Ah yes, Norway - the country that didn't sell off their oil and gas for a quick buck in the 80s and now continue to benefit from profits, dividends and taxes, generating a wealth fund worth over £200k for every citizen.

Powerful moment as Jess Phillips reads names of 110 women killed by men For the 11th year, Jess Phillips carried out the sombre tradition of honouring women killed by a man or where a man has been charged since the last International Women's Day

Layla Coe, CEO of Killed Women, was in Parliament today when Jess Phillips read the names of the women known to have been killed by men over the past year: "We urge those in power to ... deliver the systemic change needed to end violence against women and girls."
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Reform councillor Graham Eardley has been suspended for behaving so aggressively towards a female volunteer that security had to escort him out. That’s at least 63 Reform councillors gone in ten months – nearly one in ten!

UK parliament to debate whether all suicides linked to domestic abuse to be investigated as homicide Lib Dems table amendment to crime and policing bill, saying system ‘simply not doing enough to protect women’

Parliament is to debate whether all suicides in cases involving victims of domestic abuse should be investigated as homicide.
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For World Book Day we are dressed as someone who read the book before the TV show got popular and are spending the day saying “well actually in the book” until we are forcibly removed from the office.

A major step for inclusive education — but delivery in classrooms must follow Statement from Stephen Parsons, Co-Chair of the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance

As co-chair of the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance, here's our quick response to the schools white paper.
In particular we are emphasising early identification and empowering and training teachers.

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Uta Frith: ‘Autism is not a spectrum’ The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

‘I’ve been swept up by the autism spectrum idea, and it’s only in the past 10 years that I have felt things have gone too far. Very slowly, I have come to say, “No, this is not right”’: Autism expert professor Uta Frith talks to @helen-amass.bsky.social

The psychology of SEND labels What if your child struggles and falls behind their peers? When it comes to the topic of children struggling in school and education, parents can experience profound feelings of fear or worry, or hope...

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‘The psychology of SEND labels’

“Receiving a diagnosis with a name and a status that medical experts validate can give children and adults a story, and an explanation, that renders their experience comprehensible.”

alexquigley.co.uk/the-psycholo...

Morning all.

Manchester 1966.
Photographer Shirley Baker.

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This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm

Digging for Britain A small island with a big history. Professor Alice Roberts reveals the fascinating world hidden beneath our feet, showcasing the latest finds of dedicated archaeologists.

If you can’t wait until 9pm this evening… Digging for Britain series 13 has already launched on iplayer!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Could have been the UK, we had 3 times as much oil and gas.

Instead it was sold off by Thatcher for pennies and you got nothing.

Angélique-Marguerite du Coudray, 18thc French midwife who designed various innovative textile models to teach midwife trainees about delivering babies, saving the lives of thousands of mothers & infants #Womensart Find out more re women's weird/wonderful textile arts in bookshop.org/beta-search?...

I started a Substack in February and have been surprised and humbled in equal measure at the response. Here are the most read posts this year. Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-learni...

'Steampunk fairy' by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates sculptures and jewellery out of recycled watch parts #WomensArt ❄️

I had to battle my daughter’s killer boyfriend to care for my grandchild After a legal fight to look after her daughter’s baby, Linda Westcarr is urging ministers to implement Jade’s Law to restrict parental rights after killings

After a legal fight to look after her daughter Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche’s baby after Kennedi was killed by her controlling boyfriend Gogoa Lois Tape, Linda Westcarr is urging ministers to implement Jade’s Law to restrict parental rights after killings.
www.thetimes.com/article/5eed...

Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.

Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart

The VAWG Curriculum: Day 6
We need male allies to end violence against women because gender-based violence isn’t just a 'women’s issue'; it’s a societal issue rooted in gender inequality, and men play a critical role both in its causes and in its solutions.

Girl on a space hopper, 1971,
Byker series, Newwcastle, UK, by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling

##FridayFive
1. Everything and Nothing. Soft Play
2. English Rose. The Jam
3. The World Has Turned and Left Me Here. Weezer
4. Can't Get Use to Losing You. The Beat
5. I Do This All the Time. Self Esteem

Brave New World: the republic of distraction How Neil Postman’s warnings about attention reveal the intellectual cost of our digital age

Brave New World
We haven’t ended up in Orwell’s nightmar but instead have drifted into Huxley’s. This piece draws on Neil Postman’s writing as well as new cognitive research to show how distraction is hollowing out the very capacities democratic life depends on open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Dutch avant-garde painter
Jacoba Heemskerck van Beest, Komposition, 1912 #womensart

The work of Sue Welfare, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmaker

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#FridayFive
1. The Triffids. Wide Open Road
2. Midnight Oil. Beds are Burning
3. Inxs. Mystified
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with Kylie Minogue. Where the Wild Roses Grow
5. Amyl and the Sniffers. Big Dreams.

'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt

Farage: epic grifter