Graeme Routledge

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Susanna Reid lays it out. Keir appointed Mandelson despite knowing everything about him, he claims he didn't know Mandelson had failed the vetting, which means he never followed it up & never asked about it, & finally we know no.10 did know months ago so someone is lying

Damning

[Martin Ferguson @MrFerguson85]

The core problem I have with @Miss_Snuffy & others is that they replace complex, evidence-based realities with simplistic adult framed narratives. Childhood disability is not just cultural & recognising it is usually what enables children to become more independent, not less.

A balanced or nuanced approach is needed. One that provides support where necessary, but also encourages capability, growth & responsibility.

Side note: she has no medical training. The conditions referenced in the article can have differences in brain develop, genetics or physical function. Calling them “cultural” ignores decades of medical research. This is not research informed.

More broadly, the tendency to frame complex needs through a purely cultural lens risks becoming an echo chamber. It shifts the focus toward adult perspectives rather than the lived realities of children. A "dramatic semantic shift" that can obscure, rather than clarify the issues at hand.

[SavoyGirl @savoy_girl]

@Miss_Snuffy Utter rubbish.

Identifying disabilities early means children and young people develop the resilience and advocacy skills to ensure their needs are met and enables them to reach their potential.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Outside court, @johnmcdonnellMP reacts to the news that @STWuk Chris Nineham and @PSCupdates Ben Jamal have been found guilty of trumped up charges around a pro-Palestine protest last year. The law is an ass.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

BREAKING: Sitting Labour Councillors in Lewisham, Rudi Schmidt and Tauseef Anwar announce that they have defected to the Green Party.

Councillor Schmidt said the following to Novara Media:

" I really respect my Labour Party colleagues and listen, there's a lot of hard-working and caring councillors, but what's wrong with the Labour Party really is the national party and the grip it has across local councils. There's developed like a fear, a culture of fear, the fear of speaking out on injustice, as fear of speaking out against austerity, a fear of speaking out against the Labour Party's complicity in Gaza, and I think that almost all authoritarian way of operating has filtered down to local councils"

[NEF @NEF]

"We've got to stop equating the government's finances with a household."

Zack Polanski speaking about government finances, austerity, and the problems with the UK's fiscal framework at our event this week

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

This thread has been full of a debate about the alleged tyranny of 'reading for pleasure'. It turns out that these sec. schools sessions are rare and short. Meanwhile hours and hours of GCSE English does serious harm to teens' desire to read!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@ZackPolanski: "Its absolutely outrageous that they can be at the negotiating table & then our PM puts out a statement that actually condemns Iran for a retaliatory attack as opposed to Israel & America that started the bombing in the first place"🎯

[Graeme Routledge @GraRouty]

@piersmorgan @ZackPolanski Maybe focus on this Piers.

[Martin O'Neill @martin_oneill]

Here’s Harold Wilson’s holiday home on St Mary’s in the Scilly Isles.

The kind of modest place that a committed public servant might go to relax with his family.

Compare this to the insatiable avarice of many politicians today.

Something has gone deeply wrong in our politics.

[Graeme Routledge @GraRouty]

@TTRadioOfficial 🧵

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I continue to be shocked by how I, a migrant who did not even study UK law in law school but had to self-teach on arrival, keep having to explain how UK law works to a senior political editor in a major news organization. First contempt of court, now this! Ok, let’s do this! 🧵

[Cassie Young @ModernCassie]

@Samstricko181 This feels like a lazy and reductionist take on a complex reality in schools.
Children with additional needs aren’t “ruining learning” they’re showing us where support, teaching, and systems need to work better.
Inclusion isn’t the problem. Poor provision is.

[Graeme Routledge @GraRouty]

@RogersHistory Delighted it’s one of the most used words in education today having being a nonword for many years. We work in an education system that has been designed for the neurotypical majority, from curriculum, to attendance, behaviour to assessment. That difference is now celebrated 1/4

[Graeme Routledge @GraRouty]

@AdamHighcliffe Appalling isn’t it.

[Graeme Routledge @GraRouty]

@TTRadioOfficial 🧵

[Graeme Routledge @GraRouty]

@RogersHistory Delighted it’s one of the most used words in education today having being a nonword for many years. We work in an education system that has been designed for the neurotypical majority, from curriculum, to attendance, behaviour to assessment. That difference is now celebrated 1/4

[Sarah Lathan @lathan_miss]

@TTRadioOfficial I am not sure some people in this debate understand inclusion at all. The ‘othering’ happening is the exact opposite of what inclusion is about. I recommend reading some of the work of @MelAinscow as a starting point

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

British right: “colonialism is good for the colonised”

Also British right: “oh no we are being colonised! This is so bad!”

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“Yes, Sir Jim, you saying our country has been colonised by immigrants was offensive…and I say that as the son of mixed race South African parents who came to this country in the early 1950s.”

@JPonPolitics isn’t buying Jim Ratcliffe’s apology.