Penny Sturt

Total sellout. I can’t believe anyone who has any respect for the professionalism of teachers and for the future of education for democracy has anything to do with him.

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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Thanks for the reminder- have made a note to watch it. My parents having lived through the Second World War trained as librarians and understood the significance of being able to read and the power of what can be read

This is a fascinating idea.

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

Definitely more work to be done on protecting it I agree- but we’re not very productive chasing paper all the time either

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The number of times and ways in which proving who you are is needed and only paper copies of address or birth certificate acceptable which is more time/resources used.

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Andy Street, former Mayor of the West Midlands, sets Robert Jenrick @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social straight on integration in Handsworth and claims of it being a slum.

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That was my thoughts too- so waiting for him to take aim at white ghettoes.

This. #everyoneforeveryone

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

As the article makes clear we would be unwise to become complacent- there is a lot at stake and a lot of money to support this

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education"

Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects

[CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]

Straight out of the Project 2025 recipe book for authoritarianism.

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

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I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

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The horror continues

It’s so awful and terrifying for those trying to live by their beliefs and ethical standards

A place of worship should always be a place of safety. The attack on Peacehaven Mosque is a horrific act of Islamophobia that could have cost lives. Muslims across Britain are living with rising hate, from abuse on the streets to violence in their communities.