The Rest Is Politics Rory Stewart ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Keir Starmer has talked about his brother having learning difficulties. Why is the biggest minority in the UK - disabled people - not a bigger element of policy decisions and announcements?

Lewis Richardson shares his Great Britain flag with fellow boxing medalist, Cindy Ngamba ❤️ Ngamba represented the Refugee Olympic Team at Paris 2024 after being denied British citizenship this year. She has lived in the UK since the age of 11 🇬🇧

Trail hunting is a smokescreen for hunting foxes– it's wildlife crime , plain & simple . With a new government we have a real chance for change – use our letter template to write to your MP urging for a ban now lovera.ge/foxhunting It's time to end to this vile 'sport' .

As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader. The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law.

Already 3 days into the school term & we receive this. No consultation or conversation. Son has an EHCP & his special school is 15 miles from home. He’s had transport for the last 3 years. Bridget Phillipson - pls tell me again about your plan to get every child back in school

Where we are now and what can we expect in the coming months within the context of Russia's war in Ukraine: ◾️Ukraine and the world continue to await tensely for the results of the US elections. In the meantime, Ukraine and Russia continue active diplomatic actions to

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thread 🧵 why I am an AAC user It seems for a lot of people who I know are AAC users there is a single reason they’re an AAC user And their reason for using AAC is often understood in terms that it makes sense to others 1/ #AAC #AACuser #AACacceptanceMonth #AACawarenessMonth

We need to act urgently so that the already low populations of butterflies do not face yet another challenge in their recovery. Sign our letter to the Government to ensure neonicotinoids are gone from our countryside for good. ✍️👇 butterfly-conservation.org/emergency (3/3)

A girl in Gaza who can’t be older than 7 or 8 walks barefoot through the streets carrying her injured sister on her shoulders. There are tens of thousands of missing and orphaned children in Gaza. Post-apocalyptic.

🚨The special needs system is on the brink of collapse. The government's spending watchdog will publish its own likely damning investigation this week But we’ve been chronicling the collapse for years. And I just want to set out how seriously bad things are … (mega 🧵)

It’s not just delays: councils are wrongly refusing requests with impunity – so much so it looks like a tactic to ration demand Record numbers of parents are challenging refusals in court (despite the costs), and *they win 98.3 per cent of cases* (/5) schoolsweek.co.uk/record-send-tr…

So, back to that gap in SEND provision: it has been exploited by private equity firms and Middle East wealth funds, who are now making millions of pounds from private SEND schools – which cost double that of a state special school (/12) schoolsweek.co.uk/how-investors-…

The Tories thought about ending this statutory override and putting those deficits back on balance sheets by April 2024, but they choose to extend it to 2026 instead The reason: ten councils would have gone ‘bankrupt’ overnight (/15) schoolsweek.co.uk/send-costs-lea…

Mainstream schools are already 'resisting' taking on pupils with EHCPs over concerns they can’t meet their needs and don’t have the cash or the capacity, the schools adjudicator has previously warned (/24) schoolsweek.co.uk/send-some-scho…

Holocaust survivor Irene Weiss: “Man can turn into an animal in no time. All he needs is permission. As soon as permission is given from higher-ups, from the government, it accelerates.”

The Taliban have now BANNED women from hearing each other’s voices in public or private settings. This is nothing short of vile, inhumane barbarity. It’s not just oppression—it’s a ruthless assault on Afghan women’s very existence. lbc.co.uk/news/taliban-b…

Something you may not know: religious institutions like churches are exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act. But 20 percent of all polling places are in religious institutions, meaning many people with disabilities are denied the right to vote msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

I volunteer at #Oxfam & a man came in today to donate toys and children's books precisely because he had read this Caitlin Moran The Times and The Sunday Times article. Please do take your clean, usable, saleable items to a charity shop before #Christmas rather than waiting until afterwards 😊

IMHO, what lies ahead of us all is the most bloodletting period of Russia's war of extermination in Ukraine, and it begins now. In the wake of Trump's initiatives regarding possible negotiations. Putin will triple Russia's efforts to inflict as much strategic damage on Ukraine