Andy K

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Foreigners underrepresented among prisoners in England and Wales, report finds Analysis finds lower proportion of foreign inmates than would be expected if they were jailed at same rate as UK citizens of same age

Immigrants less likely to commit crimes than natives, as countless other studies have shown #NomadCentury

Yes, there’s a reason alright.

First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told Data suggests more than half of children who miss a day at the start of term become persistently absent.

Correlation ≠ causation

First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am still semi-convinced that if we rejoin the EU it will be driven by an argument that it will reduce migration.

UK economy grew 1% in first half of 2025

US economy grew 0.6%

I present these figures without comment

Maths and English literature saw a slight fall in top grades awarded for this year's A levels, with sciences and the arts seeing a rise. Discover how your area performed in our detailed subject-by-subject breakdown: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Interesting how you never see the head of this school on Question Time or elsewhere opining on the culture-war topic of the day.

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"UK university tuition fees could rise again"

I wonder if the Mail mention inside which party left jails dangerously full and failed to build any while ramping up sentencing?

Exam results: why do some subjects not have bell curves? GCSE results data shows that while some subjects enjoy neat grade distribution, many others see multiple peaks across the spread of grades. Dennis Sherwood explores why

GCSE results data shows that while some subjects have a neat distribution of grades, many don’t. Author Dennis Sherwood explores why

You can actually see the brain cells turning over

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

This is a very well reasoned and worded complaint. Predictably, the response makes no attempt to address what it says

To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why. Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage.

Such nonsense.

For anyone who may need these over Xmas…just in case

We should post this everyday , as this is how most of us feel , thank you to this lady for so eloquently explaining how racism works .

Utterly predictable.

The grim reality of Meloni's actions:

The case for school uniforms is compelling Sensibly enforced, they can have an equalising effect in the classroom

Hear, hear @stephenkb.bsky.social! www.ft.com/content/1e46...

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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

DfE evidence to STRB on teacher pay in England | National Education Union We are putting the Government on notice. 2.8% unfunded won’t do.

The Government has proposed an unfunded, 2.8% pay increase for teachers next year. Instead of continuing Conservative austerity, the Government must fully fund the above-inflation pay increases desperately needed to value, recruit and retain teachers and school leaders. neu.org.uk/latest/press...

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

Explains that the very wealthy non-farmers (e.g. Dyson), buying UK farmland to avoid inheritance tax, have pushed land prices up beyond profitability as farmland and thereby made everything much harder for most farmers.