80-90% of 4-5 year olds arrive to primary school in pushchairs? #edutwitter
Early Years wasn't included in Jan 2021 lockdown, it's been two years since they went back to normal (besides large absences of staff and children due to sickness)
Case study 1
Case study 2
Case 3 Teacher
"I've been off with covid twice, they've had zero stability"
Oh, so early years has been trying to operate normally for around 2 years pretending there isn't a pandemic but staff getting sick harms children
Who could have imagined that might be the case?
Lockdown made kids act autistic
Genes and parents make a difference but masks are the real culprit, non reactive babies
A rich vs poor comparison
Moved on off the beach by police, that would have only happened summer 2020
Feels like many of these are old quotes used a year or more ago
Ah its the schools fault for focusing too much on wellbeing?
Ah "months since the last lockdown"?
I recognise most of these first hand accounts used by UsforThem in articles last year
So just recycling old stuff or cut and paste from Molly Kingsley book?
It's not ghost children, it's children with 10% or more absence
DfE data provided to JCVI says main cause of absence is sickness from covid
Who'd have thought letting a pandemic virus rip through schools would result in more absence?
Ah shit, imagine if your child was autistic but they missed out on an EHCP and the support they needed because it was chalked up as "lockdown harms"
Still claiming to being silenced and facing censorship, whilst Chair of Education Select Committee, Children's Commissioner, Covid Recovery APPG, CRG have all been promoting Us For Them
Look how she's been silenced in the past few days
Interview with Spiked Online
Interview with Allison Pearson from Telegraph who Kingsley herself writes for
Interview on TalkRadio with JHB
Just wall to wall coverage of ppl against infecting kids and children with longcovid
There's also an IFS report doing the rounds @FraserNelson ignores the "all" downward trajectory pre pandemic
Communication largest drop on IFS graph, look at the long covid study, verbal memory had greatest impact...
2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used
2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of
JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
3/ Vance has been leading the US attacks on free speech in the UK
The FSU has been busy backing anti-abortion and anti-trans legal cases, working alongside Christian Concern and US ADF, an important NatCon group
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out
Deeply irresponsible
The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
@Tony_Diver 3/ Describing Malhotra as "serious public prominence" and promoting his antivax papers without pointing out that he set up the journal it's printed in, is frankly dishonest journalism
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie
The Conservatives added this to Prevent in 2023
2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training
@BylineTimes 3/ While they misrepresent Conservative policy to attack Labour complaining that cultural Nationalism was too broad a term, they didn't have a problem that socialism was also added to Prevent at the same time bylinetimes.com/2023/10/19/ter…
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government
2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener
3/ Worth noting the case centred around a petition from CitizenGo, an organisation identified as being part of a US/Russian network designed to undermine sexuality and reproductive rights
While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny
2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example