"Domestic abuse was frequently not recognised as an ‘active issue’ or taken seriously with regards to the type of contact children would go on to have with the abusive parent."

domesticabusecommissioner.uk/majority-of-...

I took an IELTS test decades ago and got a top score but my kids’ GCSE English certainly seemed harder to me.

Also saying that -at least some- migrants will have a much better level of English than the majority of British-born speakers is not the racist-pacifying message they think it is!

Thank you

So delighted to be leading the Healthy Communities and Prevention Theme in our new ARC.

The mission is vital and the team is amazing. Let’s do it!

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Yup

Absolutely ridiculous and grossly discriminatory if you don’t make A-level English compulsory for all of the population!
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The causes can be preventable but only with the genuine involvement of young people in designing the right 'why' and 'how' questions and coming up with the solutions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

*ruminating

Just giving my rational mind a solid deadline helps me to properly put the issue aside & stop rumenating over it. When the deadline comes, I have options. I can move it further or I may feel calmer about tackling the issue while giving myself future deadlines about the other stuff. So one at a time.

One of my top coping mechanisms with the anxiety of overthinking is simply saying to myself "I don't need to think about this right now, I'll think about this tomorrow..or on Friday.. or next week" etc. It's no rocket science but works better (for me) than all strategies in all the self-help books!

Even if we feel helpless against the evil we see in this world, we must object to it while we can. Even if we think this is not our responsibility to the people inflicted by it, it’s our responsibility to our own humanity. Even if we feel it won’t change a thing, it’s enough that it will change us.

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“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

Aldous Huxley

Pleased @trusselluk.bsky.social is joining our friends across so many housing and poverty orgs to call on UK government to unfreeze local housing allowance. When it was last frozen we saw how it drove up homelessness, hunger and hardship. UK gov must not repeat such a negative spiral.

Do you know who makes a dictatorship? It’s not the racists. It’s not the criminals. It’s not even the idiots.

It’s the sycophants.

It was glorious ☀️

Reading Miriam Margolyes’s book “Oh Miriam” and struck by how much I identify with her analysis of her maternal & paternal grandmothers. I mean I couldn’t have had a more different background than her yet her writing is somehow so personal to me. She is a true national treasure. I love her!

Today in London I was impressed by the diversity I saw at the Palestine solidarity march. People from all over with different backgrounds, ethnicities & ages. All united by their refusal to silence their humanity in the face of injustice.
A powerful display of hope.
This is the real England 🤍

Just respecting Zack more as his repeated responses about collaboration and openness have been superb.

The competition vibes are extremely off-putting and frankly immature at the current times.

Had to look that up :)

Do you know who makes a dictatorship? It’s not the racists. It’s not the criminals. It’s not even the idiots.

It’s the sycophants.

In every possible way Labour's changes to immigration rules are profoundly stupid and damaging.
Not only will they ruin lives of migrants, they will cripple the economy, cost jobs, undermine crucial infrastructure etc etc. Everyone suffers with anti-immigration policies.
www.bbc.com/news/article...