Jonathan Meth

If the Government Wants to 'Get Britain Working', Why Is It Ignoring All the Learning Disabled People Who Want to Find Jobs? Less than 5% of people with learning disabilities are employed, while 86% want to be. The Government must think about which Brits it values as being worthy of work

🔴 If the Government Wants to ‘Get Britain Working’, Why Is It Ignoring All the Learning Disabled People Who Want to Find Jobs?

Less than 5% of people with learning disabilities are employed, while 86% want to be. Labour must think about who it values as being worthy of work, writes @sabasalman.com

Are you a woman? Do you write plays? Do you like prizes? How about £20k? Sound good? This is for you:

Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea president faces impeachment after attempt to impose martial law The president made a shock decision to impose military control - but reversed his decision after lawmakers forced their way into parliament and voted against the move.

Mighty impressed by the people of South Korea who came out in protest against their ridiculous president Yoon Suk Yeol.

Inspirational.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Really important piece about how women in particular are bearing the brunt of the collapse of the SEN system. I'm in several FB groups for parents of children with disabilities and the VAST majority of those active in them, seeking solutions, battling for care, are mums.

Criminalization of Antifascism: Insights from the Budapest case & strategies of resistance What antifascism means in today’s society? This event aims at bridging the gap between the streets and the Left’s antifascist work in the Parliament, exploring best practices and common strategies of…

11 December in #Brussels:
„Criminalization of Antifascism: Insights from the #Budapest case & strategies of resistance“ organized by the Left Party.

I created a starter pack focused on EU cultural/media policy. The idea is to include policymakers, academics and other stakeholders active in the field. Let me know if I’ve missed you/someone else

One of my favourite ever political quotes

RIP John Prescott

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize - Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpubl...

We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

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Planning tonight’s Leeds Actor’s in Training session and I want to share this book with you. I use it for writing, directing and actor training. Stephen Jeffrey’s is a font of knowledge and experience that spans disciplines. I’ve read a lot of ‘how to’ books over the years and this is top 3.

Frontiers | Exploring how children and adolescents talk about coping strategies relating to loneliness using reflexive thematic analysis: a qualitative study IntroductionThe prevailing view is that loneliness predominantly affects older adults. However, awareness of high rates of loneliness among younger populatio...

New paper out, with insights on how children and young people talk about coping strategies relate to loneliness, led by the excellent Lauren Burke. Though we know CYP experience loneliness, most loneliness research focuses on older groups… (cont) doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Thank you to my followers. We've now hit 2,000. It's great to be in community with you. Enjoying the conversations & doing my share of reposting. Please repost if you like something. In Blue Sky this is what spreads good content. Unlike X liking doesn't feed algorithms that push content.

Something about her aims, perhaps?

in the words of the great Gil Scott Heron: "mandate my ass"

I'll be back from Florence in January. Give me a shout.

How are you doing?

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utopia is temporary, class is permanent?

I'm putting together a Groucho Marx starter pack:
“Je suis Marxiste, tendence Groucho.” If you’re interested let me know and I won’t add you..
Groucho's daughter wanted to join a swimming club, but it was restricted. Groucho wrote to them: 'my daughter's half-Jewish, can she go in up to her waist?'

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Christopher Hogg on LinkedIn: bluesky (@bluesky) on X As a lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Technology. I've been following BlueSky for a while. When I joined last year, it was like arriving at 2pm for an…

www.linkedin.com/posts/chrish... some useful background for fellow newbies from Christopher Hogg