Jessica

Lover of retail, Labour member, Ukrainophile. Views my own. Occasionally I tweet in Russian (badly).

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Pro-Israel groups deliberately turned Israel into a polarized issue and alienated almost the whole Democratic Party for the sake of a war that turned out to be as disastrous as Obama warned them and is going to end up with a deal that’s worse for them than JCPOA was.

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Obviously, state schools generally can't compete with independents on facilities, music/arts, and social networking.

But in terms of academics: curriculum and Teaching and Learning...our state schools can compete with any schools in the world, even the ones that charge £30k+.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@MattZeitlin Not for all of us! I really care about instructional quality and I use the UK's value added measure as a guide to where I want my kids to go to school

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@mattyglesias Sometimes I wonder what the twitter discourse on the UK would be like if Americans didn't speak English. Probably non-existent, to be fair.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@LindaNi1212O2 @catdeans @10DowningStreet @Ed_Miliband @Gov If Denby can find a critical national infrastructure angle as to why HMG should save UK pottery, then they should push that as hard they can. Is it necessary for some arcane defence thing? That's their best chance

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@catdeans @LindaNi1212O2 @10DowningStreet @Ed_Miliband @Gov They help those industries because they are key to resilience and domestic GDP output, sadly pottery is not

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@catherineroyuk Probably, but there may well be longer term consequences in terms of placental morbidity in subsequent pregnancies. I often wonder if there's any possible advance in surgical techniques that could mitigate that, I wonder if anyone is researchin git.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@JerusalemDemsas Genetic abnormalities can occur even with PGT tested embryos while they divide in utero

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

There were 1.2 million applications to 17,000 graduate roles in 2024.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@GeneSmi96946389 @CLE_Lauren I think the risk of paying for a child with very high IQ and then finding out they're merely average, despite tutoring, is real. With embryo selection you are literally paying for a kid. If you pay for music lessons you know it's unlikely your kid will be Mozart.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is an incredibly ill-advised recommendation. Students are excluded for extremely serious conduct offences: long term disruption, violence, sexual harassment, knives etc. To suggest that schools should be forced to take them back against their wishes would mean that head teachers would no longer be able to preserve the safety, learning or dignity of students and staff- which is their *core* responsibility.

This suggestion seeks to detonate one of the main duties of school leaders. The fact that it is made by people who do *not* have to work in these environments, is extremely obvious.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@Greenironcoxy @Captain_Deltic @Heidi_Labour Depends on how well the GBR branding is rolled out. I think people's existing purchase habits will be very sticky.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@Greenironcoxy @Captain_Deltic @Heidi_Labour Why would Trainline not exist in this new model? There are currently lots of different ticketing websites!

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

This is extremely good stuff from the govt.

https://t.co/bRG3Nnmkmk

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@AnyaM8_ @HiddenYorkshire I do this! I learnt this trick when I was a kid and it's been fantastic.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Steve Reed could overturn this TODAY and get spades in the ground TOMORROW.

How?

1. Pass an act TODAY that overrules the decision.

OR

2. Publish a statement committing to INSTANT approval upon resubmission.

They could just do it. Read our letter below. 👇

RT IF YOU AGREE!

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@breastfeedorg @FeedingAlliance Barbaric is not a medical term but it's often used by people who feel mistreated by hospital practices. I'm surprised you've not seen it before. It's often used by women who feel their birth was too medicalised, for example.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

Housebuilding has collapsed in London.

And Southwark Council are celebrating having blocked 850+ homes.

You can’t afford to live in London because of thousands of decisions like this over decades.

[Jessica @CohenJessiae]

@ChrisHowellFCA Some of the tweets come across as very entitled, and many people don't seem to fully understand the history of UK social housing (i.e. even young middle class professionals used to live in council flats). Personally I think there are also trade offs with being like Paris!

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

I went to the same nursery school as Wes Streeting and grew up on the housing estate opposite his.

Here is a little thread on what the East End was like at that time.

Take it as the East End equivalent of those Johnson / Cameron era Old Etonians explaining what Pop was like.