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This was fun. Though the story of how this cab driver sold 6,000 books made my eyes pop. Enjoy. youtu.be/LtXM2FfbdEk?si…

@bannon1975 The state of these replies! I'd forgotten what a cesspit this place can be. And people are deliberately misunderstanding. For the record, I don't believe in holding *anyone* back. I've taught early years to KS2. 🧵

When a child is put in the lowest reading group, they usually know it. The name of the group doesn't fool anyone. The Butterflies. The Robins. The Stars. Children are very good at working out which group has the hardest books. And they carry the information about which one they're in for years. We designed a system that sorts children in plain sight and then wondered why some of them stopped trying.

@dervilla @bannon1975 Yes indeed... and one of the many reasons why I'm no longer a teacher.

@MW74164398 @bannon1975 1, 2 and 3 absolutely and underlined! And no doubt a lot trickier in today's world where teachers are meant to firefight all around them and be all things at once.

@dervilla @bannon1975 1) quality first teaching; 2) quality first teaching (explicit instruction, cognitive load; learning for memory etc); and 3) don't put a ceiling on children's achievement by arbitrarily deciding what they can or cannot do - they might surprise you. [Hard to compress in 1 tweet.]

@MW74164398 @bannon1975 Yes, doesn't seem right... but how do you differentiate teaching and learning for children learning at different paces... children are going to clock they're not doing the same work/working at same rate, even if not separated in groups?

@ZaraTomkiActor @bannon1975 What a very patronising thing to say!

@MW74164398 @bannon1975 Ah, so it wasn't well-managed then? Each group should be challenged within their capabilities.

Hi everyone - Ibrahim needs $850 to be able to get his surgery, in Gaza. How close can we get him to his goal and to being able to live longer? chuffed.org/project/181032…

@liamcunningham1 One word comes to mind. Heathens.

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A simple way to support people in Gaza is to visit the lifeline4gaza.com website, filtering by the most urgent appeals, many of whom have gone weeks without any support, and donating to the family.

@authenticWMN While I get the concern about exploitation, legislating as you suggest would be unworkable in practice. Imagine someone 17 and 10 months, dating a person three months older, yet in your scenario, that person just over 18 would be breaking the law.

Watching the Piers Morgan / Russell Brand interview On the age of consent, and the line between criminal behaviour and mere ‘exploitation’. I think the age of consent at 16 is fine. Kids are going to explore anyway, and should be able to do so legally and with appropriate access to protection. But I do think we need a law that protects under 18’s from sexual exploitation. A 16 year old fangirling over an intoxicated celebrity old enough to be her father, is not the same - morally speaking - as having a first boyfriend and learning about adult relationships at a natural pace. The grown adults should realise that. I think it should be illegal for someone over 18 to be sexually active with anyone under 18.

@jonburkeUK It also helps that it's flat and not hilly. Try some of the steep hills in south London and you'll see that some solutions are just not transferable.

The reason there will be no ‘fuel crisis’ in the Netherlands is that every town, city, & village in the land is connected by fully-segregated cycle lanes. It’s possible for the Dutch to simply stop driving while fuel is short and prices are high. That’s real energy resilience.

@doctor_rahmeh Beautifully said. 👏🏼

'I have pleaded not guilty. In Great Britain, accurately describing an ideology as supremacist is not a crime.' 'The prosecution calls my speech "terrorism". I call it solidarity and principle.' Free Palestine. Free Britain. Central Criminal Court. 24 March 2026.

@zeteo_news @mehdirhasan @NaomiAKlein This is the same Naomi Klein who doesn't miss an opportunity to smear Mamdani. (Every accusation is a confession).

“You care about Gaza, but you don't care about anything else.” @mehdirhasan and @NaomiAKlein Klein discuss people who are progressive only when it comes to Palestine, but support mass deportations at home.

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never set foot in Coachella again! I'm so proud of them #Strokeschella

@EmbracingTara Emma Thompson? Kate Winslet? Those are who I come up with at the top of my head.

Both women have had *extensive* and obvious cosmetic surgery and are desperately clinging to their youth and sex appeal because they know that it is currency - especially in their chosen field - and fear they will be irrelevant without it. It's pretty sad, actually. Imagine your grandmother going out in just a bra as a top? Give me a woman who knows her worth and has chosen to embrace the changing seasons of life naturally and beautifully without surgical alteration and without desperately trying to remain perpetually 30.

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence. They understand individual violence. One person harms another person. There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain. What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination. The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead. They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones. And that architecture was designed. It was negotiated. It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not. This is violence. It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger. But the deaths it produces are just as dead. And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument. You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense. They will not thank you for it. They will defend against it with everything they have. Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position. It is an identity catastrophe.

Two million quid to watch your husband have a poo while you try to lie in. zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/detai…

Kudos to @AlexCrawfordSky , and yes, this is exactly why the apartheid entity did not want reporters in Gaza.

Is this a thing? Could be a good plot twist in a contemporary romance where she's in a lavender marriage and then meets a hot guy... but she's married, isn't she?

I'm going to weigh in on both sides (God I hate it when people do that but hey). Yes, it's blatant exhibitionism with a tenuous link to the cause it ostensibly espouses. No, seeing a naked body is not going to irreparably harm anyone; you could always choose to look/walk away.