Kal Winston

This is one result of the 7-year-long, £10 million Chilcot Inquiry: a comprehensive, detailed & crucial guide to avoiding another disastrous war like Iraq. You can understand why Tony Blair ignores its lessons, but every other warmonger in the UK?
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You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

We have three great researcher jobs advertised, each for 12m, contributing to our work on generating evidence to inform food system transition. Please share widely.

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British woman who got detained by ICE declared "....that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that”."

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Clearly, it's not safe to travel to the US.

Another Forgotten Desirable Difficulty: Contextual Interference - kirschner-ED If the goal of teaching and education is for students to use what they learn beyond the classroom, that discomfort is the price we must pay. Contextual interference forces learners to determine what r...

If the goal of education is for students to use what they learn beyond the classroom, discomfort is the price we must pay. Contextual interference forces learners to determine what remains when everything else changes. #EduSky
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Peartridge in a pa tree

Retention of foster carers is a huge challenge. Every little will help.

Campaigning for council tax exemptions for foster carers

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Picketty talking good sense, as usual

The Forgotten Desirable Difficulty – Reduced Feedback Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.

Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.

This Is Sly & Robbie

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Just brilliant! Slow down - and watch :) 👇

What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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A reminder of the fundamental importance of the basics to modern society.

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

This makes no sense…

An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…

No thanks

If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote

Sign the petition & help make that law.

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Is relying on AI cognitive “offloading” or “outsourcing”? The terminology we use makes a difference.

Is relying on AI cognitive “offloading” or “outsourcing”?
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Exemplary misuse of 'only'.

Yes, clear and obvious. If it isn't obvious from one replay, then on field decision should stand.

Indeed. How do we persuade our institutions to extricate themselves from Microsoft?

Execution of anyone without trial, regardless of whether or not they may have committed a crime, is murder.

The Public Accountability Bill Amendment Ask your MP to support a ban on lying in politics today. Amendments 13–18 to the Hillsborough Law would make it a criminal offence for politicians and parliamentary candidates to deliberately mislead ...

Ask your MP to support a ban on lying in politics. Amendments 13–18 to the Hillsborough Law will make it a criminal offence to deliberately mislead the public. Tell your MP to back it today: www.compassioninpolitics.com/the_public_a... #TruthInPolitics #HillsboroughLaw

Sugar Bum Bum

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"the most important change is to abandon the mantras that ‘greed is good’ and ‘the sky is the limit’. They are wreaking so much havoc. That we have come to believe and enact them is shameful and destructive." (from "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth" by "Ingrid Robeyns")

European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

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Reduce your reliance on freeloading US companies who contribute nothing to the common good. Instead switch to companies that do pay a basic minimum tax rate

US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%

We need to stop using US products:
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MPhil PHS job opportunity: Education Operations Manager
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The Guardian view on care leavers: responsibility for looked-after children does not end at 18 | Editorial Editorial: Free prescriptions and eye tests ought to help these young adults get treatment. They also signal the state’s ongoing role

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"Extreme wealth is always built on a foundation that others have created."

"without collective institutions, public goods, basic infrastructure and collaboration with other people, it would be impossible for anyone to become rich – we all rely on the social contract." from Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df