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With Reform now responsible for my SEN son’s education any step back from national legal requirements is a huge risk. EHCPs are hard-won, and necessary so long as education otherwise expects such kids to do the impossible. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Mahonia. The bees love it in the winter, the birds love its berries in the Spring, and it is extraordinarily prickly. I do not enjoy pruning it.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone is fixating on the “who would pay £16k to use a yurt for a weekend” bit of the Glastonbury yurt bankruptcy story. I am fixated on how a company can successfully charge £16k for people to use a tent for a weekend and still go bankrupt. How?!

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

McSweeney should go off and start a podcast with Dominic Cummins called #AdviserChiefs.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Surveillance on bank accounts is very intrusive - it’s not just about money, it can reveal all kinds of personal and behavioural traits that are none of the government’s business. It’s also a matter of dignity: why should benefit claimants have to sacrifice that?

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report and the Tories destroyed them www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 28 days ago • 32 comments

17 UK Jewish journalists sign letter urging Israel and Egypt to let international media into Gaza. Signatories include: Robert Peston, Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, ‪@jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social‬ of Index on Censorship, @aloner.bsky.social‬ of Prospect, David Aaronovitch ‪@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Care home investors rake in billions from pensioners 96% of elderly care privatised. Private equity moving in. Focus on short-term profits, cut wages/staff, low investment, poor care. 27% price hike. £1.5bn taken by shareholders. Need integrated healthcare, not sharks. archive.ph/0HR8Y

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

Too often, people are only able to access support once they’ve already spent a night on the streets.  We’re changing that. Our new plan will remove the need for someone to be verified as rough sleeping before getting help, putting prevention at the heart of our response.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Russia’s building up military infrastructure along the Finnish border. Installations are showing up in satellite images. Is this just posturing, or preparation for whatever comes after Ukraine? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/w...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Update: I’ve learned five letters of the alphabet. This is going to be a long year.

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submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

I cannot believe how stupid we were to think that if only the Holocaust was known about in advance we’d have stopped it. Gaza destroys all of the pretty little lies people hold about society. This is Hell, with absolute vermin in control.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning, marvellous peeps. This is @sturdyAlex with your Monday news round. Especially on a day like today, accurate information delivered in a non-screechy way is important. Stay tuned for analysis, opinion, and video. ~AA

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

I left my phone on a train like an idiot and someone handed it in at lost property like something out of the 1950s, not bad for an island of strangers (also, thankyou)

submitted 35 days ago • 43 comments

As always, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social says it best

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

All over BlueSky I see people telling immigrants, relatives of immigrants, people married to immigrants, that they’ve misunderstood Starmer. Stop. Just stop. We know what it feels like. Don’t tell us we don’t. Don’t tell us we’re wrong. Just don’t.

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

submitted 37 days ago • 18 comments

See that plastic pipe next to a street tree, or a bag around the trunk? Fill them with water as that’s what they are for Adopt a street tree or a whole street. The trees will thank you for it, and especially in this current dry period 🌳🌳🥵🌳🌳

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

A weird aspect of UK migration debate is how so many people are fascinated by supposedly ideal outcomes in Denmark, a country with half the population of Greater London and with business sectors that still depend on flows of cheap migrant workers. Not so much apples vs oranges as Apple vs microwave

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Maybe this is why I’m so cynical at times.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Which current MPs can you name who make these points so well/at all? There’s not many…

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 763 comments

Politicians really need to stop using X to assess public opinion on any given subject, at this point they might as well be relying on 4chan.

submitted 38 days ago • 42 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

When you hear that 10 million in the UK aren't working... fullfact.org/online/UK-nu...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

UK food shops report ‘massive’ rise in pensioner shoplifting. Poverty forces people to do desperate acts Full state pension less than 50% of min wage, loss of winter fuel payment, unchecked profiteering. Govts perpetuate poverty with low wages, benefit cuts. Align state pension with living wage

submitted 38 days ago • 35 comments

Everyone involved in this deserves the highest possible commendation. It looks mind-meltingly beautiful. www.timeout.com/london/news/...

submitted 39 days ago • 32 comments

Jonn is as usual correct! If you want to address the concern that Britain is broken best not to break it any further!

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

I wish I believed these issues had been thought through. But it shows every sign of half-arsed-flappy-hands-Westminster-headline-panic thoughtlessness.

submitted 39 days ago • 41 comments

My biggest advice to new managers relates to this: Create safe spaces for failure. People have to fail to learn. They have to fail to innovate. They have to be confident they can fail to report issues. The happiest and most effective teams are ones that treat failure as a necessary part of the job.

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments