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@E2Teacher

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Essex teacher. Teach First ‘11. Labour realist, cyclist, allotmenteer.

Joined September 2016
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Isobel
7 years
Woah! Just noticed that two fine British architectural feats, Wells Cathedral and Stratford Bus Station, were separated at birth. #newham
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I worked in a school before and after it raised expectations for behaviour. It became safer, calmer, happier & outcomes soared for disadvantaged children. Middle class policy makers will never have to send their *own* kids to the chaotic schools they create.
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English schools to phase out ‘cruel’ behaviour rules as Labour plans major education changes
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4 years
@HKesvani @JimBethell Started from the top now we here
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Isobel
7 years
Michael Gove and John Humphreys guffawing as they joke about Weinstein's groping is not how I want to start my day #r4today
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Isobel
7 years
Labour MPs should continue Jo Cox's sterling approach to cross-party work that builds consensus and improves people's lives.
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7 years
Pro-Corbyn MP: Tories are the enemy and I won't be friends with any of them
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1 year
@DuncanStott Much as I’d like to dunk on UK planning, the proposed London spot is totally bonkers, surrounded on 3 sides by residential buildings.
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4 years
@Tonygardner Shout out to the journos about to lose the next week trawling for Teesdale CCTV tapes
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4 years
@RKDasgupta Wonder how the ‘sound sleep’ balanced with the ‘parties and pleasure’. It’s a broad offer.
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4 years
@thedalstonyears My fav of the genre was someone posting a pic of people walking towards Greenwich park. Raging about ‘irresponsible wankers’ and clarifying she took it from her front garden. You’ve got a town house in Greenwich pal, step down.
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Isobel
5 years
My dad’s just declared that he didn’t take coke 20 years ago, and it’s a ‘mistake’ which he ‘deeply regrets’
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Isobel
7 years
Bernard Jenkins' totally inaccurate rant against EU talks goes unchallenged; Nick Clegg's moderate position ripped apart. Cheers #r4today ...
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Isobel
3 months
@nclfuzzy It’s almost like they don’t actually want the social equality they profess to champion
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Isobel
7 years
@sam_kriss Crazy idea here, but... maybe men can be in sexual relationships with women, and still act sexually agggressively towards them. Rad.
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Isobel
6 years
Damien Hinds on #r4today going on about need for early years intervention. If only there was some kind of established national programme to help poorer parents give their children a sure start in life? 🤔
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Isobel
6 years
I wonder how people can seemingly forget that a female MP was assassinated in our country 2 years ago. It should have been a turning point for our country's politics and political discourse.
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Isobel
6 years
Gobsmacked that John McDonnell’s response to the harassment Luciana Berger is facing is for *her* to come out and promise she’s not a traitor against the Labour Party. Fuelling the flames. #r4today
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Isobel
6 years
@JoshuaGarfield After he said that, the bloke behind me said ‘I agree. Should always be the best person for the job, every time. None of this special treatment for women.’ It’s strange more women don’t come along to local meetings, eh.
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Isobel
6 years
Yippee! Delighted to have been awarded a Page Scholarship by @theESU to look at approaches to supporting marginalized girls to speak up in the classroom in US high schools #oracy #stateside
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Isobel
7 years
Any Answers been on for 2 mins. Make-up, 'sultry eyes', evolution and feminism all been blamed for sexual harassment. Irresponsible #bbcaq
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Isobel
8 months
@Barcajim3 Parisians deserve to listen to the music they love there. Grow up.
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Isobel
3 years
Keepin it casual by the river this arvo. Happy new year to the 3 people who like my tweets, I appreciate you all.
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Isobel
7 years
Commissioning independent reports on all Brexit scenarios and then informing the UK public... Sadiq Khan is trolling Westminster leaders with his sheer competence. #r4today
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Isobel
4 years
I am SHOCKED to see the Canary hounding female labour MPs.
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Isobel
4 years
Mum is EVC and had paused her chemo treatment due to fear of picking up covid in hospital. Yesterday with no prior warning she dropped us a message to say she’d just been vaccinated. I sobbed like a baby with relief. 💉😭🎉
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Isobel
4 years
@Lostbrain15 @michaelgoodier Which just bakes inequality into the process. Last year I taught at a school with 25+ A-level kids in a class due to funding cuts.
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Isobel
4 years
@camillahmturner How will this bizarre war against safe schools look when hospitals in this area are full in January? Infected students will give to relatives over Christmas for the sake of 3 days of Christmas jumpers and DVDs...
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Isobel
7 years
@GuardianHeather Right... I see we’ve got to the ‘secret Jewish-led conspiracy to stop brexit’ phase of losing our minds.
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Isobel
6 years
Every time I plan a hiking trip by myself I get a bit anxious for 2 days before. Then get going and after approx 20 mins I feel like someone’s taken my brain out my head and gently washed it in spring water before returning it carefully.
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Isobel
7 years
4 soggy teachers out on #labourdoorstep after school and a prophetic 🌈 after the storm @WestHamLabour @lynbrownmp
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Isobel
3 years
Just finished my first @Ambition_Inst conference for the #MastersinExpertTeaching It was SUCH good quality and I’m so excited to get cracking now. Worth 15 hours overnight coach madness from cornwall…
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Isobel
3 years
@solomon_teach Super interesting, thank you. Worried how much of the catch up m(b)illions is going to flow into third rate mentoring companies’ pockets.
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Isobel
1 year
Really interesting interview with @rakibehsan on @triggerpod this week. Re: British middle class: 'if you're insecure about your privilege, see a therapist; don't get in the way of effective social policy.' Lol.
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Isobel
7 months
@EduFabians @MichaelRosenYes @SwailesRuth @RaeSnape @secretHT1 @CatMcKinnell @bphillipsonMP I’m a Fabian and a school leader. This is so embarrassing. Please speak to teachers with expertise before meme-posting bad policy takes.
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Isobel
3 years
@VictoriaPeckham Burka girl boss book promo has to be peak liberal feminism
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Isobel
7 years
Heartbreaking, 2 vegas survivors on #r4today defending current gun laws as 'tragic price of freedom'. Its a deep rooted American pathology
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2 years
@RachaelBurford Maybe the Labour Party sent a response to his address in Ilford and that’s why he missed it 🤷‍♂️
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Isobel
7 years
Delighted to find out I've been accepted onto the @FabianWomen Mentoring Scheme. HUGE thank you @benniekara for the nudge! x
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5 years
Can’t stop thinking about how Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s family must feel today
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4 years
@AnnaYearley 'The government hasn't proved there is a virus' ... I just...
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Isobel
5 years
Me getting 250 students into the GCSE exam hall today
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Isobel
7 years
Rajoy has surely sealed the fate of Catalonia as an independent nation today. #CatalanReferendum
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Isobel
6 years
Only John Humphrys could, during a piece about young women on TV being objectified, make a bumbling comment about whether the female interviewee wears halter neck bras ... #r4today #retirementcalling
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Isobel
4 years
A grieving woman whose brother has died of a clot has gone on the news to stress the importance of having the vaccine. What an extraordinarily generous thing to do. #WATO
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Isobel
6 years
@RobWard79 Im only 20 / 180 scripts in and I think I’ve already spent what I’ll earn in comfort eating take always and booze to numb the pain.
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Isobel
3 years
@JohnJLindsley What’s interesting is how many aren’t dudes. Female ideologues policing women. Women historically good at enforcing purity tests and ostracising heretics.
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@E2Teacher
Isobel
3 years
🔥 first prize onions, Leyton annual allotment show 🔥 first prize chard, Leyton annual allotment show 🔥 first prize gladioli,Leyton annual allotment show
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Isobel
3 years
My mum was an amazing gardener. Since she died 2 months ago, the allotment is the only place I feel even vaguely myself. I wish I could show her how it’s all coming on, thanks to her wisdom and guidance .
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Isobel
6 years
See you in six weeks, classroom plants. I’m rooting for you. 🤞
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Isobel
4 years
Who do I see out my window, but our fab Stratford and New Town councillors checking in with neighbours and local shops after the fire last night 👀 #maryland #ispy #sorryifthisisweird
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Isobel
3 years
Those driving round north London broadcasting rape & death threats against British Jews are really demonstrating the case for the existence of the state of Israel.
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Isobel
5 years
@NobodyNorman @Miss_Snuffy @JamesDelingpole I've recently moved to a school with silent corridors for some lesson change overs, and the school environment is so much calmer, safer and happier for students, especially more vulnerable children. I wasn't expecting to be such a convert.
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Isobel
2 years
Big hat energy for Iain and @LewisCoakley ’s beautiful Tuscan wedding last weekend.
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Isobel
4 years
@sgtoyne @MAAcademyMusic Tell them there'll be treble if they don't fix it.
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Isobel
6 months
Prittlewell Square and the Bowling Green looking magical last night. @FriendsSouthend
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Isobel
4 years
Does anyone else keep getting a fleeting banner notification from the NHS app saying they’ve been exposed? Then nothing on the app. Is it a phantom?
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Isobel
7 years
@youngvulgarian And then their spots get offered to, IDK, maybe, women that aren't creepers?
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Isobel
5 years
Waaaah told my lovely raucous form that I am leaving to spend more time with my sick mum. Cue very noisy response. Then they came back quietly at the end of the day to say they’d put my mum in their prayers and dua. 😭😭
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Isobel
4 years
Torrential rain most the day. Made it to the Cotswolds. Haven’t been run over by Clarkson yet.
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Isobel
3 years
@tombennett71 We’ve filled our quota, so now you can bring knives in.
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Isobel
5 years
Shout out to all the teachers covering 25-35 year old colleagues who called in with food poisoning today #glastonbury
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Isobel
7 years
Spanish-strength G&T and much needed restorative feminist lolz courtesy of fantastic @jessphillips . Half term vibez ❤️
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Isobel
5 years
It makes me so so angry that young people aren’t safe to walk home after school. This threat of knife attacks looming over them once they leave the school gate. It shouldn’t be normal, but I’m not shocked when I hear it anymore. Just really angry
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Isobel
7 years
Small Saturday night air punch to hear @ayeshahazarika say she’ll one day run for office.
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Isobel
6 years
Errr gone back to Essex and Mum has framed my profile pic... black t-shirt still going strong.
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Isobel
4 years
Two weeks ago I snuck some plants out to a neglected corner of my block. Repurposed an abandoned drawer. Now have flowers, courgettes, tomatoes, lettuce and beans growing. It’s been weirdly joyful. Met lots of neighbours out there and surprised a few drug dealers.
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Isobel
5 years
When questioned today on #bbcpm on Boris Johnson's awful handling of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, Michael Fallon said 'on the big issues that really mattered' he was on top of the job. What an absolute fuck you to her husband and child.
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Isobel
5 years
Yesterday finished my 8th year of teaching. Yikes. Orange-yer pleased summer’s here.
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Isobel
4 years
@nickeardleybbc Hitting that sweet spot between incompetence and contempt for the public
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Isobel
4 years
Johnson is a total mess. It feels dangerous. He's not done his homework, he's not well and he hasn't got a clue. #Borisfail #LiaisonCommittee
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Isobel
1 year
@TheNewEuropean @Miss_Snuffy Yes, head teachers that transform disadvantaged kids’ lives are bad, actually. Unserious country.
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Isobel
3 years
They have no idea what we went through last year. There is a country-wide trauma from months of isolation, and guilt about lonely loved ones that these guys just didn’t experience.
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3 years
NEW: Downing Street staff and Boris Johnson pictured drinking wine in the No 10 garden last May when the rest of the country was limited to meeting just one other person socially outdoors. Via @guardian
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4 years
Dedicated to all the blokes on the tube who wear their masks under their nose
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Isobel
7 years
Heart warmed at the end of a cold day to have a standing ovation for @rokhsanafiaz 's vision for Newham at hustings tonight.
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Isobel
7 years
@seyiakiwowo My thoughts are with you at this difficult time, Seyi.
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Isobel
4 years
It is mad that schools aren’t remote teaching from Monday. Hot box all the kids in a classroom to watch DVDs for half a week then send them to visit granny....
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Isobel
6 years
Systems down at school. Enjoyed a day of no emails or spreadsheets, trad lessons, board work, no worksheets, settled silent work, dictation. Possibly pacing around with a metre rule took it too far tho.
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Isobel
6 years
@MayorofLondon Exclusion is a symptom, not the cause. Most schools are working desperately to try to patch over the crisis that austerity has caused in the lives of our most disadvantaged and vulnerable students. Depressing that schools so easily become the scapegoat.
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Isobel
4 years
@StuartLock @KateGreenSU Barely finished the Knowledge Organisers and I’ve got to dust off the APP skills descriptors? Noo😱
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Isobel
5 years
@StolenRide ⁩ Whyte Dorset. Lock cut on Drapers Field, Temple Mills Lane, nr High Road Leyton. Gutted. Please keep an eye out, thanks.
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Isobel
1 year
Incredibly moving interview with the daughter of one of the freed Israeli hostages on #r4today just now. Her and her family’s continued commitment to peace and understanding is superhuman.
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Isobel
6 years
Dream weekend spent learning from and with amazing women, at the beautiful @NorthernCollege . Thank you @FabianWomen @MegMunn01 @angelasmithmp @ChristineMegson @CAdamsLab for all you do for the sisterhood!
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Isobel
10 months
A shop assistant recognised me from teaching her ages ago and she was so excited, but then I asked how much the candle was and it was too expensive so I had to put it down and leave. And we were both embarrassed.
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5 months
It's like they always say: you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat waiters and volunteer canvassers.
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Isobel
4 years
Speaking of the wrong results based on past performance...
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Isobel
2 years
@yuanyi_z @unherd Totally changed my mind on euthanasia after (1) caring for my dying mum and (2) seeing how steep Canada’s slippery slope was. Great piece.
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Isobel
4 years
@LawrenceEFoley The students I’ve chatted to on calls about this are craving normality, lessons, structure from school. You can build pastoral support through tutor times, assemblies, PSHE.
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Isobel
7 years
@Jake_Wilde 'Lol, lads I am literally crying with laughter at my dad's antisemitism'
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Isobel
4 years
Rosie Duffield did the right thing for resigning for going for socially distanced walk with her partner before that was allowed. Everything else in the article is tabloid salaciousness.
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Isobel
4 years
@ruthserwotka This is the BAD sort of misogynistic abuse.
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Isobel
4 years
First of the guerilla veg crop, grown outside the flat in an abandoned drawer. Fried courgette flowers with ricotta and mint filling.
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Isobel
4 months
@oldandrewuk How many meetings you’ve had / students you’ve taught / emails you’ve answered / behaviour you’ve dealt with / instant coffee you’ve drunk before 11am.
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Isobel
3 years
@ianwhite21 @solomon_teach We have an array of poorly qualified young grads with no teaching experience ready to print some disjointed worksheets off the internet then try to coerce your tired students into completing them at the end of a full school day.
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Isobel
4 years
Another fab cycle out to Rainham marshes via Dagenham. Being on my bike at the moment gives me fleeting relief from the madness.
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4 years
That hanging up noise of the final Teams lesson ending for half term ... Hallelujah🍷
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Isobel
7 years
@bbclaurak Hope the many brilliant female PPCs across the country are getting by-election ready.
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Isobel
4 years
Men of Newham: would be nice if I could enjoy my one exercise outside a day, without giving my middle finger such a work out.
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Isobel
4 years
My sister, on a video call while on a busy ferry for a long weekend hiking in NZ, just turned her camera around so I could see the dolphins she was seeing. Really happy for her. Really.
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Isobel
5 years
Rory Stewart is so blithe about his racist prejudices. It’s so grim to think people in 2019 are that relaxed about letting the mask slip like that... let alone an MP... let alone a London mayoral candidate.
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Isobel
7 years
@bbc5live @Alison_McGovern @Emmabarnett YES. Teacher stare on point too. 👌
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Isobel
4 years
If this disease was spread easily through white collar work places (and white MC communities) the government would have done so much more. Too many people at the top don’t know any of the 100,000.
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