Kathy Batten
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Kathy Batten
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Community activist. Retired EY teacher, advisor and Grandma. Studied MA at Pen Green in Early Education with Care. Involved locally with greening a public children’s play space - a new Park.
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Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
November 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich

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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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November 28, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
November 13, 2024 at 1:50 PM
I think threads might be easier?
August 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM
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Today I’ll be completing the final proof read of this before it goes to print. It’ll be available in the Autumn term. Very exciting indeed! You can pre order a copy on Amazon now.

www.amazon.co.uk/Child-Centre...

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August 14, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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Populism. Something we need to educate kids about in high school. Those of us born 1945-75 got a relatively free ride as we were brought up by the WWII generation. But the fascist dragon is never vanquished, it only sleeps& wakes. @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/out...
Out-populising the Brexit and MAGA populists: harnessing human sense
Dr Pam Jarvis takes a deep dive into the roots of the populism that has proved so destructive to the anglosphere
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 12, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Today found my mother's name on the Covid Memorial Wall after volunteers kindly added it last year.
August 10, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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August 11, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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Don’t let thugs on our streets, or pundits claiming those thugs somehow represent a silent majority, rewrite our national story. We have work to do, but the truth? Britain is a more liberal country than it has ever been www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Despite appearances, Britons are more tolerant than ever | Torsten Bell
More than half of adults believe that being born in the UK isn’t important to being ‘truly British’
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Banksy’s week in London – as new artwork revealed
August 10, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Going to try to start posting more on here given the increasingly suffocating toxicity of the other place 👋
August 7, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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Gove now in the frame with respect to the Mone PPE scandal. The plot thickens…
December 18, 2023 at 12:19 AM
December 7, 2023 at 7:54 PM
Daughter and granddaughters in Cumbria #snow #playingout
December 3, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Walthamstow wetlands this morning. Beautiful autumn colours.
November 24, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Morning coffee
November 23, 2023 at 10:57 AM
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When they come for you because they don’t agree with an opinion you’ve expressed, remember those of us who were willing to stand up and speak out for your right to free speech. @dankaszeta.bsky.social
Sadly, there are UK teachers on BlueSky posting blogs demanding colleagues accept ‘cancellation’ by a ministry that squashes democratic discussion. So, once again I am urging: beware ‘carelessness about civil liberties.’ #EduSky @bylinetimes.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Britain 2023: the creeping erosion of democratic debate
Education professionals tracked on X and ‘cancelled’ by the Department for Education were even more shocked by responses from colleagues
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 19, 2023 at 11:15 AM
November 18, 2023 at 4:39 PM
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'In a sobering verdict on the former prime minister’s promise to build 40 hospitals by 2030, the public accounts committee said it had “no confidence” that even the new target of 32 would be delivered by that date.'

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson’s flagship hospital scheme mired in delays, watchdog finds
MPs’ committee has ‘no confidence’ in delivery target for new hospitals and levelling up funds also criticised
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2023 at 6:55 AM
Beautiful morning on Hampstead heath
November 17, 2023 at 12:38 PM