Jane White

Scottish teacher of English; whole school literacy advocate; enthusiastic participant at a fabulously average level in several sports. Glass half full 👍🏻

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

The EU has invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal — and today I am shaken and deeply disturbed by this.

This is the same Taliban that banned girls from secondary schools and forced them into marriage. The same Taliban that, earlier this month, arrested dozens of women in Herat for how they were dressed. The same Taliban that detains, beats and executes women who dare to speak out or break their rules.

Through its system of gender apartheid, the Taliban have erased women and girls from public life. Europe must not legitimise a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world.

Any engagement with the Taliban must begin and end with the rights of Afghan women and girls.

[Jane White @JeannieOLOC]

https://t.co/86WhAuYBkS

Appalling. Products nothing like those advertised. Cheap, inferior rubbish. They say they are London based BUT returns are to an ‘outside EU’ unspecified address. They offer only part-refund 20% & you ‘get to keep’ the fake rubbish. Don’t go near.

[Jane White @JeannieOLOC]

@FitbitSupport I moved my Inspire HR to Google last week. Since then, I’ve had no synced data. When I unsync from Google, Fitbit is now not recognising my account, which I’ve had since 2016. Rubbish. Please advise how to get my account back!

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

I’m hearing more and more examples of school micro-control of teenagers. Behaviour points for the wrong earrings or socks, for not being immediately ‘on-task’ or for losing your pen. Schools say that if they control the small stuff, the big stuff will follow. They are wrong. 1/

[☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) @riotgrandma72]

‘Nanny state’? In the ‘50s the govt believed all kids should grow up healthily. Thus we were given orange juice, free milk, vitamins & cod liver oil.
We had school doctors, nurses and we got free NHS dentistry.

Today kids have rotten teeth, rickets , and are fed via foodbanks.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Boris Johnson's £265,000 Partygate legal fees were funded by the taxpayer but neither the Hillsborough families nor the subpostmasters got legal aid. I do have that right, don't I?

[Jane White @JeannieOLOC]

@LNER Thank you for the information.

[Jane White @JeannieOLOC]

@LNER Thank you. So I didn’t need to pay extra, just book seats? Can I claim the £63 back?

[Jane White @JeannieOLOC]

@Outtheboxme @JodieSmitten Sounds really informative - just bought & my copy arrives on Saturday 🥳

[4th July - Tory wipe Out @snb19692]

Read the Placard…. so true!

[Nathan Oswin @nathan_oswin]

Here's a running thread of all the things the current Prime Minister cannot recall whilst under oath at the Covid Inquiry.

Some more understandable than others I'd humbly suggest.

🧵

[Nathan Oswin @nathan_oswin]

And that's your lot - 29 things the Prime Minister couldn't recollect whilst under oath at the Covid Inquiry.

Some quipped they were surprised he could recollect what door to use when he got in the car at the end when leaving.

✂️

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Any time we set ‘more demanding standards’ for five-year-olds, we are going to create pressure and some of those children (and their parents) will start their school career being told they are failures. Our children need time to grow and play. That should be the standard.

[Being Scottish @BeingScots]

On this day in 1781, David Brewster, Scottish inventor of the kaleidoscope, was born in Jedburgh

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

Here's a small tribute to Benjamin in the spirit of his own poetry. Please think it or say it in his voice so that he can live through you.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

George Monbiot absolutely shredding this govt and their sadistic, pure distraction, Rwanda policy.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

NOBODY
GIVES
TWO
SHITS
ABOUT
THE
FUCKING
B O A T S

People want to be able to pay the fucking RENT, and weirdly they’re not buying into the idea that the reason they’re working two jobs and still falling into debt is all the fault of a dozen Albanians in a leaky dinghy.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Cabinet re-shuffle: panicking Rishi Sunak fires himself - appoints Liz Truss as new PM

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

David Cameron has been appointed foreign secretary.