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If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

From a friend in Belfast.

This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...

In 2018, my LA closed its special school for autistic children without a LD in favour of units attached to mainstream. The result was many children stranded at home, suffering poor mental health with no support. 5 years later they opened a new school to replace the one they closed. Such a mess.

This is great. I recently completed an assessment for my daughter and found myself wondering why I was filljng in a form that locates deficits in her and not the system she has been in.

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

Great White Shark.

Very good description of psychiatric diagnoses from @awaisaftab.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

This is what normalisation looks like.

One of my kids was like, "When someone else is being told off, I feel like it's happening to me. I get so many feelings I don't know what they are or what to do with them." youtu.be/szH-jEr6SNA?...

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

We are delighted that our Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic film is an award winner in the iDEAL International Film Festival animation category 2026 This film shines a light on the many ways Autistic people experience and make sense of the world. youtu.be/3O6hy-usIug?...

Reminder we have 2000+ autistics and learning disabled people locked up often being abused. Terrible cases, we have failed to fund their freedom for a decade now. Some for up to 45 years, some die in care, some never leave. Zero funding, zero interest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t go to the hellsite any more. I keep my account so when people send me occasional links I can check them out. I was sent this today, and it’s too long for BS to upload. But it’s worth five minutes of your time. I choked up twice. Stay safe @adamboxereducation.bsky.social x.com/adamboxer1/s...

Strong contender for “stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in a British newspaper”. By all means, take issue with the Greens. They are far from perfect. But this is embarrassing.

Commentary: You Can’t Even Watch A Movie Anymore Without Seeing Some Theme Explored https://theonion.com/you-cant-even-watch-a-movie-anymore-without-seeing-some-theme-explored/

We're thrilled that Fred Fordham's graphic novel adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic!

Quite literally Nazi propaganda.

This is excellent. Reminded me of an exchange between an autistic teenager and gov minister, Catherine McKinnell, on Woman's Hour SEND special. CK says that when we get it right for SEND kids, we get it right for everyone. The teen immediately claps back, saying she can't be in a school due to PTSD.

At last I have got around to responding to Professor Dame Uta Frith's TES piece, in which she questions the autism spectrum In a nutshell, I disagree... "yes, autism is a broad and diverse category — that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the category itself" medium.com/@suefletcher...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Powerful speech on SEND from Chris Coghlan MP. CW suicide. www.facebook.com/share/v/18Rm...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Exactly the culture we aim to foster in our classrooms.

Randomly clicked on this and discovered an astonishing documentary from 1975, which tells the story of Michael, a troubled but likable boy with a penchant for arson. He later said that he stopped setting fires for some time after the film as it had given him a voice. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I debunked the original headlines about these school guidelines when they first came out a couple of weeks ago. But then the Daily Mail pushed this on Facebook over the Easter weekend, so I felt the need to address that too! 1/6 🧵

Gorgeous bench in Hexham memorialising Benjamin Zephaniah

Today we launched a website to track how much orange assface plays golf. We’re guessing this thing is gonna get a workout! Bookmark it. Enjoy! More: TrumpGolfTrack.com

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Whenever someone says "emerging author" i picture this

In my latest podcast, @mrjlauder.bsky.social told me about how the Government's proposed changes to EHCPs and the wider SEND system could affect parents like him and many others. Listen to the full episode here: insideyoured.com

Both of my children have an autism diagnosis that was made in the context of severe mental health crises (a severe anxiety disorder/ARFID). They would not have needed these had they grown up with an ed/health that supports human flourishing. Good sense from AF. www.annafreud.org/news/the-fab...

'Britain can cut the money disabled people need to eat regular meals and pay the rent. Or we can have an adult conversation about how an increasingly sick and ageing population is squared with the costs – and responsibilities – that come with it.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Took a moment write up something on May elections take a break. Given I wrote on By elections for Runcorn last year predicting the loss. You really think a SEND parent will vote Labour? A disabled person? An autistic, adhder neurodivergent ? open.substack.com/pub/ckeep/p/...

"Neurodivergent people incentivised to get a diagnosis because we will only take their needs seriously if we are legally required to do so."

As teacher/SENDCO - is a definite group of children with challenges that make school and learning a massive difficulty. The diagnosis pathway is rigorous - I speak as the mum of an AuDHD young adult who has been down it - they don’t diagnose lightly. I work in a very deprived community. Continued…

Seriously ...What resources?

Lol. What support? My kid barely received a secondary education. The state abandoned him.

Rowdy Roddy Piper's line from They Live. youtu.be/hXJI-G7ulsg?...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

The sensitive beings are the canaries in the coal mine. They are an early warning system that has been flashing red for a while now, the system protects itself by centering the problem with the individual or family. So the Home Ed numbers rise, suitable schools need hours of transport to reach. 1/

Lots of interesting points here. This week, I had multiple headteachers in my classroom watching a lesson. The lesson was very carefully thought through with worked examples, modelling, scaffolding. Feedback was amazing: "you can't tell who the SEND kids are", "teaching like this is an act of /1

Thread #SEN : I’ve been contemplating the SEN reforms. With a limited budget, how will government ensure all schools have equal & fair access to Experts at Hand? The single Case Study cited as an example of EaH in practice has given me cause to think. It’s screenshotted below with link in ALT text /

Parents of Send pupils without EHCPs are least satisfied with schools, survey in England finds | The Guardian

I'd love to see a period accurate dark is rising series.