Ian Scott

Father of three, husband of one, triathlete, geek

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@PeterSweden7 The bill to specifically outlaw conversion therapy was in the labour
Manifesto, so has been voted in by the majority of the country. This is to avoid “abusive acts which seriously harm the victim” ! https://t.co/YxEOvLtEdv

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@Notwokenow You misspelt Navajo

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@FlamenDia1is @Polymarket You’re right. It should only be in Navajo and Cherokee

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@Halfironmum1 is this you ?

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@saras76 Have you just posted a video of a child being injured and possibly killed with a sarcastic comment? That is cold, even for a petrolhead!

[Dave Walker @davewalker]

My diagram, ‘Possible causes of your problems’. Reposting, a year and a bit on, as it still seems relevant.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Stupid tweet. Relying on a stupid, misleading graphic.

Resulting in a stupid and unhelpful cesspit of anti-immigrant hatred in replies.

Before addressing the figures in England, France, Germany, I'd like to share some recent case law from Poland.

CW: Rape, distressing facts.

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@SouthTyrolCrime @jk_rowling I wasn’t aware that only non historically relevant people were allowed Wikipedia entries

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@bryan_mylod @SaferRoadsYorks I usually slow right down, say hello to ensure the horse and rider know I’m coming , and then pass very slowly.
Obviously if I were riding with someone else we’d go single file. I’d hazard a guess that more horses are close passed by cars than bicycles

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@BrianSc40942702 @elonmusk Read @FryRsquared’s book! There are numbers on this

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@umbridgefranz @jk_rowling So … doesn’t this prove that the difference between a man and a woman is perhaps more than genetalia/chronosomes. The fact that you can write communicate and think like a particular sex surely is evidence that there is a component that is separate to “biology”

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@disismorgana64 @Autistic_Lauren That doesn’t mean they can’t answer. There are plenty of ways of talking to people when they are non verbal

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@GeneralJoeM17 Presumably the same additive that increased left handedness a few decades earlier ?

[Georgia Meadows @MsGrgaMeadows]

@LGBTLabour & @UKLabour's record this year:

1. Removal of essential healthcare for trans youth.

2. The removal of 20 years of trans rights and undermining of trans people's identities.

3. The reintroduction of Section 28. This time for Trans People.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

These changes may make a very bad Bill less awful.

But the vast majority of cuts remain and it still forces hundreds of thousands into poverty. Nowhere near good enough.

I'll vote against the Bill. The Government shouldn't be balancing the books on the backs of disabled people.

[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@irenekeller @MrGeorgeWallace Or They Definitely Aren’t Giants

[Vivian @MxVivianWulf]

Actually Ms Rowling BIOLOGISTS DO NOT BELIEVE SEX IS BINARY!

In fact hundreds of them signed a letter (linked below) condemning the UK SC decision on the basis that biology is neither binary nor immutable.

You are wrong. You've always been wrong.

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[Ian Scott @mriscott]

@RupertLowe10 Apparently about 2 million people in Wales speak little or no welsh too. Shocking! We should send the English back where they came from

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

‘School hasn’t changed! Why are so many more young people unable to attend? Don’t they just have to learn to put up with it?’

I’m often asked all of these questions. So here’s a quick answer.

School has changed since most of us over the age of 30 were there. Starting in 2010 with Michael Gove, there was a deliberate shift in schools to a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’.

This meant, more focus on learning information and facts. Less focus on play, creativity, problem solving and social and emotional skills. There was a philosophy which ignored child development and instead focusing on how to get more information into children and more test results out. More standardised tests have been introduced starting in primary school. Phonics Screening, Multiplication Tables, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar ‘checks’ AKA tests.

Secondary schools have become more controlling. I hear regularly of schools where children walk along lines painted on the corridors in silence. I hear of frequent use of detention and isolation. Parents tell me quietly and say that they can’t complain openly because their children don’t want them to make a fuss. There’s a lot of focus on exam results, and education has become about retaining information.

All of this has a huge impact on children’s day-to-day experience.

More pressure has been introduced throughout the system. There are fewer options for those who don’t enjoy academics. Teachers are stressed, parents are stressed and it all results in stressed children. When they start to say they can’t go to school, the answer is more pressure. When parents complain they’re called vexatious. The answer is fines and threats. No one is listening.

So, no, I don’t think this is the ‘real world’ and they ‘just have to learn’.

I do think that something has changed. Schools have become less child-friendly, and the children are telling us so.