Send shoe protest highlights 'forgotten' children Shoes are left at council offices to highlight issues of children with special educational needs.

Shoe protest highlights 'forgotten' Send children | BBC News

Cheadle parents call for better support for Send children Campaigners say the education system is failing vulnerable pupils across the country.

Parents call for better support for children with special educational needs | BBC News

Send parents peacefully protest for better support Families lined-up pairs of children's shoes outside council offices to symbolise pupils being "failed" by the system.

Parents' shoe protest for better Send support | BBC News

Shoe protest in Northamptonshire over special education provision The government says it is "determined to deliver a better system that supports families".

Shoe protest over special education provision | BBC News

You must take my legitimate concerns seriously, ideally without making me say out loud what they are as I find when I do that they tend to sound a bit awful.

LBC Presenter Nails Exactly Why Online Response To Mass Train Stabbing Is So 'Disturbing' Lewis Goodall called out the legitimisation "reflexive racism in this country".

Lewis Goodall called out the legitimisation "reflexive racism in this country".

Farage’s disgraceful record

Disgusting how many platforms this grifter has been given

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Reform UK's Muhammad Yusuf when asking about Nathan Gill who was bribed by Russia to speak anti-EU things

YouTube video by The Guardian The Welsh town that saw off Nigel Farage | Anywhere but Westminster

Why are people in Caerphilly more articulate than the political class at highlighting the issues facing people?

Such a phenomenal snapshot of where we are - a microcosm of the factors we’re fighting as a society 🧵

Cracking stuff from @johnharris1969.bsky.social

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It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years.

Wrote a short history of conspiracy theories, and why we're drowning in them, for MIT Technology Review. Short answer: they're not really theories but a way of understanding the world — false yet seductive
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Nigel Farage asks Enoch Powell for his support ahead of the 1994 Eastleigh by-election

From this 2014 Telegraph article - www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …

Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”

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I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs Does Discord need some stars for when Management is watching? The maker of the Grand Theft Auto game series, Rockstar Games, has fired more than 30 coders and graphic designers in an act described by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) as "the most blatant and ruthless act of union busting in the history of the games industry."…

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

Opposing NATO expansion is a nonsensical policy. If countries want to join it, they can. Nobody's twisting their arms. Not sure what "non-militarised" security involves

Unrelated to this post, but: talking about 'class' is the single most effective, cost-free change Labour could make to improve their support.

Teachers leave (or plan to leave) the profession primarily because of unsustainable workloads, poor administrative support, limited autonomy, and inadequate pay. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Matt Goodwin’s fall into the abyss How a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”

“Goodwin’s mood – and his politics – started to turn in around 2016, the year in which the UK voted to leave the EU and the US voted for Trump. This was also the approximate time Goodwin is believed to have tried and failed to secure politics professorships at London universities.”

Pupils with ‘lower-level’ special needs may lose one-to-one support — The Times and The Sunday Times Some children with “lower-level” special needs may no longer get the right to one-to-one support from a teaching assistant under plans being considered by ministers. In a bid to cut the spiralling cos...

SEND briefings & speculation continues. Half-explained at best, this is exactly the kind of stuff that terrifies parents & carers apple.news/ABwmTz2dwS8u...

Ok: I understand, though of course don’t agree with, a politics of not wanting to help other people. I struggle much more with a politics of actively wanting to harm them.

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt.

There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.

No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise | BBC Science Focus Magazine The uptick in adults receiving medical help for mental health and neurological conditions is largely due to increased awareness.

No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise

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A frustratingly-still-relevant article I wrote for Science Focus magazine

#ADHD #Autism #ND #diagnosis

Platform Temperance Notes on a new wave of the Techlash

This by @maxread.info is really interesting on shift from a liberal-market critique of Big Tech to a (potentially far more potent) public health critique maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

We are on the cusp of eradicating cervical cancer, and significantly reducing penile, anal and some head and neck cancers. These are cancers that kill young adults, and it’s a tragedy. Those who spread anti-vax disinformation are killing their children.

Can anyone recommend an blog, newsletter or open access article on critical AI literacy? Even better if it critiques the promotion of AI literacy as a way to avoid AI risks and harms!

The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley Sue Cowley shares ideas about adaptive teaching and offers a range of practical strategies for creating an inclusive classroom

I'm running a webinar on adaptive teaching next Wednesday. Lots of practical advice about inclusive approaches to teaching. Pay what you can to attend. Very grateful for shares. Thank you! #EduSky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

It’s possible to live a normal, happy life in America, and it produces many brilliant, enlightened, warm, generous people. But, on some issues it remains a deeply alien, troubling, almost medieval place eg death penalty, gun rights, bigotry, religious extremism. The best and worst of mankind.