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WASPI scandal: Pay out compensation to the women affected The Government has announced it will reconsider whether to compensate the WASPI women, following growing pressure and undisclosed "evidence" Last December, the Government announced women born in the ...

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Yes, the Academy Trust bought the language school a couple of years ago. KLS has been based within the languages department for a while before that, and taught lots of other languages as well as A level and EFL.

@theniceman.bsky.social New initiative at my former school - which has a huge 6th form.

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks 🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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Just read an excellent Substack from @pkrugman.bsky.social :
Exploiting Male Rage. While focused on the US, there’s a lot here to think about in the UK too, especially after the protests and marches last weekend.

‘We’re winning a battle’: Mexico’s jaguar numbers up 30% in conservation drive Conservationists hope that in 15 years species will no longer be at risk of extinction in Mexico – but challenges remain

‘We’re winning a battle’: Mexico’s jaguar numbers up 30% in conservation drive

3/ Very diverse group of people, all having fun. Despite the rain showers. And as a bonus some really lovely dogs too!

2/. I’m posting this as a small illustration of how very nice this country generally is.

Lovely family meet up yesterday in Camberley (chosen because it is halfway between where two families live). Spent the afternoon in Frimley Park. There were families celebrating a birthday, a cricket match, a children’s sports event, a crowded playground. 1/2

Britain is going great guns isnt it?

Signing trade deals with 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇪🇺a £10bn deal with Norway, fastest growing economy in G7, interest rates & mortgages down, launch of modern industrial strategy, a new National Wealth Fund, decentralising power & improving workers rights 👏

Home Office set to halve time asylum seekers spend in hotels The time given to people granted asylum to move from hotels to their own accommodation will be cut from 56 to 28 days.

This headline is inaccurate. It is people granted refugee status who will have their lives wrecked again by an idiotic, unworkable policy, pushing homelessness for refugees NOT people seeking asylum onto councils

Be cruel & appease racism is the actual Govt strategy
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@patrickopatrick.bsky.social Another one for the collection. And yes, I think they are very obviously doing that.

The Labour Party is nothing without principles. Even Blair’s first actions were about principle. The Human Rights Act. Freedom of Information. Devolution. Education, education, education.

I am a very big fan of @monkemma.bsky.social She’s amazing!

Did find these snippets in a report from Kent Police (www.kent-pcc.gov.uk/what-we-do/p...)

Unhinged tweets and absurd self-promotion? Two can play at that game | Margaret Sullivan Gavin Newsom’s counterpunching against Trump serves as a master class in flipping the script – and boosting his own profile

Unhinged tweets and absurd self-promotion? Two can play at that game | Margaret Sullivan

@patrickopatrick.bsky.social
In case you haven’t already seen this - I wonder if this is where our esteemed KCC leader got her ‘facts’?

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Farage proposes mass deportations, Prison camps & leaving the ECHR - is that a country we want?

On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that a country we want?
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63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell

Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]

Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

And also just a stunning place to visit.

‘It’s back to the future’: the 13th-century castle built by hand in France A quarter of a century after our first visit, the Guardian returns to Guédelon to find old-fashioned toil has built “thoroughly modern” architectural laboratory

Interesting, in that it involves the rediscovery or recreation of ancient skills and techniques which might come in useful if the worst comes to the worst.

A clear proof that immigration salience has little direct connection to overall numbers

Net migration did not fall when salience fell from 56% to 5% from 2016-19

Net migration tripled between 2019-22: salience stayed low

As net migration halved/fell by two-thirds, 2022-25, salience tripled

Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news.

As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.

If Russia doesn't like foreign military in Ukraine, its troops can leave any time

Harsh grading needs sorting first. No student is going to choose a subject where they get a grade lower.

Kemi Badenoch having a go at Labour over 3.8% Inflation using lies.

Reminder to @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social inflation rose to 11.1% under the Tory Government!

3.8% is what Bank of England predicted, along with 4% in September. But by late 2026 it will be down to 2%.

Anything to attack Labour without real facts!

#KemiBadenoch