It does make me a bit sad, if the left had lost the party to a genius operation, that's one thing, but ...

Err..... Strange

Yeah it should be on. I've likely just messed up the settings at some point.

Grrrr somehow I managed to post this with no alt text.

Hope you don't mind I stole yours

Thanks @thatelizabeth.bsky.social for the above description

women as a group, so want to ban them all (Nordic model for selling sex). That doesn't mean that I think everyone's forced.

Apologies some how , manage to post this without alt text.

Black text on blue from mumsnet reading ‘Hmm! I judge that plenty of women may choose to wear niqab, just as quite a few may choose to sell sex or be surrogates... judge all those choices as being on balance harmful to

Yep, I'm wondering how my work laptop will work when it can't connect to our internal network

And yeah I forgot her as well

Reeves, Nandy, Streeting and Phillipson. All can get I'm the sea

Like Wes is any better

This all feels like a moral panic, a "we have to do something" so let's blame the thing that wasn't an issue when I was younger, irrespective of if it helps solve the problem or not.

Bullying is a society wide issue, and reducing, let alone stopping it, is an incredibly difficult task.

If you want to stop bullying you may want to start by not having the state bully people.

And by state I include the 4th estate.

Banning phones in class *may* improve kids attention, but that's not the stated goal (and I'll let a teacher/ta chime in on if it's actually an issue)

My teachers were unable to stop me being bullied because they were worried doing so would be in breach of Section 28 of the Local Government Act.

Today we have governments on both sides of the Atlantic determined to impose rules that revisit Section 28