and green space are good for your health. Who knew?

This is a brilliant and fascinating exhibition. A century of UK protest through photographs. This one was taken in secret by a camera hidden inside the photographer’s top hat.

PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise. Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.

Honoured to be invited to the launch of @tomshakespeare.bsky.social’s second novel, The Ends, last night. Can’t wait to read it. Hope it has as many laughs and as much wisdom as the first one!

Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where @juliangrenier.bsky.social will present "Play, access and opportunity: Game-changing action for children". Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20... Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025

AND WHAT DID YOU GIVE HIM FOR BREAKFAST?

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, 30,000 ceramic poppies have been installed at the heart of the Tower of London. A powerful symbol of remembrance for all those who served. Credit: Historic Royal Palaces/Imperial War Museums

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Nor surprising, but maybe helpful for those who still need convincing of something so bleedin’ obvious.

It costs about 7k visa and NHS fees for a 3 year postdoc. My post doc pay is about 35k before tax. It is ridiculous. I paid for it using my grant money but that means less money to actually do science.

Vox Holloway singing The Special AKA’s “In the Studio” at Alexandra Palace theatre last night was a lot of fun. In a nice bit of circularity, Jerry Dammers speaking afterwards said he’d first heard of Mandela at a 65th bday gig at Alexandra Palace in 83 and wrote Free Nelson Mandela afterwards.

The 2025 Making Music Awards are open! We’ve introduced two new awards celebrating photography and diversity in music programming. Help us honour the individuals, groups, and projects making a difference in leisure-time music. Submit by 6 June. https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/opportunities/awards

UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Hey you. Malignant narcissist. Name rhymes with Bump. See our @independentsage.bsky.social report on Diversity in Science. Evidence is all in there, should you wish to look. You’re welcome. independentsage.org/report/how-d...