Life imitating art

Did the brief say 'spiralling circles' and yet what they wanted was a series of joined up loops? Glad the only ones with actual spirals won #GBBO

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Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"

This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵

#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental

Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report

Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually

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Important update from ScoutsCymru regarding CRAI Scout Activity Park CRAI Scout Activity Park is an inclusive and welcoming campsite and activity centre in the South Wales Valleys offering a range of outdoor activities for youth and community groups. We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s who were leaving after visiting our activity centre and are working closely with the South Wales Police to address this situation. We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of everyone on site and will continue to take immediate and robust action against any behaviour that threatens this. END

Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales

They were a group of Scouts from Scotland

Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences

Statement from Scouts Cymru

"We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

Budapest Pride 2025. Brave and powerful.

Morning

I have NEVER said that I am relieved my mum killed my dad.

This is a very clear distortion of my words and it is actual putrid bile.

I have contacted the Daily Mirror.

PREMIER INN, IF YOU ARE STAYING IN A HOTEL IT IS NOT A STAYCATION.

There are some days when the news can be overwhelming and leave you feeling sad and afraid. Today is one of them.
Try to remember that the good in the world has always outnumbered the bad, stroke a cat and enjoy the sunshine x
(Pic @imageplotter.bsky.social)

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

With the Tuam exhumation due to begin in mid-June, these are the over 800 most important people at the centre of this.

Found by Catherine Corless and shared with the world in 2014, it's taken 11 years to get to this stage.

#MotherAndBabyHomes

(Red = mothers)

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This is all very entertaining, but our species is quite obviously doomed.

Today's Poll: If the govt needs to raise money and it were a hypothetical binary choice (it isn't) between raising taxes or cutting public spending... which'd you prefer it to do.

1️⃣ I'm 45+: tax more
2️⃣ I'm 45+: spend less
3️⃣ I'm under 45: tax more
4️⃣ I'm under 45: spend less

📊 Show results

Oxfam GB | Stop arming Israel: sign our petition now

Please sign this

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AQA A Level Further Maths - Topic analysis from today's paper 1 (Excel file), and a student-friendly list of topics to revise for paper 2 (Word document)
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#ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Coercive control remains major issue in South East The BBC looks into prosecution rates 10 years after coercive control became a criminal offence.

“There’s mental scars which are so difficult to heal.”

A decade since coercive control became a crime, survivors are still left with scars no one sees.

🔺 Sussex: 7,000+ reports, just 3% charged

🔺 Surrey: 3,000+ reports, just 7% charged

This is why I continue to speak out.
Unacceptable failure ⬇️

No BBC a change of 7 degrees C is not a change of 45 degrees F, it's a change of 7x1.8 = 12.6 F.

Similarly a change of 13 degrees C is not a change of 55 degrees F, it's a change of 13x1.8 = 23.4 F

You don't need to add on the 32 when you're talking about *changes* in temp.

Labour warned over 'ruinous' £800m pay funding shortfall School funding takes centre stage as Conservative MPs say ‘heads stressed beyond belief’ over budgets

Schools’ costs will outstrip their funding by £800 million this year if improved pay rises for teachers and support staff are approved without extra funding, analysis shows

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Very sad to read this. She was incredibly brave.

Most say Ofsted reforms are worse, 'alternative' consultation finds Nearly two thirds of respondents to a consultation set up to rival Ofsted’s own on inspection reforms said the changes were actually worse than the current framework. The ‘Alternative Big…

Nearly two-thirds of respondents to an independent consultation on Ofsted’s inspection reforms felt the proposed changes were actually worse than the current framework schoolsweek.co.uk/nearly-two-t...

Financial grammar tip. If you're dealing with numbers that could be negative don't use a dash as a separator, use a colon.

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Nice

Happy Easter 🐰

We appear to have reached the "gay moon landings" stage of this fever dream.

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

A very racist sexist homophobic cartoon

For those too young to recall the 1980s - this was the sort of fun cartoon in the daily newspapers

The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) has made its recommendation and the report is sitting on Bridget Phillipson’s desk. We ask the Education Secretary to publish the report now and fund fair pay for teachers and our schools. #NEU2025 #FundFairPay

We have witnessed fragmentation of the education sector through the emergence of multi-academy trusts across the country.

At #NEU2025 delegates voted to ensure that all teachers are covered by the same equal employment rights.