Parents should have the right to take their children out of school during term-time for a limited number of days.
Childhood is short. Parents should not need permission from the state to raise their own children.
My contribution in Parliament today...
Neil Oliver on the UK government's imminent attempt to impose mandatory digital ID:
"There's going to be mass refusal, mass non-compliance... It's going to be a disaster for them, and will probably... be what brings them down."
"Anybody that accepts a digital ID is slapping handcuffs around their own wrists."
"It's the end of freedom. It's the end of choice. It's the worst possible decision that any... freedom loving person could possibly make."
"I was pessimistic about it for a while—I'm not anymore. We've got them on this. We have them surrounded. Their arguments don't stack up. None of the reasons that they've put forward for doing this make any kind of sense."
"The very idea that this is going to tackle the people arriving by boats... is absolute nonsense. It was never supposed to do that."
"The desire to bring forward the digital ID was there years ago. And it was understood... that the British people would not accept it. So problems had to be fomented to make people desperate to accept this as a solution."
"Hence the opening up of the borders, and the mass immigration onto these shores."
"The hope has been that people would accept the digital ID as this solution to the problem. But it's entirely bogus."
"All people have to do is not comply and this thing falls flat on its face. And I am convinced that that is what's going to happen."
Credit: @thecoastguy@beverleyturner
Explainer video on science of why the 400m sprint is considered the most painful track & field event.
And why “no person on the planet can run the 400m all out from start to finish".
The race pushes the way the body creates energy to the limit:
▫️0-50 meters: ATP-CP (energy system for very short and explosive movements; used up after 5-10 seconds)
▫️50-200 meters: Anaerobic glycolysis (burns glucose without oxygen, leading to lactic acid buildup and muscle fatigue)
▫️200-300 meters: Aerobic energy (uses oxygen to break down glucose, but cannot keep up with the demand)
▫️300-400 meters: Anaerobic energy reserves tapped while aerobic energy is too slow to fill the gaps (lactic acid buildup is going HAM)
Track athletes can pace for longer distances and shorter ones are just over quicker (obvs).
The Olympic record is a blazing 43:03, set by South African runner Wayde van Niekerk in 2016 (and 2024 Final race is tomorrow).
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Full video from Outperform: https://t.co/MHSvRY6xWr
Gary Ruddy won the award for Best Volunteer in Youth Football at the 2023 Grassroots Awards, presented by McDonald’s and the Sunday Mail.
Gary has been described as the heart and soul of Whitacre’s Community Academy.
🤸♀️Parkour is the current sport on our athletic development curriculum. Here is our Parkour-Tag arena!
🥇Win by either surviving or catching your opponent.
🎪 We played 1v1s 1v2 etc until everyone was in and it was complete chaos.
🏃Lots of assessing the opponents movements
This is the best life advice you’ll ever hear👇
🗣”Failure, it will happen. Disappointment, it will happen. It’s part of your life and you can’t let it go without confronting it. Confront failure because this is how you find yourself. This is where you understand who you are.”
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