A brief reminder for anyone catching up with this morning's edition of #BBCLauraK, which features Ms Kuenssberg's interview with Keir Starmer ten weeks into the new Labour government's tenure ๐
"Pensioner sued for not paying water bills to polluting firm in sea sewage protest
Chris Stanley, 81, is refusing to pay Southern Water after the company was fined a record ยฃ90m for dumping sewage."
And there it is. The paradox, the insanity and obscenity of the sewage scandal. Water company fat cat bosses can dump billions of litres of sewage for millions of hours into the environment with impunity while a pensioner refuses to pay part of his bill and... #FloodTheStreets
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Tickets for my session at the Cheltenham Literature Festival have gone on general sale. October 7th. Come and discuss what pictures like this were really all about!
Booking link in next post. ๐
This is something that I strongly believe...and not just believe but also have witnessed myself in student writing in my own classes, seen evidence of in writing generated by other teachers & in research about writing.
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LISTEN: As MPs return from summer recess, Politics Weekly Westminster is back! Join me and @kiranstacey as we chew over Labour doom & gloom and the Tory leadership race ๐๐ผ
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The barely concealed subtext of the regular attacks on Angela Rayner from the Mail and prominent Tories all boil down to โHow dare you be a working class woman in public lifeโ.
@amanda_spielman The shame of the inquest into Ruth Perry's tragic death is a permanent indictment of the failure of @Ofstednews. The failure to show understanding, remorse and compassion will be remembered in the profession for a long time.