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Do we really expect five-year-olds to sit at desks? I want a school that understands play is learning | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett In England, young children go from glitter clay and building dens to classrooms a Victorian would recognise – and that system is failing many of them, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Reminder: it is the policy of @greenparty.org.uk that formal schooling start two years later, when children are ready.

Cyrrent system sets kids up to "fail": no they are not "school-ready". They are too young

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Great to visit St Mary’s Primary School in Battersea today - one of the first schools to receive indoor air quality filters as part of my initiative to improve children’s health.

More than 200 schools will be getting indoor air quality filters soon.

Every Sunday in Liverpool’s most popular park, a group of people stand holding signs displaying a range of conspiracy theories

Here I take a look at who they are and what movement they are part of

I also asked them for a chat…

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Oooh, I've never seen anything of hers (unless you count PrefectsATCS...)! What's it like?

Oh, that is amazing.

I'm an unshakably character-driven reader. Sure, plots are nice, and descriptive language, scene-setting, universe building, yada, yada. It's people, for me. It's all about building relationships with the people.

I love DFB, for that reason.

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

Conservatives: UBI strengthens families by cutting welfare traps that hurt marriage & stability.

Liberals: UBI upholds dignity by ending poverty without invasive bureaucracy.

Libertarians: #UBI boosts freedom by slashing government programs & giving individual choice with cash.

Compulsory voluntary work is just work, surely?

I want a government that asks 'how can we make things better for people?' not 'how can we make things harder for those people you don't like?'

The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird.

A) The media is obsessed with Farage
B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

I WAS JOKING

@laurenmallon.bsky.social Saw this, and thought of you. Seems like you're in the right place. 🙂

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Whenever someone is homophobic to me in public I respond “I will pray for you” it’s gotten everyone I have said it to so bewildered they have a little meltdown of confusion and leave me alone.

I've read Sir Laurie Magnus's conclusion and Rayner's resignation letter.

Rayner did breach the ministerial code, but in a very minor way. Under previous governments, we saw more serious breaches on a daily basis without consequence.

I hope her absence from government is short.

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

She showed that a single mum from a council estate can become deputy prime minister, while vaping and going clubbing. She's a threat to their narrow-minded buttoned-up classist bullshit.

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

Stop targeting people in desperate need of support who have been medically assessed as too unwell to work.

Focus on ensuring that people get prompt help from the NHS which reduces disability. Make the workplace more disability friendly. Then the numbers on benefits will lower.

This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.

Want to end gerrymandering for good? Scrap winner-take-all elections.

With Proportional Representation and Multi-Member Districts, politicians can’t rig maps to shut out competition.

1/9 Steve Reed and his £100bn: a timeline.
Steve Reed says he won’t nationalise the water industry, because it would cost £100bn.
👀So where does that figure come from?👀
He claims that it comes from his own department.
🚨But it looks like it came from the private water companies.
#ComeCleanSteve

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

All the talk of ID and other responses is an attempt to escape this basic fact. And the reason people want to escape it is because they don't want to have the conversation with their kids. Shit, I don't blame them. I wouldn't either. But that's the only true solution.

What kind of age check is this? It shouted "Papa!" and I shouted "Nicole!" and it said I was old enough

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

The promise of longer prison sentences may win votes but won’t stop crime! We already have harsher sentences than any other European country including Russia. But all the research shows though they don’t lower crime or successfully rehabilitate offenders, they are very expensive!

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.