This clip of Gary Lineker from 2021 feels relevant to where we are now. He outlines his interest in 'refugee issues', how he considers himself a freelancer, how Tim Davie's never called to say 'you can't tweet that' - and that he doesn't think 'they could do that anyway'.

Today, the Anna Freud Centre is excited to launch a pioneering new one-stop shop designed to empower young people to learn more about mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, and their treatment options. crowd.in/pnW3Aw

The late great Douglas Adams tells one of the all-time greatest stories

Spot on 👏🏾 Thank you Franklyn Addo Last year the #contextualsafeguarding team reached a similar conclusion after two years of test work in London. One of the biggest safeguarding risks to Black children is the Metropolitan police | Franklyn Addo theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

god bless youtube ads (screen time - coming soon) 📱

Left: how humans see starlings. Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour The amazing world of UV vision, seen through the eyes of…. birds. [read more: buff.ly/31xLkvX]

Thread - Fascinating isn’t it? 9/10 of those convicted for sex offences in Britain are white and male, although if you just listen to the media, you would never know. Time to change the narrative. Source: gov.uk/government/sta…

Two key facts have come to light over the Easter recess concerning asylum seekers... 1. Robert Jenrick admitted there are no legal routes for asylum seekers to request asylum in the UK from outside the UK, nor to come to the UK in order to claim asylum. theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2023…

Do you understand the difference between empathy and sympathy? Brené Brown laid it out for us. Learn more here 📽️ bit.ly/3izRtCi

Q: How do you trick the population into believing that asylum seekers are becoming a bigger and bigger issue? A: Stop processing asylum applications. Cynical? That's exactly what the Tories did. The % of asylum applications completed within 6 months fell from 80%+ to ~10%.

The Psychotherapy worm is turning it appears. Good to hear more research being done on longer term therapies. Short-term psychodynamic therapy is more effective than CBT for depression, study finds madintheuk.com/2023/02/therap… via @MITUKTeam

Hello friends-Are you interested in developing a Family Group Conference (FGC) service for adults with mental health needs? Please take our short survey to help us understand the level of interest and activity in this area: bham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/family-group-c…

We've done it. It's been a long road, but we've found a Brexit benefit, and by jingo, it's a banger.

I would be really grateful if The Guardian The Observer & TED Talks made a comment on this ruling. Any comment. It has huge ramifications for UK journalism. And some basic solidarity from the organisations who published the work would go a long way. Thank you.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is one of our best known/best loved models in leadership. Yet Maslow never presented it as a pyramid or hierarchy. Dennis Hambeukers has redrawn it as circles. I like the addition of a 6th component: our need to be part of & protect the bigger system,

Check out my new article "The Teach First Effect" in Yorkshire Bylines. "There is no real evaluation, understanding or even recognition of the impact that this growing network is having on our public professions, services and policy" yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/education…

All stinks dunnit?

Rishi Sunk has said that this year's public sector pay awards have been agreed in full but with no new or additional funding to cover them. There is literally no economic sense in this whatsoever. A short thread...

"BATHING WATERS IN THE BEST STATE EVER", screams the minister "last year 93% were classified as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’". That's an impressive number; or is it? Your short 🧵for a Sunday morning. (1/7)

This thread has been re-discovered today it seems. If the BBC is going to apologise for anything, I hope it’s for its total and abject failure to critically report on Nigel Farage