A school that charges £31k a year fees, teaching its pupils just how easy it is to buy power with their wealth 👀🤑 reminds me of St Paul's girls cosplaying poverty by having jacket potato for lunch on 'austerity day'. @GuardianEdu @tes @Observer_Owl @SchoolsWeek @PrivateEyeNews
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The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of education. @WRNAfghanistan
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle?
For the £122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE – at least £65 million of which went straight into your venal husband’s offshore accounts in the Isle of Man?
For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick?
For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.
Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.
How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?
You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.
Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.
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A special moment for humanity as the world gets to watch billionaires play astronauts with the tax money they avoided paying
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Number crunching: Cuts to health and disability benefit, and reduction in financial support for carers v unpaid care carried out every year.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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After shouting, bullying and parroting Russian propaganda, Donald Trump says the whole of America has been "disrespected in its cherished Oval Office”, he's not wrong
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So it appears that the Tories are converts to setting a floor standard for teacher pay. During their 14 years in office teacher pay declined by 12%. Work load and work intensity went through the roof creating a teacher supply crisis the biggest threat to quality education.
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Extraordinary insight into the wealth of our private schools. Do pupils need Steinway pianos, purpose built theatres, groomed polo pitches? Paying VAT long overdue. It’s not just tax. Private school fees are rising in a facilities ‘arms race’ via @FT
on.ft.com/41SQyFn
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On February 26 the England cricket team will play Afghanistan.
WHY?
Are England men happy to validate a regime which denies women all human rights from education to simply walking in a park? Now the Taliban are cracking down even on women going online.
Boycott the ICC.
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Two years ago today, Afghan women were banned from universities.
The Taliban promised they could study "honorable" fields like medicine—then banned that too this month.
Afghanistan is now the only place on Earth where women are banned from every field of study.
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Thames Water fined £18.2m for 'unjustified' £131.3m dividend to shareholders.
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
itv.com/news/meridian/2024-1…
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If it weren't for a supermarket security guard persuading a woman to make a complaint against Pelicot for up-skirting, his horrific crimes would not have come to light.
While we celebrate the courage of Gisele Pelicot, let's also rethink our approach to 'minor' sex crimes.
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📚 Day 19 of #Eduadvent! Win a £50 Waterstones voucher donated by @ReadSolutionsUK, providers of Reading Plus, improving students’ reading skills. Learn more 👉 readingsolutionsuk.co.uk/rea…
To enter: LIKE & REPOST
Good Luck!
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Levels of Thames Water’s sewage dumping has jumped 40% in just 6 months, bills expected to go up 59% next week and fat cat bosses share a £770,000 reward.
Now what was all that bullsh*t about banning bonuses. What else were you expecting?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4z…
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"Migrants, illegal or legal, weren't responsible for austerity. That was the Conservative government. Migrants were not responsible for Brexit. Migrants were not responsible for Liz Truss' failure of leadership."
Brilliant audience contribution 👏
#bbcqt