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As father of a 20 year old with autism & SEND, this a million times over from @johnharris1969.bsky.social. Making it harder for parents to force Councils to meet legal obligations would be cruel, undemocratic & typical of the false economies blighting Britain. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

Reflecting on Starmer’s comments on the CS yday and on the response it’s got in Whitehall since. If there’s any piece of advice I’d give Starmer - and at this fragile juncture I want to shout it from the rooftops - it would be: ‘Blame the system, not the people’. 🧵

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health. And all this goes on unacknowledged. Long read for The i Paper: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

submitted 94 days ago • 33 comments

I'm giving up eating chocolate for a month. Sorry, bad punctuation. I'm giving up. Eating chocolate for a month. #joke

submitted 99 days ago • 96 comments

I pay annually for a VPN. I do nothing dodgy but I love seeing the adverts you get on YouTube from all over the world. UK adverts seriously have nothing on Algeria.

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments

The cherry on the cake being that they have been 'forced' back into work for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the Labour party and everything to do with the fact that it in fact takes work to oversee a 60-property rental estate! I mean, who knew!?

submitted 120 days ago • 77 comments

Here's K.Badenoch, who thinks an autism diagnosis entails "economic advantages and protections". She also queries providing school transport for autistic kids & has no idea what neurodiversity/divergence are, and why they have abs nothing to do with, say, anxiety. Pls repost

submitted 138 days ago • 62 comments

And to think, I though this morning's newsletter wouldn't have much of an afterlife.

submitted 142 days ago • 14 comments

@stephenkb.bsky.social You're headlining at Glastonbury! I didn't have that on my 2024 bingo card

submitted 303 days ago • 0 comments

Stealing from musicians to give to a right wing idiot

submitted 392 days ago • 62 comments

spotted at trump international hotel just now

submitted 399 days ago • 65 comments

So much this.

submitted 405 days ago • 30 comments

Gunfight at the Not-Really-OK Corral: my SKETCH of Today in Tory grudge matches. thecritic.co.uk/gunfight-at-...

submitted 409 days ago • 1 comment

A great public servant died this weekend, so I've given over today's newsletter to one of our experts to write about what we can learn from him:

submitted 438 days ago • 3 comments

We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...

submitted 440 days ago • 16 comments

Seems like an escalation over on BBC News....

submitted 452 days ago • 0 comments

Glasto 2024 tixs sorted! Definitely one of the most stressful ones this year - sneaked in just before sold out.

submitted 467 days ago • 0 comments