@sp1ngirl.bsky.social
Parent to a child with SEN. Often found advocating for support for own family and others. Likes to learn/share info on related issues incl. UK law/policy. Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.
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A quick reminder that the Christmas cut off for USA and worldwide (non UK and EU) orders is only a week away, on Friday 5 December. If you were planning to order, make sure to get it in soon to guarantee delivery before Christmas. 🎄🍫
Luxury Artisan Chocolates | Chocolate Bars & Chocolate Gift Boxes
The Christmas Chocolate collection is here! Discover luxury artisan chocolates crafted in the UK. Deliciours chocolate treats and gift boxes
jenkinsemporium.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A quick reminder that the Christmas cut off for USA and worldwide (non UK and EU) orders is only a week away, on Friday 5 December. If you were planning to order, make sure to get it in soon to guarantee delivery before Christmas. 🎄🍫
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As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”
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What if we’re the shithole country?
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What if we’re the shithole country?
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Children in complex situations at risk of deprivation of liberty – in conversation with Dr Susannah Bowyer
In this 'in conversation' with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent research paper published by Research in Practice and the National…
In this 'in conversation' with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent research paper published by Research in Practice and the National…
Children in complex situations at risk of deprivation of liberty – in conversation with Dr Susannah Bowyer
In this 'in conversation' with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent research paper published by Research in Practice and the National Children's Bureau (commissioned by DfE) entitled (snappily) Improving the outcomes of looked-after children and young people in complex situations with multiple needs, at risk or subject to a Deprivation of Liberty.
www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Children in complex situations at risk of deprivation of liberty – in conversation with Dr Susannah Bowyer
In this 'in conversation' with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent research paper published by Research in Practice and the National…
In this 'in conversation' with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent research paper published by Research in Practice and the National…
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Was it by having no kids with chronic illness at the school?
Must let everyone else know how they managed that.
I hate these sorts of stories.
Must let everyone else know how they managed that.
I hate these sorts of stories.
The Caerphilly school with almost 100% attendance - and how they did it
Attendance rates remain significantly lower than in 2019, but one school is bucking the trend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Was it by having no kids with chronic illness at the school?
Must let everyone else know how they managed that.
I hate these sorts of stories.
Must let everyone else know how they managed that.
I hate these sorts of stories.
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Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
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Carers shouldn't need courage to claim Carer's Allowance.
If today's review resolves this, it's a win thanks to carers and investigative journalism.
If today's review resolves this, it's a win thanks to carers and investigative journalism.
Independent Review of Carer’s Allowance Overpayments
www.gov.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Carers shouldn't need courage to claim Carer's Allowance.
If today's review resolves this, it's a win thanks to carers and investigative journalism.
If today's review resolves this, it's a win thanks to carers and investigative journalism.
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today's round of online-radicalised racist rent-a-mentals www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Mothers trying to learn English face demonstration outside school
The protest follows a campaign by YouTube influencers against schools offering migrant parents lessons to improve their language skills
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
today's round of online-radicalised racist rent-a-mentals www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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A firestorm has ripped through the BBC, but no one can quite put their finger on why. An analysis of yesterday's curious hearing into an undoubted PR coup by those who wish the BBC ill www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
A firestorm has ripped through the BBC—but no one will say why
Called before MPs, none of the characters who supposedly see so much wrong with the corporation would make a case for institutional bias
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A firestorm has ripped through the BBC, but no one can quite put their finger on why. An analysis of yesterday's curious hearing into an undoubted PR coup by those who wish the BBC ill www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Auntie In The Dock: my SKETCH of Today in People Who Love The BBC And Definitely Didn't Leak Anything To The Telegraph.
Auntie in the dock | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“I have been defined by these two years at Number 10,” Robbie Gibb complained, sounding for all the world like the chap in the joke who only shagged one sheep. How dare anyone suggest that this…
thecritic.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Auntie In The Dock: my SKETCH of Today in People Who Love The BBC And Definitely Didn't Leak Anything To The Telegraph.
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AutismNews
Autism Act has failed to bring meaningful change for autistic people, new Lords’ report finds
Autism Act has failed to bring meaningful change for autistic people, new Lords’ report finds
Autism Act has failed to bring meaningful change for autistic people, new Lords’ report finds - Learning Disability Today
The House of Lords Special Inquiry Committee on the Autism Act 2009 has published a new report examining what the Government needs to do to develop an effective new strategy for launch in July 2026, w...
www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
AutismNews
Autism Act has failed to bring meaningful change for autistic people, new Lords’ report finds
Autism Act has failed to bring meaningful change for autistic people, new Lords’ report finds
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This used to be career-ending stuff.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This used to be career-ending stuff.
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Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
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unfortunately I have lost my mind at the Instagram posting from the gay sheep wool brand
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
unfortunately I have lost my mind at the Instagram posting from the gay sheep wool brand
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am I even awake right now?
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
am I even awake right now?
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Black Friday is basically bollocks and small businesses deserve your support.
I’m not doing Black Friday this year.
I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands.
Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business.
Shop independent this Christmas.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands.
Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business.
Shop independent this Christmas.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Black Friday is basically bollocks and small businesses deserve your support.
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
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Law may not strike you as an egalitarian subject. And as a profession it usually as not.
But as a craft, it is.
A cat can look at a king(‘s counsel).
It comes down to the quality of the legal analysis, and that is distinct from the “eminence” of the lawyer.
But as a craft, it is.
A cat can look at a king(‘s counsel).
It comes down to the quality of the legal analysis, and that is distinct from the “eminence” of the lawyer.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Law may not strike you as an egalitarian subject. And as a profession it usually as not.
But as a craft, it is.
A cat can look at a king(‘s counsel).
It comes down to the quality of the legal analysis, and that is distinct from the “eminence” of the lawyer.
But as a craft, it is.
A cat can look at a king(‘s counsel).
It comes down to the quality of the legal analysis, and that is distinct from the “eminence” of the lawyer.
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Except that’s not true.
Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021.
Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014.
Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.
Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021.
Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014.
Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf calls Nathan Gill 'ancient history'
The party's head of policy says he has never met Nathan Gill, who served as the leader of Reform UK in Wales in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Except that’s not true.
Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021.
Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014.
Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.
Gill was the head of Reform UK in Wales only a few years ago - in 2021.
Gill was constantly seen by Farage’s side since his first election - as a UKIP MEP - in 2014.
Reform must come clean with their Russian connections.
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It's not going away
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's not going away
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It's also vastly easier and cheaper for media outlets to produce culture war content than policy stuff.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's also vastly easier and cheaper for media outlets to produce culture war content than policy stuff.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
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Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
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AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
AI seems to be an expensive way to do someone else’s job as well as you reckon they probably do it, whatever, but no use for anything you do yourself, where you can professionally tell it’s hopeless.
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)
Good luck with the bubble, lads.
(Clipped from The Wrap, about Disney giving up on its AI R&D.)