Isabelle Candy 🧡
@isacandy.bsky.social
MAT governance lead 🇨🇵🇬🇧🇪🇺
Governance, equal rights, nature, books and crafts.
Governance, equal rights, nature, books and crafts.
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A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer
Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Still lots of flowers along the Otter estuary in Devon: red campion, ragwort, white flowered nettle, buttercup and yarrow
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Still lots of flowers along the Otter estuary in Devon: red campion, ragwort, white flowered nettle, buttercup and yarrow
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
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This week we are celebrating the trustees and governance professionals whose curiosity and civic leadership strengthen trust culture, strategy and integrity.
#TrusteesWeek
#TrusteesWeek
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This week we are celebrating the trustees and governance professionals whose curiosity and civic leadership strengthen trust culture, strategy and integrity.
#TrusteesWeek
#TrusteesWeek
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Food banks provide help when people need it most. But real change means ending the need for them altogether.
Repost if you agree 💚
Repost if you agree 💚
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Food banks provide help when people need it most. But real change means ending the need for them altogether.
Repost if you agree 💚
Repost if you agree 💚
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This TEDx Talk questions how journalists report on underrepresented communities in the UK media.
🔎 Is our reporting designed to inform… or inflame? 🔥
Let’s take a look at last summer’s anti-immigration riots…
Watch the full talk: youtu.be/fJy__NhRqJA
🔎 Is our reporting designed to inform… or inflame? 🔥
Let’s take a look at last summer’s anti-immigration riots…
Watch the full talk: youtu.be/fJy__NhRqJA
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This TEDx Talk questions how journalists report on underrepresented communities in the UK media.
🔎 Is our reporting designed to inform… or inflame? 🔥
Let’s take a look at last summer’s anti-immigration riots…
Watch the full talk: youtu.be/fJy__NhRqJA
🔎 Is our reporting designed to inform… or inflame? 🔥
Let’s take a look at last summer’s anti-immigration riots…
Watch the full talk: youtu.be/fJy__NhRqJA
Forgot to add #WildFungiHour!
Fungi yesterday at Yarner Wood, #Dartmoor, #Devon.
After watching tonight's episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, I wonder what they look like illuminated by UV light.
Would love someone to identify what they are too.
#WildFlowerHour
After watching tonight's episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, I wonder what they look like illuminated by UV light.
Would love someone to identify what they are too.
#WildFlowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Forgot to add #WildFungiHour!
Fungi yesterday at Yarner Wood, #Dartmoor, #Devon.
After watching tonight's episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, I wonder what they look like illuminated by UV light.
Would love someone to identify what they are too.
#WildFlowerHour
After watching tonight's episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, I wonder what they look like illuminated by UV light.
Would love someone to identify what they are too.
#WildFlowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Fungi yesterday at Yarner Wood, #Dartmoor, #Devon.
After watching tonight's episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, I wonder what they look like illuminated by UV light.
Would love someone to identify what they are too.
#WildFlowerHour
After watching tonight's episode of Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles, I wonder what they look like illuminated by UV light.
Would love someone to identify what they are too.
#WildFlowerHour
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Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
1/ If Nigel did his homework, he'd find out that all state schools in England are required by law to promote the fundamental British values of:
- democracy
- the rule of law
- individual liberty
- mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Who's the poisonous one here?
- democracy
- the rule of law
- individual liberty
- mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Who's the poisonous one here?
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education
Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.
The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
1/ If Nigel did his homework, he'd find out that all state schools in England are required by law to promote the fundamental British values of:
- democracy
- the rule of law
- individual liberty
- mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Who's the poisonous one here?
- democracy
- the rule of law
- individual liberty
- mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Who's the poisonous one here?
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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"Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality. Because of an economy that allows billionaires to hoard wealth while millions struggle to get by. Because of a political class that has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose."
This is fucking outstanding from Zack, I was punching the air at practically every sentence
Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski
Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality. Because of an economy that allows billionaires to hoard wealth while millions struggle to get by. Because of a political class that has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose."
This ⤵️
🚨Contribution and citizenship.
In her speech at the #LabourPartyConference, the Home Secretary outlined plans to overhaul the rules for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR).
We're extremely concerned that this will create a two-tier system that punishes people for needing support.
1/🧵
In her speech at the #LabourPartyConference, the Home Secretary outlined plans to overhaul the rules for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR).
We're extremely concerned that this will create a two-tier system that punishes people for needing support.
1/🧵
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This ⤵️
A thread well worth reading.
Going to stick my neck out and say this policy will never be implemented, or will be successfully challenged if it is, leaving the government blundering around (not for the first time) infuriating its former/ potential supporters and getting no credit from its opponents 1/
Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A thread well worth reading.
I couldn't agree more!
And I say this as someone who has been a volunteer, paid NI or both during over 3 decades of being a UK resident.
And I say this as someone who has been a volunteer, paid NI or both during over 3 decades of being a UK resident.
Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
September 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I couldn't agree more!
And I say this as someone who has been a volunteer, paid NI or both during over 3 decades of being a UK resident.
And I say this as someone who has been a volunteer, paid NI or both during over 3 decades of being a UK resident.
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Nice piece about french glaciologists Fanny Brun and Patrick Ginot (both IGE, Grenoble) in @liberation.fr journal! 🧊❄️
www.liberation.fr/forums/recha...
www.liberation.fr/forums/recha...
Réchauffement climatique : trois scientifiques racontent les derniers instants de glace
Grimpant des sommets, des chercheurs auscultent la vie et la disparition des glaciers, à la fois réservoirs d’eau, archives du passé et trésors naturels. Avec l’espoir que leurs travaux soient appropr...
www.liberation.fr
September 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nice piece about french glaciologists Fanny Brun and Patrick Ginot (both IGE, Grenoble) in @liberation.fr journal! 🧊❄️
www.liberation.fr/forums/recha...
www.liberation.fr/forums/recha...
This thread reflects my thoughts very well!
Plus as a migrant working in education, instead of blaming migrants for the lack of jobs and people with the right training, as well as sorting out cost of living stuff, sort out education funding!
Plus as a migrant working in education, instead of blaming migrants for the lack of jobs and people with the right training, as well as sorting out cost of living stuff, sort out education funding!
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This thread reflects my thoughts very well!
Plus as a migrant working in education, instead of blaming migrants for the lack of jobs and people with the right training, as well as sorting out cost of living stuff, sort out education funding!
Plus as a migrant working in education, instead of blaming migrants for the lack of jobs and people with the right training, as well as sorting out cost of living stuff, sort out education funding!
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Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? (A disappointing question to ask in 2025).
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain?
Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space
www.easterneye.biz
September 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? (A disappointing question to ask in 2025).
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Saturday:
✅ Extra load of washing (dried outside quickly by the same wind helping to power the grid)
✅ EV topped up
Sunday:
✅ Ironing done
✅ Warm picky bits for lunch
✅ More EV top-up
All with #FreeElectricity sessions.
Thanks @octopus.energy
✅ Extra load of washing (dried outside quickly by the same wind helping to power the grid)
✅ EV topped up
Sunday:
✅ Ironing done
✅ Warm picky bits for lunch
✅ More EV top-up
All with #FreeElectricity sessions.
Thanks @octopus.energy
September 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Saturday:
✅ Extra load of washing (dried outside quickly by the same wind helping to power the grid)
✅ EV topped up
Sunday:
✅ Ironing done
✅ Warm picky bits for lunch
✅ More EV top-up
All with #FreeElectricity sessions.
Thanks @octopus.energy
✅ Extra load of washing (dried outside quickly by the same wind helping to power the grid)
✅ EV topped up
Sunday:
✅ Ironing done
✅ Warm picky bits for lunch
✅ More EV top-up
All with #FreeElectricity sessions.
Thanks @octopus.energy
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Today on the Diverse Educators blog is a post by me...
Flags: When Patriotism Becomes Politics
www.thebelongingeffect.co.uk/flags-when-p...
With shout outs to Bennie Kara Andrew Moffat and HOPE not hate
#DiverseEd
Flags: When Patriotism Becomes Politics
www.thebelongingeffect.co.uk/flags-when-p...
With shout outs to Bennie Kara Andrew Moffat and HOPE not hate
#DiverseEd
Flags: When Patriotism Becomes Politics | Belonging Effect
We have all seen them. Driving up the motorway, crossing a roundabout in town, suddenly there it is: the Union Jack, or the red-and-white St George’s Cross.
www.thebelongingeffect.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.
YES! Thank you...
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
- seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
- seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951
northeastbylines.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.
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Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
August 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
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Wildly disproportionate, and inimical to scientific research across all disciplines precisely at a time when its needed most.
Visa costs at Cancer Research UK institutes double in two years.
Cancer charity warns that soaring costs are hindering research, after its institutes (including at the CRICK) spent almost £900k last year on bringing scientists to the country.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Cancer charity warns that soaring costs are hindering research, after its institutes (including at the CRICK) spent almost £900k last year on bringing scientists to the country.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Visa costs at Cancer Research UK institutes double in two years - Research Professional News
Charity spent nearly £900,000 on immigration costs rather than cancer research last year
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wildly disproportionate, and inimical to scientific research across all disciplines precisely at a time when its needed most.
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New report 🚨
Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.
Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog
Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.
Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
New report 🚨
Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.
Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog
Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.
Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog
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NEW REPORT: how does where you live and your background affect how you do at school?
- Inequalities have widened around the country and between groups of children since the pandemic
- Progress depends on sharing what works to support disadvantaged pupils & cutting high absence
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- Inequalities have widened around the country and between groups of children since the pandemic
- Progress depends on sharing what works to support disadvantaged pupils & cutting high absence
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Educational outcomes across England | Institute for Government
Examining the performance gaps in schools.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
NEW REPORT: how does where you live and your background affect how you do at school?
- Inequalities have widened around the country and between groups of children since the pandemic
- Progress depends on sharing what works to support disadvantaged pupils & cutting high absence
🧵👇
- Inequalities have widened around the country and between groups of children since the pandemic
- Progress depends on sharing what works to support disadvantaged pupils & cutting high absence
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