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Statue in bronze of a woman holding a banner in front of her reading 'Courage calls to courage everywhere'

Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.

The way I and my kids were used and treated by the previous government, and the lies perpetuated about me for rightly suspecting my son was harmed and used as a Guinea Pig for ABA (with the study still awaiting evaluation) a fair assumption that I despise the lot of them.

Not exactly instilling confidence, those who presided over the last decade shld forfeit the right to dictate new legislation. Removing Mainstream EHCPs makes no sense.

I foresee SEND schools replacing EHCP model, since my son’s existing 2021 plan was only recently updated.

Government funding and policy decisions are described as arbitrary and inconsistent. It suggests a government (at both local and national level) that is ineffective and unreliable.

Autism charities portray autistic people as helpless and a burden – our research shows why it matters New research finds that the language and imagery used by autism charities often reinforce stigma instead of challenging it.

All these charities also describe themselves as being funded by government. Alongside this, however, government is primarily portrayed as a barrier to the effective provision of services for autistic people.

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The British right is swimming in an open sewer We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme

"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"

On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.

Could explain his screaming before he could speak. His sensory needs overlooked purposely due to the desire for UKSBA to gain professional standards accreditation. I regret being convinced by educators/LA that the school could ever meet his needs.

My son had a bout of catastrophising last night, thinking of returning to school after half term. We talked it through.

Struck me though how distraught he must have been when he was at an academy that was wholly inappropriate for his disabilities due to the state using him and I as research.

Experiences of interoception and anxiety in autistic adolescents A reflexive thematic analysis Kiera Adams, Jonahs Smith, Mary Brown, Geoff Bird, and Polly Waite (2025) research gate We all know the feeling: your heart races before a big event, your stomach twis…

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To all of those perceived crazy awkward disruptors or difficult women.

The issue isn’t you.

“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

YouTube video by Ludibry Björk - It's Oh So Quiet

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I really love booming Pass Out by Tinie Tempah, reverberating at 4am onwards on a loop. Spectacularly sets up my day. How good of my neighbour to share his music taste.

The Blue Nile, personal favourite, getting the recognition it deserves.

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.

We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

Application of Abductive Reasoning in Synthesized Contingency Assessments In a synthesized contingency analysis (SCA), contingencies hypothesized to maintain problem behavior are combined into a single test condition; if the behavior occurs at a higher rate in that conditi...

In an autistic child (age 5), targeting "whining" ("Emission of dissatisfied statements or sounds 2.5s or longer at speech level volume or higher") & crying ("Tears and facial contortions with or without vocal accompaniment") as "problem behavior"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2025

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“On my analysis, misogyny’s primary function & constitutive manifestation is the punishment of 'bad' women, and policing of women’s behavior. But systems of punishment and rewards, and conviction and exoneration, tend to work together, holistically."

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny K. Manne

Sobering statistics and those in the system that gaslight victims, or worse, should consider their positions.

I know from my own experience, when I tried to escape, how little support from Leics Police & Freeva I received.

It’s a good job that I always check emails for smelling pistakes before pressing mend. 🤦‍♀️

Despite Prince Andrew, the British press is still pumping out the Royal Family's propaganda The Windsor mafia are happy to position the disgraced ex-Duke of York as an outlier and the media is co-operating with that lie.

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Despite Prince Andrew, the British press is still pumping out the Royal Family's propaganda

The Windsor mafia are happy to imply the disgraced ex-Duke of York is an outlie; the media is co-operating with that lie

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*to informants.

COPS on X: "@guardian @ucpinquiry @metpoliceuk @tombfowler #spycops If you think sexual relationships between undercovers and their targets should be banned, please take a minute to sign this petition from @out_of_lives https://t.co/ZKyq3TGHdg" / X @guardian @ucpinquiry @metpoliceuk @tombfowler #spycops If you think sexual relationships between undercovers and their targets should be banned, please take a minute to sign this petition from @out_of_lives https://t.co/ZKyq3TGHdg

Extend that informants, and those who manipulate in wider social experiments.

Only psychopaths interfere with the lives of others for professional, personal, political or financial gain.

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“Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy”.

When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”

“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart”.

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Writers of The Crown are not going to be short of material for the next decade given recent developments. :)

For me, I found that drinking 500ml water or squash prior to a a meal helps to reduce over eating and volume eating keeps you fuller for longer.

Thanks. I shouldn’t have allowed my weight to spiral in the first place, Always wise to discuss with your GP first, a personal decision, hope that whatever you chose to do that it works.

I’ve got a bit more to go, mine done thru a calorie deficit & online support group. I do follow some Slimming Word dieters on instagram for motivation & dinner ideas, otherwise food gets a bit boring. That’s the test to maintain the loss. Resistance training & weights if you have time are effective.

Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive