When the world can seem full of selfish men, it was a joy to interview Steve Green for The Guardian. He and his dilapidated camper van Cecil are hauling abandoned yachts out of beautiful Cornish creeks often at his own expense. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is not getting nearly enough media or public attention.
👉 Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well by @masnick.com
www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/p...
As it's the weekend, let's take a moment to enjoy and celebrate what for the entire country is an unalloyed good-news story!
image is a montage of scenes from the education select committee and the send debate
On SNJ Today: @catrionamoore.bsky.social summarises the week's two pieces of political SEND action and finds a #SENDreform reality check as experts' and policymakers' concerns are growing under scrutiny www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-reform-... #SaveOurChildrensRights
It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock.
But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic.
No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar.
It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction
🚨Attention SENDCOs🚨
I'm looking for a SEND specialist working in a UK school, to write an article in response to the recent white paper.
Please send me your article ideas via EMAIL to andy@teacherwriters.com
Thanks!
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
“Meet the nation’s ghost workforce: a growing army of unpaid cooks, nurses, cleaners and physios who slog away day and night, out of sight behind their front doors.”
Today’s column is on the UK’s 6 million unpaid carers propping up the broken social care system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Well worth your time reading this vet lucid article on the problems created by grades
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
New post out:
"Understanding MAGA"
I look at the four different strands that make up MAGA philosophy (such as it is), the contradictions between them, and whether it can survive as a movement post Trump.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/u...
Trump may not carry out the threat.
But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office.
For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances.
… and we need the lift the projects and people in this latest edition offer, alongside a focus on shameful failures in support and care (and how to avoid them!).
Thanks to all involved in creating this latest issue⬇️
“We’d welcome a crackdown on illegitimate use of badges to safeguard the deserving users.”
Staggering the AA put this out there on Blue Badge use. Talk about fraud if that’s an evidenced issue, sure, but “deserving” rhetoric in current climate is just dangerous. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...
🚨 New IPSEA research on SEND support for disadvantaged families: Breaking Barriers.
Dr Mitchell's interviews included:
⚪️ Barnardo's
⚪️ Youth Justice
⚪️ Adoption UK
⚪️ Black Child SEND.
Three findings 🧵1/5
When we're back to language about the "deserving" disabled people vs the undeserving ones, from a random group like the AA, I fear it betrays how widespread anti disability rhetoric has become
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...
A long piece this week on the various kinds of AI foolishness I have seen lately. Tl;dr: in your professional life, do not use technologies in which you have no expertise and with which you have not engaged critically?! It’s not that complicated?!
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
A grid of nine images featuring a photo of Gail and the designs she creates. Prints, a phone case, a mug, a T-shirt, a cushion and a greeting card.
Hello! 👋
I’m Gail, a one woman design studio, based in #Manchester
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, T-shirts and stationery.
Go on, have a nosy gailmyerscough.co.uk
Deeply depressing. Just lazy soundbites and bad economics.
Populism without racism is infinitely preferable to the combination. But Greens badly need something that actually resembles a coherent economic strategy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is something profoundly unserious about demanding the country spends vast sums on reducing its carbon emissions and then calling for a massive fossil fuel subsidy to consumers the moment gas prices rise.
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
“That the universal credit cut will affect new claimants says the quiet part out loud: anyone can become disabled or ill. And every time governments slash the safety net, we can’t know if it’ll be us, a loved one or stranger who will fall through it.”
Today’s col www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know people don't like to think of bad things happening, but anyone could become chronically ill or disabled at any time, through no fault of their own, no matter how healthy they are
It shouldn't only be disabled people having to fight the government all the time, it's up to all of us
The loss of the Section 230 shield and the discovery of these internal documents were known to Meta before the trial began. In a way that was when Meta had the problem, for even if it somehow defeated the Kaley GM case on its facts and on causation at trial, the loss of the shield and the discovered documents were still there. In this way, the fact there was even a trial was as much as an adverse precedent for the social media platforms than any award of damages. That was just the follow-through in this particular case. Nonetheless, Meta adopted what could be called an aggressive approach to the trial, disputing that that plaintiff had suffered any damage from her social media use or arguing that if there was damage, it was not caused by its design features. This exercise in victim-blaming was not only unpleasant but also misconceived and counterproductive. It seems the trial strategy turned the jury against the platforms. Other potential lawsuits will not have the exact same facts as those in Kaley GM. Some of these cases will be weaker on the evidence than the Kaley GM case, and some may be even stronger. But it seems there are thousands of other claims across the United States ready to go, after what was effectively a test or “bellwether” claim. The liability and the damages facing the social media platforms will scale up considerably.
NEW
Social media platforms have a serious legal problem
And this problem pre-dates the defeat of Meta and Google in the Kaley GM jury trial
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why Meta and Google lost this case - months before the actual trial
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
Chemists use atomic radius as a measure of the size of an atom, typically defined as half the distance between the nuclei of two adjacent atoms.
However, in reality atoms don’t have fixed boundaries, @philipcball.bsky.social reports.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-que...
Image shows officials wandering in circles around legal implements looking confused, in sepia tones (AI generated)
On SNJ Today: Which way next? SNJ's @tanialt.bsky.social on the DfE's latest misstep in its SEND consultation is a backtrack on its refusal to consult on proposed SEND legal changes. Parents MUST respond to the consultation to say this is #NotInOurName! www.specialneedsjungle.com/dfe-backtrac...
