Martin Compton

🤣I do this all the time! Glad it’s not just me

Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique Montréal massacre.

Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago.

Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence — and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.

Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign."

Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

The president is doing what he does best: deflecting.

He is attacking the Somali American community to hide the fact that he has failed to deliver on nearly all of his promises.

But we are resilient and, despite the president's disgusting remarks, we will continue to thrive.

“One screen at a time” I say to my daughter all the time. Meanwhile this is how I watch football. Such a hypocrite

Now me is much more frazzled too

100% and both sides of the Atlantic. Micheal Shur likes a bit of hope in the desperation. I really like Ben’s character. When I first started teaching 33 years ago, winding up like that was actually an ambition. Except future me had elbow patches and a pipe

We are 2 episodes from the end. I’m liking the meandering and the almost irrelevant major plot line. So many HE tropes to get your teeth into too. My daughter thinks that what my job is like

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

The Good Old Days   Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates,   never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it   a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

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‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough

Give what you can. So glad I don’t live in a £2m house www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s so sharp. I wish I could carry that look

Indeed! Maybe the kidnappers will lower their guard when they see an older, sharply dressed chap

a man in a suit and tie has the word what written on his face ALT: a man in a suit and tie has the word what written on his face

i'm cooked

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook

Tells you everything you need to know about @ryanairofficial.bsky.social I think

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

“When the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was built, U2’s acoustic experts were appointed to help design a roof that would keep the noise in. In practical terms, this means Tottenham supporters are now able to boo even more loudly than before.”
Great article, Kat Lucas, that sums up Spurs’ fans perfectly!

Welcome to a world of misery and occasional hope

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Ah the 1970s.

Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

‘Man in the raincoat’s blue and white army’ that’s pretty much all I remember!

Press cutting of the printed version of the story

Politically motivated attacks on the legal profession are irresponsible and dangerous. Legal organisations representing 250,000 lawyers have come together to express grave concern.
Read the statement
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/vil...
Read the news
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An old colour picture postcard showing a brick and glass square building, set in parkland with glorious flowers in the foreground and blue skies

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Swansea University

This is part of the 1950s and 1960s expansion, and is just round the corner from me :-)

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1. Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025

In 1962, a very young woman named Jane Goodall stepped into the African forest.

What she would discover shattered our understanding of the place of human beings in the world.

She revealed that chimpanzees use tools, form bonds, and experience emotions.

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

I think we can expect a lot more of this sort of bs. Do you think the people that write this tripe think of themselves as journalists or would they be honest and describe themselves as I would I wonder?

“Best practice” . drives me nuts!