Of course this is all ridiculous as it’s so close that it shouldn’t matter to the wider future of politics which eventuality happens to be the one that is actually realised. Schrödinger’s ballot and all.
I think a Labour win is the worst scenario.
Green win —> Labour have to rebalance to avoid haemorrhaging progressive voters.
Reform win —> new impetus for progressive parties to cooperate in some way to avoid similar in future.
Labour win —> no change.
From a secondary perspective, the deterioration over recent years aligns with the abolition of Sure Start. That wouldn’t explain the changes across the sector, though so I wonder whether it’s just confirmation bias on my part.
I do take pleasure from reading articles on a range of topics. Perhaps that’s a love of reading, but if so, I’ve never heard this interpretation used in schools.
Maybe this is off-putting to and counterproductive for some students too - suggesting reading about their interests is somehow inferior.
I feel my life is fulfilled, though maybe I don’t know what I’m missing. However, I can’t see why this is any different to my lack of interest in fine art, or jazz, or various other art forms.
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Tangential, I know, but I find wanting to foster a love of reading somewhat frustrating.
I am fully literate but read no more than a couple of non-fiction books a year. I never read fiction.
I feel no shame in this though the way some talk suggests I should.
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Around 90% of pupils go to comprehensive schools. Does this mean at most 10% get an education that can be described as “academic”?
You said:
“Thomson’s background is far from academic: he went to comprehensive school in Worthing, West Sussex, and got a taste for physics … He became the first in his family to go to university, reading physics at Oxford.”
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@iansample.bsky.social I want to give the benefit of the doubt and am sorry that what I’m about to question comes across as somewhat confrontational but I’ve just read www.theguardian.com/science/2025... and something annoyed me about it that I’d be interested in clarification on:
Thank you
Thank you for this - hard to argue with.
I don’t know where Alaa Abd El-Fattah was when he tweeted but does this make any difference legally? Can he be prosecuted using UK law if the tweet were posted while in Egypt?
If you accept those in poverty make just as good decisions as you, it forces you to come face to face with the fact that you are not where you are on merit and you could have been in their position but for good fortune, which is an uncomfortable truth for many.
Cooked Christmas dinner today. Guests coming the next two days. Was concerned I won’t have enough cooking oil but still have half a bottle which will be plenty.
Forget the birth of the son of god - oil lasting longer than expected is like a true miracle for the festive season.
#ProperJewishMiracle
I obviously don’t know your age, but we millennials pretty much invented this kind of thing to fit as much information as possible into a 160 character 10p SMS.
Plus ça change…
Yes! I’ve been predicting the same for long time - strong echoes of Iraq: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The defendant referred to his friend coming round and them having chicken and rice before doing something. One of the barristers (it might have been the defence, I don’t remember) referred to this as a “dinner party” and even at that age, I remember thinking “you haven’t got a clue”
My concern is not for me but for those who live significantly less similar lives to the average legal expert and so whose lived experiences and so cases may be less well understood.
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That’s true & there are decisions the government might take that I would disagree with but can see justification for - they may do some harm but are justifiable in the long-term on utilitarian grounds.
But there has to be an ethical line - things with no benefit you won’t do because they are wrong
What I have no truck with is mean-spirited tacking to the authoritarian right on immigration, trans issues and the like, neither of which have any benefit to the country and the former of which will do us economic harm.
That isn’t about time. It’s about leading on simple matters of humanity.
I’m not a Labour member (and am a member of another party) but I wished the Labour government well and had hope.
I am willing to give them time on turning the running of the country, the economy, etc around. I will cut them some slack with some decisions on benefits that I might not agree with.
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That’s superb
Does anyone have an Erdös-Bacon-Epstein number?
Today the curriculum and assessment review is published. Please do read the executive summary and recommendations.
Thank you to everyone who gave evidence and who came and spoke to us. I really appreciated you all giving your time and expertise.
👉 www.gov.uk/government/p...
It’s almost as though we have democratic means of appropriate authorities deciding about the putting up of flags in public spaces for a reason.
The Greens are not the party that best fits my centrist dad politics and I am uncomfortable with the description of “populist” but I am delighted to have a(nother?) loud voice pulling the Overton window in the opposite direction to Reform.
More of this, please.
Last minute drama cover 😱😱😱😱
The last thing I need in charities I help coordinate is volunteers needing inducting, DBS checking, etc whose heart isn’t in it so don’t proactively get involved then leave after a presumably fairly short period once they’ve been signed off.
Oh! And presumably a small fat pancake (what we’d call a scotch pancake) rather than a big thick French-style crepe?
What is it in the states?!
