Miranda Green
@greenmiranda
Journalist (Social commentator of 2018). FT (mainly education, politics). #bbctw sofa veteran. Recovering from breast cancer treatment: check your boobs!
Ok I have caved in and migrated you can find me at greenmirandahere.bsky.social ... checking in here for a while too for the sake of all the great friends and sparring partners I've made down these crazy years. Sniff.
The life of an MP
Where better to cool off than the stocks at Langford Summer Fete? 😅 Well done to everyone involved in organising a great event, special shout outs to Langford Cricket Club for a cracking BBQ and Langford Scouts for helping me cool down 🧽
The change means housing developers will now have to explicitly set out environmental protections before a development starts being built. Hinchliff says he 'warmly welcomes' the changes and will now vote for the bill 2/3
This was great ... if you are going to the Edinburgh festival do see Steve's show. It's a tour de force!
Here is @steverichards14 in full flow at Rock n Roll Politics live in glam Kings X toniight. A great show!
🚨 Scarlett is the 14-year-old child who was strip-searched by police officers in The Baird Inquiry. She had been missing due to Muslim grooming gangs and had been raped and tortured, then the police found her and stripped her looking for an e-cig, which she didn't have.…
Criminal conviction handed to woman who was “unlawfully” strip searched and “unlawfully” arrested. A year on from Baird Inquiry and Sky News investigation by @Sarahcoconnell @LizLaneSky - women say they are still being let down by police. news.sky.com/story/woman-ha…
Here is @steverichards14 in full flow at Rock n Roll Politics live in glam Kings X toniight. A great show!
Another development today in the UK Govt's efforts to pressure pension funds to support the UK economy. They have set the UK pensions regulator a new performance indicator around how well it supports UK growth. This is problematic for savers for several reasons. 1/
More fun dystopia from @johnthornhillft
Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots on.ft.com/44AuEYp
Agree with these wise words
“It’s Reform who will be punching the air…It’s anyone but the Labour Party.” The How to Win team react to the government’s plans to lower the voting age to 16. @Dannythefink @pollymackenzie @patrickkmaguire 🗳️ How To Win An Election 🎧 pod.fo/e/2fda1e
After 3 years the lime twister deigns to flower ... verrrryyy slooowlly ... what am I doing wrong? Thought it wld be a clump by now.
"It's not too late even at this late stage for us to get back on the path that I wanted us to be on of working together." @WesStreeting makes clear why the BMA's resident doctors committee must change their approach 👇
"“I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.” Obama weighs in on the Abundance wars
Just to be clear this is about that INCREDIBLE WIN #Wimbledon
Absolutely psyched for redheads everywhere
A child has died after contracting measles amid public health warnings about the dangers of declining MMR vaccination rates thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
Lots of lovely ladybirds for the firat time. Is it the heat?
I wouldn’t have become a teacher if it weren’t for Teach First. I didn’t stay forever but I stayed much longer than I initially had planned. I’m sure there are lots of ways TF can improve but this decision is short sighted.
Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my piece for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/politics/…
Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my piece for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/politics/…