I did this! With the RLPO and Clark Rundell 😁 open.spotify.com/album/5jVtb…

Kid sent me a pic of this giant “Circle of Fifths” cookie a classmate baked for the last day of class and said “I had the 4 flats.”

The full report is available at freedominthearts.com

At the #GaryCon artist's booth I learned that Larry Elmore was willing to do the covers of the new Dragonlance trilogy but was told that they wanted a digital artist because digital art has more "pop." So instead of a cover like the one on the left we got the one on the right.

'Private schools VAT hike costing taxpayers more' bbc.in/4iW3YFL

Lord Lexden in the House of Lords: “How should the sudden imposition of an unprecedented education tax on 1 January, after a rushed consultation last summer when schools were on holiday, be described? Just one word does it: cruel.”

people are very, very strange they are constantly angered by trivial things but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice

For no other reason than it's hilarious, here is Keir Starmer being thrown out of a pub in Bath by the Landlord again..🤣

thetimes.com/uk/education/ar… Do you remember the bit where @bphillipson said there would be enough places and it wouldn't impact state school children? She lied.

“Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group.” Jews. The word you’re looking for is ‘Jews’, not ‘people’. This truly beggars belief. This dire reporting is not only factually incorrect but erases Jews from a genocide in which six million Jewish men, women and children were slaughtered specifically because they were Jews. How is it possible, therefore, that on Holocaust Memorial Day of all days, @GMB manages to acknowledge several other groups but not Jews? To make matters worse, there is no reference to Jewish people at all for over two minutes into this segment, and when there finally is one, it is only done once and in regard to former history students taking a tour of the Jewish quarter of Kraków. Additionally, there is bafflingly no utterance of the word “antisemitism” whatsoever. If this is intended to pay respect to the victims of Holocaust Memorial Day, it has failed abysmally and ignores the true nature of this horrific event. How on earth was this allowed to happen, @ITV? We demand an explanation.

So children of the USA military are exempted from VAT on school fees, but not children of serving UK military, or indeed children with SEND needs! 🤯

BBC: 'Much of Scotland's coastline still being battered.' They will literally deep fry anything.

Headline of the year. 😂

Great thread. Especially "...is just a return to tradition back when we had only our rulebook and a library card. The brand is now a self-referential ecosystem that discourages external history, mythology, and literature." I learned so much from D&D-led research, still do!

The label ‘elitist’ is in itself politically abused nowadays, in a terribly selective way. There is nothing wrong with an art form that requires some education and learning. As if this is not the case for the listener who wants to appreciate for example traditional Indian music! But no, only in the case of Western art this seems to be a major problem.

Here's how @bphillipsonMP is misleading you in the tweet below. 👇🏻 Education is a 'merit good', which means that it simultaneously benefits both the immediate recipient and society in general. This justifies both 1) tax exemptions and reliefs for private schooling; and 2) state education that is fully subsidised by the taxpayer. Labour's policy undermines private schooling (but notably not other forms of private education) by imposing VAT on fees paid by the families of pupils and by cutting relief on Business Rates paid by the schools. Both have the effect of driving up the total price of private schooling, making it less affordable and therefore more exclusive, but there are important differences between VAT and Business Rates. Schools are liable for Business Rates in full subject to the relief, so the relief can properly be regarded as a 'tax break' *for schools*, although it should also be remembered that schools pay their taxes out of the fee income that they receive, so Business Rates is effectively an indirect tax on fee-paying families. The VAT exemption means that there is never any liability for VAT from which relief might be granted, so there is no basis on which to regard it as a tax break. Now, note that Phillipson carefully refers to "tax breaks that *private schools* enjoy". She may be right about that with regard to Business Rates relief, but she would be wrong to say the same about fee-paying families, so she doesn't. That is a telling omission. Phillipson then immediately seeks to extol the purported benefits of the #EducationTax policy as a whole, conflating the Business Rates point with the VAT point. This gives oxygen to the popular lie that the VAT exemption is an unfair and unjustifiable tax break for fee-paying families. Don't fall for it. The fact that the Education Secretary uses this sleight of hand speaks volumes. If she won't discuss her own policies accurately and transparently, she can't be trusted. Always keep an eye on what people don't mention. #EducationNotTaxation

And today on Crazy Island, we have the Education Secretary celebrating the taxation of education. Not a single country in the EU has the mindless gall to tax education. Yet here she is heralding a massive own goal. She will go down in history as the worst Ed Secretary ever.