Michelle Pratt

“I need to know the why.”
A participant said this to me recently.
If learning (or change) is going to stick, you need two things:

A reason that matters.
And a reason that matters now.

Otherwise people turn up to training and say,
“My manager sent me.”

Content isn’t the issue. Applicatio

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

If you’re preparing to interview a known liar, the very least you could do is swot up on the very stuff he is most likely to tell lies about.

Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe claiming that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants as he sits on a mountain of tax-dodged cash perfectly sums up what the far right is all about.

They blame migrants to distract from the super-rich ripping us off. Divide and conquer. We must never fall for it.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

The Elections Bill is really very thin on political finance.

Some loopholes closed, some warm words, but still unlimited political donations.

That's why we're working with @38degrees.bsky.social to call for a cap on donations

Please sign and share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

“You’re not cut out to be a manager.”

A senior manager once told me that. I believed him for years.

Later I realised: I wasn’t unfit to lead. I just wasn’t his kind of leader.

Some people only value managers in their own image.

Pause before you take it as truth.

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

I'm pretty confident we wouldn't be seeing Kamala fighting to protect herself from allegations of raping children, nor her staff being dragged in front of Congress weekly for lying about raping children and murdering citizens.

Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.

NO THANKS: Reform UK’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate Matt Goodwin pulled out of a Tuesday night hustings event, saying he was concerned about the impartiality of the event host “We Are Local Voices.” Labour press office was, for once, having a field day. And there were even claims from organizers that the GB News presenter wanted his own private green room. Reform didn’t deny that and it does fit a pattern with Zia Yusuf’s policy towards chummy/cordial green rooms at least.

That tribune to working people, Matt Goodwin, refusing to do hustings unless he gets his own Green Room? Surely not!

That’s what’s up.

When he was a Tory politician (you remember, just after he was binned as a Labour one) female colleagues were free to express their disgust at his blatant misogyny. “Lee is an odious sexist,” was Anna Soubry’s irrefutable conclusion. I wonder what his current colleagues will have to say…

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

The new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not Wales Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to…
nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Here we go…

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

Reform UK’s candidate in Denton & Gorton is standing to become an MP alongside Robert Jenrick.

Here’s what Matt Goodwin thinks for Jenrick.

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

I've just worked out why my head felt so full in January.

I log my achievements and CPD every month. I’ve just set up 2026 and reviewed Jan. I packed a lot in, personally and professionally.

Reminder to self: I don’t need to do all of 2026 in January. 🙂

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PRIVATE EYE NAMED IN EPSTEIN FILES

In the latest files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, the Eye is denounced as “an absolute rag of a publication” by Epstein’s then lawyer, Paul Tweed…

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Oh.