Also, bus passes are only any use if there is a bus. In some areas the school bus is the last bus of the day.

But the kids need phones. When they miss the bus home. When after school activity is cancelled at the last minute. If the rules ban phones, they may be stranded far from home.

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

A new study provides hope for older adults with newly diagnosed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, showing the promise of a chemotherapy-free regimen.

Read more in The Hematologist: https://ow.ly/oIBO50YKw8n

#Hematology #HemeOnc

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Literally devastating news

And almost certainly even worse because the models don't include the effects of huge volumes of Greenland meltwater pouring into the North Atlantic at a rate of 30 million tonnes AN HOUR

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes, it was only two days ago that Bezos’s wife was telling us she has every right to be happy. Sure, Jan.

Murphy Campbell facing blatant AI copyright theft. youtube.com/@murphydoesn...

Not easy to fight the machine learning companies depending on size. It's NOT intelligence, it's inference, and they shouldn't be allowed to loot real people's ideas.

Nigel Farage, 7/4/26: We shouldn’t be banning people from the UK because we don’t like what they say.

Nigel Farage, 7/4/26: We’ll be banning people from the UK because we don’t like what they say. 🤪🤪🤪

An official statement from Nestle appealing for information as to who has nicked 12 tonnes of KitKats.

Have a break. Have 12 Tonnes of KitKat.

Remember, kids, Nestle is literally the company who literally told African mothers that their breast milk wasn't good enough in order to sell more formula.

Don't be a snitch, now.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

have a great weekend, everyone

Get @hankgreen.bsky.social to help with this

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

Next week’s disability benefit cuts will make people destitute.

Families face eviction, lack of food and heating, lose access to the vital care.

Govt could cut corporate welfare, collect taxes dodged, tax the rich, but vulnerable are easy target.

In a wealthy country misery is a political choice.

NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

US Protestants do not count Catholics as Christian

Land of the free to do whatever the hell they want to do in the most cowardly fashion.

Well done Newsnight for enabling Jacob Rees-Mogg express his "feelings" – unmoderated by any attempt at journalistic scrutiny – that there are "hundreds and millions of people who are *technically* eligible to claim asylum here." #Newsnight

NEW: ICE Raided Children's Dorms at Dilley and Confiscated Their Letters. I'm Suing to Get Them Back. In our latest lawsuit, MSW Media is demanding children's letters confiscated by ICE agents, and the Office of General Counsel memo authorizing warrantless home entry.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

Matt Goodwin says book contains "a few errors and typos" (+ at least a couple of mistaken direct quotes) as consequence of "publishing outside the woke publishing industry".

But he says he did manage to get his self-published book *anonymously* peer-reviewed. (That does sound difficult to organise)

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.

I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.

I had not realised that the v racialised impact of the Starmer government's settlement reforms are almost certainly significantly more racialised for children than adults.

A which hunt.

How the heck did the US get away with the worst mass slaughter of school children in history, without the whole world condemning them?

@theguardian.com

Vincent in Brixon review – a radiant portrait of the artist as a young romantic Van Gogh is a restless soul who finds kinship – and possibly more – with his London landlady in this tender and full-hearted drama

Source: The Guardian
search.app/2aGjs where's Brixon?

A shocking new investigation by Index reveals that Emily (not her real name), a school librarian in Greater Manchester, faced disciplinary action after stocking the book Men Who Hate Women.

Nearly 200 books were targeted. 1/4
By @katiedd.bsky.social

They haven’t identified the strain yet but multiple strains of bacteria which commonly cause meningitis and sepsis can be vaccinated against and even if you missed vaccination at school, you can be vaccinated up to age 25: www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, an Afghan who had fought for US Special Forces, died in ICE custody within a day of his arrest.

TAT: [Nationalism]

Anthony's TV

This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot.

What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening.

How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?