Reform have peaked far too early. Their voters are old, their media base is dying and people are starting to realise they are a rebadged, far right tory party.
It would be nice if the BBC started doing their job of informing people about them though.
You just put the genie back in the bottle then, right?
So they can't access the app their school uses to find homework and their timetable. Great.
And yet they are completely hammered if there is any drop in their academic results, even a slight one.
We know exactly how this strategy will go because it's pretty much the policy they've been pursuing since 2020.
Far right graffiti near me. Again.
a photo of a small grey dog, named Baxter, laying flat on his stomach on a white couch covered with a dark grey blanket. the photo is taken from a distance while Baxter stares directly into the camera. the most notable part of Baxter's pose is the fact that his legs are comfortably propped up behind him at a 90 degree angle, creating an illusion that he's kicking up his feet like a teenage girl.
This is Baxter. He’s thinking about his crush. No he won’t tell you who it is. 12/10 (TT: jayshaun077)
Five mins.... You've clearly never worked in the school. Not in the UK at least.
I take issue at the phrase "parents are receiving aid to raise their kid".
Society helps parents (child benefit, freeze education etc) because those children are the future of the society and it's in everyone's interests that they grow up to be healthy, grounded, educated people.
I don't know if you've had experience of raising a teenager recently, but managing parental controls on devices is far more difficult than the tech companies would have you believe. It takes a long time to set up, then you spend lots of time having to over ride it when they need it so homework etc.
The whole point of my OP is, this problem is complex. Tech companies need to shoulder a large amount of responsibility, but the govt are scared to challenge them. Schools can help tackle this problem, but not when they're underfunded, understaffed, under huge pressure to meet narrow targets etc.
It's not all the parents' fault. They have to take some responsibility, yes, but it's incredibly difficult to deny children phones these days (they need them for so many things) and the phones and apps are, by design, highly addictive. Your 'solution' is even more simplistic than the govt's.
School staff would need huge amounts of time to process all those suspensions. You'd have to get Ofsted/DfE approval that all those GCSE withdrawals would not reflect on the school's targets. A significant minority of kids (and some parents) would not actually care.
Two days later... Still nothing.
I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
@mwuerker.bsky.social
Yel. These people are so arrogant. Just like the Tories, they have massive sense of entitlement.
And, incredibly, none of this would have been a problem if it wasn't for what came out in the Epstein files. Despite Mandleson's looong problematic history.
I didn't listen to it all, but I'm still not sure how it is that he didn't see the results of the vetting (I think he just said he was TOLD it was "borderline" but "leaning towards" a no), but he then made the decision and told Starmer. Did ANYONE see vetting? Where's the paperwork?
Yep, this is embarrassing, just not in the way he's saying.
If this was a school that had employed a teacher without following a proper and full vetting process, but it turned out that the DBS check had been "borderline" the school would be absolutely panned.
But this isn't a school, it's the government.
“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”
It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
Have you got a societal problem involving young people? Are the causes complex and multilayered? Would solutions be expensive, time consuming and involve grasping nettles? Don't worry, just tell schools to solve it! No, of course they don't need any extra resources.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...maybe - just maybe - he's actually the worst president in history
Lee Anderson just got ejected from the House of Commons for calling Starmer liar. Well, he'd know one, wouldn't he? youtu.be/4LmS9CzAY_s?...
Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions.
He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.
So was Angela Rayner.
Richard Tice, you must also resign, by your own standards.
