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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 14m

"Just one idea...???"
I've stumbled across a seam of online videos about the neurodiversity traits of Zoey in KPop Demon Hunters. So many things where *I feel spotted*. Esp infodumping.

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 21m

Two predictions for week ahead.

The scale of challenge compels us not to pull our punches when parliament returns, even in our own party, in pursuit of social justice.

The John Lewis advert will be revealed a plinky plonky piano version of Golden from kpop demon hunters. 🤷‍♀️

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Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social · 44m

Youth are unhappy, must be the screens cannot be that we cut away all their activities www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 33m

They are also not happy with the curriculum in England esp on citizenship, politics, and democracy. cambridgetownowl.com/2024/10/21/c... Here's what some of them told a conference in Cambridge a year ago. Still awaiting news of the curriculum review & its recommendations.

Cambs Youth Panelists read the riot act to adults over education policy failures

All the more important given the consultation on the review of the curriculum and exams systems – adults, you need to read this. (And feel free to discuss it with any children and young peopl…

cambridgetownowl.com

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 47m

And *lots* of written statements and answers should also be forthcoming in the next 24 hours questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat... <<-- If you don't want the media to pick up on stuff that you're required to publish, publish it here. 🙃

Find written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

questions-statements.parliament.uk

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 49m

Parliament returns tomorrow afternoon - here's a list of PQs that MPs have tabled for ministers on all things housing & #Localgov. whatson.parliament.uk/event/cal52644 What do you think of the quality of the Qs and range of issues? 👀

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h

This is a truly remarkable programme from the BBC archives.

A 1971 interview/interrogation of Albert Speer the leading Nazi who apologised and as a result survived - by Michael Charlton, Hugh Trevor-Roper and George Ball whom he had last met at the Nuremberg trials.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Albert Speer, The Unseen Interrogation

Hitler's architect Albert Speer is cross-examined in an interview conducted in 1971.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 1h

(The castle icon is the logo of the old Cambridgeshire County High School for Boys where her father Brinley Newton-John was headteacher 1945-53). lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/b...

Brinley Newton-John, Headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys – today Hills Road Sixth Form College

From Olivia Newton-John Homecoming BBC

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 1h

NEW BLOGPOST: The Lotte Meitner-Graf photo archive & a set of photographs of Olivia Newton-John and family when they lived in #Cambridge, 1949. lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/b... There's a wonderful portrait of her elder sister Rona, who experienced many traumas throughout life.

Brinley Newton-John and family in London – 1949

The Lotte Meitner-Graf photo archive uploaded these photographs onto their social media pages Brinley Newton-John with son Hugh Olivia Newton-John as a baby Olivia Newton-John with mother Irene Oli…

lostcambridge.wordpress.com

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 1h

"The party needs to tell of successes that connect with each other, and which are all seen to flow from the effective implementation of a clear plan for Britain." Given time lags, wouldn't reversing #Localgov austerity have had a quicker impact at community level?

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 2h

“Ministers keep telling us what they have done, but voters aren’t hearing them. If the government has a communications strategy, it isn’t working,” writes @peterkellner.bsky.social.

Voters are not listening to Labour

New data shows how little the Starmer government’s messaging resonates

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 2h

"‘Where did the 4 Cornerstones of Youth Work come from’?" www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/the... On the Albermarle Report.

The Albemarle Report, 1960

Celebrating 60 years since the Albemarle report was published, Adam Muirhead shares his full transcription and a reflection on this 'labour of love'.

www.youthandpolicy.org

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 2h

*What’s a youth club?*
cambridgetownowl.com/2025/05/17/w...
From earlier this year in #Cambridge - if closed youth clubs stay closed for years, the collective memory of what they were risks vanishing.

*What’s a youth club?*

I’m still reeling from what one youngster asked me and a fellow volunteer of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum at today’s Queen Edith Summer Fete when we asked him about current a…

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 2h

"During the first 10 years of the spending cuts that began in 2010, councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%." 😱 #Localgov

Rachel Wearmouth @rewearmouth.bsky.social · 4h

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

(Gloomy headline for what is a very interesting piece)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Gary @huitcent.bsky.social · 3h

This ☝️approach would have loads of ammo, I searched in you tube for the question time clips and suddenly I am getting the Reform chaps feed thrown into my feed and he thinks he won the argument !Unfortunately so do many of those commentating on his clip🤷‍♂️

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Phil Rodgers @philrodgers.co.uk · 3h

Facebook post from former Romsey city councillor Mairéad Healy saying that a letter has been delivered to homes in Cambridge using her name fraudulently and without her consent. www.facebook.com/mairead.mary...

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 22h

Couldn’t resist this one!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 9h

There are some carbon credit schemes for retrofit in the UK but they are voluntary and not very significant in the context of the cost of retrofit. Here's an example: hact.org.uk/retrofit-cre... More work needed!

Retrofit Credits - HACT

Unlock additional funding for your retrofit works with Verified Carbon Standard and social value measured award winning Carbon Credits.

hact.org.uk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11h

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

Phasing out gas in European social housing - what the UK can learn

www.sureserve.co.uk

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 1d

"Here, we introduce the NeuroDesign/NeuroArchitecture Index (NDIX), a theoretically grounded framework for evaluating how the built environment impacts mental health" ***Wow!*** osf.io/preprints/ps... On measuring how ugly hostile buildings make us feel miserable.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 10h

This is a question I keep asking. There is a disconnect between economic and management academic studies.
Economists are now at panic levels over productivity but it’s not something you hear discussed in businesses. A lot of organisations don’t even measure it according to its economic definition.

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 3d

Given the productivity puzzle has now been a thing for decades, is anyone doing deep empirical work on it - e.g. ID'ing cohorts of high/low productivity firms in the UK and then digging into differences and drivers in their operations, ways of working, strategies etc. via proper observation?

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 11h

Olivia is only a baby in this set of family photos taken in a London studio during the years they lived in Cambridge.

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 17h

NEW BLOGPOST: "Brinley Newton-John and family photographed in London – 1949" lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/b...
Pictured: Cambridgeshire High School for Boys headmaster Brinley Newton-John with son Hugh, in the Lotte Meitner-Graf Archive. There's an incredible yet tragic photo of Rona too.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Having illustrated the problem of X ignoring its legal duties, I want to build an effective coalition for intervention. If you are or know people on X receiving racist abuse, rape threats, I would welcome receipts of one rejected attempt to report to the platform an indefensible case

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for this kind note. I hope to do something useful with this by Nov/Dec (new Ofcom powers, new EHRC chair). I'd like more women + ethnic minorities to go through (futile) process of reporting shocking stuff (eg rape threats, p-word, n-word) & share receipts with me of one egregious example

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 16h

"Just one idea...?"
***Actually...***
(I can relate to the latter)