One of the Guide badges is called "Human Rights". It literally says, "They belong to everyone, no matter where they’re from, what they believe or how they choose to live. They aren't optional." You can't make this 💩 up.

We've just launched our brand new animation for schools! 'What is secularism' explores what secularism is and how it protects freedom of belief for everyone, and enables people with different worldviews to live together in an increasingly diverse society. #secularism🧵 humanists.uk/2026/03/17/w...

🚨 It's the last day to submit evidence to the RE review panel in Northern Ireland. If you don't live in NI you can email your submission to [email protected] . Please add your voice before it closes! #TeamRE #UKEd @natre-update.bsky.social

This is what taking responsibility as a public servant and showing leadership looks like.

Surely you can’t be serious

Just two days left to submit evidence to the RE review panel #TeamRE #UKEd @natre-update.bsky.social

Just out of my first @allianceparty.bsky.social conference, featuring inspiring speeches from @eointennyson.bsky.social , @naomilong.bsky.social and @andyburnham.bsky.social amongst others, and a great panel on NI's divided education system hosted by @iefni.bsky.social . #APNI26

Northern Ireland is making fundamental changes to its core RE syllabus. The drafting group will need all the expert advice it can get - please reply to their call for evidence! #UKEd #TeamRE #StrictlyRE @therepodcast.bsky.social @natre-update.bsky.social @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social

It's just 1 poll (for now) - but here's how it plays out in the Nowcast Model: RFM: 227 (+222) GRN: 135 (+131) LDM: 92 (+20) CON: 59 (-62) SNP: 48 (+39) LAB: 40 (-371) PLC: 20 (+16) Others: 10 (+5)

Latest from me: By dint of its relationship with the trade unions alone, Labour still plays a vital role in our democracy – but it also looks dangerously like an archaic legacy party. Its old majoritarian dreams are over www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never forget.

This is spot on. I just hope someone at the BBC truly hears it and attempts to bring about the deep structural changes that institution requires.

Yes @london.gov.uk

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

This is utterly vile. What has become of the Labour party?

The latest AI nonsense Google has decided to serve me – distinctly *not* a Wikipedia experience.

Reform could gain another MP this Thursday. That's why we're urging Labour, Lib Dem, & other party supporters to lend their vote to the Greens this time in Gorton & Denton. We've carried out extensive research and it points to this being our best chance of stopping a very real threat from Reform.

Big problem with the BBC is its sheer credulity and lack of intellectual curiosity about stuff. It feels like it has lost the will to interrogate (with rare exceptions)

I've just signed to call on Belfast City Council to keep 2 Royal Avenue as a community space. Will you sign too? my.actnowni.org/petitions/ke...

Frustration in the public and the Commons over the filibuster is palpable and growing. A small group of peers are subverting the will of the elected chamber. We’re urging everyone who cares about this issue, and about democracy, to sign. #AssistedDyingBill petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

Brilliant analysis as usual from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every American needs to watch this:

This site is one of the most beautiful things on the internet. Every time you load it, it loads a new letter written by someone who cares and who wants you to stick around. Please share, and please write a letter if you feel called to do so. www.reasonstostay.co.uk?utm_source=i...

Today we are very proud of our own @javedlove.bsky.social , who has exercised his legal right to withdraw from teaching RE and Collective Worship. Javed is the first teacher in NI to exercise this right for at least 10 years. Find out why he did so below. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is today. Get along if you can to show your opposition to these data centres. Cllrs we will be watching what you decide on this!

I wrote this for The Skeptic about the ever intriguing William M. Knox and his (often hilarious) lambasting of the claims of spiritualists in a pamphlet of 1892. www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/11/a-fo...

There is nothing to be gained by continuing to watch the murder of Alex Pretti or the number of people with power who are justifying the murder - no more to be learnt - those who stand with them, or justify them,stand for fascism - listen to voices of resistance or find time for something beautiful

Statement in full on Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Adq...

Just announced - The Race For Space at Alexandra Palace, a 10(+1) year celebration. Join us if you can, please (and bring a friend). www.youtube.com/watch?v=udeP... Pre-sale starts 10am on Monday 26 Jan; general sale starts 10am on Thursday 29 Jan. FAQ here: www.patreon.com/posts/148198...

The Belgian prime minister at Davos with an interesting analysis from a European perspective.

This is a great list of activists, charities and community organisations working to change Northern Irish politics for the better. Please follow, re-share, and let me know if you’d like added or if you know any other accounts I should add. Thank you! 💙

'Now I want you to listen very carefully to what I am about to say,' said the Patrician amiably, 'otherwise you will die'.

Still bit alarmed by how basically fascist this attitude is. “The people want RESULTS not ELECTIONS!!!”

⚠️Farage in 2022: "It is a complete insult to voters for MPs to have the arrogance to think that it's them they voted for. You, the voters are just useful to them once every few years." ❓Jenrick in 2026: "I don't intend to call a by-election. I believe my constituents knew that I stood up for them."

Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7) ➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6) 🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0) 🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5) ☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0) No Ind (-1.7) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

It is terrifying that Shabana Mahmood thinks the Panopticon is something to aspire to.

Lots of new stuff for 2026 - I am in #belfast on Friday 8pm cqaf.com/robin-ince-t...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

An announcement.

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

Reminder that just a month ago the Swiss Government rejected using Palantir in any role in Switzerland's Government. Because they posed a 'catastrophic' threat.

This is the critical weakness of the United States. $8 trillion dollars. And I think that's just government holdings. Collectively, European citizens may well own roughly the same amount or more via their pensions and other investments.

Well done and best of luck to this couple planning Northern Ireland’s first natural burial ground – what a beautiful idea. www.youtube.com/shorts/Sh2tJ...

Robin Ince should be Poet Laureate. He is a voice of humanity and justified anger in these dark times.

Hard agree. I'm increasingly just zero sympathy for the cowardly chauvinists who can't handle places where lots of different people get along together.