Writer,runner,teacher. English@Cambridge; MA,PhD Byron&Shelley@Durham (still sorry, Keats lad). W-c. Heart on t'left. Enabling aspiration best I can. #amwriting
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25 Jul 2020
You say that equality is unattainable, so will I observe is perfection; yet [...] they both demand that an unremitting tendency towards themselves should be made, & the nearer Society approaches towards this point the happier will it be.
Letter to E. Hitchener, 25 July 1811
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31 Dec 2022
This has been my pinned tweet since forever.
Let's start here, and proceed from this.
Happy New Year everyone.
25 Jul 2020
You say that equality is unattainable, so will I observe is perfection; yet [...] they both demand that an unremitting tendency towards themselves should be made, & the nearer Society approaches towards this point the happier will it be.
Letter to E. Hitchener, 25 July 1811
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31 Dec 2022
Scarborough Council has cancelled its NYE fireworks because there’s a walrus having a kip on the front, which is possibly the finest story to end 2022 we could ask for. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
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31 Dec 2022
Lovely thanks. But there's currently a massive open goal here for you - start providing some audible and visible opposition to the collapse of the NHS. Hold the Govt to account. Challenge them on it. Your current silence is complicit, and people are noticing.
31 Dec 2022
2023 is a new chapter for our country.
This year, my Labour Party will set out the case for change and the case for a new Britain.
Today, we look to the future with that hope together.
Happy New Year to you and your family, from me and mine.
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31 Dec 2022
This time Henson’s gone too far
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31 Dec 2022
Pay them appropriately.
Fund the NHS properly.
Stop insulting them.
Stop being deceitful in your (mis)handling of the strike action.
And apologise to us all, & to future generations, for the horrors we are seeing.
The NHS is dying. You are killing it.
Contemptible.
30 Dec 2022
Congratulations to all those in the NHS & social care being honoured this year, including nurses, GPs, pharmacists, volunteers and care home managers.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication
#NYHonours
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31 Dec 2022
Happy New Year everyone. May 2023 be all you wish it to be. Be kind to yourself, and others.
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31 Dec 2022
I’m wishing everyone all the best for 2023.
Fuck all this skint, fearful, uptight, hating, snidey bitterness shit we get foisted on us by the controllers with their vested interests.
It’s time for the roaring 20’s to really get going. Here’s to 2023!
Big love 👍💚🕺🐊
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31 Dec 2022
2022 has been a tough year for many people struggling to get by.
It’s also been an extraordinary year of solidarity, community & kindness.
I will enter the New Year in the same way I left this one: with hope that we can build a more sustainable, caring & peaceful world for all.
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30 Dec 2022
Your favourite #poems with a sense of things coming to an end, or new beginnings?
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30 Dec 2022
Goodbye Vivienne Westwood. A ballsy lady who rocked the fashion world and stood defiantly for what was right. Love Paul x
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30 Dec 2022
She amplified him, did she? Or did she just respond to someone who trolled her on Twitter? Why are we expecting the 19 year old to be the grown up here? She had every right to defend herself and frankly her response was bloody genius. You are misattributing responsibility here.
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30 Dec 2022
Patti Smith was born OTD in 1946. In a 2016 interview she said her favourite things include a first edition of Finnegans Wake signed by Joyce in green ink. "The book is almost unreadable," she said, "but as an object it’s beautiful."
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30 Dec 2022
The bloody cheek of this. The victim blaming. The deflection. The toxicity of this angle.
What a bunch of bastards they are.
30 Dec 2022
Good riddance to 2022 - the year the country became ungovernable.
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For the 'never heard of him', or 'oh, just another toxic male' crowd - he's well known to school safeguarding teams. His influence is pernicious & real; his videos viewed 10s of BILLIONS of times. Don't dismiss his reach & dangerousness just because he's outside your sphere. 1/2
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30 Dec 2022
Perhaps a better way of approaching it, particularly if you work with young people or you are a parent of school-age children, is to think: it is pretty concerning that someone can have this reach and influence and NOT be on my radar.
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29 Dec 2022
My 92 yr old mother is lying on the floor at Warwick Hospital in agony. No trolleys. My brother, a doctor, is with her & said it is an absolute #ShitShow. Is this what we've let happen???? #NHSisBroken #GTTO
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30 Dec 2022
At Jerry's Pizza, we deliver swift justice.
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30 Dec 2022
Revisiting Vic Reeves' Big Night Out with the boys, & the endless inventiveness is just stunning.
My eldest remembers EVERYTHING - every little one-liner - & has been just throwing them out every now & then as we go about our day & it has rendered me entirely unable to function.
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