'The obsession with school uniform in this country is weird. Really, really weird. In terms of state education, you could travel from one side of Europe to the other and barely see a school uniform.' heraldscotland.com/opinion/245816…

…The management Welsh National Opera are intent on pushing through their part-time plans for #Chorus & #Orchestra, but in light of Welsh Government’s recent announcement of £1.5m emergency funding for Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales surely a stay of execution is called for? 2/

A rare sensible policy from the Scottish Government. English schools please copy.

Help protect children against preventable diseases by making sure they're up to date with all NHS routine vaccinations. If you need to check, contact your GP practice and catch up with any missed doses. Find out more: nhs.uk/vaccinations/n…

This really is nonsense. Covid IFR is nothing like SARS or MERS and it never justified a label of HCID. This is reserved for infections like Ebola or Marburg that require quite exceptional levels of isolation.

We don’t want to censor you. We want you to self-censor so we don’t have to censor you.

Time to get a grip on this risk even if cash-strapped UK cities find the offer hard to refuse.. The Burden of Injuries Associated With E-Bikes, Powered Scooters, Hoverboards, and Bicycles in the United States: 2019‒2022 | AJPH | Vol. Issue ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…

Imagine if we had Sure Start? Parents having someone to speak to. Parents have to support this alongside professionals. We have made the policy of school readiness, we made our beds and now we have to lay in it. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/1…

Come off it. 'Fresher's Flu' has been around forever. It has exactly the same cause as starting kindergarten, elementary school or high school - exposure to unfamiliar viruses out of the 2-300 with similar symptoms. In my day, a lot of it was glandular fever (mononucleosis).

Sure Start achieved its aims, then we threw it away ifs.org.uk/articles/sure-… via Institute for Fiscal Studies

In the US, an "anti-trust" case is being brought against a number of big academic publishers, alleging cartel malpractice. An apparently welcome effort, but Dorothy Bishop shows how it fatally misfires. deevybee.blogspot.com

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Thank you Professor Hopkins— Calmly reassuring and robust. Gob smacked to see the chair of the inquiry trying to do the job of the KCs…