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Director, SEND and Additional Needs @ Education Policy Institute. Former government statistician.

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You can do pretty much what you like while singing ‘ridicule is nothing to be scared of’ I guess…

08.03.2026 15:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming YouTube video by AdamAntVEVO

My sister (who is not on bsky to defend herself, but would most likely also stand by it) went for this bad boy:

08.03.2026 15:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Madonna - La Isla Bonita (Official Video)
Madonna - La Isla Bonita (Official Video) YouTube video by Madonna

I was all about this banger when I was seven. Je ne regrette rien.

08.03.2026 15:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A victory for Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “To be honest, I don’t even understand now how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. In fact, it no longer exists.”

08.03.2026 13:03 👍 920 🔁 375 💬 55 📌 36

Several of us did try to point out that you cannot ultimately gain anything from sucking up to Trump. His character is such that you might as well try to make friends with a scorpion.

08.03.2026 09:07 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I have complicated feelings about Huntley’s fate. We shouldn’t have a system unable to protect life. But would I prioritise fixing it when we don’t have a system that protects children or women? And can I bring myself to regret the karma of Couzens getting a taste of the fear he inflicted on Sarah??

07.03.2026 14:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump doesn’t want Americans to know they’re in danger because he’ll look bad.

07.03.2026 11:04 👍 493 🔁 210 💬 28 📌 3

The first thing I thought when I read the apology for strikes on neighbours was ‘they are switching to terror attacks then’.

07.03.2026 11:07 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bride and groom Iranians, lovely people, and I understand why they were there dodging the morality police.

But seated with ex pats for the wedding dinner. Just incredibly dull people with nothing to talk about.

Ended up chatting to the DJ they’d flown in and the secret service security guy.

03.03.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pro: upgraded to suite with a butler bc bride’s daddy is very rich.

Cons: Can’t walk anywhere + sand at beach gives you third degree burns.

Company. French pervs discussing me as slab of meat in the swimming pool. Until I answered in French.

Views. half-dead slave labourers lying by the roadside.

03.03.2026 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have spent a total of four days in Dubai, for a wedding. It gave me serious High-rise inspired heebie-jeebies. No, thanks…

03.03.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mainlining Coke Zero is how I get through this timeline. If they ever take it away I WILL down tools indefinitely.

03.03.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Someone has mentioned the Mujahideen, haven’t they? And he’s managed to grasp PART of the story…

03.03.2026 19:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speculating on how fast Winston Churchill would have arranged for a leak of some of the choicer Epstein files if he had experienced the misfortune of encountering Trump…

03.03.2026 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

strange things happened in the polymarket markets on the attack on Iran — a lot of very heavy betting, strange odds movements and 12 very suspicious wallets: www.ft.com/content/2883...

03.03.2026 06:59 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
post title with a picture of Melissa and Jessica inset into a composite image with the proposals cover and scales of justice

post title with a picture of Melissa and Jessica inset into a composite image with the proposals cover and scales of justice

NEW POST: A parent has launched a legal challenge against the Schools White Paper's #SEND consultation. @catrionamoore.bsky.social writes about the action's claim of an “irrational, unfair” fundamental change that “significantly weakens" children's legal rights www.specialneedsjungle.com/l...

28.02.2026 06:00 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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Will reforms fix the SEND funding crisis? Councils may face a rise requests for EHCPs to secure special school places ahead of the reforms

Government has pledged to wipe 90 per cent of high-needs deficits, yet some councils will remain in financial trouble – and may face a clamour from families and schools to get statutory support before reforms

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/will-reforms-fix-the-send-funding-crisis/

27.02.2026 23:00 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Sure. Let’s wait for him to kill the next woman. We couldn’t possibly value her life above his chance to finish what he started, then persisted with and escalated over many years. 🙄🙄🙄

27.02.2026 20:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eight years of this:

"In one incident in 2019, Easom dragged Ms Burgess upstairs by the head, banging her against each step.

In 2021, Easom placed a sheet over her head and strangled her."

He could be out before retirement age.

27.02.2026 17:10 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

It’s not unlikely she is. But you can be all those things and still not working class. I’m certainly not saying she isn’t. Just that it’s easy to make assumptions on incomplete information.

27.02.2026 20:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I classify my childhood as lower middle bc my parents were mortgage-holders. But my dad left school at 14. He got trained in the airforce + did a stint for British Aerospace, bc he was damned if they were going to rent forever. Then the 80s90s happened and the house was worth 37x the purchase price.

27.02.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It shifts the balance, sure.

But what about men kicked out of expensive schools at 16 living on inheritance? Ppl can have conflicting indicators. Income, wealth, occupation, education, standard of living all tell you things. But are also all time-variant. Snakes and ladders…

27.02.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s best not to assume, isn’t it…

27.02.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I used to have a plumber who’d been to public school. If you’ve got a private income, you can do whatever tickles your fancy. Plus a gas plumber earns more than quite a lot of graduates do.

27.02.2026 14:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Depiction of Aesop’s ‘The dog and his reflection’ showing the dog holding a bone staring at a reflection of himself in a pond of water.

Depiction of Aesop’s ‘The dog and his reflection’ showing the dog holding a bone staring at a reflection of himself in a pond of water.

I’ve said this about Labour, but of course it’s the same bone that keeps getting picked up by a different dog each time the one who had it forgets to keep hold of it. They were all warned in Primary school by a literal Aesop’s fable…

27.02.2026 08:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If only there was a literal Aesop’s fable to warn them what happens when you obsess about taking and not keeping…

27.02.2026 07:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From one pattern recognition Cassandra to another, I see you.

26.02.2026 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lisa Nandy says that the government is now considering quitting X.

"The first job of government is to deal with the really serious issues around regulation" ... "But I do think symbols matter - the question you ask is very much up for debate. Its a debate we are having"

25.02.2026 20:02 👍 143 🔁 43 💬 12 📌 8

If they didn’t believe it they could simply have not arrested him. In fact they have said they did their own investigation of it that led to the arrest. 🤷‍♀️

25.02.2026 21:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Only if you’ve got a team from Mishcon

25.02.2026 20:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0