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@JacquiDeevoy1 Isn't it. Funny how science works

Problem. Reaction. Solution. Funny how the ‘solution’ is always vaccines!

@Arsenal I was in the stands tonight, and recorded the goal from another angle. I hope you like it. Follow us for more content.

@nickimoraa You seem upset

Schools need to be reminded that PARENTS have the ultimate authority over their children, if I don’t want my child there that day, THAT IS AN EXCUSED ABSENCE! Because I excused it, I don’t need permission from a doctor, a superintendent, or nobody for that matter. I’ll take them out of that school as quickly as I put them into it. If I want my child to be home, or I feel they need a break, or I want to take them on a trip. You can send their work home for the week. I think what children are learning at home, and outside of the classroom is equally as important as the fundamentals. I’m not going to surrender my children’s youth & their most influential years entirely to a school system! If they can’t accommodate that then so be it, I can teach my children how to read, and write & how to do math myself! The only benefit of a classroom is the interaction with other children & teachers, but as soon as that becomes contrary or in opposition to what I am teaching my children, or desire for them, It’s time for homeschooling! Don’t send me letters about attendance, or anything else for that matter! The school will never determine or dictate my children’s schedule. Because THEY are on MINE!

@JaneGerson @DPJHodges Yes. He plays football every week

@DPJHodges Has Starmer ever been spotted doing anything sporting - on or off the field?

This was the moment I knew for certain Labour was going to win the next general election.

@silverlock This was one of my prized possessions as a teen

In AD&D 1e, there were 4 ways to roll character stats.

When people have a job and think being a sane, rational, compassionate and reasonable person with a respect for your company doesn't matter. You do not have a right to a job. We all have a right to get a job, but we can't be racist and expect to keep that job.

@readswithravi Any Human Heart

Have you ever read a book by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written?

@lizziebuffin @adamboxer1 31 years a comprehensive Head of English & Head and I am equally convinced in setting.

@Soarpoints @adamboxer1 33 years a comprehensive school Head of English here. I firmly and absolutely am convinced that mixed ability teaching in English is best for all students.

Setting is one of those wonderful examples where the academic research is inconclusive, but its relatively straightforward to work out the best approach: Go visit every school with a P8 of over 1. See what they do. £10 says there's not a single one that has "outlawed" setting

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@TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall @jonsopel Utter meaningless misuse of language

"How many thousands of indigenous Brits have lost their lives in this slaughter that seemed to have passed me by?" @jonsopel and @lewis_goodall are left "flabbergasted" after a guest on GB News claims migration in the UK is resulting in a 'genocide' of white Brits.

@BasedNorthmathr @DAaronovitch A beautiful thing

@DAaronovitch What do call this when you look at it David

I never thought I'd see the day when this kind of claim would become respectable. Apologies to followers but you need to know it's happening

@dwyer_debo67341 @BasedNorthmathr @DAaronovitch Evidence of what precisely, Maxie Deb ?

@BasedNorthmathr @DAaronovitch Designed to scare the stupid? My, how you like feel superior and like to belittle those of us with real concern about the future for our kids. You are full of conceit. The evidence is placed before you yet you refuse to see, shame on you.

@hewantswealth And yet you could make your own lunch for at least half that and take your own coffee

My typical cost of going to work: Train 🚆- £9.60 Breakfast 🍳 - £3.50 Lunch 🥙- £12:30 Coffee ☕️- £6.00 Total 🟰 £31.40 per day On average, we’re spending around £500 per month just to get to work and eat…show more

@AdrianBethune No

The fall in children's wellbeing in the UK is *mostly* a secondary school problem (massive drop in Y7!). We could improve things massively by increasing the amount of physical activity in secondary (more PE, increased playtime, more sports, daily mile, etc). Discuss 🤔

@DavidDidau Ha! Why so?

@Soarpoints I *hated* Shannara

@WeisMargaret the book that inspired me to read post Lord of Rings

@michael_merrick There is a version of this cringe tableau in which each person is a metaphor for a different denomination or different sect and how they approach faith and liturgy is represented by how distanced they are from Trump physically.

I don't know if it's because Catholic, or because I'm northern, or because I'm emotionally constrained, but I don't think I could imagine myself in a scenario more likely to make me spontaneously combust from pure cringe

@DavidDidau Ill have a look. I graduated to the Shannara series after LoR and DragonLance which just made me want to be a writer. Oddly, I never graduated to GoT. Maybe I had moved on by then and was reading Atwood, Martin Amis & Will Self.

@Soarpoints I think you’d like it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves'_…

@DavidDidau No. No I don't know the Thieves World at all. But yes - read all the spin offs to DragonLance!

@Soarpoints @WeisMargaret I loved the Dragonlance books as a kid. Never read the spin offs tho. Not sure it’s worth my time this late in the day? Btw, did you ever read the Thieves World books?

V much the best of these this morning