Former Primary headteacher and Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education. Now retired and enjoying gardening, travel and the countryside. All views my own.

North Yorkshire
Joined January 2012
Our environment ‘parade’ from the end of last term. So glad we did this.
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Hello @OVOEnergy can you please explain why you are putting our monthly payments up by £64 when our bills are going down each month and we are in credit? Outrageous theft of our money.
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So our energy bills are going up again. Presumably the energy companies aren’t making huge profits and their CEOs won’t be getting massive bonuses then? 🤔
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Helen Lambirth retweeted
Failure to suspend Israel from Eurovision, as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation and apartheid against Palestinians, is an act of cowardice and double standards. #HumanityMustWin Read more: amn.st/6016BBSR1u
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Where is the voice of opposition in America? I’m not hearing it. 🤔
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Leaf cutter ants; red-eyed tree frog; hummingbirds in its nest and an unknown butterfly. Amazing Costa Rica!
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I’ve escaped the British winter and am having an amazing time in Costa Rica. What a place! 🥰
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Many, many congratulations @TeresaCremin on being awarded a CBE for your amazing service to education. So very well deserved. 🥂
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Where to start….?
Tell me what the Conservatives got consistently wrong in state education?
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Helen Lambirth retweeted
🚩🚩🚩Newly released Bannon–Epstein messages (2017–19) show Epstein was giving daily strategic advice to Steve Bannon while Bannon and Farage were building a transatlantic far-right project. Epstein wasn’t just a social acquaintance. He was in the room, digitally, for the construction of modern populism. Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari, literally co-founded the Brussels organisation (“The Movement”) that Bannon used to build a European nationalist network. Who helped shape the money structure and the logistics? 👉Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein advised Bannon on: – how to avoid FARA disclosure – how to use 501(c)(4) dark-money non-profits – how to shield political operatives with media shells – how to keep funding “opaque” – how to structure a European revolution without legal exposure This was not small talk. This was political engineering. Bannon told Epstein he was working with: “Nigel, Boris and Rees-Mogg… the guys are trying to move on May today/tomorrow.” This places Epstein inside the communications chain of the plot to topple Theresa May, while Brexit was at its most volatile. Epstein also: – Offered Bannon the use of his island and homes for political strategy – Arranged accommodation, flights and meetings – Critiqued Bannon’s media appearances – Acted as a sounding board on Europe, Salvini, Le Pen’s allies and the gilets jaunes He was not a spectator. He was an influencer. In other words: 🔹 Mandelson: embarrassing proximity. 🔹 Farage: political collaboration through Bannon. Farage wasn’t merely around the Epstein orbit. He was inside a political machine Epstein helped shape. And look at the substance: – Bannon called Farage “the face” of the European far-right project – Farage’s partner built the Brussels shell – Farage brokered the meeting that handed it to Bannon – Epstein provided the dark-money blueprint This is not gossip. This is architecture. Farage sells himself as a man who “took on the elites”. Yet the newly revealed truth is far darker: His Brexit project was intertwined with 👉Bannon, Epstein, US dark-money networks, Salvini, Le Pen’s bloc, and the hardest edge of the global far right. Brexit was never anti-establishment. It was never grassroots. It was never patriotic. It was a transnational authoritarian project, backed by billionaires, extremists, and a convicted sex offender with global influence. And Farage was right at the centre of it. If Mandelson had emails showing Epstein advising him on political strategy, funding routes and foreign influence operations, the country would erupt. Farage has exactly that except worse. Because the stakes were Brexit and the reshaping of Europe. And that truth is finally out 💥 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d…
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Seriously? 😳
We’ll take this one on this chin 👍
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Just 9 days to go until this exciting event. Primary tickets are just £5 and can be bought here: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/pro…
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Should have been done ages ago. The people of York have been unhappy for a long time.
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Pretty in Pink in the garden today.
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Conservative Party conference looking a bit empty!
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— Greta Thunberg, a brave woman, is only 22 years old — She was humiliated and wrapped in an Israeli flag and exhibited like a trophy — They took every opportunity to humiliate, any of us. — I had the feeling of being in a really barbaric place Italian journalist Lorenzo Agostino cited the treatment of Swedish activist who was on board the same flotilla tells Anadolu
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Helen Lambirth retweeted
Kevin Hollinrake, Chair of the Tory Party is trending In April 2021, it was revealed that he claimed expenses of £2,925 each month between April and November 2020 to pay his own rent despite renting out 5 residential properties of his own. #BBCLauraK #TrevorPhilips
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