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Our darling brother Frank has died. Hugely loved by all of us, Frank was a kind and loving dad, uncle, brother, cousin, and friend. Frank X. Sambrook, photographer and teacher 1960-2022

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If defunding #UNRWA is the appropriate UK response to several employees’ *alleged* criminality, why wasn't the Met Police defunded after the convictions of Wayne Couzens, David Carrick etc, and serious allegations against so many other officers?

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@JayneSeckerSky The problem was more than tone & content. What's weirdest is that neither you nor anyone in the #SkyNews team called out your conflict of interest. You could have stepped back. Instead you punched down.

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@JayneSeckerSky Being interviewed & mocked by landlord/journo @JayneSeckerSky must have been horrible for @kirstar19 Still, a useful moment. UK journalism's posh white privileged bias, that distorts everything it touches, is usually more nuanced, & deniable.

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civilian to police officer: "I am the one who called you. I am the one who called you, sir." Police officer to civilian: "Get on the fucking floor. Do as you're fucking told." Officer punches civilian in head. Heavy restraint. PC Jonathan Marsh denies assault by beating 1/

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Imagine being a person of colour, reporting a crime to the police. You then end up being punched in the head by the officer who arrives sporting a thin blue line patch. You’re gonna need to sit down to watch this one…ffs.

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"it is striking that, over the past four years of wall-to-wall Brexit talking heads, there appears to have been an unexplained BBC ban on invitations to @JolyonMaugham ,** though he has been a pivotal figure in many of its debates" & @carolecadwalla ?

‘I don't like acts of dishonesty by the state’: Jolyon Maugham QC on Covid cronyism

The man who blocked Boris Johnson’s attempt to prorogue parliament talks about leaving his City practice to run the Good Law Project

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Michael Bond told us Paddington couldn’t comment on children locked up at Yarl’s Wood,he wasn’t political. But Mrs Bird could. He gave us:

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1/ What’s going on with schools in England? How come so many academy schools controllers are super-rich supporters of #Brexit , #BorisJohnson & Michael #Gove ? I’ve been investigating with @warwickmansell Here’s what we’ve found:

REVEALED: The Brexit-backing businessmen taking control of England’s schools

Some of Britain’s richest men have deployed their wealth, power and influence to push Brexit, shrink the state and take education out of public hands.

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@meenalsworld @Channel4News @Chartwells_UK parent company Compass made £1.77 Billion pre-tax profits in year to 2019 and paid its CEO Dominic Blakemore £1,162,000 how to visual #TrickleDownEconomics ? image @RoadsideMum #FreeSchoolMeals

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In 1979 at an anti-racism protest in Southall, London, a Metropolitan police officer from Special Patrol Group beat to death Blair Peach, a teacher, from New Zealand. Blair was 33 years old. 🧵 1/

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blimey —— so here's the odious #DominicCummings trying to avoid confirming that #VoteLeave produced a fake NHS leaflet, distributed at NHS hospitals, urging people to vote leave to "protect your local hospital".

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@JMPSimor @ElectoralCommUK we have it over two videos Jessica...

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For a journalist, even the flimsiest legal challenge can chill the blood and devour working time. I dread to think what the brilliant journo @carolecadwalla has endured these past years. If you're able to support, here's her crowdfunder:

Support me against Arron Banks

Carole Cadwalladr is a writer and reporter for the Guardian & Observer. In 2019, she was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for her work on Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal with the staff of the NYT

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A dark day for freedom of the press, for everyone who cares about it and for every journalist & news organisation that believes in public interest reporting. A statement:

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7 years

what on earth could have inspired the horrible violence meted out to young lad in #Croydon waiting for his bus?

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Michael Gove took cocaine. Bought? Carried? Shared? Young black lads are routinely stopped, searched, ( #RashanCharles ws restrained &killed) on suspicion of less ... "It was 20 yrs ago," said Gove. "I was a young journo" 20 yrs ago Gove was 31.

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@SchoolsWeek @GavinWilliamson Despite chronic underfunding and repeated cuts, teachers at my child's school, who are suffering the impacts of long-covid, and home-schooling their own children, are giving excellent on-line tuition with warmth, kindness and compassion. Where do I send my complaint?

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Best ever doorstep? @4lisaguerrero helps odious TVevangelist KennethCopeland reveal himself. HIM: super-expert manipulator—distraction, flirtation, physical threat. HER: so well prepared, super-alert, rides with the unexpected. Lets him nail himself.

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@darshnasoni @nelsabbey and : Matt Hancock's contemptuous response to Dame Donna Kinnair, Royal College of Nursing Chief Exec & Gen Sec when she outs him for failing even to count the number of nurses who've died #Covid_19 (2April)

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Matt Hancock - 4 Doctors have died & some nurses Donna Kinnair(Royal College of Nursing) - They're not even counting the nurses, Matt... #bbcqt #COVID ー19

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@BBCWomansHour @Emmabarnett @ZaraM01 @BBCSounds terrible, poorly researched, line of questioning. . will the next Catholic woman on @BBCWomanHour be interrogated about why Catholic priests, bishops and popes are men? not the first time on Woman's Hour that Emma Barnett has disrespected a woman of colour.

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2 years

If Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook is talking nonsense why do right wing politicians & journos & trolls spend their good time attacking Jack?

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Of course brutal racist policy & practice at Home Office didn't start with #Windrush scandal. Theresa May fought a legal battle to deport a kidney transplant patient to Nigeria regardless of urgent medical advice that this would kill her: @SHINEreports

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@Haggis_UK Who to believe? @ChrisGPackham — devotes his life to the evidence-based urgency of protecting the natural world... OR Luke Johnson — devotes his life to building Luke Johnson's £120 million fortune & protecting super-rich interests. Why does #BBClaurak platform Johnson?

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@5Pillarsuk responsibility lies not just with the direct perpetrators, but with every politician, journalist, think tank & 'influencer' who spouts anti-Muslim rhetoric

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@NadiaWhittomeMP not to worry, I'm "absolutely confident" toddlers will respect social distancing and wash their hands.

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@MichaelRosenYes So lovely to see you back, Michael. Wishing you well through your recovery Happened upon this gorgeous convo btwn you & @malorieblackman from 2017

Word of Mouth - Malorie Blackman on Language - BBC Sounds

Malorie Blackman, author of Noughts and Crosses, talks in depth to Michael Rosen.

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@candygourlay The sentence : "Colonialism is widely condemned now. . . but" was not going to end well. Nobody on set, watching the rushes, in the edit, no little voice in his head, to say wtf #michaelportillo

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Sickening: if being 'deported in error' to Jamaica, a country you might not have visited in 50 years, UKgov advises: Watch your wallet, Put on a local accent, 'try to be "Jamaican"' #Windrush

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Long term resident in the UK since childhood wrongly deported to Jamaica? The Home Office has some useful advice for you in their “Coming Home To Jamaica” guide to being deported.

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@SchoolsWeek @GavinWilliamson from Department for Education—this, apparently, represents children working at home. Note own desk, ample space, good lighting, home library, musical instrument, array of stationery, wall map. . . on what planet ?

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@BBCNewsnight banking, property, insurance, he owns 6 flats in London, a house in SW1, 3 apartments in France, 2 in Switzerland. 4 properties in Salisbury & thereabouts. Whose interests do you think Lord Marland represents?

Register of Interests for Lord Marland - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament

Lord Marland's full title is The Lord Marland. His name is Jonathan Peter Marland, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

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2/ One man, aged 77, controls schools for 36,000 children. Philip Harris, worth £300m, has heavily funded the Tories. When he dies, control of “his” schools passes to his wife & sons. These are state-funded schools with no local democractic accountability.

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Daily Express journalist @MaxParry4 accepted a 2024 mentorship from the @JSchofieldTrust then turned police informer on people trying to stop a genocide. 6 human rights activists arrested. 1/

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@Nadine_Writes "I don't have a racist bone in my body" Trouble is, white people, we *do* have racism in our bones. We may be anti-racist, love friends and relatives who are Black. Still, it comes out in ways we don't expect.

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@JeremyVineOn5 Jeremy Vine here, doing his bit to normalise the unthinkable. This, remember, is a public service broadcaster who takes c£300K from the BBC on top of his commercial gigs.

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"How can cutting fire stations, cutting fire engines,cutting fire fighters' posts not be a reduction in fire cover?" London Assembly's Andrew Dismore. "Get stuffed!" London Mayor #BorisJohnson (Sept 2013) #heatwave #fires

Boris Johnson tells London Assembly's Andrew Dismore to "get stuffed"

Boris Johnson has told a London Assembly member to "get stuffed" during an increasingly angry exchange over the impact of fire service cuts. The Mayor of Lon...

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@DanielStrauss4 I like that Johnson comes last—after Marcron, Merkel, and Taoiseach Martin. And In that Biden:Johnson call: “The Pres-elect expressed his interest in cooperating with UK, NATO, and the EU. . and reaffirmed his support for the Good Friday Agreement”

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Home Office expedited deportation of a 5 year old boy who was sexually abused at Yarl's Wood. His mum's pleas for help for her son, & an independent investigation, were refused. (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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#JeremyClarkson 's obscene & dangerous, hate-inciting assault on Meghan Markle — His racist 'banter' was a Top Gear staple. He punched a junior colleague in the face, and called him a 'lazy Irish cunt'. UK media rewards and protects racist misogynistic white men. Why?

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"He's currently on the floor playing the whole poor me poor me...He's saying he has chest pains he can't breathe blah blah. It's a load of nonsense but there we go" Police officer as Ian McDonald-Taylor (who was Black & had severe asthma) lay dying. 1/

Black man dies after Met Police officer said chest pain was 'nonsense'

The officer was heard telling his sergeant the man arrested was 'playing the whole poor me, poor me' routine

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@PriyamvadaGopal chimes with @maitlis on BBCNewsnight , challenging @deray Mckesson on reparations—“there is an argument that it entrenches victimhood” she said. @deray : "Healing people doesn't make them victims, it makes them whole."

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"Correcting historical wrongs is not a radical thing. "The only reason it's radical is that it's black people." - Author and activist DeRay Mckesson says black Americans should get slavery reparations [Tap to expand] MORE: #newsnight | @maitlis | @deray

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@SaulStaniforth @mehdirhasan Who, really is the security threat? Shamima Begum, duped & trafficked for sex aged 15, then bereaved of her 3 children? No agency. Or 33yr old Eylon Levy, educated at £24k pa London school, then Oxford & Cambridge, makes informed choice to run propaganda for a genocide.

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BREAKING #DidoHarding govt's Track & Trace czar is • a #JockeyClub steward & formerly a director at Cheltenham Racecourse & a director of Racecourse Holdings Trust (ht @E91_Cowbridge )

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@zarahsultana “careless people, . . .they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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@Alston_UNSR @Indyvale "For almost one in every two children to be poor in twenty-first century Britain would not just be a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster rolled into one." Thank you Philip Alston @Alston_UNSR UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme #Poverty :

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Curious to know: which ad agency is buying up billboards for the HRH Prince Philip tribute ads? How many billboards? What's their budget? Who is paying for it? If taxpayers, which department agreed the spend? Who signed it off? @Campaignmag ?

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Standing to be Glasgow Uni rector, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, eminent British-Palestinian plastic&reconstructive surgeon. Thru multiple stays in Gaza, @GhassanAbuSitt1 has performed life-saving surgery & strived to raise awareness of Israeli atrocities 1/

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@DrPragyaAgarwal & how many more such "recommendation" letters have stopped careers before they even started. . .

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Why is UK health & social care minister #MattHancock , MP for Newmarket, recipient of racing industry cash, gambling with our lives? Why is Dido Harding, Jockey Club Steward, appointed to run #covid19 track & trace? How did Serco (CEO Rupert Soames) get contract for Test&Trace?

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Brilliant riding out in Newmarket this weekend on Star of Bengal. I’ll always support the wonderful sport of horseracing.

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"Is this going to be the moment we wake up and look at the reality of a system in which lies have no consequences?" @Hardeep_Matharu editor of @BylineTimes

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They’re lying, we know they’re lying & they know we know they’re lying @Hardeep_Matharu Watch full film:

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@PriyamvadaGopal & here's daily mail apology to @PriyamvadaGopal online:

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@yassmin_a rudeness towards service workers

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A child was locked up in a prison-like UK immigration detention centre for 151 days alongside adult men (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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@NursingNotesUK @CYPStNN @WeStudentNurse @RCNStudents @StNurseProject from Christopher Chope whose contribution to the public good is..... ?

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As Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is in a critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to her head, people on here describing themselves as "patriots", displaying Union Jack & Flag of St George. . . are rejoicing.

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11/ Today almost 9,000 of #academies operate outside of their democratically-accountable local authorities. The schools’ combined assets in 2017-18 totalled nearly £60 billion. Huge transfer of power from public to private hands.

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6/ The same men — #Gove & #Cummings — who devised #Brexit also commanded a massive expansion of #academy schools, handing control of many of our children’s schools to big Tory funders.

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1/ Eight years ago Jimmy #Mubenga was unlawfully killed during a UK Border Agency attempt to deport him. Jimmy was 46. He had 5 children. Private security guards from #G4S restrained him until he died.

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@Zero_4 'Chuntering from a sedentary position' Stella Creasy writes Jonathan Gullis's epitaph.

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this is 163 economists & academics in the FINANCIAL TIMES: via @financialtimes

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@Jeremy_Hunt blimey, @Jeremy_Hunt ! it's not that you & #StephenHawking "didn’t agree on everything" He absolutely opposed yr #NHS privatisation & he outed your dishonest handling of evidence: "Hunt has cherry-picked research.Speaking as a scientist, cherry picking research is unacceptable"

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when #r4today bangs on abt a minority group that resists #integration , educates its children in isolation, threatens community cohesion, I see:

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most effective way to counter #Trump - style misinformation? "Direct a stream of proactive accurate messaging at the targeted audience" Advice from @GeorgeLakoff cognitive science & linguistics prof

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From "Don't Think of An Elephant" (2004): 1) Repetition strengthens the synapses in neural circuits that people use in thinking 2) Whoever frames first has an advantage 3) Negating a frame activates and strengthens it From a new study of digital warfare:

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@drphilhammond Hi Phil— If #covid_19 had struck a UK that had a robust, properly funded NHS, effective preparation, adequate #PPE & competent government . . how many healthcare workers might have lost their lives to the virus? Is it even possible to estimate the scale of preventable deaths?

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Whenever a celebrity alleged rapist is exposed, you have to wonder about the bookers, the agents, the TV execs, the friends and the sycophants, the people who maybe knew or suspected, but they made a % off the man, so let it pass. #RussellBrand

The Times and The Sunday Times

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged attacks between 2006 and 2013 This is a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and @C4Dispatches ✍️ @RosamundUrwin @char_wace @pmorganbentley

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Michael Bond told us Paddington couldn’t comment on children locked up at Yarl’s Wood, he wasn’t political. But Mrs Bird could . . .

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Home Office told fathers deported to from UK to Jamaica: Do your parenting by Skype (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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9/ In 2012, Conservative MP Richard Bacon described the lack of accountability in #academies as “mind-blowing”. He said academy chains “could hide something by taking a little bit from several pots” and “parents would never know.”

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3/ Big Tory donor Harris, given a peerage by Thatcher, backs #Brexit He doesn’t like laws that restrict working hours, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme 2yrs ago:

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Off-duty ambulance driver, sitting outside, courteously answers police officer's questions. Within seconds she's cuffed him. Car searched. Nothing found. He's black. Vid shared by @D_Tribal school worker, also profiled—his @Guardian piece on stop&search

London police accused of racial profiling in lockdown searches

Handcuffed school worker says misuse of stop and search has worsened during pandemic

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The Metropolitan police failed to *publicly* identify the killer (their colleague/brother officer). But they did invest resource in secretly filming Blair’s funeral. Film shown for the first time yesterday, at #SpyCopsInquiry (via @tombfowler ) 🧵 2/

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5/ In Tory leadership battle Lord Philip Harris handed: £20,000 to Dominic Raab £10,000 to Michael Gove. £30,000 to the man he’d once called too lazy and unpredictable to make a good Prime Minister: Boris Johnson. more here by @WarwickMansell & me

REVEALED: The Brexit-backing businessmen taking control of England’s schools

Some of Britain’s richest men have deployed their wealth, power and influence to push Brexit, shrink the state and take education out of public hands.

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@rafaelshimunov & they keep the Hitler figurine on the shelf near the Confederate ? Thank you for calling this out.

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@MattHancock What? The *Conservative Party* claiming credit for *publicly-funded work* during a pandemic that's been exacerbated in every conceivable way by Tory values & policies (break the NHS, protect the horse-racing industry), corruption, cruelty & incompetence?

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8/ When Gove, Cummings and their private equity collaborators took control at the Department for Education in May 2010 there were 203 academies. By September 2012 there were 2,309 – a tenfold increase.

REVEALED: The Brexit-backing businessmen taking control of England’s schools

Some of Britain’s richest men have deployed their wealth, power and influence to push Brexit, shrink the state and take education out of public hands.

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Home Office contractors shackled an 84 year old Canadian man as he lay dying in hospital (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal)

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Imagine she's yr niece, child. Distressed teenage girl flags down police car for help, tells officers she is vulnerable, has mental health problems. In 1 minute PC Benjamin Kemp beats her 30+ times with baton. Her cousin speaks to C4 @simonisrael 1/

Harrowing footage of ex-PC hitting vulnerable teenage girl with baton seen by relative

We start with a harrowing case of violence by a police officer towards a vulnerable teenage girl.

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Romford-based audiologist Rasike Attanayake: ''I was trying to assist and I don't think she (PC Bogle) was that interested in what I had to say. He (PC Marsh) was talking to me but he was not listening to what I had to say, no offence but he was like a raging bull.' 4/

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@NursingNotesUK Rizal Manalo, originally from #Philippines , worked at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire. His wife, Agnes: "Zaldy is a hard working person who loved his job dearly. He's a good husband & a loving father to his children. He protected & cared for us."

Coronavirus: Nurse Rizal Manalo dies with Covid-19

Rizal "Zaldy" Manalo, who worked at Glan Clwyd Hospital, dies after being treated for coronavirus.

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10/ When Cameron sacked Gove as education secretary, according to the Guardian, #Cummings blogged: “We got away with subverting every W/hall & No10 process, & it took DC 4 yrs to surrender.”

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daily mail court report: *Moment police officer punches innocent medical worker in the head and tells him to 'get on the f***ing floor now' after mistaking him for the criminal*

Moment police officer punches medical worker in the head

Audiologist Rasike Attanayake compared his treatment to that suffered by George Floyd. PC Jonathan Marsh denies assault by beating.

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#MichaelGove took cocaine. Bought? Carried? Shared? Black lads are routinely stopped, searched, ( #RashanCharles was restrained &killed) on suspicion of less ... "It was 20 yrs ago," said Gove. "I was young" 20 yrs ago Gove was 31. 1/

Reuters | Breaking International News & Views

Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage.

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@CatchTheseWords Absolutely they should pay you, and at a rate high enough to indicate that they respect and value your expertise and intend to reflect and act upon it. I'm sorry you got a such a mess of a day instead of the celebration you deserved.

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Giving evidence, the audiologist told the court: 'I phoned the police and then I went inside doing other things. 'I said my friend is being attacked by a drunk and disorderly white man' 3/

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You don't have to be a recognised/big name journo to win the Paul Foot Award. I was a (mostly, and ridiculously) unpaid journo when I won it, working with friends to end an injustice—child immigration detention—that enraged us. Have a go: deadline Tuesday 26th March at 1pm

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The Paul Foot Award 2024 for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism is now open for submissions here: This years prize has been raised to £8,000 🎉 (1/2)

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the first? in 2018? what is wrong with this country?

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She’s the first black British female playwright to have a play on in the West End 🎭 - Natasha Gordon discusses her debut play #NineNight : 📻

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@Alston_UNSR @Indyvale There is a striking and almost complete disconnect between the picture painted by the Government, . . . and what people across the country told the Special Rapporteur.2/

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"If you're disabled in some way or other you're likely to just sit there and watch the box." That's disabled people for you. Seriously #r4today John Humphrys has got to go.

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26/ @WarwickMansell has been digging into education matters for 20yrs. . You can read more of his stunning disclosures & help fund his work here

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'Instead of going towards the police car, he hit me and left my head in a funny way, I was on my back. ..he hit my head and he whacked it on the floor. I was in shock,..He was already, no offence, towards the large side and when he was on my back I could not breathe.' 5/

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4/ For fun, HARRIS and his wife own world-class showjumping horses with their friends the Kirkhams. Lord (Graham) Kirkham, who made his billion in sofas, is another big Conservative donor given a peerage by the Conservatives.

Interview: Lady Harris and Lady Kirkham

Scott Brash's owners talk about their passion for horses and riding, the excitement of the Championship win for Scott and Sanctos last year, their hopes for ...

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@JSchofieldTrust mentors young journalists to honour the memory of John Schofield, killed aged 29, while reporting on the civil war in Yugoslavia for BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight. 2/

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@monisha_rajesh @CLARESAMBROOK @MaxParry4 @JSchofieldTrust Here's John in a keffiyeh and looking at you @MaxParry4 .

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British children are routinely being bereaved of their parents by a Home Office bent on deportation at all costs @SHINEreports (didn't start with #Windrush )

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Why is UK health & social care minister #MattHancock , MP for Newmarket, recipient of racing industry cash, gambling with our lives? Why is Dido Harding, Jockey Club Steward, appointed to run #covid19 track & trace? How did Serco (CEO Rupert Soames) get contract for Test&Trace?

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People on deportation flights have been tied up "like animals" in restraints so extreme they are rarely used in prisons (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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New to #spycops story? These are the police who stole dead babies’ identities, posed as activists to groom & seduce young women activists, sometimes staying in their lives for years to spy on antifascists, greens &vegetarians. 🧵 3/

The Story - SPYCOPS

Journalist and author Rob Evans explains how the story of this political policing scandal has unravelled.

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Bruno Dos Santos was locked up under immigration powers. They cancelled a planned brain scan. He died. Bruno was 25 years old. (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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'It reminded me of the killing of George Floyd, I thought I was going to die bcs I could not breathe, it was the same thing.' Giving evidence PC Marsh, a former prison officer at HMP Chelmsford, said the force he used was proportionate and necessary. 6/

Moment police officer punches medical worker in the head

Audiologist Rasike Attanayake compared his treatment to that suffered by George Floyd. PC Jonathan Marsh denies assault by beating.

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@brokenbottleboy Exactly.. A properly funded state comprehensive system, that honours arts, dance, crafts and scholarship, serving children well fed & nurtured in country with zero poverty & zero racism...that's not what Birbalsingh's about. (from a caretaker's child who went to Oxbridge)

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Women sexually abused by guards at Yarl's Wood, and witnesses to abuse, were deported even when medical evidence supported their claims, prisons inspectors said (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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Age 21 Chevon Brown got a conviction for dangerous driving. Served his 7 month sentence. Age 23, got deported.

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Jimmy Mubenga, 46, had 5 children. "Unlawfully killed" by Home Office contractors on a deportation flight, using restraints that doctors and lawyers had warned were dangerous (Home Office brutality didn't start with #Windrush scandal) @SHINEreports

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@tes @Ofstednews @GavinWilliamson Williamson could learn something from the hard work, adaptability, effectiveness, clarity, kindness & empathy that teachers are bringing to a shitstorm created by govt cruelty, dithering & incompetence

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@SunApology thanks — I'd almost forgotten that @BorisJohnson was happy to supply his friend with an address to facilitate the beating up of a journalist

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