Americans Stunned by Bizarre Spectacle of US President Speaking in Complete Sentences
07.03.2026 23:15
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Americans Stunned by Bizarre Spectacle of US President Speaking in Complete Sentences
I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that all the people who Streeting takes 'expert advice' from have an easily discoverable anti-trans bias.
Uh, because either you voted for a felon or didn't show up to vote at all?
Trump is acting like someone who a doctor has told he has 6 months to live. That would explain why he's acting like there is no tomorrow..
Wes Streeting to don an "adult human male" badge and Shabana Mahmood to appoint Tommy Robinson as Labour's immigration Tsar.
Average real wage of UK workers barely moved since 2008.
Some bosses collect 1,110 times the average worker pay.
50 families have more wealth than bottom 50% of the population combined.
Super-rich buy political parties and lawmakers to advance their interests.
Did you vote for the above?
Horse with baby
Olympic dressage horse Cassidy with his rider’s kid hitching a lift.
My 4-year-old niece proudly announced that "English is the best language" and as punishment she's not allowed to paint any roundabouts for the rest of the month.
Starmer ‘in wrong place’ on trans rights, says Thornberry Labour MP says party has been pushed into a place ‘that doesn’t come naturally to us’ and blames Morgan McSweeney (L-R) Anneliese Dodds, Angela Rayner, Sir Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan and Emily Thornberry head the LGBT Labour group at the Pride in London parade, Park Lane, London, Great Britain 2 July 2022 Sir Keir Starmer, seen with senior Labour figures at a Pride march in 2022, has changed the party’s public stance on trans peopleCredit: Elliott Franks
Let's hope this opens up space for change within the Labour Party. There is not a fascist, or misogynist, political leader in the world whose position on trans rights differs from Labour's.
turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right
matt goodwin *will* see your jokes about him and they will gnaw away at what’s left of his soul forever and ever and ever
Hope won the Manchester By Election in Gorton and Denton.
Hate came second.
Lies came third.
Good morning.
If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).
It wasn't even close.
40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.
Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere.
It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.
Has anyone, at any time jumped up and down and screamed at politicians to give them fewer rights?
O yeah.
#Brexit and now supporters of #ReformUK
Let's be clear. If Streeting cared remotely about the wellbeing of trans youth he would have called an immediate public inquiry into the 500% increase of deaths in trans kids after he and others stopped gender affirming care.
But instead, he commissioned a bogus report to try and cover it up.
A government-commissioned independent review into carer’s allowance published in November blamed systemic DWP leadership failures, poor benefit design, and flawed and unlawful administrative guidance.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?
People
Per OBR, LAs are set to rack up a further £8bn of DSG deficit before Whitehall takes direct responsibility for SEND £ in April 2028
"Further support" (tbc) will come, although "LAs can expect
that we will continue to take an appropriate & proportionate approach, though it will not be unlimited"
Screengrab from TV comedy show The Thick of It, where Tory minister Peter Mannion says 'Farewell, our shit and useless servant'
The DfE's Safety Valve SEND financial intervention scheme is ending, although LAs will be sent all the useful lessons and best practice learned from that exercise
Unclear what happens to the £1.1m of SV consultants still on contract with DfE
The conditions that apply: each LA with a DSG deficit (over 90% of them by March 2026) will need to submit a "local SEND reform plan" and have that approved by DfE
More in your super-soaraway @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social tomorrow on what those plans are all about (more demand mgmt)
Extract from local government financial settlement 2. Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND): Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) Deficits 2.1.1 The government is committed to supporting local authorities with their DSG deficits as we transition to a reformed SEND system. We will introduce support for local authorities in phases. The first phase will address historic deficits accrued up to the end of 2025‑26. All local authorities with a SEND deficit will be eligible in 2026-27 to receive a High Needs Stability Grant covering 90% of their High Needs-related DSG deficit accrued up to the end of 2025- 26. 2.1.2 We will confirm the detail on further support for deficits arising in 2026‑27 and 2027‑28 before the accounting override set out in Regulation 30L of The Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003 (“the Statutory Override”) ends from 1 April 2028. From 2028-29, SEND spending will be covered by the overall government DEL budget, meaning local authorities are not expected to fund future SEND costs from general funds, once the Statutory Override ends at the end of 2027-28
Looks like Whitehall will absorb 90% of local authority cumulative DSG deficits racked up until March 2026 [conditions apply]
That'll be roughly £6 billion absorbed, with a remaining ~£600m for LAs to find down the back of the sofa before April 2028
Poor people:
when sacked for dismissible conduct behaviour:
£0
Privileged people:
£55,000
three months’ salary
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer's statement thanks McSweeney for "turning the party around after one of the worst defeats in its history".
Labour currently polling at about 17%.
For those keeping score at home:
There’s no point in dissecting this further - she has no influence any longer, and today of all days it’s screamingly obvious that some peers are just totally unable to evaluate their own conduct and practice
I’m so, so glad though that my kids’ futures can no longer be shaped by Ofsted’s practice
There are reasonable arguments that some types of SEND might be mis- or over-identified. You won’t find them here
None of the 130+ local area SEND inspection reports Spielman oversaw as HMCI flagged up overidentification as an area of significant weakness in practice
To paraphrase @jonnelledge.bsky.social , it’s amazing that Spielman has resisted the overwhelming instinct that any other human would have felt - if they’d been as thoroughly exposed as Ofsted was during the Ruth Perry inquest - to just never show their face in public again
Instead, we have this
The least insightful, least accurate, and most annoying SEND label my kids & their cohort ever received?
That label was ‘low-ability,’ bestowed by a team of Ofsted inspectors
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
BREAKING
West Coast mainline
Major disruption to all West Coast Main Line railway services between Euston station and Watford Junction due to a fire in north London.
About 70 firefighters are tackling the blaze, at a building in Chalk Farm, London Fire Brigade said
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...