Jane Cross

This platform has become a sewer. Almost impossible to have a civilised debate anymore without being sworn at. Such a shame. Do people behave like this irl? We’re doomed if so. Hoping it’s not representative of the real world 😥

Do you think Keir Starmer is doing a good job?

Time to reflect.

@lightonupstairs @ImBreckWorsham I’d say 9 or 10

@ImBreckWorsham That girl looks like a 12 year old. What is she doing in an infected place like Maralago. What normal parents would bring their child here knowing Trump is in Epstein files.

This photo was taken at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. Come, Lord Jesus, come.

@englishspecial @MichaelRosenYes

Children with disadvantage often don’t do as well as others because, overall, they have had fewer resources than those who are not disadvantaged. Schools are expected to provide additional resources to those children and indeed there is a PP payment to fund these extra resources. However, schools that serve such communities often have to spend considerable additional (to PP) resources over and above in the form of time, effort and emotional toil. And the end outcome will still be, overall, insufficient due to a myriad of factors - not least that it is impossible for schools to compete with parents who lavishly resource their children from birth to work and beyond to help them achieve. The way to help schools is to provide additional resources rather than pressure staff in them to spend more of their own personal time, effort and emotional toil over and above those whose schools serve more advantaged communities. If you do exert that pressure using gaslighting (‘you have low expectations’), many amazing and hard working staff will leave our wonderful profession or such schools and seek a fairer contractual relationship.

@tes @kennygfrederick ‘reveal’? Surely this has been evident for decades?

Exclusive: Schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils are more likely to be marked down by Ofsted in the achievement category, Tes can reveal tes.com/magazine/news/…

5 million Cubans with chronic illness face medicine shortages. 16,000 cancer patients can’t get radiotherapy. Not because Cuba lacks doctors. Because Washington lacks humanity. The US oil blockade is a weapon. Its target is the Cuban people. Trump is the perpetrator

357 members of Congress voted to hide their own sexual harassment allegations from the public. Then they asked why Epstein's clients weren't being named.

@LBC @kevinhollinrake 🤣🤣🤣

'Kemi Badenoch is now the most popular leader of all the party leaders in the UK.' 'We're the most trusted on the economy again.' @kevinhollinrake praises the Tory leader and says his party is building towards some success in the local elections

@GMB it’s laughable to suggest the BBC have a left wing bias. They undermine the government at every opportunity and look how they platform Reform and ignore the Green Party!

Seriously can you even imagine if one of these 🤡 was running our country.

@TrevenaSylvie Reading for me ☺️

@BehaviourA Me too. Channel hopping. Anything else over Jenrick. #newsnight

That’s #Newsnight switched off. Not listening to the fake shadow chancellor 😡

The people of Gaza are still suffering. Please support them however you can 👇

🚨 A judge refused to jail a girl who stabbed her abuser. Then he offered to pay her fine himself. Make this man famous, what a LEGEND! 👀

A new video appears to show an Israeli aircraft dropping white phosphorus on a town in southern Lebanon on Sunday night, ahead of a ground offensive that began on Monday. Lebanese commentators shared the video - which Novara Media has verified - of an aircraft releasing a substance on a region flanked by mountains. It was published just days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Israel unlawfully used the corrosive substance against Lebanese civilians on 3 March. On Monday morning, Israel said it had launched ‘limited and targeted ground operations against Hezbollah’ in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported. White phosphorus is a corrosive, chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs and rockets that ignites when exposed to oxygen and causes indiscriminate damage, burning through human tissue and other materials alike. Its offensive use against civilians is illegal under international law. “The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at HRW earlier this month. Novara Media has geolocated the explosion to the small town of Khiam, in keeping with reports from the ground in Lebanon. Khiam is around 20km away from Yohmor, where HRW verified the use of white phosphorus earlier this month. The pattern of the explosion seen in the video is consistent with other incidents of white phosphorus fire by the IDF, previously documented by HRW in Gaza and Lebanon. Online, some commenters have contended that the ammunition appears to have been dropped between Khiam and the mountains themselves, therefore avoiding civilians. However, in the 15km between the town of Khiam and the mountains, seen in the backdrop of the video, are several villages: Mari, Darjat and Halta. Independent journalist Sarah Abdullah, who shared the video on Sunday night, wrote on X: “Israel is dropping white phosphorus on the village of Khiam in South Lebanon. On homes. On civilian areas. “This is a war crime. Not a peep from the international community. Not a word from the International Criminal Court.” HRW has previously accused the Israeli military of widespread use of white phosphorus between October 2023 and May 2024 across border villages in southern Lebanon, killing, severely injuring and displacing civilians. In 2013, the Israeli High Court rejected a petition to ban the use of white phosphorus on civilian populations after HRW exposed the IDF’s unlawful use of the substance during the 2008-2009 Gaza war. Subsequent Israeli military investigations have held no one responsible for these international human rights violations. There have been at least 859 people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since the start of Israel’s expanded offensive on 2 March.

Latest in 'drill baby drill' news: University of Oxford says a UK powered entirely by clean energy…could save households up to £441 a year In contrast, maximising oil and gas extraction from North Sea would offer savings of just £16 to £82 independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Twenty six councillors voted for the no confidence motion in Reform UK Warwickshire Leader George Finch and 27 against, while two councillors abstained from voting. He's scraped through by 1. Not a good look.

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@bristolboudicca @GMB 17 year olds are children and vulnerable adults can learn to drive.

@GMB I can’t see a reason why the role of driving instructor shouldn’t require a DBS check. I guess its not been needed so far since neither children nor vulnerable adults use their services but it could be a future requirement.

A woman who was sexually abused by her driving instructor is calling for the profession to be legally classified as a 'position of trust' to prevent further victims suffering the same fate. Morgane Chapman was just 17 when the abuse took place. Her instructor was given a suspended sentence and later took his own life after a further 15 victims came forward. 10 years on and Morgane is now pushing for a change in the law.

@GMB @susannareid100 DBS check only means no convictions. No guard against the absolute creeps and worse out there.