Every time a woman runs for president I hear that sheβs too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet
REGISTER NOW! SNJβs Schools White Paper SEND Legal Roundtable with @stevebroach.bsky.social Hayley Mason-Seager, IPSEA & SOS!SEN:
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The number of SEND-related complaints upheld by the councils watchdog has leapt by a quarter in just one year
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/upheld-send-complaints-rise-25-in-a-year/
π¨ Print Edition β Nazir Afzal: βClass Discrimination Isnβt a Complex Mystery β Itβs a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferredβ
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, βClass Ceilingβ¦
I can hardly believe that anyone with a public voice in Higher Education first, thinks this nonsense, and second, that this is the priority issue right now.
Happy international womenβs day x
Take back control, they said.
Free us from the tyranny of the EU, they said.
And now they are calling for us to be shackled to the Trump regime; else weβll be a piffling irrelevance.
move slow and repair things
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
Who Really Pays Inheritance Tax? In 90 seconds.
Full Inheritance Tax info including how give & live, pensions, marriage, charity and more in the new Martin Lewis Podcast on www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., Apple, Spotify & all the usual pod players.
Illustration of the Toast Rack building in Manchester
New in - The Toast Rack.
The Hollings Building is a Manchester brutalist icon and now you can have it on your wall.
Available as a print and a greeting card.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...
No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britainβs political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.
Latest substack from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Just shows how much contempt Reform has for their own supporters. This is a policy that helps the kids of the wealthy educated liberal elites they claim to despise. And would harm the types of constituency they do well in.
These headlines should always read βNew secondary moderns set to returnβ, since thatβs where most kids will go under that system.
I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!
Trump is announcing his nominee.
That's it.
If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of thisβeven after knowing what they know now.
And that matters come November.
If there is evidence of irregularities at some polling stations at the Gorton and Denton byelection, then that evidence should be properly and promptly investigated in accordance with due process by the proper authorities. And that is what is being done. Any denunciations of the election result should thereby await the result of this process. The losing party spokesperson candidly admitted the day after the election that any irregularities were not enough to have affected the result, which was emphatic. But this did not prevent the losing partyβs leader from loudly promoting grave allegations of sectarian voting, corruption and dishonesty. Yet if the irregularities are not upheld on investigation as invalidating the result, it is unlikely that those findings will be shouted about. And such a response is irresponsible. Parts of the United Kingdom have a history of sectarian violence. Parts of the United Kingdom have histories of racial tension. Responsible politicians should not exploit such allegations for partisan advantage. Making such allegations is to play with fire, literally. Responsible politicians should be careful to avoid subverting the very fundamentals on which a functioning democracy rests. Such βpoisoning of the wellsβ is familiar to those following the politics of the United States, and it lay behind the lethal violence that took place in Washington DC on 6th January 2021.
New
The poisoning of the wells
Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy
This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
another judgment to throw everyone into disarray ...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
That was 'I hate Manchester anyway' by Matt Goodwin and the White Supremes, from his Bitter Loser album.
Sent to me by one of my brothers
Color studio portrait of Marion Downs (1913β2014), renowned American audiologist and pioneer in pediatric audiology. She sits posed against a neutral gray background with a gentle smile. She has short, wavy silver-white hair, warm brown eyes, and light makeup with pink lipstick. She wears a light gray satin blouse with subtle polka dots, small gold earrings, a gold watch, and a wedding ring. Her left hand rests on her hip. She is dressed in a matching gray skirt, exuding poise and accomplishment in this formal seated pose. #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM #audiology
Before Marion Downs, childhood hearing loss wasnβt caught until age 3+. #WorldHearingDay
The ππ°π΅π©π¦π³ π°π§ ππ¦π₯πͺπ’π΅π³πͺπ€ ππΆπ₯πͺπ°ππ°π¨πΊ advocated for early detection/intervention & established the first large-scale newborn screening program (1963), proving early intervention is the key to language. #WomenInSTEM
Oh my god oh my god
In one weekβs time The Music Boutique in Lambeth will be forced to close its doors - unless you can help!
Hereβs a little film I made to show what the place means to our family.
Crowdfunder link in commentsβ¦
The easiest analytical assumption to make whenever Trump does something is that he hasn't thought it through at all. And yet everytime commentators contort themselves into believing there's some kind of strategy.
Interrupting the grim with the light: my book Double Discrimination is out 21 Mayπ½
It's influenced by my sister Raana, it's on racism and ableism, what happens when you feel both, why that matters (to us all) - and to do about it.
Feat. awesome people & projects
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/saba-...
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
SNJ's @renatawatts.bsky.social explains the government's proposed Specialist Provision Packages and how and where they fall apartβand who misses out. Find our article on this here: www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
"The government claims to want to move away from diagnosis-led support, but is instead relying on categorising children in crude and regressive ways."
Excellent from @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social.
