Trade Union Organiser. Recovered educator. Accidental fossil hunter. Exhausted. R4 bore. Views own & etc. She/Her #LongCovid
Joined February 2009
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15 Jun 2021
Captured the entire emotional range of my cat here…I am rapidly turning into said cat
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RT @TomHayesBmouth: My mum texts me when I stand up to speak in Parliament. She tells me to fix my tie or sort my hair out.
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Mar 29
This thread may well be invaluable. I only clocked what had happened yesterday and I’m low on ketotifen which to date I’ve not been able to convince my GP is as necessary as it is
For those who relied on Dr Taylor for prescriptions, this thread will share other options:
1. For LDN the best source is to get it prescribed by Dickson’s Chemist here shop.dicksonchemist.co.uk/th…
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Mar 7
Love Six Dinners Sid
Mar 5
I started World Book Day with reading this absolute classic of a book. Anyone else still reading it to their kids? Got to love Six Dinner Sid!
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Jan 29
Writing a conference paper on my brand new public sector case study findings. Themes around disruption and central interest work and workers. Beyond the multipliers of austerity and New Public Management feels instinctive to nod to @LucyGoBag on post pandemic trauma
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17 Nov 2025
Taking a break from writing to observe (and anthropomorphize) the local crow family. Dad Russell, and mum Sheryl are hopping around with their teenager Cameron. He’s got big since his first fledgling appearance in the garden in early summer
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15 Nov 2025
The John Lewis Christmas advert is Peter Mandelson pissing on the house of the owner of Reed Recruitment set to a sleigh bell mix of Lola Young's Messy
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5 Nov 2025
Labour’s Keep Britain Working report lands today claiming ill-health costs “nearly 70% of the income tax we pay.”
A intentionally seductive statistic for newspapers and voters and a profoundly mendacious one.
Let’s unpack what’s really going on 👇
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5 Nov 2025
More than 800,000 our of work for ill health since 2019. Yet we still can’t wonder out loud what happened from 2020 onwards to impact those numbers bbc.com/news/articles/c7v80n…
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4 Nov 2025
My God THIS
3 Nov 2025
This is so true. One of the most common stories we hear is of women abandoned in the postnatal ward, unable to pick their baby up to feed it and unable to walk to the toilet - but receiving no help.
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2 Nov 2025
Having tried to negotiate more than a few public sector reasonable adjustments (with the added pub sec Equality Duty) I have thoughts as to how difficult this will be to achieve even if legislation changes to better support employees theguardian.com/money/2025/n…
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Claire Osborn retweeted
31 Oct 2025
Urging us all to look at the person behind the tweet, but what about the child behind the behaviour, or the family behind the exclusion?
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22 Oct 2025
And yet our Telford MP has posted himself on SM today in the HoC lauding our local hospital. I wouldn’t trust that place to confirm me dead for a number of separate reasons but to whitewash the decades of abuse of womens’ right to safe care here makes me sick
22 Oct 2025
Shropshire and Leeds hospitals dropped from national maternity review - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620…
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Claire Osborn retweeted
21 Oct 2025
Everyone agrees - a love of reading is a good thing. Reading plenty of fiction and non-fiction is a great foundation for learning.
But what’s the best way to evidence this?
Being a good reader doesn’t equal a love of reading.
A love of reading is epistemic curiosity in action; its depth is a qualitative question, not a quantifiable score.
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Trade union
20 Oct 2025
The two words you need to help you push back at work bbc.in/47tNDoR
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20 Oct 2025
As someone who was a teacher (a lot of years alternative provision), and as a mum of a SEND child I feel waves of despair at this. How to simultaneously fail families AND educators in one fell swoop. Chapeau Phillipson
19 Oct 2025
Teachers, not councils, will take a greater role in assessing children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the Education Secretary has revealed in an interview with The i Paper
➡️ Read more: trib.al/lQ9b8BR
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Claire Osborn retweeted
16 Oct 2025
Government calls for 90% of children to be born in September.
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15 Oct 2025
General Hindsight eh Jo? I think ALL of UCU in FE with a memory will be wondering where you and the union were when we were sent back to the classroom before universities. We were getting our H&S guidance off NEU webinars
14 Oct 2025
Gavin Williamson was at the covid inquiry today
Jo Grady, General Secretary, University & College Union
Shred's Williamson
Then when Therese Coffey speaks
She shred's Coffey as well
Shame on the Conservative party for how they mismanaged the early years of covid causing so much hardship, so much loss and so much suffering
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15 Oct 2025
Yes I *am* crying at the man with his Grandpa’s model mineworks on The Repair Shop!
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10 Oct 2025
Sword Dragon of Dorset this morning on R4 with @Dean_R_Lomax Proof that if you persist with the horrors of The Today Programme eventually something good will turn up on there. #fossilfriday
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9 Oct 2025
Morning walk up the cockshutt with a friend. V much needed greenery. Last time I was up here I was at The Bird in Hand with my dad drinking vimto out of a soggy paper straw #Shropshire #Telford
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