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@ICARSBanRandS The schools featured here are those which have, or have had, larger than usual problems with pupil behaviour. A tough-sanctions approach is their way out of chaos and disruption in a school: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. No questions around parental adequacy. None.

TW: child suicide and self-harm. This is a hard but extremely important listen. BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 Investigates looks at concerns about strict discipline measures in schools across England, including children spending prolonged periods in internal exclusion and isolation booths. One pupil at Outwood Grange Academy was reportedly placed in an isolation booth for more than half of the academic year. The programme also hears from Taylor’s mother in Devon, after Taylor took his own life weeks after expressing distress about what he saw as punitive and illogical school rules. This is an extremely important debate. But let us not forget the children placed in padded seclusion rooms, held in school cupboards, isolated in windowless rooms, restrained, removed from classrooms, or left without meaningful access to education. This is happening alongside the use of internal exclusion and isolation booths. Children, some as young as four and many with disabilities, are being subjected to these practices alongside wider punitive discipline systems in England’s schools. These stories are deeply upsetting. They also raise urgent questions about what children are being subjected to in the name of discipline, behaviour, and “good order”. Children need safety, dignity, relationship and support. Not isolation, fear or humiliation. Thank you to @JaneDJourno @meisel_anna and the BBC team. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Elle lui balance sa valise. Elle ne prend même pas la peine de baisser sa poignée. Même pas un regard pour lui. Et le pire c’est que ça se voit qu’elle a l’habitude de faire ça. Non vraiment les « amis du peuple » c’est plus ce que c’était.

@Telegraph So the convicted criminal is also a retard.... Who could have foreseen that yet another Paedophile UK representative is nothing more than a pushy utterly corrupt spaz. 🤷‍♂️

@Telegraph @rightwaykar That’s all we need another Billy bull shitter 🤦‍♂️

Louise Haigh, an ally of Andy Burnham, tipped for a Cabinet role has admitted using AI to help make the case for tax-and-spend reforms. 🔗:telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

This is moment a gunman chased a victim in Ladbroke Grove minutes after shooting and killing a 15-year-old near a children's park. Aderahman Boumzough, 25, of no fixed address, has been found guilty of the murder of Rene Graham in July 2024. #londoncrime #ukcrime #londonnews

Due to the strict segregation of women in certain Muslim countries, "Bacha bazi" is a disturbing practice in which poor young boys are forced to dance for older men and then subjected to sexual abuse.

@Consultancy_uk ‘Top BBC talent’? Pulease.

MCA picks Amol Rajan to present 2026 awards gala ift.tt/KudXIoO

Caroline Lucas tells @matilda__martin she would “love” for Zack Polanski to spend more time talking about the environment She also says the Greens must find a less “toxic” way of criticising the Israeli government and expresses doubts over a progressive alliance as “the Green Party’s fingers have been really burnt by it” in the past: politicshome.com/news/article/c…

@DebNathan1 @Daniel_Sugarman As is her standard of written English.

@Daniel_Sugarman Her ignorance is staggering

We don't need to imagine, Diane. UK Jews funded the kindertransport & were tasked with finding homes for all children, so as not to be 'a burden on the public'. Each needed £50 (£4200 in 2026 money) put up to fund what was expected to be post-war re-migration to home countries.

What made Penelope Keith's Margo unforgettable, though, was not only her gift for withering the people around her. Keith refused to play her as a caricature. Beneath the social anxiety, the impossible standards and the perfectly manicured borders was a woman who loved deeply. You laughed at Margo; Keith made sure you understood her too. The marriage to Jerry remains one of television’s most convincing: they exasperated each other endlessly, and the adoration underneath was never once in doubt. The danger for an actor with her voice, her height, her bearing was a lifetime casting as “the posh woman.” In one sense that is precisely what happened. Yet she returned to those women – Audrey Forbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born, and so many others on stage and screen – and made each one distinct: formidable, exasperating, vulnerable, lonely, unexpectedly warm, often inside a single episode. She never settled for a stereotype; she found the woman underneath and gave her intelligence, dignity and a private ache. She understood that the funniest characters are the ones who never suspect they’re being funny but believe, to their bones, that they’re right. The impeccable Penelope Keith, by @gerrylb newstatesman.com/culture/2026/0…

@NewStatesman Captures her so well. So well. Thank you

Planned cuts to the University of Exeter’s prized humanities department show no job is safe in the UK’s current wave of redundancies, according to affected academics, who add that decisions are being made based on undergraduate students’ choices rather than research strength #jobcuts #highered #humanities timeshighereducation.com/news/i-thought…

For many years now, the Treasury has run its own talent scheme for highflying graduates. As you’d expect, given the department’s role in managing the nation’s finances, the application process has tested for numerical reasoning. While the programme recruits for policy advisers, rather than economic specialists, you need a least some mathematical ability to understand the department’s often complex financial and economic policies. But then came 2020, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the subsequent mental breakdown of the British state. The Treasury’s response to the death of a man in a completely different country, it appears, was to remove the numerical reasoning test from its graduate scheme. ✍️ John Connolly Article | spectator.com/article/reveal…

@JebraFaushay Another parody account?

Madonna shows us that elegance has no age limit. Looking chic in a ruffled diaper, knee brace, and bustier, she is the epitome of refinement as she performs a traditional waltz in Rio de Janeiro.

@Telegraph Gimmickry. Won’t last. Labour making sure it won’t be back after the next election. Those who voted for these clowns have been let down.

Andy Burnham will work from Manchester at least one day a week as prime minister, The Telegraph understands. He's expected to split his time between No 10 and his family home in Greater Manchester ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@BBCNewsnight I thought she was sensible.

"Are you giving a tilt to Ed Miliband?" "I think he'd be great." Mariana Mazzucato discusses Ed Miliband's net zero strategy and suggestions he might be appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer. #Newsnight

@InTheTrenchesUK That whole thing might have been spat out by Jane Austen’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

THE DOSSIER #19: Emily Thornberry – The Sneer of Islington Born Guildford 1960. Your father abandoned you at seven. Council estate poverty. Then the University of Kent. Gray's Inn. The barrister's escape route. You learned the law. You never learned humility. Fabian Society member. Keynote speaker at their conferences in 2019, 2024, 2025. The same society that has shaped Labour's gradualist betrayal of the working class for over a century. Labour Campaign for Human Rights patron. Chatham House speaker. Vice Chair of the APPG on Sexual and Reproductive Health. National Security Strategy Committee. Liaison Committee. All the right credentials. All the wrong people. Barrister at Tooks Chambers. Human rights law. Michael Mansfield's protege. You took the pay cut to become MP for Islington South and Finsbury in 2005. You have represented that constituency for twenty years. It remains one of London's most deprived. Your property portfolio is worth £4.6 million. You campaigned for social housing. You introduced the Housing Association Bill to "empower tenants." Then you purchased a housing association property at auction. £572,000. A Georgian townhouse in Clerkenwell. You rented it to private tenants. Reportedly to your own parliamentary researcher. You sold it for profit. "Labour's queen of hypocrisy." You earned the title. The White Van Man. November 2014. Rochester and Strood by-election. You photographed a house. Three England flags in the windows. A white Ford Transit on the drive. You tweeted it. No words needed. Your sneer was the caption. Dan Ware. A cage fighter. He had "not got a clue" who you were. He called you a "snob." Ed Miliband was "furious." You resigned as Shadow Attorney General within hours. You claimed you had "never seen anything like it." Working-class patriotism. Unfamiliar territory. You altered an Electoral Commission press release in 2006. Inserted your own quote. Made it appear official. The Standards Commissioner found your actions "unwise and unfortunate." You faced no sanction. You never do. Caroline Flint called you out in 2019. Alleged you called Brexit voters "stupid." You threatened defamation proceedings. Gave her hours to retract. Instructed solicitors. Talked tough to Sky News: "They can't make up shit about me." Then you abandoned the case. Empty threats. Your trademark. You married Sir Christopher Nugee. Lord Justice of Appeal. Boris Johnson called you "Lady Nugee" in Parliament. The Speaker intervened. Called it "sexist." You reject the title publicly. You prefer the pretence of ordinariness. While living on Richmond Crescent. Same street as Tony Blair. Same day you both moved in. Your four-storey Victorian townhouse. £2.9 million. Plus the Guildford flat. Rental income over £10,000 a year. Working-class credentials. Pure theatre. You wanted to be Labour leader in 2020. You considered it. You did not stand. You knew. You served Corbyn. You serve Starmer. You expected to be Attorney General. The real one. Not shadow. Starmer appointed Richard Hermer instead. You were "shocked and disappointed." The snub was public. The message was clear. Even your own party doubts you. Now you chair the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Leading the "Scandelson" inquiry into Mandelson. Aggressive oversight. The irony is geological. You who altered official documents. You who abandoned legal threats when challenged. You now sit in judgment. They made you Dame Commander in 2025. DBE. For political service. The honour sits on your shoulders like a shroud. The working-class girl from the council estate who sneered at the England flag. Who profited from housing association property while preaching socialism. Who threatens lawsuits then runs. Who lives in £2.9 million splendour while her constituents queue for food banks. You are not a champion of the people. You are a cautionary tale. The champagne socialist who forgot which glass was hers. Your White Van Man tweet defines you. Your housing hypocrisy buries you. Your Damehood is mockery. You have no credibility. No authenticity. No political future worth speaking of. You gambled that class betrayal could be dressed in progressive language. You lost. Your reputation is ash. Your conscience is a void. Your Damehood is groresque. Your career is a study in elite condescension. Your betrayal of Britain is now complete. Permanent exile from public trust awaits. Congratulations. You are The Dossier.

@JohnFranklin_55 @BBCNewsnight University teacher. Left-ish, yet no hard ideologue.

@BBCNewsnight When you say economist, you should say who funds her, who does she work for. Every time.