Jan O’Neill
@jandel.bsky.social
Retired educational psychologist
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Personally I think that a great starting point for discussions on 'what do we do about SEND in education?' is to go back to the Salamanca Statement and remember what 'inclusion' originally meant. The way that the system itself works has become the cause of exclusion for many CYP imho.
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Personally I think that a great starting point for discussions on 'what do we do about SEND in education?' is to go back to the Salamanca Statement and remember what 'inclusion' originally meant. The way that the system itself works has become the cause of exclusion for many CYP imho.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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Almost no one is affected.
As Dan Neidle says, "There will be inefficiencies and unfairnesses, as with all taxes, but the basic concept is right: ending the anomaly that someone in a £10m home pays the same council tax as someone in a £1m home – and only twice that of someone in a £400k home."
As Dan Neidle says, "There will be inefficiencies and unfairnesses, as with all taxes, but the basic concept is right: ending the anomaly that someone in a £10m home pays the same council tax as someone in a £1m home – and only twice that of someone in a £400k home."
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Almost no one is affected.
As Dan Neidle says, "There will be inefficiencies and unfairnesses, as with all taxes, but the basic concept is right: ending the anomaly that someone in a £10m home pays the same council tax as someone in a £1m home – and only twice that of someone in a £400k home."
As Dan Neidle says, "There will be inefficiencies and unfairnesses, as with all taxes, but the basic concept is right: ending the anomaly that someone in a £10m home pays the same council tax as someone in a £1m home – and only twice that of someone in a £400k home."
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil | Philosophy Break
For 20th-century German philosopher Hannah Arendt, most evil is committed by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
philosophybreak.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
— Hannah Arendt
philosophybreak.com/articles/han...
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Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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I don’t think this Telegraph contributor has actually watched the Empire series by @davidolusoga.bsky.social that he’s attacking. He suggests Olusoga focuses only on atrocities such as Amritsar, when that massacre wasn’t mentioned, and gets the date range wrong, saying it ends with WWI.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I don’t think this Telegraph contributor has actually watched the Empire series by @davidolusoga.bsky.social that he’s attacking. He suggests Olusoga focuses only on atrocities such as Amritsar, when that massacre wasn’t mentioned, and gets the date range wrong, saying it ends with WWI.
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If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works - and how we solved the privacy and efficiency challenges, to make national GP data securely accessible - here's a 5 minute video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
OpenSAFELY in a nutshell
YouTube video by Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works - and how we solved the privacy and efficiency challenges, to make national GP data securely accessible - here's a 5 minute video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Independent SAGE is mentioned in the report of module 2 of the UK Covid Inquiry.
"Much comment and expertise existed in the public domain, with
Independent SAGE (see below) being one of the most visible commentators."
1/4
"Much comment and expertise existed in the public domain, with
Independent SAGE (see below) being one of the most visible commentators."
1/4
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Independent SAGE is mentioned in the report of module 2 of the UK Covid Inquiry.
"Much comment and expertise existed in the public domain, with
Independent SAGE (see below) being one of the most visible commentators."
1/4
"Much comment and expertise existed in the public domain, with
Independent SAGE (see below) being one of the most visible commentators."
1/4
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
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@anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by Anna Funder, author of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, to discuss the women who are missing from Orwell’s biography despite being crucial to his development as a writer.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
@anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by Anna Funder, author of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, to discuss the women who are missing from Orwell’s biography despite being crucial to his development as a writer.
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
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'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
observer.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
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A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A reminder.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas.
Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas.
Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas.
Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
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THIS⬇️
Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama | Andy McDonald
Teesworks scandal: a dark tale of public wealth lost and private gain
Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama
northeastbylines.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
THIS⬇️
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It was a call I couldn't ignore.
I was formally invited by the Danish EU Presidency to Luxembourg to speak about industrial electrification and energy efficiency directly to the energy ministers from every single one of the 27 EU member states on the 20th of October.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO30...
I was formally invited by the Danish EU Presidency to Luxembourg to speak about industrial electrification and energy efficiency directly to the energy ministers from every single one of the 27 EU member states on the 20th of October.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO30...
Speaking at EU Energy Council
YouTube video by Jan Rosenow
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It was a call I couldn't ignore.
I was formally invited by the Danish EU Presidency to Luxembourg to speak about industrial electrification and energy efficiency directly to the energy ministers from every single one of the 27 EU member states on the 20th of October.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO30...
I was formally invited by the Danish EU Presidency to Luxembourg to speak about industrial electrification and energy efficiency directly to the energy ministers from every single one of the 27 EU member states on the 20th of October.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO30...
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In Search of Vygotsky: How the Zone of Proximal Development Became Education's Most Misunderstood Idea.
👉 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-search-...
👉 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-search-...
In Search of Vygotsky
How the Zone of Proximal Development Became Education's Most Misunderstood Idea
carlhendrick.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In Search of Vygotsky: How the Zone of Proximal Development Became Education's Most Misunderstood Idea.
👉 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-search-...
👉 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/in-search-...
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🚨🚨 💯 this. Striking and incomprehensible that this is so widely underreported. EU political leaders must rein in #Orban on this. 👇👇
Not that anyone seems to care, but just a quick reminder that Hungary is still a member state of the ICC and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin still under indictment by the Court and Hungary still under an obligation to arrest him.
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨🚨 💯 this. Striking and incomprehensible that this is so widely underreported. EU political leaders must rein in #Orban on this. 👇👇
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This for every city!
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This for every city!