The optics tell you EVERYTHING.

The victim unnamed, sidelined and dismissed, the killer shown in hero poses and made intriguing. Why? because white supremacy SEES the world in this way.

If you aren’t disgusted by this I have nothing for you. RIEP Daniel Anjorin.

Calls for major reform of the subject of English

Plunging popularity of English led by curriculum and teaching approaches more akin to science or maths.
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Can I be cheeky, I hope in a good way? I'd really appreciate any HT/CEO who follows me making their staff aware of thealternativebiglisten.co.uk. What would be great is if you could let them have 10 mins to complete it. We dont have the pulling power of Ofsted so we are relying on you.

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

Keir Starmer I am a 75 year old trans woman who transitioned in 1979. I have been placed in single sex women's wards during various health crises ever since - my rights were enshrined in law by a Labour government in 2010. You are proposing to strip me of those rights.

This is Palestinian American professor Samer Alatout. He had just asked the police to leave the students alone. He later said he saw & heard the cops point at him and say “we want him”.

Ignoring this authoritarian response to protest makes the climate emergency worse because it normalizes the behavior of the anti-democratic forces allied with fossil-fuel interests who are the most powerful enemies of a livable climate AND our children.

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It took Naifa Sawada’s family two weeks to discover what had happened to their grandmother following a raid by the Israeli army on her home in Gaza. The 92-year-old woman, who suffered from Alzheimer's, was found as a pile of charred bones. Middle East Eye
middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-…

Fun fact: Columbia’s School of General Studies made an exception and REFUNDED THE TUITION OF IOF SOLDIERS who left Columbia to fight in Gaza after October 7th, after the refund deadline had already passed.

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Talk to your local authority for support re education for sustainability

More advice from Lee Jowett Sheffield Hallam University

The Ministry of Eco Education works directly with local authorities to create bridging documents to support schools to include local examples of sustainability

The bar is already v.high for PIP. You have to show that e.g you cannot wash, dress, get food or go to treatment without prompting/assistance. You can't get PIP for a mild Mental Health condition. 1/2
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We are handing out leaflets with details of detention support organisations and law firms (Wilsons and Duncan Lewis) which are taking on referrals for people at risk.

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Devastating Fergal Keane piece on BBC News (UK) 10 just now, using an American medic’s footage from Gaza. Children nearly dead from starvation-gaunt, lifeless, cadaverous. Unimaginable suffering for innocents.

Gaza’s children send heartfelt thanks to American students for protesting against Israel’s genocide.

As a non-binary trans person who's given birth to two babies in the last 6 years I heard the word chestfeeding ZERO times, so I'm sure this is going to be a hugely impactful intervention

📣Call from Palestinian academics in the UK to defend Gaza universities and public commitments from UK universities and international organisations to support their rebuilding. 🎓🇵🇸

As a neuroscientist, one of the things that immediately stood out to me, about the #CassReview is the questionable claims about neurobiology. I read the report and summarised my findings about the quality of evidence in this SocArXiv preprint: osf.io/wjafd 1/15

Here's another for you Suella Braverman MP. 18 year old boy from Enfield. His Mum dies and he has no family. He ends up homeless living in a shed. He gets my contact details and I help him. I put him in the Travelodge on the A10 for 2 weeks until I can find him a room in a housing…