@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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Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Also when they explain which businesses are going to offer these apprenticeships and how they're going to improve the high drop-out rate and poor quality of many of them.
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Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
emptycity.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
Extremism, conformity, and the problem of law
How the law can (attempt to) regulate extremism, but it can really do nothing about conformism.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/extremism-...
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www.bigissue.com/news/childho...
It’s hard to overstate how important this is. Care records are someone’s personal history: who their family are, why they were taken into care..what actually happened. Shocking that it can take care leavers years to get these (sometimes incomplete) records.
It’s hard to overstate how important this is. Care records are someone’s personal history: who their family are, why they were taken into care..what actually happened. Shocking that it can take care leavers years to get these (sometimes incomplete) records.
Councils told to give care leavers better access to childhood records
Thousands who grew up in the care system still can’t access their childhood records. The ICO’s new campaign aims to change that.
www.bigissue.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
www.bigissue.com/news/childho...
It’s hard to overstate how important this is. Care records are someone’s personal history: who their family are, why they were taken into care..what actually happened. Shocking that it can take care leavers years to get these (sometimes incomplete) records.
It’s hard to overstate how important this is. Care records are someone’s personal history: who their family are, why they were taken into care..what actually happened. Shocking that it can take care leavers years to get these (sometimes incomplete) records.
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My parent’s local A&E doesn’t have pillows, time, beds, capacity. The GP doesn’t have emergency appointments for emergencies, services with capacity to refer people to.
Caring like this about nomenclature and pronouns seems to me a luxury pursuit, frankly.
Caring like this about nomenclature and pronouns seems to me a luxury pursuit, frankly.
Susan Hall's condition has now reached the 'shouting at biscuits' stage.
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My parent’s local A&E doesn’t have pillows, time, beds, capacity. The GP doesn’t have emergency appointments for emergencies, services with capacity to refer people to.
Caring like this about nomenclature and pronouns seems to me a luxury pursuit, frankly.
Caring like this about nomenclature and pronouns seems to me a luxury pursuit, frankly.
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On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
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To some columnists, they must just assume all journalism is these kind of half-formed thoughts dashed out after lunch to be provocative, rather than months of painstaking work.
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
To some columnists, they must just assume all journalism is these kind of half-formed thoughts dashed out after lunch to be provocative, rather than months of painstaking work.
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Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
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The sheer laziness is one of the things that bothers me most about the style of column writing Phillips embodies.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The sheer laziness is one of the things that bothers me most about the style of column writing Phillips embodies.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
If I make a small mistake in a post I spend all day wanting to crawl into hole but these guys will just happily write any bollocks without any research at all.
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New post just out:
"The most neglected problem in Britain?"
We have a guest post this morning from @robblackie.bsky.social looking at the prevelance of sexual offences and how police forces can do much better in tackling them.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The most neglected problem in Britain?"
We have a guest post this morning from @robblackie.bsky.social looking at the prevelance of sexual offences and how police forces can do much better in tackling them.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The most neglected problem in Britain?
How to cut sexual offences
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New post just out:
"The most neglected problem in Britain?"
We have a guest post this morning from @robblackie.bsky.social looking at the prevelance of sexual offences and how police forces can do much better in tackling them.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The most neglected problem in Britain?"
We have a guest post this morning from @robblackie.bsky.social looking at the prevelance of sexual offences and how police forces can do much better in tackling them.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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In which the columnist's "I reckon" collides with the reporter's actual facts
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
In which the columnist's "I reckon" collides with the reporter's actual facts
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What a shit
A sole practitioner lawyer buys up cheap freeholds in Sheffield, writes to the leaseholders with allegations of breaches of covenants & then offers them a “speedy” deal to buy the freedom him at an inflated cost
And the SRA have been investigating for 2 years….🫥🫥🫥
Private Eye
A sole practitioner lawyer buys up cheap freeholds in Sheffield, writes to the leaseholders with allegations of breaches of covenants & then offers them a “speedy” deal to buy the freedom him at an inflated cost
And the SRA have been investigating for 2 years….🫥🫥🫥
Private Eye
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What a shit
A sole practitioner lawyer buys up cheap freeholds in Sheffield, writes to the leaseholders with allegations of breaches of covenants & then offers them a “speedy” deal to buy the freedom him at an inflated cost
And the SRA have been investigating for 2 years….🫥🫥🫥
Private Eye
A sole practitioner lawyer buys up cheap freeholds in Sheffield, writes to the leaseholders with allegations of breaches of covenants & then offers them a “speedy” deal to buy the freedom him at an inflated cost
And the SRA have been investigating for 2 years….🫥🫥🫥
Private Eye
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'Which brings me to one question I’d like to ask the health secretary: however much he prettifies it, why is he picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?'
Latest from me: on overdiagnosis, a craze/bandwagon the govt is indulging by commissioning an official review, complete with the clunky blurring of mental illness & neurodivergence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris
Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
'Which brings me to one question I’d like to ask the health secretary: however much he prettifies it, why is he picking over the number of diagnoses, when he could be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them?'
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@fesshole.bsky.social posts tickle me silly, but sometimes they also give very sound advice
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@fesshole.bsky.social posts tickle me silly, but sometimes they also give very sound advice
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When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”?
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When I arrived in the UK 25 years ago I had a job at a university that paid £21k. I could barely make ends meet but I worked hard and eventually I succeeded. I guess this Labour government considers young broke hardworking me a “taker”?
Fuck this.
Fuck this.
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If you want to know what's going really badly wrong with SEND (and much else in education) in England, just note that the Gove -Gibbs -Wilshaw -Spielman -Oliver falsehood that the "best" schools are those with the "best" academic outcomes has been accepted as fact by our media.
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you want to know what's going really badly wrong with SEND (and much else in education) in England, just note that the Gove -Gibbs -Wilshaw -Spielman -Oliver falsehood that the "best" schools are those with the "best" academic outcomes has been accepted as fact by our media.
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This Was a Strong Way to Respond to Science Criticism
A vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer is frankly awesome. Cervical cancer is dreadful, and the lengths we go to in treating lesions that could develop into the disease cause misery to millions. Yet, HPV vaccines have always been a magnet…
A vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer is frankly awesome. Cervical cancer is dreadful, and the lengths we go to in treating lesions that could develop into the disease cause misery to millions. Yet, HPV vaccines have always been a magnet…
This Was a Strong Way to Respond to Science Criticism
A vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer is frankly awesome. Cervical cancer is dreadful, and the lengths we go to in treating lesions that could develop into the disease cause misery to millions. Yet, HPV vaccines have always been a magnet for controversy – and not just because they are at the volatile intersection of children, sexually transmitted disease, and vaccines.
hildabastian.wordpress.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This Was a Strong Way to Respond to Science Criticism
A vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer is frankly awesome. Cervical cancer is dreadful, and the lengths we go to in treating lesions that could develop into the disease cause misery to millions. Yet, HPV vaccines have always been a magnet…
A vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer is frankly awesome. Cervical cancer is dreadful, and the lengths we go to in treating lesions that could develop into the disease cause misery to millions. Yet, HPV vaccines have always been a magnet…
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It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's also: you don't know who is going to become what. A society more confident in itself would believe a little bit more in its ability to make anyone thrive and give back.
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Two thirds of Reform donations come from donors resident overseas or with offshore interests overseas - astonishing story by @catneilan.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform’s record £9m crypto donation is just the latest offering from abroad | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Two thirds of Reform donations come from donors resident overseas or with offshore interests overseas - astonishing story by @catneilan.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
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shocking tale of peak British officialdom from @patrickjbutler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
shocking tale of peak British officialdom from @patrickjbutler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
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Lots of people were overtly racist in the 1970s and 80s is such a weird line. Ok, but not everyone saw it as permission to be racist themselves. Lots of people saw it as something that needed to be changed. It’s the latter that I admire.
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lots of people were overtly racist in the 1970s and 80s is such a weird line. Ok, but not everyone saw it as permission to be racist themselves. Lots of people saw it as something that needed to be changed. It’s the latter that I admire.