Will the cafe remain open during the film festival?

False Flag | The Wargame Ep 1 Podcast Episode · The Wargame · S2 E1 · 59m

Out now, The Wargame, a podcast series that simulates a Russian attack on the UK.

We imagine it's October 2025 Russia deploys a task force of ships, jets & submarines to the North Atlantic.

The UK is in missile range.

The PM calls an emergency Cobra meeting.

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Failing Celebrity-Run Care Home for Girls Permanently Shut to Keep Children Safe Court upholds Ofsted's decision to close AP Care Homes with judge scathing about owner Ampika Pickston's professional conduct exposed during an 18-month Byline Times investigation into the crisis-hit ...

Court upholds Ofsted’s decision to close AP Care Homes with judge scathing about owner Ampika Pickston’s professional conduct. Via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Half of councils warn of insolvency over special needs spending Over half of councils that support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have warned they will become insolvent when a temporary accounting measure that keeps spending defici...

Half of councils warn of insolvency over special needs spending

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It’s the last day of #TheListofSuspiciousThings being @Waterstones fiction book of the month & I can’t tell you what a JOY the experience has been. Every shop I’ve visited has been so warm & welcoming & I’ve loved seeing all the displays. It’s been a total privilege #booksky

Precipice by Robert Harris was certainly an eye opener

Delving into today’s Ofsted inspection reports into children’s homes with the customary apprehension, I find this dreadful home in Cheshire East run by the private company Forevermore Care Group Limited

This children’s home in Staffordshire run by the private company Resicare Alliance has been suspended by Ofsted amid an investigation into serious child protection allegations and shocking living conditions for children with learning disabilities

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Referring to human beings as "shit" doesn't feel very progressive; just stirring up more hate and polarisation.

The NAO is disclaiming the Whole of Government Accounts for the first time ever. This is due to the severe backlogs in English local authority audits
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A disgrace. The reason no one uses the buses is because they are so infrequent 👿

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Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust Large parts of England’s adult social care market face collapse as a result of tax and wage rises announced in the budget, with…

Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns

Trump has picked Linda McMahon - a former WWF wrestling executive who made up that she had a relevant degree - as education secretary. And she's not even in the worse ten of his picks.

On the podcast, I reveal sources say that no tears will be shed by Morgan McSweeny if the Assisted Dying legislation doesn’t pass

While not taking a view on the issue, the politics is increasingly problematic

This will dominate next year and mean months of red on red if it passes on November 29

Daily UK users of BlueSky reached half a million by Friday

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Snow is seriously overrated

Doesn't look like Anas Sarwar is on here, so had to nick this from The Other Place.

Smart politics, and it's how devolution is meant to work, but still a bit awkward for Reeves and Starmer.

Anas Sarwar: Scottish Labour government will bring back Winter Fuel Payment Anas Sarwar: Scottish Labour government will bring back Winter Fuel Payment

"We could have taken a different approach in Scotland" on Winter Fuel Payment, Anas Sarwar has said
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This is plausible because if there's one thing you associate with ballet stars it's clumsiness.

Overhaul of children’s social care in England will crack down on firms’ profiteering Government says wide-ranging reforms will end ‘neglect’ in system that leaves young people behind * Labour ready to show it is serious about changing children’s social care Excessive profiteering by unscrupulous private companies charging sky-high…

Overhaul of children’s social care in England will crack down on firms’ profiteering

'Exploitative' children's home firm profits to be curbed The new measures aim to stop private care home providers benefiting excessively from a stretched system.

Local authorities say there were more than 1,500 children in 2023 for whom councils were paying over £500,000 a year to be placed in residential homes, with a lack of other options being the most common reason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OBSERVER: Fears grow over children at risk placed in illegal care homes #TomorrowsPapersToday

BBC / TV shows and all the newspapers need to set up accounts here rather than on Twitter STAT