Alex Standish

Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, has been accused by 370 academics of undermining free speech. This includes three Nobel laureates. It comes after she shelved plans for a legal complaints system to tackle 'cancel culture' on British campuses.

The death of Paul ‘Population Bomb’ Ehrlich deprives us of one the most infamous doom-mongers of the 20th century. He predicted famine and mass death if people kept having kids. And he was catastrophically wrong, says Simon Evans buff.ly/kW95f3R

Thank you for your contribution Kate. Teachers must treat people in different places with respect and as subjects of their own destiny, IMO.

No, the Iran War does not make the case for Net Zero. Wind and solar are still wildly expensive to capture, store and transport. Unless we drill our own fossil fuels again, we will be vulnerable to global shocks, says Andy Mayer buff.ly/WyK76ae

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Brian test...!!! 99% lose 1% win

@DavidDavisMP I agree, but are the humanities and arts not also valuable degrees?

We ought to write off a significant portion of existing student debt. We ought to offer proper grants for economically productive courses - maths, science, engineering, economics. And we ought to teach our young people that university is not the only path. Right now, too many see no credible alternative.

Students and loan encumbered graduates across the country will have seen Martin Lewis clash with Kemi Badenoch on Good Morning Britain over student loans. Badenoch wants to cut interest rates. Lewis wants to raise the repayment threshold. I think we ought to go further. x.com/GMB/status/202…

It maybe the 13th largest economy but this weekend's violence shows just how far Mexico has to travel to become a safer country for citizens. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Well spoken.

@monkeysponge The refereeing was shocking. It was the same at City.

Are we really saying this wasn't an obvious goalscoring opportunity? Please enlighten me

Congrats Egypt: Incredible to believe about country 97% uninhabited desert, but Egypt is Africa's top fish producer from aquaculture (fish farms): 1.8 million tons yearly, far ahead of #2 Nigeria. Egypt gets 80% of fish from aquaculture, not Nile River, Red Sea or Mediterranean.

Great work 👏

95% Of Plastic Polluting The World’s Oceans Comes From These 10 Rivers

Major North American cities replaced by cities at the same latitude. Rome owes much of its climate to its location near the Mediterranean Sea, which acts as a massive heat reservoir, keeping winters mild and summers hot and dry. Warm ocean currents, such as the North Atlantic Drift, further help moderate temperatures across the region. Chicago, by contrast, lies deep inland on the North American continent, far from the ocean. Its continental climate causes rapid heating and cooling of the land, producing hot, humid summers and cold, snowy winters. The city is also influenced by Arctic air masses from the north and can experience extreme weather from the Great Plains.

Please join us @IoeGeography for this seminar at 4pm on March 12th, #geographyteacher eventbrite.co.uk/e/selecting-ca…

@bthoilliez Wonderful. Congratulations.

As of February 1st, I formally begin my role as Associate Editor of EDUCATIONAL THEORY 🇺🇸, one of the most historically significant and scientifically influential journals in the field of educational theory and philosophy. Joining an amazing group of scholars, led by Rebecca M. Taylor!

@Enigmas0x It's VAR that needs to be banned. It is destroying the beautiful game for the impossible eradication of human error.

In a system where the officiating and VAR failed to provide a fair contest, the walk-off served as a manual override. ​By stopping the game for 17 minutes, Senegal broke the momentum of bias. ​It forced the world to look at the screen. It effectively iced the kicker. Brahim Díaz’s subsequent missed Panenka is blamed on the delay, but a supporter would say the delay simply restored the natural pressure of the game that the referee’s bias had tried to remove. ​Banning Senegal from the World Cup for this would be the ultimate gaslighting by FIFA. ​Senegal was the team that had a goal wrongly disallowed. Senegal was the team that faced a dubious last-minute penalty. ​To ban the winners of the tournament because they dared to protest a systemic breakdown is essentially FIFA saying: You must sit there and let us take the game from you, or we will destroy your future. ​Critics call the walk-off shameful, but the team actually returned and won. They didn't forfeit; they protested, regrouped under Sadio Mane's leadership, and proved they were the better team by winning in extra time. A ban would punish a team for a 15-minute protest that they self-corrected, while the refereeing errors that caused the chaos would likely go unpunished. ​If FIFA bans Senegal, they aren't protecting integrity; they’re protecting incompetence. Senegal didn't walk off because they were losing—they walked off because the officiating was an insult to the sport. They came back, they faced the penalty, and they won on the pitch. Banning a team for refusing to be robbed is just FIFA admitting they care more about optics than fair play.

@Wizarab10 VAR ruined the final as it does for lots of games now. When will authorities and football clubs put a stop to this destruction of the beautiful game by the mad pursuit to eradicate human error.

If they ban Senegal, other black Africans should stand with Senegal and withdraw. Let’s Africa scatter the World Cup

Melanie Phillips delivers a chilling diagnosis of the West's intellectual crisis: Ideology has replaced knowledge, and reason itself is under siege. Key points from her clip: * Modern orthodoxies (multiculturalism, lifestyle equivalence, etc.) are treated as absolute moral goods. * Challenge them → you're not just wrong; you're evil, standing against human/planetary betterment. * Dissent must be silenced: no platform, no debate, no hearing. * Evidence contradicting the ideology is dismissed as lies or "not facts." * Universities—once crucibles of reason—are now engines destroying it, while claiming moral superiority. * Result: Civil discourse dies. Replaced by insult weaponized to shut people down. This isn't just about politics—it's the erosion of objective truth, evidence-based reasoning, and the ability to disagree without demonization. We're witnessing the destruction of reason itself. 4:37 clip laying bare how ideology has become inimical to rationality 👇 When ideology trumps evidence and disagreement becomes "evil," what survives of open society? Where do you see this dynamic strongest right now—in academia, media, politics, or everyday life? - @newstart_2024

Buying land is not new for the U.S. It’s how it became a superpower.

The ‘human rights’ lobby has barely raised a peep on the Iran uprisings. Sure, there’s odd criticism of the harsh crackdown on protests, but where is the solidarity with Iranians’ struggle for liberty? Do their human rights not count?, asks Luke Gittos buff.ly/VuHLlYd