Nicola @nicola_dEU Twitter profile

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2 years

@ClaireEMcD We engineered a raffle last year for a pupil to win at Christmas who said she didn't get presents because mum, who has mental health issues, thought it was a waste/too commercial/grabby.

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Wow, visiting other countries definitely makes you realise how crap England is. No wonder the govt make it difficult for us to travel, they don't want us to see it. I'm only in Spain but everything is easier, cheaper, cleaner, friendlier.

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4 years

Any teachers tempted to jack it all in for a WFH office job? I think I'm at the age now where I just want to wear comfy clothes and be with my dog.

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1 year

There's been a lot of tributes paid this week about Paul O'Grady's easy warmth and kindness. But I think we can safely say we have a protégé in Rylan - what a absolutely lovely guy he is. Sharp, funny, self-deprecating, and ever professional! #SaturdayNightTakeaway

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4 years

@BickertonMiss I may or may not have done exactly this with my own daughter who asked for "wolf stuff"...

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9 months

@Sayers33 I really want to get this, it sounds funny.

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3 years

@MizOster I'd like to do this. When will Eid be this year?

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5 months

@thatcymraes Surestart Every Child Matters Connexions AimHigher The EMA for 6th formers National Workload Agreement Funded G+T programme All of this made a huge difference.

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2 years

@shellyu @DrPragyaAgarwal Agreed, @Waterstones gets it right. The displays, the blurbs, the variety. My 12yo can browse in there for ages. Friendly staff too.

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4 years

Got my Back to School hair, brows and nails appointments today. Then to buy my pencil case and new shoes! 17 years in and I still get excited about the start of term 💗

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1 year

@hansmollman This good gurl can have the fan and cooly mat all to herself. I ain't the one covered in black fur (in summer, at least).

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4 years

@PaulGarvey4 Beyond exhausted. Easily put in 60 hours this week. Last lesson today, Y8 bottom set. Did a raffle for good effort. Class clown wins - typical. Picks his prize, Smarties. "You can have them Miss, for your daughter" Floored! 😭💗

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4 years

@cockyatom @krishgm I don't think it's fine. It's to protect the shop workers, not them.

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1 year

@GillianKeegan My first 10 years of teaching (in Knowsley) were under Labour and we never had it better - Every Child Matters, Surestart, EMA, Repayment of Teacher Loans, AimHigher, Connexions..... the next 10 years under your crowd have been an absolute binfire. And you know it.

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4 years

@RussInCheshire 49. Payrise for teachers announced today as a 'thank you'. This is not new - it was signed off in January and is not Covid-related. Money to come out of existing budgets, so they're giving us nothing except redundancies, essentially.

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3 years

@ourkaty Much gorgeousness here. I've only got a surly almost 12 year old but I made her her own cheeseboard last night, with nice crackers, apple, grapes etc. She thought we were all sharing it so when I said it was just for her, she was delighted 'MY OWN PERSONAL CHEESEBOARD!' 😍🧀

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@Chrissietutoruk You are so brave, all the very best to you. I hope your future career is smooth and enjoyable.

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5 years

@mathninja3 @MrBlachford I caught a boy hiding at the back of a classroom smoking, on the phone to the bookies, putting his bets on. He said if I didn't said anything, he'd split the winnings with me...

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3 years

@fatgazbo @BBCBreakfast @DominicRaab We were told to go straight home and wash our clothes.

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4 years

@cocobyname Good lord! I'd like to see a contrasting piece about lockdown life in Kensington, Liverpool...

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5 years

@realdoc50 Sidle up to her in Boots at Terminal 5 next to the Tweezers?

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3 years

New teachers - here's a lil tip from me. Book some nice things towards end of Sept. First two weekends your head will be falling off. Third week, the tiredness is manageable, the marking isn't piling up (yet) and it's still quite warm and sunny. A bit of countryside is nice 👍

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2 years

@DrNostromo Called it from day one when I saw their massive house and pool. 5 mins of googling led to the daughter's PR career and connections to Boris Johnson. Never trust a Tory. As for the weird war fetishism that prevails in the UK, I'll never ever understand it.

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4 years

@emmavj @city_mummy Oh, same. I want to drink gin and talk shit, not explain why spaniels are my third favourite dog.

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4 years

@BadSchoolparent @thosethatcan Teacher here. Couldn't care less what kids wear. Comfy kids learn more though, that's one thing I've learnt.

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4 years

Hey, female teachers in your 40s - where are you getting your work clothes from? I need a load of new stuff. I like dresses and knitwear and natural fabrics. Talk to me. #edutwitter

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4 years

@lapetitepie @revbreakfast Whaaaaat, just for recreational drinking? I can't even compute that!

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2 years

@Balavage "You've made the life I lead foolish too" - what a speech this was.

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10 months

@IndeedItsMark She just looks like all the early to mid 40s women I know - tired.

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5 years

Proud #Remainer here. Feel much more aligned with my European counterparts than USA or any other country. Happy that the EU has brought us funding (esp in my home city), laws, but most of all, peace. Still as gutted as I was three years ago.

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5 years

@LoveIsland Can Amber's dad win? He's so lovely.

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2 years

@AlisonAnother @estrellasadie We must always keep at the front of our minds that school is a sanctuary for many, and the day spent chilling watching a film next to your best friend who isn't allowed to come to your house might be the highlight of the summer for some.

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4 years

@always_hope83 My Y6 daughter is having a blast since returning. With no Sats pressure, they've done loads of outdoor learning, loads of fun experiments in Science Week, made kinetic sand, done a triathlon... she's come home buzzing every day, it's been a joy to see.

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4 years

@revbreakfast Dimmer switches.

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1 year

@mrlockyer To be fair, our Y11 staff have put on extra sessions every single lunchtime and many, many afterschool sessions all year. So I prefer to think of it as Owed Time. They've earned it back.

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3 years

@one_mrs_k @Annie__McGuire Mine managed hula hooping in a tiara quite well!

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3 years

@Nicola_M_N_ My Y6 daughter confessed to me that she'd smuggled a book out of the class library today to bring home and finish over the weekend because it was so good 💙

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4 years

@gdiddlydog Imagine not being northern though

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5 years

Got my first Head of MFL post yesterday - bit scared but excited! #MFLtwitterati 🇪🇸🇫🇷

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11 months

@TeacherBusy There's a huge regression. Plus the transition itself takes up all their brain in the first term, so much remembering of where to go and when, and 15 different teachers' expectations. They only really start getting back to their potential after Christmas.

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1 year

@blackforager Small British me stood at the pool bar counter waiting to order lunch. 3 loud Spanish guys come and enquire about opening times, then say 'while I'm here, can I order...' I just cut across them in Spanish - I was here first, it's my turn. Counter lady said 'yes she was' Proud!

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4 years

@jamie2034 @JudeWillford Some of mine have thrived at home, away from poorly behaved peers in their mixed ability classrooms. Not having to wait around for everyone to be 'looking this way and listening' etc has been liberating for them.

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2 years

@mark_robo @miss_mcinerney My students said to me "why would anyone be a teacher and get spoken to like crap?" They have a point. Behaviour has declined - it's a combination of factors - the insta-world, having to have an opinion about everything and voice it, crap parenting, parents working all hours.

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4 years

@katherineschof8 We had 6 (six!) years of PPTs, posters, speeches and 'Wanted: Dog' posters stuck up in our street. She even pretended to be one for A YEAR and ate from a bowl on the floor. Sponsored 3 guide dogs. Bought every electronic dog going. But.... this Christmas Eve:

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5 years

#TheVirtues Even though I'd seen all his antics myself, I still believed him about falling off a ladder at work - that's how good an actor Stephen Graham is 👍

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1 year

@smithsmm Term time holiday dad gets cheap holiday while teachers get ripped off year on year. The real story!

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4 years

@HelenHallmark We had a fire drill at school last week. I quickly messaged the class at home on Teams to tell them and said I'd be back in 20 mins. One if them wrote 'should we go outside?' 😂

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9 months

@HeyMissSmith @BadSchoolparent Definitely. We had a fair number of teens wanting to stay for 'revision' last night.

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3 years

@a_nother_tchr Hang on while I pull a knowledge organiser and easy-accessible worksheet out of my arse while still listening to Josh's answer and keeping an eye on where the gluestick lids are landing.

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1 year

@ScottPughsley One time I walked into a classroom at break and a Y10 boy was sat quietly at the back smoking a cig and putting his bets on over the phone, Racing Post open in front of him. He actually shhhh'd me aswell.

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8 months

@SuzanneatSavvy Remember EMA for sixth formers keeping them in education, City Learning Centres in schools, Repayment of Teacher Loans over 10 years to help recruitment, and the jewel in the crown- Surestart. Can't begin to tell you what a difference that made to me as a new mum in 2010.

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2 years

@danielmaier He should be available on prescription, he's incredible. And he's having such a lovely time.

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4 years

@mirak_eel I thought it was brilliant, shone a light on people's racist views.

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1 year

@Teacherglitter I'm secondary. I don't care what they write will or how neat it is, as long as they can write relatively quickly and they can read it back. Literally no jobs require neat cursive handwriting (except, ironically, primary teaching)

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4 years

@flagon30 @tombennett71 @SueC00K As a teacher, I did 100% of my job during Lockdown 1 and got 100% of my pay. Those on furlough did 0% of their job and got 80% of their pay. And yet it's teachers getting called lazy again...

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2 years

@GillianKeegan Disruption? Says the (millionaire) 6th Ed Sec in two years.... who is also on strike tomorrow. You couldn't write it!

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1 year

@trevorbmbagency Oh it's all just so unspeakably embarrassing for him isn't it

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1 year

@RebeccaCNReid Such a sarcastic font too

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2 years

@Vitt2TsNoC Surestart Every Child Matters AimHigher Connexions Education Maintenance Allowance Building Schools for the Future Health in Pregnancy grant Repayment of Teachers loans scheme We lost so much in 2010. I remember pushing my tiny daughter in her pram knowing it would all change.

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11 months

@ruskin147 Can Sophie please teach my dog about quiet days please?! I've already tidied up the toy box 54268 times and it's not even 9am 😬

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9 months

@LegalGengar Course he has. About bloody time. 2024 - the year of sniffing out grifters, binning off influencers and the Capt Tom Spa being demolished. Delicious.

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3 years

@MrsKJCahill Even if you write Title: _____ Some will say what's the title?

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3 years

@Doctob And yet children in classrooms across Britain use their classmates' names perfectly and respectfully.

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1 year

@ByDonkeys @Nigel_Farage Double whammy in Wigan!

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1 year

@simonharris_mbd Oh great, I'm flying out of Manc tomorrow. Might have to be a vertical take-off to keep up with that demand!

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2 years

@ClareRees3 Walked in on a Y9 kid sat in the back of a classroom at breaktime, smoking a cigarette, on the phone to Betfred putting his bets on. He teaches there now.

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1 year

@RetroArcadeMan @Nito_Onna_Helen @HiltonHotels A man is here, everyone. Gather round.

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2 years

@Thinkingschool2 I find it hugely rewarding. I just don't have time to do it properly.

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1 year

@MrsSmawar "Teachers subsidise term-time cheap holiday dad by paying over the odds to go in August. Every year." There's your headline.

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5 months

@KIWitney There were so many negative headlines in the run-up to the Olympics about things not being ready. It was a very wet summer. People were cynical. Then suddenly - it was wonderful. 3 weeks of absolute euphoria in the UK.

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@ThomasPilchard @anyalyonz @Conservatives God, fancy being a Tory and actually proud of it. Humanity really never fails to surprise me. 60,000 dead? Yay, go you.

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@clhubes Daughter needed 'an interesting stone' for school the next day (don't ask). Other grandads: looks in back garden, finds stone. My dad: drives to beach, spends a morning looking for fossils, carefully curates a selection (in case any didn't have one), washes them, delivers them.

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4 years

I am overwhelmed by the generosity shown by so many businesses in my northern Tier 3 town offering free meals and drinks to children and families who need it in half term. I guess ToryScum forget that kindness will always ALWAYS win ❤ Go northerners, you lovely people ❤

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@lizzy_doxsey @nmgarrard Yes. I often buy food, snacks and carton drinks, even treats, telling my class 'my daughter didn't like these, would anyone like them'.

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@CensoredHead It is, you're right. But spare a thought for current Y9 and Y8 who had no transition because of Covid. No long term harm done.

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@DeputyGrocott I prefer the term 'owed time'. You provide unpaid revision classes once a week after school for pretty much the whole of Y11, many lunchtimes, email support, pre-exam masterclasses... you get a bit of it back in June/July, if you're not taken for cover.

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9 months

@patrick_ness I don't normally do matinees but I didn't fancy driving into the city at night. Audience were impeccably behaved - made me think.

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3 years

@drgregkelly As a teacher watching it rip through our school like a bushfire, I agree with you.

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2 years

@ScottPughsley - Those Kenco 3 in 1 sachets are a lifesaver for 3.30 meetings after a full day of teaching - can never have too many post-it notes/plastic envelope wallets - visualiser copy gets stuck in absent kid's book - it's fine to go to bed at 8pm in September...

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4 months

@Rylan Agreed! I find myself saying to my husband loudly "those who voted Remain should be able to go to the front here"

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1 year

@BBCNews Wow, racism and misogyny alive and well in this thread. Successful women hey - how dare we.

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5 years

@RogersHistory I walked away, broken. Had an extended break. Tentatively stepped back, on supply. Found a lovely school. Did a couple of long-term supply contracts there. Now HOD. We have amazing kids, they gave me back my spark.

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@MrBoothY6 Worked in an an academy recently where it felt like a year long episode of the Apprentice... absolute nightmare. Cheap suits and nodding dogs everywhere. Pretty sure I was the only teacher who hadn't published a book.

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@mathninja3 @MrBlachford Don't know, I spoiled his fun and turfed him out! This was a crazy place too, about 15 years ago. So many stories, I'll write the book one day! They used to try to sell me dogs all the time. Often got asked if I needed anything from the booze/cig run to France.

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@primaryteachew And yet not a murmur about all those still on furlough, getting 80% pay to do no work at all?

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5 years

@shotgun_shellz Toto - Africa

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1 year

@sociabledog Wow, bloody amazing photographer as well as dog whisperer 💪

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@uncooljerk He's pretty conventionally ugly too. And not thick-cute like Joey Essex, just thick.

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2 years

@Ivorbaddiel FYI they did it for free at @pizzahut last month for my daughter's 12th birthday 🎂 even played the music and sang along 👍

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@EmGall10 @PhilippaMiss I've got a Liam and Noel together, and a Scott and Bailey. Just for my own amusement obvs.

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@sarajcox We came back from holiday and honestly our dog was twice the size. "She wasn't fussed on those tins you left but she LOVED a roast dinner." Cheers mum 😬

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@AlwaysLearnWeb @Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy @RogersHistory I worked in a school a few years back that covered the cost of an ironing lady - you brought your ironing in and collected it all done from the staffroom. Not many folk iron these days I think, I certainly don't!

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4 years

That half-second when you wake up, before you remember. Crushing, isn't it.

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1 year

@LouisStaples Nah, it's a brilliant article. She comes across well and bonus points for 'the Scousetrap' 😂

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3 years

@DrAdrianHeald Most rescues say no households with children, people who work, no experience of breed....rules out a lot of us! We searched for two years, then got a puppy from a breeder, she's thriving.

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@CPJElmore @Conservatives We were directed to be off site by 3.30 each day. There were signs up everywhere saying max 1 or 2 people in this workroom. We don't even have a staffroom!

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@ScouseBirdBlogs Hell, no - from a teacher 😂 Draw a little heart on their hand. Tell them to press it when they feel sad and you'll feel the hug 💗

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5 years

@sukhhayre @_Dan_Austin 96 reasons not to be a Tory. Sobering thought.

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3 years

@iamtomskinner Don't join the tin foil hat gang

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2 years

@justnaomiyeh My favourite Strictly dance ever. The chemistry these two had! I miss Aliona.

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