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Train worker Samir Zitouni has been discharged from hospital after suffering critical injuries in the Huntingdon attack

In a statement via the police,his family said: “We are so grateful for the outpouring of support from the public, and very touched by all the kind words about Sam’s brave actions"

The self-regulation bit really annoys me, especially as a parent of autistic children. It's literally teaching them to mask distress to appease the adults around them or that their natural reactions aren't valid.

I wish he'd put his field. You know like 'What could possibly be the emergency in researching dung beetles in ancient Egypt.'

All you do actually need to teach is a blackboard and some chalk.

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing soldier US President Trump says "nothing" will jeopardise the two-week-old ceasefire despite the flare-up of violence.

46 children killed for the life of a soldier.

BBC News - Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing soldier
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Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin's comments about adverts were 'racist', Wes Streeting says Sarah Pochin apologises for saying "it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people".

If Reform UK are happy to have an overt racist on their benches then what does that tell you about the party?

Pochin should have had the whip removed 24 hours ago.

Or are Reform condoning it by their silence?

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There's a shiny new independent specialist school in Birmingham. All the parents are really keen on it because it's shiny and new, especially for autistic children with EBSA.

Today they posted that after half term they are having a renewed focus on uniform and attendance....😒

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

If we banned a Russian football team's fans over safety, would people be saying it was discrimination against the Russian orthodox church? Or discrimination against Slavs? Is Isreal a state or a whole religion/ethnic group?

Obviously Hamas should be handing over the bodies as agreed, but restricting aid on that basis surely counts as using aid as a weapon.

'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…

"Five, ten years ago comments like that would have gotten you the sack from the front bench of any major political party."

Robert Jenrick's comments about a lack of 'white faces' in Birmingham has drawn criticism. Why are Tories defending his words?

If you are saying there is something wrong with an area of a city because of the colour of the skin of the people who live there, that is racism. It's not even subtle.

MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.

Better late than never I guess. He does seem genuinely angry.

Big Brother is talking.

Hang on, hang on, Farage says Trump has autistic people in his family....

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

On Trump, autism and tylenol:

A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim

“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”

There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

That's pretty specific. Are you looking for a researcher or an adviser? Moving to another country literally changes everything about life, so there's nothing that is predictable.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been axed by ABC who claim the decision is down to falling ratings instead of his repeated criticism of powerful political forces and prevailing right wing narratives.

Gosh, we’re so lucky that we live in a country where private media companies would never do that..

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 59 killed and 386 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 64,964 and 165,312 injuries (likely 3-5x higher).

This scares me so much. What on earth would happen to my son without an NHS?

For the first time in my life the social norms that kept a lid on nationalist fascist racism; that reclaimed the flag; have stalled.

The lack of actual vocal leadership for us to rally around - for the pro-democracy, pro-rule of law, anti-violent, majority - is now becoming an existential problem.

Finally totally deleted my Twitter accounts. I wish everyone who had accounts here would actually post.

Israeli forces have killed at least 20,000 children in Gaza since October 2023.

This is a deeply shameful statistic for our collective humanity – a horrific new low.

Every single one of these 20,000 children had names, favourite subjects in school, and hopes and dreams for the future.

A St George flag, on which is written the words "Stop the Muslim Paki boats" and "Get out of our cuntry oi oi". In the centre of the flag, a swastika is drawn.

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity