Casey Leaver

Do you know a great history teacher?
Nominate them now for a new history teaching award! Maybe I'll see them at the Tower of London next year!
Nominate someone here: bit.ly/42yhGZP
#historyteachingawards

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

The number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75%
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Letter of the day (in the Times)

This aged badly

Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answ...

Everyone deserves the freedom to say what they think about the U.S. government without fear of retaliation.

Learn more about the precautions you should take to protect your devices from warrantless searches by border agents.

Surely this is just attempted highway robbery, first the minerals and now the nuclear? Targeting vulnerable countries. Disgusting.

Millions of universal credit and benefit claimants turn to food banks The government is planning to make cuts to welfare – but universal credit and disability claimants are already struggling.

More than three quarters of people claiming universal credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials such as food and heating in the last six months

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Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC: "We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works. "We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are. That's what the prime minister's doing."

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is utterly repellent language from Starmer’s government.

Cabaret at the Kit Kat club. Superb. But hits extra in a Trump world.

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Screenshot of GB News video. The video shows a contributor on the GB News channel, with these subtitles "...tqi plus was a parasite on what was a very healthy". Below is an advert for Argos with a picture of a doll drinking from a coffee cup. The text reads: "Shop From Latest Range of Promo Codes And Offers At Argos"

Many Argos customers will be shocked that they've been advertising on this GB News YouTube video likening part of the LGBTQIA+ community to a "parasite": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehb...

You can take action by asking Argos to exclude GB News from their YouTube ads: support.google.com/google-ads/a...

BBC Radio 1Xtra
1Xtra's Guide to Sound Clashes

Dynamq breaks down the history, rules and do's and don't of sound clashing.

GB News seems to know that advertisers aren't comfortable with the misogynistic comments - and yet they keep happening...

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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

Language matters. Words matter. Every single word matters.

Wow. I've just watched the footage. That was absolutely disgusting. And unstatesmanlike. Revolting behaviour from Vance and Trump. Zelensky behaved like a statesman and an adult and kept his temper. I admire him enormously. Slava Ukraini!

My three-year old daughter's developed/is developing a phobia/terror of the black lines at the bottom of the swimming pool. Have you seen this? Any advice? #phobia #BlackLinesInSwimmingPool #RisingThree

Today I commented on an M&S Facebook post to ask them to stop advertising on GB News. And I'm getting a lot of unpleasant responses. Tells me everything I need to know. I used to try and reason with people. Now I delete, block, and move on. #StopFundingHate

Many Marks and Spencer customers will be disappointed to learn that they've been advertising on GB News radio.

You can take action by leaving a friendly message on the Marks and Spencer Facebook page asking them to #StopFundingHate 👇

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Blimey - the most aggressively right wing and hateful network in the UK being funded by Marks and Spencer!

The far right rising Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.

Ahead of a historic German election, the AfD is courting the global right – and threatening to upend European politics.

@annettedittert.bsky.social on the far right rising

The only tattoo I've ever seriously considered is a ring of 12 stars. I'm considering it seriously again now.

And my Russian studies gives me an extra perspective on the current situation. I studied Russian at school and at university in the 90s. It was a very different time.

I am a European through and through. I was in Monnet house at school, I studied European Studies at GCSE, and the IB. I studied French, Russian, and European Studies at degree level. This time of threat to the European project is a very sad and worrying time for me. #EverCloserUnion

Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen | Jonathan Freedland His capitulation to Putin over Ukraine reveals a pattern. He’s the patsy: giving everything away, getting little in return, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Donald Trump poses as a strongman. But he is weak, weak, weak. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amaretto Sour. Just the ticket.

There's been flashier clips of the current insanity, but this quietly demonstrates the current disintegration of US gov't standards like no other.

- Did Musk meet Modi as CEO or gov't?
- You talking about me?
- Musk.
- Dunno. Business probly.
- Did Modi know which?
- Dunno. I'll ask him.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt