James McEnaney

It's time for a political solution to the Mull school saga Plans to build a new school on Mull have become so controversial that just pressing ahead is no longer an option, no matter who wins the legal…

Yesterday a council argued in court that islanders have no right to be consulted on the location of a new school, despite that decision having generational consequences.

No matter who loses this case, nobody wins.

A political solution is needed.

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Increasingly convinced that the best tactic for dealing with ICE would be for everyone to point out, loudly and repeatedly, that its members are cowards.

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved?

How times change!

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit." Someone named Manny replies: "@grok why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

It might seem counter-intuitive but we must give teachers less classroom time Teachers were promised a reduction of class contact time by ninety minutes per week. This was the pledge that really mattered – the one that could…

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@jamesmcenaney.bsky.social

'It seems to stand to reason that we need teachers to be spending as much time in the classroom as possible.

'In reality, that assumption is entirely, unequivocally wrong, and it’s not actually all that difficult to understand why' || Education Specialist @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social 👇

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

Milngavie.

If you're not from here, I dare you to try.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

R4 reporter suggesting the (unlikely) possibility Macron may accept Lecornu's resignation as PM but then immediately reappoint him which does at least on the face of it seem like the most French thing that could happen

This is the lobbying group dressed up as a think tank that refuses to reveal who funds it. What if the money is coming from someone with an interest in nuclear power plants? That would be relevant, right?

Kemi Badenoch 🤝 Russell Martin

"My approach will pay off eventually."

Yer Da' throwing about the word 'woke' as an all-purpose insult was pathetic and embarrassing years ago, but his conference speech shows that it's still the best that Russell Findlay has to offer.

The alarming fact is we have so many grifters because it's a demand-led business and loads of people/orgs pay no real scrutiny to what is actually said by the "big" names they hire.

This is obviously a very dangerous line of thinking.

It's also anti-Semitic.

Badenoch is the most compelling of the current party leaders because of the gulf between who she believes herself to be (she visibly thinks she is a bold thinker) and the reality (incredibly lazy and partisan).

Repeatedly gather outside hotels for racist demos and you've got legitimate concerns.

Repeatedly protest against a genocide and Starmer will find new ways to let the police come after you.

Can families trust Falkirk Council over ASN proposals? The authority is consulting on hugely controversial proposals but has not provided detailed information about the consequences for families.

Falkirk Council wants to take its current funding for 13 'Enhanced Provision' ASN units and "redistribute" it across all 47 schools in the area.

But can parents trust assurances from officials who can't or won't answer basic questions?

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Important point - announcements about "crackdowns" and "bans" are a way to try and convince people the state has power when it increasingly fails at basic tasks.

This is what Reform does: it identifies a wedge issue, it spreads disinformation until people are no longer able to distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t, it polarises communities, politicians get scared and potentially positive schemes are jettisoned. It’s 100% its MO.

Big credit to @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social and the @heraldscotland.bsky.social for choosing to do their own version of this thread (this time regarding the Autumn Budget Revision) as the splash in today’s paper. Imagine a world where budget papers made it clear how taxpayers’ money is being spent.

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

🇮🇪🇸🇪🇩🇰 Foreign state-owned firms own 12% of total ScotWind capacity – including the governments of Ireland, Sweden and Denmark

ScotWind profits will support public spending abroad, but not in Scotland

🌍 78% of ScotWind capacity is owned by parent companies headquartered outside the UK

This means the majority of profits extracted will flow overseas rather than be reinvested in Scotland

Want to see how the government has sold off Scotland's natural resources? Here you go 👇

Colleges are crying wolf and the wolf is very real The college sector has long called for increased funding. Although the message it is sending now is much the same, the situation feels very…

"The difference between reality and the fable, however, is that the wolf is and has always been real, and some of the sheep are already missing legs and bleeding out."

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2551663...

The Scottish Government has issued new advice on supporting trans pupils, with updates around toilets and changing rooms. You've probably already seen the headlines and some awful reactions, so I wrote about it for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2551...

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

I see my own profession, the media, as being as culpable as any. How did we allow a bizarre sect, with a phenomenally cruel and brutal agenda, to set the prevailing view of this and other issues?
And it was right across the board: just about every major outlet in the UK.

This is where we are, a homophobic slur used by a politician on national television. His denials show a man either ignorant of what words mean or so comfortable using homophobia in day to day speech he didn’t care.