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Simon Angear

@SiAngear

Former newspaper and magazine editor, now working comms in the education sector. Dad. Quiz addict, Man Utd fan, mediocre runner, movie lover. Views my own.

 Weston-super-Mare, England
Joined July 2011
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Elton John talking up Glastonbury on The Graham Norton Show. Always great when the artist, no matter their size, *get it* 🫶🏻 What a night, can’t imagine ever experiencing that indescribable atmosphere again. #Glastonbury #Glasto
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@guardian11 Oct 2024
Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is...

Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is...

Remember when the existence of natural disasters wasn’t up for ‘debate’? It seems like a long time ago now, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Adam Peaty: ‘If you touch and you know you’re cheating, you’re not really winning’ theguardian.com/sport/articl…
Adam Peaty says he may retire … and hits out at ‘cheating’ Chinese swimmers

Adam Peaty says he may retire … and hits out at ‘cheating’ Chinese swimmers

After Adam Peaty and the British relay team finished fourth in the 4x100m medley the 29-year-old said he ‘might have to step away from the sport’

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@jps_artist@JPSArtist126 Feb 2024
Which picture is after over 50k was spent on its refurbishment and relocation? @WSMERCURY @WestonBID @MailOnline @BristolLive @visitweston @bbcpointswest @itvnews #banksy #pinwheel #50k #coastalrevivalfund #jpsburstsballoon
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🤯 The £37bn spent on test and trace is more than it is estimated it will cost to vaccinate the world. Where on earth did it go? theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Dido Harding to head the NHS? Her position would be untenable | Polly Toynbee

Dido Harding to head the NHS? Her position would be untenable | Polly Toynbee

She presided over the test-and-trace debacle. But it seems Boris Johnson is hellbent on embedding Torydom, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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CIWM@CIWM9 Jun 2021
NEWS | ‘#MountRecyclemore’ highlights environmental threat of e-waste ahead of #G7Cornwall summit circularonline.co.uk/news/mo…
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the 'no racism in the uk' report team meeting
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Don't be like Orlando. Be more Tom.
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The bill for Boris Johnson’s Brexit is coming in and it’s punishingly steep | Andrew Rawnsley theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The bill for Boris Johnson’s Brexit is coming in and it’s punishingly steep | Andrew Rawnsley

The bill for Boris Johnson’s Brexit is coming in and it’s punishingly steep | Andrew Rawnsley

Ministers say it is just teething trouble. To many businesses it feels more like root canal surgery without the benefit of anaesthetic

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Lane@LaneThomaHewitt20 Jan 2021
#Trump consigned to history(?). #TrumpsLastDay #trumpfarewelladdress
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Call it what it was: a coup attempt | Rebecca Solnit theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The violence at the Capitol was an attempted coup. Call it that | Rebecca Solnit

The violence at the Capitol was an attempted coup. Call it that | Rebecca Solnit

I call it a coup attempt because, though I assume that it will not prevent the Biden presidency, it certainly intended to

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Why does Matt Hancock sit down like Woody in Toy Story when a human enters the room
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@NASA24 Jun 2020
10 years. 20 million gigabytes of data. 425 million hi-res images of the Sun. A new time-lapse video marks a decade of operations for our @NASASun Solar Dynamics Observatory. Watch: youtu.be/l3QQQu7QLoM

A Decade on the Sun in One Minute

Ten years of observations from our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite are squeezed into one minute.

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@PaulBrandITV2 Jun 2020
UK Statistics Authority rebukes Matt Hancock’s stats on daily testing, saying they are “far from complete or comprehensible.” UKSA concludes that the data is misleading. “The aim seems to be to show the largest possible number of tests, even at the expense of understanding”.
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Sir David Norgrove has today replied to @MattHancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding the Government’s COVID-19 testing data ow.ly/pw4c50zWpO8
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It looks different & it’s unwinding in different ways but in both US & UK something profound & dangerous is happening. A breakdown of trust in the most basic role we expect from our governments: to protect us from harm.
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Sage committee member and the director of the Wellcome Trust Jeremy Farrar says COVID-19 is spreading "too fast" for the government to lift lockdown measures
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This, by @JohnJCrace, is brilliant, but it’s also a glimpse of a tragedy that will be studied for generations. One that 65,000 have paid for with their lives and millions will pay for with their jobs. All because a little boy wanted to be king of the world theguardian.com/politics/202…
Floundering Boris leaves no doubt: our PM is a showman out of his depth | John Crace

Floundering Boris leaves no doubt: our PM is a showman out of his depth | John Crace

Clueless on health policy, clueless on benefits. Our prime minister is a showman out of his depth

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@mattwridley9 May 2020
A fascinating example of dystopian, pessimistic fiction displacing the hopeful, optimistic truth. Turns out that Lord of the Flies is dead wrong. Maroon some boarding-school boys on an island and they act sensibly, generously and imaginatively. theguardian.com/books/2020/m…
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

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Tim Walker@ThatTimWalker8 May 2020
People who say ‘well, he’s doing the best he can and who honestly could ever have got on top of something like #COVIDー19?’ should watch this.
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nazir afzal@nazirafzal6 May 2020
Those of us who have good fortune to connect with people from other nations will know this already They all pity us & feel sorry for us They consider terrible death toll to be self inflicted as a result of poor Govt decision making Who am I to disagree? theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
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