Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
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Okay, but how, in practice, do you think overseas nationals get hired into the civil service? The headline is written to make you think the government is actively recruiting overseas (‘flying in’, because they know it will produce the reaction you just had.

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

It is wrong to blame an attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur on Jewish support for Israel, and it is equally wrong to blame it on Muslim immigration to the UK. We can't give in to mutual hate. Be better, everyone.

When people start talking about mass deportation in the UK, ask yourself where and how these people are plotting to get rich by sacking the goods and property of the people they are deporting.

Heaton Park. My heart is broken. British Jews have been warning you about this for years.

It’s Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur.

This is one of every Jews worst nightmare. Why we have so much security at synagogue. The anxious thought you try and push to the back of your mind.

Heartbroken.

(Reminds me, viscerally, of the discomfort people express about my visible disability in public. And like fuck will I tolerate that for anyone else).

This is what gets me - access to public space determined not by anyone’s behaviour, but by whether they belong to a ‘bad’ minority. Pure prejudice given the force of law.

Given the disparity between the increased cost and declining quality of PRS housing, I wouldn’t take that for granted.

Look, the party of ‘working families’ can’t actually be expected to come to terms with what the workforce of 2025 looks like and represent its interests. That’d be daft. It’s far more sensible to assume it will be 1990 forever and the insulting caricatures inside your head reflect real people.

It worked so well that the same tactic went on to lose them the 2015 election and contribute a large share to the destruction of the Conservative Party. And yet here we are.

The thing that gets me is that they don’t seem to grasp that a large proportion of the ‘real Labour vote’ they want to bring back is now dead. Literally dead, not figuratively dead.

Yes, basically. The astonishing thing is, it’s exactly the same tactic that New Labour employed, which is why getting ILR now takes 5 years and thousands of pounds.

Isn’t the premise here that feminist advocacy needs to be softened?

To illustrate the point, the OP blocked me as soon as I brought up violence against women.

Okay, but doesn’t this ultimately amount to ‘the trouble with feminism is that it isn’t about men’? Which misses the point. Most politics is already about men.

Like it or not, young men and women aren’t equally disadvantaged here, and it’s disingenuous to pretend they are.

In fact that would help young men long term too, because the more normal it becomes for them to see women as their equals the less they will suffer from the ingrained lesson that they are supposed to be [insert stereotype of toxic masculinity here].

On the contrary. The organised left spends an awful lot of time ignoring it even as the organised right does everything possible to make it worse. We could respond to this moment by actually taking policy action to defend women’s rights and safety.

Why is the prescribed answer to male violence always that women should shut up and be nicer?

And your female students are likelier to face domestic abuse, sexual violence or murder at the hands of a partner or ex partner than your male ones.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.

There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status.

“They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

“Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

In London, hate will never win.