Jeni Hooper

How well do children with SEND progress in 2025? SEND provision must begin with a focus on the child's learning needs, not their medical diagnosis. If they have one, most dont. How much of a schools budget is available for teaching is a valid question, not a distraction. Is there real progress?

Powerful analogy.

Lots of interesting connections here, this is the one where he fantasises about genetically engineered intelligence. He’s a walking oxymoron, a deeply dull son of a very clever father, who was one of the architects of the British welfare state.

YouTube video by welshgit Eddie Mair tells Boris Johnson: "You're a Nasty Piece of Work" - The Andrew Marr Show, BBC 1

Everything the British people needed to know about Boris Johnson, prior to voting for him. Great interview by Eddie Mair.

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

This man is basically just a posh lout. His school reports indicated this; his membership of the Bullingdon Club indicated this; his previous political record indicated this; his mass media appearances indicated this. How on earth did he ever get to be PM?

YouTube video by TED How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson | TED

This is one of Ken Robinson’s TED talks that I missed first time around. And although he died in 2020, what he has to say is still crucially relevant today. #EduSky

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

This is clearly an intricate international conspiracy. The big question now is whether the democratic free west has sufficient cohesion left to deal with it. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

The new data on boys from low-income families in England is really striking. It’s a reminder of how important those early years are & why children need rich environments & warm, responsive adults from the very start. #ScotEduSky #EduSky #EY #EarlyYears #GIRFEC

Gove's self-satisfied smirk is hideous.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

Time to go after the companies that peddle this shit.
What a world. Toxicity pays: food, fossil fuels, X,and purveyors of disinformation.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he knew Farage well because they took the same train to school, has similarly clear memories. "When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said, Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,. "He took me for a walk up to the lower school playground, where all the children from about nine years old to 12 would be. And he singled out, completely at random, a kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in detention for no reason whatsoever. I was flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just purely based on the colour of his skin.

Farage at school by those who knew him best:

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Goldcrests at Titchwell yesterday afternoon #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds

Just imagine for a moment if these anecdotes were about a Labour MP — the mainstream media would be apoplectic and their political career would be instantly over.

But, because it's Farage, the mainstream media will do absolutely nothing and he will be fine.

I’ll happily be proved wrong. I’ll wait.

People who want to be MPs aren't all there to make life better for others. Prospective MPs should be interviewed and vetted by an impartial panel without affiliations to a political party. Farage's behaviour suggests at least a bad character and possibly also a personality disorder.

'The human encounter through which knowledge comes alive is not a means to an end, but the end itself'

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/as-ai-does-our-work-it-may-destroy-the-reasons-we-learn/

What is non disciplinary isolation. Can someone give me an example.

Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.

Which means he’s going to sue the British people because that’s who pay for the BBC - nice. I wonder what QEII would have thought about that? Perhaps we should charge him for the parades etc that no one wanted when he was over here, even it up a bit.

Make sure you inflation proof your savings. You will have a lot of years and possibly ill health to finance. Ageing takes its toll. Build your support network now. No easy choices are there.

Wow. I know several grandparents who offer a day or two a week to help. It often involves some travel as they dont live nearby. Tough when you have to go it alone. Good luck.

I was with you until the last word.

How do they know in advance what it will cost?

#blueskyeps
#edpsychs

St George's flags are creating 'no-go zones' for NHS staff, health bosses warn A trust leader hails the "bravery" of black and Asian healthcare workers for continuing to treat patients in areas "designed to exclude them".

The flying of St George's flags across the country are creating "no-go" zones for NHS staff, with some facing frequent abuse, health bosses have warned

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Says it all

The BBC is bigger than news | The Observer

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The BBC like the NHS deserve national treasure status. Yes some slip ups, but generally providing high quality public service on a shoestring that could never be provided by commercial organisations. That’s why the capitalist media hate them. Stand by the BBC

Bootiful boh

Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

By Dr Pam Jarvis

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