Joseph Emmanuel

University tutor: What did you make of the paper's conclusions? Me (panicking): Erm...I thought they posed lots of interesting questions for further research. Tutor: Which ones in particular? Me: ...

@judeinlondon It's just depressing. People trying to smear and drag him on one side, and on the other, people who have suddenly discovered a passion for disability inclusion so they can shout at black people.

@judeinlondon Yeah that pretty much sums up my thoughts. It would have been horrible for MBJ and DL in the moment, and I definitely see the argument that it would be sensible for him to have a private word with them after, but I don't understand what anyone gets from a public apology.

Exchanges like this one are mask off moments for people who think Tourette’s is akin to a learning disability or mental disorder rather than the neurological condition (with MH comorbidities) that it is.

@judeinlondon This is probably the best and most relatable analogy I've heard.

I honestly need people to understand that people with coprolalia can no more control a vocal tic than someone with Parkinson’s can control shaking.

@jonnybid Schools need to train staff so that teachers know how to and are empowered to adapt the resources, but I'd generally rather have something as a starting point. When I was an NQT, I found planning lessons from scratch pretty overwhelming. High-quality schemes would have helped.

The primary curriculum has increasingly become something that schools subscribe to and teachers download and click through. It clearly saves a lot of time but does it mean that some teachers are no longer planning for the needs of their class? Not taking a view, just asking.

@stonefish100 They go pretty quickly, even with a membership. Charlton is a decent alternative for atmosphere if you pick the right home game.

Anyone any idea how easy it is to get Crystal Palace tickets these days? Going to sign up for a membership but do most home games sell out?

Success is when I remember to actually eat the orange I put in my bag rather than just taking it for a nice day out.

@Vitu_E Really like Ting Thai.

Hive mind - looking for some Glasgow dinner recommendations, if you would be so kind x

@FreeNwakali Jerel Ifil had the worst technique of any professional I've ever seen. Don't know how you can train every day for years and still be that bad.

Jayden Richardson is right up there. If not the worst he’s certainly pound for pound for the worst signing we’ve ever made. Never a footballer

@GrazaWhu @HLTCO Shifting the goalposts a bit. You said the rest of the league was barely League 1 standard - I'm not sure that Northampton or Mansfield beat a side that finished top 6 in Germany. But anyway, have a good day

@joey_45 @HLTCO And they went on to win it... Oh... Yeah...

I get fed up with those who deride the Scottish game for a lack of quality; not only is this a great strike, it’s a winner in a historic & fiercely contested derby game. There’s so much more to the game up there than Celtic v Rangers if you look for it.

@GrazaWhu @HLTCO Aberdeen beat Eintracht Frankfurt last season in the Conference League

@HLTCO Rangers and Celtic would struggle in the PL with their current squads. Would they make more money and grow beyond that if they were in it? Probably. But they aren't. Outside that it's barely league 1 standard. None of the others would survive the championship.

@NUFCThreatLevel Did we score a goal the previous week where there was a foul from a corner which was missed? Feel like the chat at the time was Webb had imagined it because of that.

5x loyalty points multiplier anyone that clicks on to the consequences of this. #NUFC

@JonnElledge Is it Blackheath station car park?

Let's play a round of "guess the NIMBYs!" Which historic London site is it of which campaigners are saying this: "We think the site should be developed more sensitively, conserving the unique community, history, and buildings." No cheating, now

@flying_rodent I always go back to when the IDF shot some of the hostages who had managed to escape, even though they were unarmed, half naked and waving a white flag. That was a pretty good indicator of their general approach to civilians.

As I said many times in the 2000s: if you know your “precision strike” is likely to kill lots of civilians and you do it anyway, then you have decided that many civilian deaths are acceptable to you. And I see no reason at all to believe the Israelis are trying to avoid deaths.

People baying for an actual, expanding genocide will tell you what the *real* genocide is. Spoiler: it’s not about who has killed colossal numbers of civilians, only dumb people think that.

@FreeNwakali They basically never lose finals anyway. Better to play them now.

We were in a much worse place when we played them at Hampden in April and pushed them all the way. The toughest tie we could’ve got but we have absolutely nothing to fear

@liammcox Bring back Helder Postiga

Some of these big wet babies never lived through the Pavlyuchenko/Frazier Campbell/Darren Bent and it shows

I thought people like Goodwin were fans of Enoch Powell?

@GoodwinMJ They need to bring back the character limit on tweets

The reason the UK's elite class is so hostile to Elon Musk and other dissenters is because they can sense they are losing control of the narrative and the conversation. We are simply no longer in a world where the national conversation and what is considered "true" can be controlled by the same groups of people --who come from the same backgrounds, have the same values, the same political loyalties, and want the same outcomes. That era, when the elite class dominate what used to be the most important and influential institutions, is over. It is done. And, as @KonstantinKisin has rightly noted, it is never coming back. We are in a new era. As I wrote in a book last year, many people in the West are rapidly giving up on "a national conversation" that no longer reflects their values, their voice, and which considers some groups in society, usually minority groups, to be more virtuous than others. The elite class could have responded to this trend by opening themselves up; they chose to the opposite while also attacking anybody who questioned their consensus along the way. This is why so many people are now flocking to new media --X, Substack, etc--all of which reflect how the game has changed, how the conversation has changed. And this new media, crucially, is insulating counter-cultural writers and thinkers who are willing to take on the broken consensus, professionally and financially. Were they still in the legacy institutions these counter-cultural voices would be harassed, bullied, intimidated, cancelled, shut down and silenced. Just look at the amount of hostility I get from university academics or established columnists who think they have a right to control the national conversation, a palpable sense of entitlement. Well, they don't. And they can no longer control the conversation. Because for the first time in history, we have a counter-cultural class, a counter-elite if you like, who are not only independent from the legacy institutions but are fully insulated and protected from those institutions. And through their reach, influence, and power, they can wield just as much influence over the national conversation, if not more, as the traditional elite class. So long as ordinary people are willing to support and spread these voices the game has completely changed. The only people who have not realised this are the elite class, who even when they have tried to embrace new media have fundamentally misunderstood it. Just look at the UK podcast circuit, the flagship shows. The same people. The same insiders. The same rotation of the same names who all cling to the same values but refuse to have any meaningful, serious, cross-cutting debate about possible alternatives. And just look at the reaction to the protests. What much of the elite class, the elite conversation, considers "controversial" or "incendiary" views are entirely normal views out there in the country. Everybody can see this which is why public confidence and trust in legacy institutions is collapsing. With a few notable exceptions, they refuse to open themselves up to alternative viewpoints and so are merely pushing more and more people to look elsewhere, hastening their own demise. Imagine for a moment if coverage of the UK riots and protests had only been available in legacy media. Imagine what that would have looked like. This is why there are now two conversations going on in this country. What we might call the "approved", official narrative that you see on legacy media, which is promoted by the elite class and which, in my view, looks ridiculous and out-of-touch with the country. As I said last night, if you really think what's happening in Britain right now is because of a coordinated social campaign being led by Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and Elon Musk then you really need to reassess what you are reading and how you are living because you are completely disconnected from the country. And what we might call the "unofficial" narrative that is largely playing out on new media and which despite being framed by the elite class as "misinformation" or "disinformation" is often grounded in reality. We can all watch the videos with our own eyes. We can all read. We are not idiots. We are not mindless lemmings. There is no putting all this back in the box. Personally, I think the elite class in this country now has a choice. They can either engage with new media and open up the national conversation to alternative viewpoints or they can continue to double down, which in the end will only fuel the rise of alternative media, writers & thinkers. So if you feel the elite conversation is no longer sufficient or needs to be radically reformed then obviously come and join us at mattgoodwin.org but beyond that ensure you have a bunch of other counter-cultural perspectives in your timeline each day, and you are promoting alternative voices. Because now is the time to be doing that, not clinging to some outdated, narrow orthodoxy which has left millions of people feeling they have no voice in the conversation. In other words, don't be a sheep.

@wizzobravo @smithsmm I wouldn't have thought so, but the blanket response was "We're unable to meet their needs."

@joey_45 @smithsmm Is that legal?

Had so many calls from parents of children with significant needs trying to find a school that wants their children. No special school places and no schools willing to accept them. System is literally failing these children.