Principal of the overlooked, undervalued, underfunded yet marvellous @Hartlepoolfe. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits & FSM. Views my own.

North East via Leicester
Joined December 2014
"Hartlepool has the highest share of students going into higher technical qualifications in all England." @hartlepoolfe #TransformingLives since 1849
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'Do you think it's racist' Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was questioned on #BBCBreakfast after his former senior aide Raheem Kassam called Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as a 'Nigerian scammer' bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cp07jz…
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Amid the egos that can go out of control with the Ballon D’Or, Kane is a good, diligent, hard-working - and exceptionally talented - professional. Actually feels a bit of a winner from another era, in a good way.
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This 👇
Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise. 🏆
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HS2 to Newcastle would have been nice 😉
Liz Truss claims the U.K. would have managed successful missions to Mars within years — if only her 49-day premiership hadn’t been cut short. vist.ly/5pyyb
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Re-upping this Makerfield focus group from last week in light of headlines around PM re-opening convo on EU. I thought he’d get a Brexit backlash. But my big surprise in group was that nearly all these leave voters had regret & open to PM’s look again m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdmZQ…
Nearly 100 days into Andy Burnham's premiership, @BethRigby returns to Makerfield - the constituency that propelled him into No 10 - to ask whether the goodwill that carried him to victory is holding. Watch the full report on Sky News: trib.al/ao51rWX
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Jude Bellingham is English. He was born and raised in the West Midlands. His father was born and raised in Southend. His mother was born and raised in the West Midlands.
Replying to @JamesMelville
Well, he's not English.
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With Lula’s win, we are now one step closer to preserving Earth’s largest rainforest.
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Missing out the part where he said "We have absolute security in the whole electoral process"
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Strange. It was hard to broadcast over the noise of so many celebrating Brazilians.... I truly resent these people constantly crying victim when the tech bros give their views a reach they clearly don't deserve
Notice how there are ZERO Brazilians partying in the streets after Lula's "victory" The people of Brazil voted for Bolsonaro and had their hopes and dreams stolen yet again by the fascist dictator Lula.
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He sounds like a neo-Nazi @piersmorgan, not sure how you can continue to feign outrage over that description. What else would you call your pal’s rhetoric here? It’s pure white supremacist, Neo-Nazi racism.
Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."
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Tonight - Serbia feels like the new Hungary - over throwing of a Russia friendly / Putin sympathising leader for something genuinely new - in Serbias case a student led party . Does this shift dynamics in the war on Ukraine ? And with the shape of the EU?
I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students' List @studentblokade, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them on their victory. I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle.
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Not even close
Brazil’s election has descended into chaos after a plea by President Lula - losing in all polls - saw the Supreme Court extend voting hours arbitrarily for two hours. Lula claimed public transport difficulties had stopped his voters getting to polling stations. But should he somehow turn his polling deficit around through this move, how can anyone expect Flávio Bolsonaro supporters to accept such an obviously gerrymandered result? Elections lose all integrity if you change the rules to ensure your vote is maximised.
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1/ 🇷🇸🇷🇺 Vučić just lost Serbia. russia’s most useful Balkan ally called a snap election to cling to power. Students who spent 2 yrs in the streets crushed him. Moscow spent a decade buying influence with cheap gas & political cover. Europe didn't oust him. Serbians did.
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Good news from Brazil & Serbia.
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The funk soul brother
Carrick out now 😡😡
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Replying to @trussliz
So why did you sack your chancellor for delivering it?
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'Wind' by Ted Hughes: "This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window" Via Anthony Wilson's 'Lifesaving Poems': anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2013…
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Was the bird dead?
Bird’s-eye view of the ballroom. Next stop: The Sunshine State 🌴
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inventing a time machine so i can see this set live
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