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Today, the government is publishing a consultation on the future of PIP.

🗣️ Almost two thirds of people in destitution have a chronic health condition or disability. People in this position shouldn't be used as a political football. We need action, not rhetoric from politicians.

Birmingham’s cuts reveal the ugly truth about Britain in 2024: the state is abandoning its people theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensHistoryMonth

'It is extraordinary that a Minister should be guided by a lobby group into making serious false allegations about private citizens without doing the first piece of due diligence.'

#ToryChaos
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Conservative MP Michelle Donelan got sued for calling a university professor a Hamas supporter with zero evidence.

She has taken the costs for paying compensation, and charged them to the taxpayer.

She needs to repay the lot, and be fired, let’s have another by-election.

Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today?

It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer

A short thread (1/10)

'Minister Michelle Donelan pays damages to academic she accused of Hamas sympathy' standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

Baroness Foster falsely accused a Muslim student, Ms Gorgianehon, of antisemitism over an octopus mascot on University Challenge (note: the others weren't accused)

Foster tried to get Gorgianehon expelled from Oxford

She's now been forced to pay *significant compensation*

Good

It was an appalling & dangerous abuse of ministerial power to target named academics with false allegations. Had it not been so damaging to them, it would have been laughable given your advocacy of free speech. Yet you cannot even offer a meaningful apology.

Will be interesing to see if Iain Mansfield apologises for his and Policy Exchange's role in this.

My new blog about GuildHE response to
The Office for Students (OfS) free speech complaints scheme consultation, highlighting concerns about not completing institutional processes, defining visiting speakers, statute of limitations on complaints & review costs Blog:➡️bit.ly/3wJjFgL

Worcester County Council owns a collection of material which once belonged to Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), the musical hall actress.
See explorethepast
explorethepast.co.uk/project/the-ve…

Museums Worcestershire Hartlebury Castle

Flooding is likely on many routes today.

Please drive carefully and do not enter flood water.

You can keep up to date by following Worcs County Council Highways & Travel

For advice and how to report flooding visit worcestershire.gov.uk/flooding
Emergency road and school closures can be found on our website.

A little Schadenfreude at the billionnaire university being called out for exploiting its staff is surely appropriate...

That Oxford also vindictively piled a load of cash and time into fighting this case also speaks volumes.
theguardian.com/education/2024…

The Communist Manifesto was first published on this day in 1848. It's a critique from which capitalism, for all its longevity, has not managed to escape. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/why-ca…

Why won’t I just stay in my lane, stop talking about our school system and get on with treating mental health problems? Because every day I hear about practices in schools which cause distress - and I’m being asked to resolve the distress as if it, not the practice, is the

WE USED SCHOOL RULES, A BEHAVIOUR CHART AND STICKERS ON ADULTS - HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED
(Written by Hanna, Clinical Psychologist at Spectrum Gaming)

This year we tried out a new activity as part of the Autism in Schools train the trainer project.

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Address poverty = raise educational and life outcomes. It’s a very simple equation

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