Sally Taylor
salskibe.bsky.social
Sally Taylor
@salskibe.bsky.social
Love trees, hedges and walks. Interested in politics, art, poetry, spirituality and building community. Also,youth work, psychology and education.
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In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
How to navigate difficult conversations on immigration at the dinner table – video
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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When I work with teachers on behaviour I talk about 'flexible consistency'. You have consistent standards but flexible approaches in terms of getting to them. I'm sorry but this idea has been completely lost because of the schools and people the DfE and Ofsted *themselves* have chosen to eulogise.
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Very worrying

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The Home Office has started taking action on cases of Syrian refugees with pending settlement applications. People are being sent letters saying they have 21 days to provide evidence as to why they should not be returned to Syria. Panic is spreading.
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Flowers and Lighthouse.

By Mary Swanzy
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter
November 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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NEW: Net migration falls sharply to 204,000 in the year to June.

That’s a fall from 649,000 in the year to June 2024. It is a drop of nearly 80% from its 2023 peak.
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
@newsagents.bsky.social As an avid listener, so disappointed with your interview with Lucy Powell. A real ‘bad old days’ interview: more interested in political intrigue than really engaging with policy/ economics and what they mean for people.
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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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
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I've started to read fiction again, after a hiatus of several years. It hasn't taken me long to conclude that at my age, life is just too short for badly-written, ineptly edited police procedurals. In my earlier days, I rarely gave up on a book I'd started, but I've abandoned 3 in the last 2 days!
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Farage at school by those who knew him best:

www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM