🚨 State schools are quickly falling behind as a new AI digital divide is opening up in the education system. Our new report finds that private schools are way ahead on setting AI policies, dedicating staff to oversee its use, and providing training and resources ⤵️🧵

Wonderful piece from Yahoo News UK's intern Christle Nwabunor on job ghosting: uk.news.yahoo.com/job-ghosting-e…

Suspended Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan says: "Since being elected I have consistently spoken up for my constituents on a range of issues, including most recently on cuts to disability benefits. I understood this could come at a cost, but I couldn’t support making disabled people

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for this stance. New generation of refuseniks is supported by the old, many of whom spent months in jail already

❗ Say it louder for the people in the back: you can't budget when you have no money. We speak to parents who are skipping meals to feed the kids and people who are terrified about rising bills. No amount of budgeting will make incomes stretch to cover the cost of essentials.

There are at least 500,000 pensioners who have not had a pension increase since 1997. The DWP has been warned people are "dying by the day" without getting justice. I spoke to the campaigners fighting to end the pre-1997 indexation of pensions: uk.news.yahoo.com/pension-crisis…

The European capital city that went a year without a single traffic death - until now. I explored how Helsinki's muted success story indicates the complex factors at play when making a city safe: uk.news.yahoo.com/helsinki-finla…

I simply must have it

a lot to be said about interview culture now but it’s actually rousing to see a filmmaker bucking the light tone of a prompt to defend how we see and talk about the poor. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a big filmmaker say “being poor is not the fault of the poor” like this.

Reform UK has launched a petition to "close migrant hotels". Signing it involves handing over personal details (address/ email), and saying who you'd vote for at a general election - meaning it's also a big data harvesting exercise

Total inflation rate by prime minister 👇

Nottinghamshire Live and the LDRS have been banned from engaging with the Reform councillors at Nottinghamshire County Council. No press releases, no interviews, off the invitation list for everything. All over a slightly negative article. Do you even know what free speech is, Mick Barton? How

‘That were a golden opportunity!’ Why is football dialogue in films and on TV so horrendously bad? We tapped up Adam Hurrey to help investigate… goal.com/mundial/antici…

Top work from my boo/writer extraordinaire

We are approximately 14 days away from the entire cabinet wearing Geri Halliwell’s 1997 Union Jack dress to PMQS.

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🚨 NEW: Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced maintenance grants will be reintroduced for the most disadvantaged students in England

Chantal is brilliant. She's whip-smart, driven and deeply compassionate. She's been an unpaid carer for her son Harry for 22 years. Once Chantal claims her pension, she won't receive carer's allowance any more. She'll have just £15 a month to live on. uk.news.yahoo.com/carers-allowan…

Buzzing to have been shortlisted for Sense's journalist of the year award! I'm in some fantastic company too. sense.org.uk/sense-awards/s…