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Remember Thomas Pueyo? He was the guy who wrote those viral scaremongering blog posts about Covid in March. The first was viewed over 40 million times in the first month,
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The leadership election is getting a bit personal and at times nasty for my taste. So as a passionate and ardent Ed supporter I'd like to explain why I hugely
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So you mighta seen the news yesterday that the @sltrib editor, @jnpearce had resigned. It came as a real shock. And I wanted to take a little time to process
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THREAD to celebrate the publication of the @heavenlyrecs book today... It's late 1990 and I'm walking down Wardour St to meet the Bull. To go to see (I think) Teenage
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ANTIFA FACT-CHECK THREAD: During the impeachment trial today the president's lawyers claimed that one of the first rioters arrested on 1/6 was a member of Antifa/BLM. Various fact-checkers ALL determined
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I don't quite know how to put this and yes there are exceptions and blah blah but I'm not wholly unsurprised at the behavior of Trump's supporters and specifically the
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Possibile unpopular opinion: Almost all the housing stock in the NE USA should be replaced, because it is old and usually built to a pretty poor standard. I see guys
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Hello @VP / @Mike_Pence. Heard you’re visiting my hometown for the holiday. Stay tuned for a story a day of things that would be different if you had chosen to
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An atypical 9/11 story, bear with me: Although I'll never forget that day, particularly experiencing it as an active duty soldier on a military base that went into immediate lockdown,
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Good morning, Twitter.I was reminded of something that happened in Singapore, while my ship was there for 5 or 6 days. It was 1979, it was early in a 6
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A reminder...once again...is that it should be LISTEN and not BELIEVE when people are talking about abuse/assault/etc. Blind belief is as bad as blind dismissal. You start from a position
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Have you heard of the Cockroach Theory for SelfDevelopment?At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a
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This is either naive or disingenuous. The chunk of Modi loving NRIs who support Trump is pretty huge. I've heard of several bhakts who traveled to DC for this. This
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Immediate 10 #CovidSEND reflections. May blog later but for now: 1. Families shd not need to fight for their children's rights to education, health and social care [I know]Total respect
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One of the many ways bullies operate is to absolutely appear to be reasonable, very friendly - and even victimised - to every one else they are not bullying. This
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I decided to start a partial catalogue of threads on teacher risk.Here’s the Office for Statistics Regulation letter upholding my complaint about an ONS ad hoc study on teacher risk—a
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