Mahmood seems to have gone nuts. Fire her now.

Shame there’s no League 2 round of fixtures tonight - all three EFL divisions could have been won on the same day.

Shame on the BBC for indulging this nonsense.

Shame on the parent for making a fuss & for letting her daughter speak on camera to complain that it’s unfair to be punished for breaking school rules.

The BBC now stooping to school shaming. For shame.

There is literally zero merit in this story, and certainly none in making a little clickbait video of it.

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I’d be really interested in reading this evidence.

Agreed!

Disappointing. Thought you were on to something.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Your moment has arrived, @bennewmark.bsky.social - time to tell the world about Big Bay.

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I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

Very pleased to see phones in school will now be banned by law.

This creates a very clear position from which schools can discuss this issue with parents, lessening any potential diminishing of relationship between school and home.

Yep, their system is even more rigid in that there literally cannot be an election between presidential elections.

Our system is based on who can command the confidence of the Commons. Just because the Tories were shite for 10 years doesn’t mean we should abandon it.

Hmmmm, does the state of Israel exist because of antisemitism, or does antisemitism exist because of the state of Israel?

Just your regular chicken & egg kind of puzzle.

FFS these people need to read a history book.

RanV @ranv.bsky.social • 1h → Replied to RanV Besides, much (not all but certainly most) of the antisemitism would fade away if the state of Israel stopped existing, or at the very least stopped committing atrocities and war crimes against its neighbouring populations.

Little-known fact: the Holocaust, the blood libels, the pogroms, the Spanish Inquisition, Clifford’s Tower and the Dreyfus Affair were all perpetrated by time travelers who had come from the future where they had been radicalised by seeing the construction of the state of Israel.

That’s what created the issue then. Surprised nobody has asked about that.

Thanks

Was it announced? Or leaked?

So the issue was that it had become publicly known before Jan 30th?

He’s changed that process now but hard to believe he - or someone - didn’t think to do the vetting first for someone as dodgy as Mandelson, as Case suggested. Or that he would have backtracked once vetting was failed.

First time for everything!

Yep. That was pretty strong.

All plausible, yet almost underlining the big questions about the general approach of the PM towards his place in government

Agreed.

‘Exam-obsessed’ schools leave pupils unready for work, Alan Milburn says Former minister leading review into young people and work cites survey showing most teachers decry lack of ‘soft skills’

Blaming the poor state of the economy, especially youth unemployment, on the school curriculum is really dumb.

And Milburn's suggestion to teach more 'life skills' without lowering standards, has been proven to lower standards wherever it's been tried.

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Great surface.

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Liverpool celebrating the winning goal in the Merseyside derby. Curtis Jones looks particularly delighted. A crestfallen Jordan Pickford and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall sit on the floor. They are sad. The Everton fans are understandably annoyed. Many are stood up, presumably about to leave. A fine moment in a bad season for the Reds.

Morning.

Oh god. One of ours started in the middle of the night a few weeks ago. Freaks the dog out when it happened. That was a fun night!

The Originals but still not the Best, you Bluenose scruffs.

First 'daylight' offside goal scored in Canada The first goal allowed under the experimental

Nah, sorry. I’m not having that - that should be offside.

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