"Five, ten years ago comments like that would have gotten you the sack from the front bench of any major political party."

Robert Jenrick's comments about a lack of 'white faces' in Birmingham has drawn criticism. Why are Tories defending his words?

If you are saying there is something wrong with an area of a city because of the colour of the skin of the people who live there, that is racism. It's not even subtle.

MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.

Better late than never I guess. He does seem genuinely angry.

Big Brother is talking.

Hang on, hang on, Farage says Trump has autistic people in his family....

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

On Trump, autism and tylenol:

A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim

“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”

There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

That's pretty specific. Are you looking for a researcher or an adviser? Moving to another country literally changes everything about life, so there's nothing that is predictable.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been axed by ABC who claim the decision is down to falling ratings instead of his repeated criticism of powerful political forces and prevailing right wing narratives.

Gosh, we’re so lucky that we live in a country where private media companies would never do that..

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 59 killed and 386 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 64,964 and 165,312 injuries (likely 3-5x higher).

This scares me so much. What on earth would happen to my son without an NHS?

For the first time in my life the social norms that kept a lid on nationalist fascist racism; that reclaimed the flag; have stalled.

The lack of actual vocal leadership for us to rally around - for the pro-democracy, pro-rule of law, anti-violent, majority - is now becoming an existential problem.

Finally totally deleted my Twitter accounts. I wish everyone who had accounts here would actually post.

Israeli forces have killed at least 20,000 children in Gaza since October 2023.

This is a deeply shameful statistic for our collective humanity – a horrific new low.

Every single one of these 20,000 children had names, favourite subjects in school, and hopes and dreams for the future.

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

Compared to headlines about families bankrupting councils and Reform fiction on 'free taxi' home-school travel, there are facts from people living daily family life with special educational needs. Facts are minimal in polarising issues, and that's partly what chancers like Reform rely on.

The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Good luck with getting a part-time teaching job though.

It's for accepted Refugees, not asylum seekers. So people who we have accepted have a well founded fear of persecution in their country of origin.

Autism is genetic. If your child is autistic, it's likely you (and/or their other parent) are too.

Thank you for doing this. I'm so disappointed in Labour. Their continued condemnation with no actual action to help the people of Gaza, especially the children, just isn't enough. I'll vote Lib Dem next time.