This is very wonderful indeed. Excellent Sunday reading.

Thank God, it's the Rightmove Roundup open.substack.com/pub/heawood/p/…

Our schools have gone mad.

'Several parents have contacted me about their child’s toilet visits being monitored at school to what they think is an excessive degree. One told me that he is sent an alert from the school app every time his daughter goes to the toilet in lessons.'

67% of all women journalists killed in 2023 were Palestinian.

Take this, they were all killed in the span of 3 months not a year. & this calculation does not count all the journalists killed since January.

Does anyone need a laugh? rightmove.co.uk/properties/145…

Very poor show that the Speaker did not grant Diane Abbott a question today

Tel Aviv tonight

Article in the The New York Times about the spread of high control behaviour policies in schools in England. Quoting Sarah Dalton among others.

The journalist says that American schools have moved away from these policies after concerns were raised, but in England it has gone the other…

Read these instructions for teachers. This is what is going on in so many of our academies. Behaviour is regulated minute by minute, word by word, right down to the arm movements. For teachers as well as pupils.

There is an actual Palestinian MP in Parliament, who has been very public and vocal about her family members trapped in Gaza, but because she's a Liberal and not an atrocity-denying Assad-worshipper, the Far-Left's Lawrence of Arabia can simply write her out of history.

I talked to a mother today whose son has been in isolation (or Inclusion) for 22 days so far this school year. He has just been given another five days, two of them in another school, and his behaviour is deteriorating. She rang the school to ask them to consider his history of…

not a single banksy since kate middleton disappeared. coincidence?

My favourite comment from all the Reddit threads speculating about what is going on with Prince William and Kate Middleton:

Gosh. I just read this article and… very well said, Jacob Rees Mogg. Every word.

Sometimes in therapy I talk to adults who tell me how it felt to be the ‘worst behaved’ in the class, and the time that the whole class lost their playtime because of them. How no one would play with them or even talk to them the next day. These aren’t inspirational memories.…

I am very, very embarrassed that this is our country.

Kew, Kew, Hackney won't do
Lido, Dalston and pub

Neither do I, so can someone please invite me and Liz Truss? Either separately or as a couple.

I've been scrolling through Rightmove, somewhat obsessively, for many years. As estate agent pitches go, this one is... new. rightmove.co.uk/properties/144…

'When [Kemi Badenoch] was a new MP she rang me and fessed up to hacking Harriet Harman's emails and begged for clemency'

A reminder that this offence carried a jail sentence of up to five years at the time.