This one does remind me of working c. 2022 in a unit for people living with dementia where the typical communal soundtrack to the day was Doris Day and Judy Garland etc, but chatting to a resident who really liked Suede.
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Paul Cotterill
Профиль VivelyNurse by training. Vagabond by nature. Imposter by syndrome. A Habermas-influenced English pluralist, if that's a thing. An organiser of things, which are definitely things. He/him/ally
1/ First draft submitted for the trailblazer council and I'm quite pleased with it, though word limit (which seems to differ from council to council) is a challenge.
Paul CotterillThe battle now goes local, The first Sustainable Communities Act 2007 applications will come forward in September, seeking local powers of interpretation, and many more will follow before Christmas. Perhaps your council area/s might follow siuit.
Does anybody in the world read a book with one hand and fingers splayed like that, the pages flopping about and a piece of paper stuck twenty pages on? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What your summer reading list says about youJust picked your holiday book? Our choices can subconsciously reveal important parts of our personality, studies show.www.bbc.co.ukMaybe a bit puritanical on my part, but I'd have liked a hit piece about Reform disrespecting the rights of people living with dementia not to use a headline including a dated term which disrespects the identity of people living with dementia. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football | John CraceHonest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?www.theguardian.comHave to say that Burnham undercutting Mahmoud on careworker ILR 'crackdown', via social care review announcement and getting Rayner to do it, thereby making the rest of the Mahmould plan potentially undeliverable, looks like pretty canny politics at this stage. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Rayner tells Burnham: Spare foreign carers from migrant crackdownAndy Burnham must exempt care workers from stricter visa rules as part of his overhaul of social care, Angela Rayner has said.www.yahoo.comBroadly related to this matter, am I right in thinking that crisps are nowadays crunchier and therefore noisier than when they were first eaten on buses by gits?
Jonn ElledgeI maintain that if Burnham made it legal to confiscate phones from people who watch video or listen to music without headphones, then called a snap election, he could actually increase his majority.
Most people will be ahead of me on this but the comments below on how this could derail the schools guidance on how to spread hate to trans children are very interesting, and I'll look to include in the SCA stuff still under devt. Thanks to those who spotted for spotting.
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕Lecturer loses appeal after calling trans student a ‘troublesome trans kid’ and using homophobic slur An Employment Appeal Tribunal has now upheld an earlier ruling that found his dismissal was fair, rejecting arguments that his rights to freedom of expression and academic freedom had been breached
I'll maybe engage with this as a careworker, 'cos I've a lot to say, but I'll first need assurance that my response will not be analyzied by AI, as was my response to the EHRC draft Code of Conduct post -FWS. Will write to MP.
Nursing TimesPublic consultation launched on future of social care in England A major consultation exercise designed to engage with the population of England on the future shape of social care, including nursing in the sector, has been launched today. #socialcare #policy www.nursingtimes.net/social-care/...
Breaking new: the apparent error has survived until the ? most recent edition on sale inBirmingham Waterstones, as evidenced by the picture of the text and my v helpful daughter's dinner break feet. Still not sure how any editions that is from 1980, but it's quite a few. This scandal is big.
Breaking new: the apparent error has survived until the ? most recent edition on sale inBirmingham Waterstones, as evidenced by the picture of the text and my v helpful daughter's dinner break feet. Still not sure how any editions that is from 1980, but it's quite a few. This scandal is big.
Paul CotterillReading 1980s Penguin Classics edition of Zola's La Terre in translation. You'd have thought that in its 6th reprint in decade they'd have sorted this typo (it's 'le premier' in French edition - checked because Delhomme is actually a farmer), but no.. Might nip into Waterstones and check latest
Panic over, people of the cities. My daughter lives in a city and is rushing to a large bookshop or library to undertake this vital work. The rest of you have let me down, mind.
Paul CotterillIt's not in my closest one, which is tiny. People of the cities. Your job today is to go into a big bookshop, go to the Penguin Classics edition of Zola's The Earth, check page 51 to see if this typo remains, the date of this edition and how many editions there have been since 1980. Vital work.
It's not in my closest one, which is tiny. People of the cities. Your job today is to go into a big bookshop, go to the Penguin Classics edition of Zola's The Earth, check page 51 to see if this typo remains, the date of this edition and how many editions there have been since 1980. Vital work.
Paul CotterillReading 1980s Penguin Classics edition of Zola's La Terre in translation. You'd have thought that in its 6th reprint in decade they'd have sorted this typo (it's 'le premier' in French edition - checked because Delhomme is actually a farmer), but no.. Might nip into Waterstones and check latest
There probably need to be a term to define what happens when once ok slightly fun and decently talented people get fashrot 'cos they don't meet anyone sensible anymore: Linemorrisrowcleese or something. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful... cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_
cdn.bsky.appSnigdhaJohn Cleese seems to think Muslims try to convert everyone to Islam on pain of death. I have Muslim neighbours and colleagues, none even suggested I convert, let alone threaten me with beheading. Also aren't the Christian faiths ones, like Islam, where converting others is encouraged?
What this short thread doesn't cover is the double bind constructed for parkrun etc: if they argue they're not 'competitive' & so not subject to s195, then they become subject to wider 'must exclude trans people" provisions, but if they accept sport body status then they must discriminate under s195
Jess O'ThomsonA short thread explaining trans exclusion in the law, and the Code of Practice, in response to a load of questions 🧵 Obviously this is necessarily simplified. I cannot write a legal textbook on Bluesky.
Surprised this little incident hasn't been raised more in conext of Polanski daftness, but I suppose memories are short www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Evans is a twat of highest order, but I wouldn't want him charged over this. Well, unless Polanski is.....
Reform UK councillor shared Facebook post saying Labour MP ‘should be shot’Natalie Fleet MP says politicians should not expect ‘death threats as standard’, as Lancashire councillor apologiseswww.theguardian.com