A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.

The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.

If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

This is the final week to apply for the 2026 11KBW Scholarship for Black Students on the Bar Course. The successful applicant will receive £30,000.
The deadline for applications is 11:59 GMT on Friday 6 March 2026. Full details are at 11kbwscholarship.com

A step towards biomarkers for ADHD.
doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.0001
Mapping ADHD Heterogeneity and Biotypes by Topological Deviations in Morphometric Similarity Networks

...Results of this case-control study reveal ... 3 distinct ADHD biotypes with unique clinical-neural profiles.

New ‘experts at hand’ won’t arrive fast enough, DfE warned Professional bodies back bigger roles in schools for educational psychologists, occupational and speech and language therapists - but say they already struggle to meet demand

SEND reforms: New educational psychologists won't qualify until 2029 - a year after the govt's new 'experts at hand' service is meant to be fully up and running.

In the interim, the service will need to rely on a "severely stretched" profession, the DfE's being warned:

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

"Billionaires are why we have tech and jobs!" Wrong. Publicly-funded R&D is. Stop worshipping billionaires for what teachers, scientists, and taxpayers made possible.

Truth 😏👇

Padma Lakshmi just cooked this guy.

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My Grandfather had Tourette’s. I know that he experienced prejudice and attempts to bully him. I’ve been pretty stunned that in the reaction to the Davidson episode, we’ve seen a lot of the ignorance that he, a man living his life in the mid 20th century, would have recognised only too well.

Warning of 'lost generation' of additional needs children without more support The Scottish Children’s Services Coalition (SCSC) has urged political parties to make provision for this group

Warning of 'lost generation' of additional needs children without more support | STV

Families 'roadblocked' as council bans private speech therapists from schools Fiona Carswell says her son's 'life-changing' support has been disrupted after council barred private therapists at schools.

Families 'roadblocked' as council bans private speech therapists from schools | STV

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My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
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We’re in one of those situations where reporting and analysis of what has happened is really useful. And where “here’s what could happen next” will get a lot of clicks but is fundamentally almost useless.

UK launches operation to support thousands of Britons in Middle East Officials are understood to be working on plans to evacuate British nationals, should airspace remain closed.

What's happening in Dubai bolsters the argument taxes should be based on people's nationality, not just their country of residence (ie the US model).

If Brits living abroad can expect to be airlifted out by virtue of being British, they should pay some tax towards that.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
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"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."

US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.

Full statement at the link:

www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

IRAN EMERGENCY EPISODE WITH CHARLIE GAMMELL Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 2 March · 47m

🚨🚨Iran emergency episode with Charlie Gammell🚨🚨

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If the rumours are true and the kids and social media consultation opens today, here are two things I think should be banned from
social media:

1) AI bots
2) recommendations algorithms that optimise for time on site

Firm regulation of both of these things is possible and auditable

It’s out

bsky.app/profile/snel...

image shows long steps upwards with the consultation at the top colourised in mauve

NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social & @tanialt.bsky.social have some words about answering the Government’s 39 Step White Paper SEND consultation, including their—and your—use of AI www.specialneedsjungle.com/3...

Chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs of various flavours and colours.

My Easter collection is now available on my shop! 🐰
All the eggs, bunnies, and mini eggs are ready to go. They’re delicious and just waiting for someone to eat them… I also have a few plant-based options this year!

Feel free to order now or reshare if you know someone who’d love them! Thanks!

The White Paper There are some good bits, but also an approach that isn't going to work for my family

My reaction to the government's proposed SEND reforms, from Thursday.

I can't see them working for my family. At a minimum, there needs to be stronger parental involvement and accountability, especially given the risks of the inclusion base approach:

open.substack.com/pub/jimlaude...

Agree. I think there is a far more nuanced argument that both are populist, but now not the time even for that, let alone whatever that statement was.

Pleased to be supporting the brilliant team @ris-law.bsky.social with this important case, challenging the lawfulness of the recently launched SEND consultation on fairness and rationality grounds

Big shout-out to the wonderful @stevebroach.bsky.social, who's leading on the first legal challenge to the appallingly regressive* SEND proposals in the Schools White Paper.

specialneedsjungle.com/legal-challeng…

*Regressive as in, 'Making things 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚 than they were under SA, SAP and SSENs'.

Developing this great sense of foreboding that we may soon end up with huge numbers of children with legally enforceable ISPs with things like fiddle toys on them.

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This may end up being Starmer's biggest mistake. There's no fixing the health and care system now that Labour have booted out hundreds of thousands of foreign workers from them with their Reform-like immigration approach.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Trump says he is a savior of women’s sports. His ice hockey joke showed what he really thinks | Austin Killips The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were

"Men always come first in the pseudo-feminist political program of the right. Trump’s locker room showboating is less of a Freudian slip than a summation of the gender politics that have been center stage in the US. An embrace of a firmly held belief that in many domains of life women are lesser."

The irony of the party which is actively campaigning on scrapping the Equality Act and pushed a candidate who has, repeatedly, stated some fairly significant misogynistic ideas is trying to claim that "family voting" swayed the election. This is what they want, for men to control households.

Labour minister SACKED for vile jibe about pensioners and the election MAIL ON SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Gwynne also made anti-Semitic slights and 'jokes' about a constituent being 'mown down' by a truck on a WhatsApp group.

Potentially underplayed: Andrew Gwynne

As well as the dim public response to its national policies, Labour’s chances were hurt by the a scandal over WhatsApp messages where the former local Labour MP had mocked local voters

Several people brought it up with me and were visibly angry