NEW ITV Wales YouGov MRP has Plaid and Reform neck and neck in Senedd vote intention
Impossible to say who would be largest party in terms of seats but neither would be close to majority
Would almost certainly result in Plaid led government as they have more potential allies in the Senedd 🧵👇
If they could invent one that muted my two teenagers while we have dinner that would be actually helpful.
Presume someone has told them many schools don't have lockers for all pupils.
More accurately some of the public might see a small snip of 'angry Starmer' on a news broadcast this evening.
Thanks Marios - I'm just about eady to start thinking about these things again if I can remember how!
We lived in rural Cumbria, it wasn't even a thing you *could* do (though would have been unaffordable anyway) but as an adult I am lucky enough to be able to trade money for time and time is for me much more valuable.
Me too. I absolutely hate cooking, and it really isn't practical to go out to eat with four of us and endless teenage activities to work around. Takeaway is my night off button. I can continue with whatever I was doing, food arrives, everyone eats, back to whatever we were doing.
Anti motorist propaganda!
Well I learned from this why our entire team ended up at the wrong King George V playing fields for a kids football match. I hope in years to come a similar confusion occurs about Queen Elizabeth II hubs
Someone a bit trigger happy with the sub head here
It depends on the relationships I think. I gently push back against my own Mum but I step round my mother-in-law. Politics is the thing that gets brought up but in my experience families have all sorts of topics they simply don't speak about to keep the peace.
I am glad this did not lead to complete estrangement. I do push back in a similar way with my Mum though she mostly only says this stuff to me and doesn't post online but I don't think it would be fair to my husband to do so with my in laws so I just step round it each time.
Very hard to assess. But certainly 'trust' in Facebook stuff was higher a decade ago - though I think some of it is also amplifying existing beliefs (that were often not aired publicly) not producing them
I do similar with my husband's family. It wouldn't be fair to him to cause a huge rift and they mostly stick to online stuff thankfully so it is easier to step round.
Animal rights feature heavily in this (or more precisely anti Halal posts).
I've spoken before about this happening in my own family - but it started a really long time ago. It didn't start in lockdown, I am trying to work out when it did but I certainly remember speaking about the impact of Facebook before the 2017 GE.
Have seen this first hand, the move from what seems harmless patriotic stuff right through to the AI slop.
In policy terms (and as a economically left leaning voter) there have been some good things but they are lost among these kinds of headlines.
Just imagining what Starmer would have said had this been Johnson.
The brief was really just to be better than the last lot and been failing it since the very beginning.
Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵
Looks really interesting.
Parental 'home' address in the UK but they don't spend anytime there. Council would check for a school with a catchment area but the grammar schools don't select on distance. (Though a couple do now have some distance criteria added in last 2 years for a small number of places).
I live in Gloucester itself though the problem is county-wide and extends into Stroud too but where you are in the county can help with alternatives for sure. Our local comps were doing very badly but have improved.
As I noted yesterday, if Labour had not lost so many votes to the Greens and Lib Dems they would be AHEAD of Reform in the polling and the narrative would look extremely different. I also suspect May will be Reform's ultimate peak in electoral success. But will Labour now be the beneficiaries?
I hope your Granddaughter thrives where ever she goes. I hate the system and had I known in 2012 what I know now I would never have moved into the area.
The problem here is that the comps were quite bad (until recently - things have improved a bit) and also heavily over subscribed because so many places supposedly for Gloucestershire pupils were being taken up by those out of county. The idea there is school 'choice' is laughable.
Eldest then got in to the Sixth form on the merit of his GCSEs, his first reaction was 'if I'd had these resources I'd have got all 9's'
Same here in Gloucester, eldest son missed out by a few places, youngest made the cut but more school buses run to the school from Swindon and Bristol than from our area in the city. At least one pupil flies in from Europe each week.
Four weeks to go! 🗳️
We'll be publishing analysis on our blog every Thurs + Tues, looking at data beyond the immediate horse-race 🏇📊
First up, @cjcarman.bsky.social on what Scots think about changes to voting rights in recent years!
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I suppose on balance being depressed at the petty cruelty of the British right is better than worrying if the world is going to end tomorrow.