Lucy Thomas

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

Many US Comedians will have plenty to say about this, right after they return from the Riyadh Comedy Festival

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world.

10 mins later a right winger linked to my book.

10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all.

But that's how it works.

Most of them will do this anyway without signing a pledge, but let's see who is happy to sign one.

They'll tell you they need the access to preserve democracy or some other nonsense.

Interesting take. I wish balance-conscious broadcasters would discuss politics in this way. Would generate a far more interesting & nuanced discussion than insisting on having several hard right spokesperson for every progressive/ left of centre representative.

Update on demonstration in support of Palestine Action The total included 857 people arrested under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

"....You can express your support for a cause without committing an offence under the Terrorism Act".
Sincerely, how?

news.met.police.uk/pressrelease...

This is a disturbing piece of(excellent) journalism by @lewisgoodall.com. I was going to include quotes but there are too many - just read it. What successive British governments did to the country and people of Afghanistan is deplorable. So bad, in fact, they didn't want to public to know...

I wish someone in Labour spoke like this about the cuts to PIP payments that their OWN party is messing about with. We need an AOC

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

Thank you for sharing all these links - really appreciate it 🙏🏽 (as if the Right could ever back themselves with facts so readily...!)

That is horrifying to see in these terms - makes such a powerful point. Do you have sources for those numbers? (sincere q) I'm UK based but we have so many issues as well and I wonder if someone has done similar stats here

Re: Diddy being acquitted on sex trafficking charges, one of the reasons the MeToo backlash has been so effective is because the court system enables a commentary class to say the absence of a guilty verdict means that women and victims are liars. In reality it’s incredibly hard and rare to convict

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Why are Disabled People Still Punished for Being Active? - Get Yourself Active News like this explains the Activity Trap, a phenomenon where Disabled people do not engage in sports for fear of having their benefits removed.

🚨Disabled man lost his PIP after being filmed by DWP at his cricket club🚨

It's deeply concerning that Disabled people face punishment for being active.

We must resist the welfare reform bill that will only make the DWP more harmful!
getyourselfactive.org/punished-for...

SEND Funding Fact Check 3: Where the money’s gone, why it isn’t helping, and why more children need support - Special Needs Jungle In our third #SENDFunding Fact Check, we ask, where’s the money gone, why isn’t it helping enough, and why more children need extra support?

Last year, @captaink77.bsky.social wrote a series of SEND Funding Fact Checks. While the government considers the future of SEND, they may want to read this: Where the money’s gone, why it isn’t helping, and why more children need support www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...

Sounds familiar to those of us in the UK...

the mainstream media line on major cities for several years has been that they are on the precipice of collapse due to Democratic mismanagement. now that a socialist has won an election, suddenly NYC is in great shape and about to be ruined.

This is some of the most rank bigotry I've seen by literally anybody, let alone a Congressperson. "Little Muhammad?" How is this not censurable?

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

the liberal justices keep floating these dramatic little sign offs on their dissents. “With sadness,” “with deep disillusionment.” just say “i dissent,” it reads more forcefully.

Routinery, Timo (my fave), or Tik tik were recommended to me. Neurodivergence friendly & can be integrated into calendars - become part of your schedule. I use my in-built alarm app, set them on repeat & use a different alarm noise to differentiate from other reminders. PatientUK also has reminders

What is best medication reminder app?

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

Harvard hired a researcher to look into its connection to slavery, and then allegedly fired the researcher for finding too many enslaved people www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

One for the ethics seminars

And who reduced the provision of hospital education so it is more often done by personal tutoring instead of an education unit in paediatrics? Yes, the Tories. Bet most of the private school parents were fine with education budget restrictions and decimating LAs at the time.

Daily Mail Screenshot

Daily Mail Screenshot

Who was in power in 2014?

Oh, that’s right - it was the Tories👍🏼

Which is weird because the DM spoke to 3 different Tory MPs (no Labour obvs!) who seemed really rather angry at this “vile class war, “quasi-Marxist class war” and “unfair discrimination”🤷🏼‍♀️

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Another point The Daily Mail got wrong: it was Occupational Therapy, not Occ Health. As an SEN OT (working locally!) I don't want any child in need of support to go without. But... too many, whom have comparatively much less, do already. Sadly, there are not enough resources. Big changes are needed.

Screenshot of a daily Mail Headline

What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

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It’s overwhelmingly mothers who fight these SEND battles, who leave their jobs, who have their lives turned upside down, & who keep on fighting for others

I wonder if the No10 strategy and comms bros who’ll sign this off have clocked this