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Dudley Council’s chief executive says a ‘broken market’ in childcare is to blame for the authority’s failure to improve children’s services. www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/2651290...

@ofstednews.bsky.social Bodycams for every secondary-school safeguarding lead—because apparently the ‘first lie wins’ and teenage gossip becomes gospel the moment an adult with safeguarding accountability types it into CPOMS.

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It’s Lake Ontario.

Damning report slams Dudley’s failing children’s services www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/2649398...

Is this John Macilwraith’s dept? www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...

Melanie D'Arrigo Is Correct.......

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The NHS and local councils paid £2bn to companies part or wholly owned by G Square Capital in the past three years, a period when either the current top health official Samantha Jones or her husband held financial interests in the private equity business.  www.ft.com/content/ea8c...

“In the last year 58, 000 children were arrested and detained by the police, the equivalent of 160 children every day.” www.kcl.ac.uk/news/landmar...

Rep. Jacobs: "Are Americans better off when the Strait of Hormuz is open or closed?" Mike Waltz: "The American economy is largely unaffected by the Strait of Hormuz." Rep. Jacobs: "My constituents who are paying thousands of dollars more in costs because of this war would beg to differ."

Please, please, please let this story make the print edition…

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

Bertel Nordström • Västerbron , Stockholm , View of West Bridge • night Venticelli •

OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Trump is incapable of understanding this.

I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.

Odd, how the UK can't seem to keep a Prime Minister—and we can't seem to get rid of a President.

In this photo there is a Princeton University graduate and a Harvard Law School graduate. Michelle Obama is both.

Breaking News: A federal judge effectively reopened President Trump’s $10 billion case against the IRS, in a striking turnabout. After Trump voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit, the Justice Dept. established a $1.8 billion fund likely intended for his allies and extended tax benefits to Trump.

"The largest rise revealed in the data is at Staffordshire County Council, where there has been a 1,300 per cent increase in the number of complaints since Reform UK won control at the 2025 local elections a year ago." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Someone has to tell the truth.

I actually can't believe that Farage and his party of xenophobic shitbags are running and polling so high and that the media are just treating it like it's normal. It's nightmarish to watch.

Fascinating thread this.

The fuel shortage has left me depressed about British politics in a way I never have been before, in that not a single party has avoided either saying or doing something incredibly stupid and completely removed from how anything actually works.

The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"

London Tech Week: diversity is important. Also London Tech Week: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lond...

Had anyone got a bigger metaphor? I NEED A BIGGER METAPHOR NOW?!

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

In England, the Cookie Monster is called the Biscuit Bloke

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

I love learning a new word. This one is particularly apt.

Reflecting on the in-person team meeting I attended in a free local govt space to “save taxpayers money”. 12 of us travelled to West Brom from across four corners of the country, long journeys and ££ (& unsafe) parking, or three trains and Uber both ways to listen to 3 hours of someone talk at us.

I fear the top rungs of NHS management are too often selected on the basis of willingness to go along with Potemkin budget/planning assumptions rather than talent.

is anyone having a good time at this point? even rich people seem miserable

You can write directly to Kier Starmer’s office here. The limit is 1000 characters including spaces so it’s hard to say much. I used them all. I don’t expect a response but I felt better for doing it. Now it’s part of the public record. You can read what I said in comments if you care to…

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Bruce Cohen • Interior with Daffodils and Blue Chair •

Like social housing? Like data? This spectacularly niche one is especially for you. Thanks @insidehousing.bsky.social for the commission - I love getting deep into the detail now and again (Paywalled) www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/boar...

UK universities are jewels in our crown. International students pay a lot to gain a British HE qualification and some stay on to work here and contribute towards our economy. That’s a positive outcome that should be encouraged.