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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 7h
The man is a fucking sociopath and I am so very deeply tired of people refusing to say so.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12h
Book on sale in supermarket book aisle shocker! Imagine becoming a journalist just so you can end up reporting negatively on a book which helps people. Next up the Telegraph's ongoing series "people use cookbooks to learn to cook".
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ADHD 'handbook' on sale in Waitrose

Guide to neurodevelopmental condition at upmarket supermarket amid soaring demand for diagnoses


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Published 06 October 2026 9:09pm BST

Guides to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have gone on sale at Waitrose checkouts amid warnings that soaring demand for diagnoses risks "crowding out" severe cases.
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Contact, for families with disabled children @contactfamilies.bsky.social · 13h
No diagnosis yet? Your child can still get support. Find out how to explain their needs and ask for help 👇
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Support when your child does not have a diagnosis | Contact
This page contains information about support available when you child does not have a diagnosis
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 15h
Mums battle for SEND school places “they don't answer your phone calls anymore, they don't answer your emails anymore". This is far from unusual and always unacceptable. Council behaviour is the SEND reform that’s actually needed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Martlesham and Felixstowe mums both battle for SEND school places
Roxanne says finding the right school for her son, Franklin, who is autistic, feels "never ending".
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Baroness Spielman went to Cambridge (for FREE), an institution where term has only just started versus post-92s where they're into week 3 already. But that's not what she means by kicking their heels, is it
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Social care for Disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it?" Read the @guardian story here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NO! Y’all really got to stop doing this! A far-rightist doesn’t stop being far right just because you realized there is someone further right. Also, they are often not so much “further” right, they are differently far right! BOTH Rees-Mogg AND Tucker are threats to liberal democracy!
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No comment needed
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/10/2026
Your autistic kid does NOT need to learn how to tie their shoes. Velcro shoes exist. Slip on shoes exist. If tying shoes is not working, please let your kid save their energy to work on the things everyone agrees they CAN & WANT to do. (Same for autistic adults, BTW.) #dyspraxia #autism #disability
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is depressing. If you are against antisemitism, I am afraid it is now impossible to vote Green. What is happening in Gaza is genocide and in the West Bank ethnic cleansing, at minimum. That does NOT mean that Zionism is racism, or — ffs — that attending a Zionist synagogue makes you a racist*
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Stuart Rowntree @primarythink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think society needs to be softer, calmer, more patient & kinder. More willing to talk & to care. I don't say that from any high ground. I say it as someone who's needed all of those things and not always been given them, or been able to give them. I'd like to think I can contribute to that.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💯. It’s not just stupid electorally. It’s utterly shameful.
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Stuart Rowntree @primarythink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looking to broaden my network and participate more on here. I already follow lots of great people, but I'd like to find more genuinely insightful voices in & around education, esp primary, SEND & inclusion, psychology & assessment. Recommendations very welcome and appreciated!
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💥 Brexit's back, and here's your weekend reading list: 👓 Our report on the UK's future EU options: ow.ly/Liph50ZTVv8 👓 Anand Menon on the need for a better quality of debate: ow.ly/r6Cr50ZTVzU 👓 Joël Reland on why the costs of Brexit could grow: ow.ly/G4fU50ZTVv6
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Ten years on: What next for UK-EU relations? - UK in a changing Europe
This report highlights the ‘stark divide’ between the economic impact of Brexit and the government’s proposed response, and sets out a ‘staircase’ of options for the future relationship.
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hard not to get angrier and angrier at Man City. If they did win an appeal they'd destroy the PL totally. They just don't care. Every step of the road they've walked has been brazen. They don't seem to get they're bees destroying their own hive.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Ann @historyannics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lots of interesting questions about US foreign policy raised in talk by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social #LSEEvents
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 01/10/2026
This guy is such an embarrassment.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are some absolute cunts out there but normally their cuntish instincts are kept in check by social disapproval. One of the things that the Balaclava Brigade (aided by politicians and the BBC’s ‘legitimate concerns’ narrative) have been able to do is mobilize and legitimize that cuntishness.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not to oversimplify but maybe it’s not surprising the two grossest abusers of 21st C English football’s financial regulations were clubs owned by people used to turning resource wealth into political power, linked to or parts of authoritarian regimes with equal disregard for international law.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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Ann @historyannics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Until we understand who it is that accesses social care, social care will not be fixed.
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wish I didn't have as many examples to share. I was collecting some from Bosnia, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine...When, earlier today, I saw the footage from Kyiv and the Academy Building. What an atrocity.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On SNJ Today: Education researchers at the University of Oxford have shown that children in special schools have thriving social networks and friendships—the opposite of how their experiences are characterised by politicians: www.specialneedsjungle.com/research-soc...
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Care Full @carefull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's weird isn't it? When we talk about social care, the first question we get asked is; but who will pay for it? How much will it cost the tax payer? We have universal health and universal education yet for some reason we don't see the value in universal care. 1/4
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'They never ran a group of 30 people, won major fellowships or published in Nature, so they should be on the redundancy list' No, but they developed a brand new degree programme, transformed teaching lab experiments and repeatedly covered your arse when you were too busy to look after students.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because of the multitude of pressures on schools atm, especially around accountability measures, I'm not sure they have the capacity, funding or ratios to flex in the way that is needed when you have children with very high level needs in a setting. I don't think 'more training' is a solution.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The thing we have found in our setting about inclusion is that you have to be willing and have the capacity to adapt environment, resources, curriculum, staffing and timings rather than just using more strategies. Scaffolding isn't just what teachers do, it's the environment itself.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do find this country mad. Anyone can see that social care is in a state of devastating crisis in this country and that it is the key source of the NHS crisis as well. There is no feasible way to solve it without everyone contributing. Burnham is honest about that and is already getting pelters.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Important caveat: ministers love to say benefit claimants shouldn’t be “written off” and it’s vital 16-24 year olds with significant physical disabilities aren’t dismissed. Some will want and be able to work but need specialist support and genuine opportunities, alongside the financial protection.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New post out: We have a fascinating guest post looking at how Putin has ratcheted up his campaign against Europe - through hybrid warfare, global alliances and support for malicious actors. Also looks at whether/how the escalation will continue. samf.substack.com/p/putins-cam...
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Putin’s campaign against Europe
How far will he go?
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Ann @historyannics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is such a good thread.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, just to be clear, Daniel Thomas was: 1- Carrying a knife contrary to section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 2- Used that knife to commit criminal damage (Criminal Damage act 1971) 3- likely engaged in the criminal offense of endangering Life at Sea (Merchant Shipping Act 1995)
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not the language of war, this is a language of annihilation, and that's genocide and it's a threat of a committing it. There is no war in which you're allowed to annihilate a country.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why this guy isn’t arrested is a serious question
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is terrifying. The government needs to get a lot more serious about the rise of the violent militant and organised far right www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why has this live-streaming serial criminal not been arrested?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wouldn't consider myself a particular expert in national security, but it is absolutely obvious what the problem is and what needs to be done. The failure of the UK government to respond to disorder over a sustained period is egregious.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Arrest this thug and proscribe his organisation. It’s a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do read this thread to the end.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is simply far-right terrorism. And right now it’s being done with impunity.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I generally ignore royal stories, but there's something deeply tawdry about the saturation coverage here. It's basically one person's word against another, involving the parents of two real people who've probably suffered enough from their private grief being treated like primetime entertainment.
Umpteen links on the BBC News page about the Earl Spencer allegations.
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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last night, an exhibition I've been working on was launched at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire to mark 250 years since building of 2nd mill (blue print for cotton factories worldwide) and early industrial housing. It's open all weekend, with lots of activities. Critique my graphic design efforts!
Exhibition panels printed on cotton fabric hanging in pairs down a mill building from wooden ceiling beams. On the front panels the date 1776 and 'Why did cotton come to Cromford' are legible.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thread.
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