If it's a total ban they're after and kids can't even take phones to school then I'd say that was completely irresponsible.
When I was a kid we had payphones - which we used to call our parents in an emergency. No such network exists any more and nobody seems to acknowledge it.
This is such bollocks.
All primaries and over 90% of secondaries already impose bans.
This is policy to placate GB News viewers and completely unnecessary.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New post:
"Elections 2026: London"
In my final preview I've split London into ten different battlegrounds to show how the capital's politics is evolving. With predictions for each borough.
In collaboration with the brilliant @londoncentric.media
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/elections-...
Peter Doig (Scottish, b. 1959), At the Edge of Town,1986-1988. Oil on canvas. Scottish National Galleries
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Film Choice: Peter’s Friendless
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1021, February 2001.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Cliff Edwards—nickname: Ukulele Ike—recorded "I Don't Want Nobody But You" 100 years ago, in April 1926. Louis Armstrong had two months earlier recorded "Heebie Jeebies," the song credited with making scat singing popular; this is another early example. See you around.
Utterly Betrayed The Rt Hon. Ralph St John Cholmondley having moped around glolmondley for three weeks in Belvoir with glandular felvoir, decided to surprise his fiancé in Frome. Bursting into the rome, he found her cavorting with an awick from Hawick (via Worcester), whose close attentions had left her all of a florcester. His fiancé, who hailed from Beaulieu, begged him not to get upset undeaulieu, as Ralph stared at them, boggle-eyed. Things aren’t how they look, she cried. Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘Utterly Betrayed’.
Jalais Hill, Pontoise 1867
Camille Pissarro I'm (Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas/French 1830–1903)
Oil on Canvas
(87 x 114.9 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Mark Langley (British, b.1954)
"Bluebell Wood." 2024
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov explained why he still likes Donald Trump.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9bl...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A crisp recording of Daniel Barenboim playing one of Chopin's most underappreciated nocturnes. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpP8...
Steve Mills (American, born 1959)
Target Practice, 2002
Oil on linen
20 × 26 in (50.8 × 66 cm)
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Harry Leslie Hoffman (American, 1871-1964)
A Mood of Spring, 1913
Oil on canvas
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #spring
Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...
Trump made every mistake in the strategy book but also some new ones that aren't in any book because he's so absurd.
A construction worker in Vietnam, left without childcare after becoming a widower, carries his baby while working. The story went viral for showing the challenges of raising a child in difficult conditions.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A few years before Debussy came out with his opera about the star-crossed lovers Pelléas and Mélisande, Gabriel Fauré composed incidental music to be performed with productions of the original dramatic play. This is the sad song for Mélisande's death. See you around.
It definitely don’t absolve you of your initial robbery. That doesn’t mean that your descendants have to serve your sentence.
How long would a commercial airplane take to reach the planets? The distances that make conventional space travel impossible
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since April 7 is Billie Holiday's birthday, here's her 1952 recording of "You Go to My Head." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sgn...
Foreshadowing example.
One Angry Man
NEW - I got to interview Dominic Cummings earlier this week.
Britain's 16-bit Shaman.
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The French composer and organist Maurice Duruflé's 1960 setting of "Ubi caritas"—often heard on Maundy Thursday—here in a 2019 performance by Early Music Vancouver. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxT_...
"Field Landscape (Kreuzberg near Krumau)" by Egon Schiele features patchwork fields rendered in bold, expressive colors beneath a somber sky, capturing a dynamic sense of movement and energy. Schiele’s use of sweeping lines and striking contrasts reflects his distinctive, emotive style characteristic of early 20th-century Expressionism.
Field Landscape (Kreuzberg near Krumau), 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24897
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This year marks the centennial of George Gershwin's Three Preludes for piano; he first performed them in late 1926. The second of the three, in C♯ minor—which Gershwin called "a sort of blues lullaby"—was recorded here by Evgeny Kissin in 2021. See you around.
Is the oft-cited phrase “May you live in interesting times” a blessing or a curse? Here’s Brian Bilston’s answer.
@brianbilston.bsky.social
