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Isla_

2 months

Set up on blu*es*ky* as not sure I want to prop up Musk’s madness any more. Have valued so many of you so much it’s hard to potentially lose that interaction! Come say hi if you’re there @laislabonita .bsky.social

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Isla_

@Isla_Skinner

6 months

@campbellclaret Well said. @BBCPolitics is seriously letting us down - again - they did it with Farage and now it’s Tice and Braverman etc. well I’ve stopped watching and so have many people I know. It’s unbearable and I won’t prop up their figures and make them think it’s ok. #LauraKuenssberg

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11 months

Robbed! @krishgm gutted for you - Shirley was right - but thank you for the joy #StrictlyComeDancing #strictly #SCD

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8 months

@AAWoodfields @MrDavidScales I’d certainly not send my child to any school that operates in this way. As a teacher of 20 years experience and Head of Department I do know this is not necessary. It’s actually a sign of poor and weak management and a dreadful culture

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10 months

So that looked to me not that different to what Layton’s been doing for weeks. Whereas Ellie - wow that was a clear and huge step up to showdance. #StrictlyFinal #StrictlyComeDancing

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11 months

@implausibleblog Oh not led by the science then eh?

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6 years

@PaulBrandITV @Nigel_Farage Can we just stop giving him media time PLEASE! He has nothing to say worth hearing. I know this might expose his utter hypocrisy and lack of intelligence but we kinda know that and it won’t make a bit of difference just inflate his ego even more

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7 months

@bbclaurak Wow. Time for @BBCPolitics to scrutinise your now blatant bias

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1 year

I really wish @bbcstrictly would ditch Halloween week. It’s boring, it shoehorns dancers into music and stupid routines that often don’t work. We’re not kids! #StrictlyComeDancing #strictly #BBCStrictly

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11 months

But let’s face it ANYONE up against Layton was going out - whether they should or not. I agree with Shirley - they can’t depart so much from the prescribed style and not be penalised. It’s like they’ve blinkers on for L&N #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing

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11 months

So sorry to see Angela and Carlos go - I genuinely thought she was better tonight #StrictlyComeDancing

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8 months

@implausibleblog rather than a useless MP who panders to a certain section of people... the irony..

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5 months

@bbcquestiontime @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer Farage. You have got to be kidding.

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@Isla_Skinner

1 year

@RobinHoodlum @ahmedhankir Many years ago, in my worst depression, a lovely friend ( who was also a GP) said 5 words I’ve never forgotten. I said I had no hope I’d ever recover. Her response - ‘I do. Borrow my hope’ - somehow it just cut through the despair just enough to be a lifeline

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@Isla_Skinner

2 years

@Paul_A_Foster @HackedOffHugh @SkyNews @Ofcom Which will amplify it further - not appropriate

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1 year

@mariacaulfield Just because it’s not in this tweet - really? Your hypocrisy is breathtaking Maria - go search your own conscience on how your party harms women ever day

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9 months

@kayaburgess Something puzzles me. She appears to only have served as a priest for one year after ordination? Why? How did she then end up in the running for Bishop of London? I’m truly puzzled something doesn’t seem to add up.

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3 years

@metpoliceuk Honestly - try to put yourselves in that scenario. Do you seriously think you’d start questioning a man, perhaps provoking him, that you’re not sure of? I find this very very strange advice indeed. Did a woman write it?

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1 year

Ok folks can we calm down on the boo ‘trained dancer’ thing? Quite a few have got some kind of level and type of dance experience, some have acting - important too - some musically gifted, some great athleticism/strength etc etc - all in the mix #StrictlyComeDancing #Strictly

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1 year

@Peston How can you possibly sack someone for wanting a ceasefire? It’s moral madness. I hope @Keir_Starmer has more sense. There’s much more to consider here than partisan considerations.

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8 years

Every time I listen to @NicolaSturgeon I think what a great role model she is for young people from v ordinary backgrounds #marr #marrshow

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1 year

@Shivajihimself @HuwHarries I’m so so cross about these ‘Honours’ lists - someone needs to stop this it’s corrupt and a complete travesty @RhonddaBryant maybe you can make some noise

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@Isla_Skinner

5 months

@JohnRentoul It’s still serving your country even if not in combat for goodness sake John.

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@Isla_Skinner

11 months

Email #Labour peers and @LadyBasildon now! HoLOppositionWhips @parliament .uk

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11 months

🚨BREAKING NEWS ON WEDNESDAY Green Party Baroness @natalieben will move a Fatal Motion in the House of Lords on the Government’s Anti-Strike Regulations to STOP IT ROBBING MILLIONS OF WORKERS OF THEIR RIGHT TO STRIKE WILL @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour STAND UP FOR WORKERS & BACK IT?

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@WorldByWolf @SuellaBraverman That is ludicrous

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@Isla_Skinner

3 years

@DrBenLovell Posters and policies saying ‘ no one needs to be in pain’ etc are useless if people don’t listen to the patient…

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@Isla_Skinner

4 years

To the #CovidVaccine team @BTHFT when I turned up tonight and saw the queues my heart sank but they were super-efficient and was thru the process pretty darn quickly, with friendly kind staff doing the NHS and #Bradford proud. Plus didn’t hurt a bit! #CovidVaccine

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@Isla_Skinner

2 years

@ceecuk What does ‘provide safe space’ mean? It is provocative emotive language that seems very inappropriate. Given how unsafe church has been people who don’t fit your version of ‘normal’ ‘good’ ‘holy’ it’s also ironic and offensive. Do you not see that?

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@Isla_Skinner

8 months

@HelenRSalisbury This is a bit close to home for me but it’s the PA doing the investigation that is equally shocking to the fact that they did it in first place.

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5 months

@Ask_foradoctor Are you able to do anything to get this addressed? I’m so upset to see these details plastered over social media and yes again the lack of self awareness and limitations. Basically a surgeon? Despite the emoticons this way trouble lies! #patientsafety #confidentiality #ethics

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1 year

@carolvorders @SophyRidgeSky @SkyNews @Channel4News is my go to + bits of @SkyNews and @France24_en - far less of @BBCNews nowadays except for local - I don’t feel I can trust it because of it’s obsession with alleged ‘balance’ which actually makes them less rigorous and a platform for propaganda ! odd bit of @CNN

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@Isla_Skinner

8 months

@BBCBreakfast @educationgovuk Geoff Barton says…. Maybe @GillianKeegan might like to think harder about what really matters …

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@Isla_Skinner

2 years

So @jonathangullis speaking so fast in a complete monotone of what sounded like strung together sound bites so no-one has a clue what he’s actually saying is the latest media strategy is it? Subtitles couldn’t keep up. Disaster. Moronic. @10DowningStreet @krishgm

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@Isla_Skinner

11 months

@metpoliceuk ‘Counter protestors’ - implies they are anti armistice - you need to be clear about the nature of these various groups

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11 months

@Xeon4f145d96s1 I take it this is a spoof.

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11 months

@warwickmansell Only place I ever saw that was a call-centre and unions made them stop it - safety, dignity and worker’s rights!

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4 years

@RevRichardColes The continued existence of the death penalty is one of the most abhorrent and profoundly upsetting things in modern society.

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@Isla_Skinner

3 years

@KMiddletonCSP @NEndoscopy Did anyone ask the patients?

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6 months

@tracey_crosbie @naomicfisher Did you actually read the story?

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@Isla_Skinner

9 months

@GillianKeegan I’m pro apprentice model but this looks like more desperate ways to plug the gaps with cheaper learn on the job fillers which short change children / patients / others in need of vital public services . Let’s have apprenticeships for MPs eh that could level up democracy!

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@Isla_Skinner

6 months

@SkyNews It’s as if she has no idea what Johnson and the Tory government did to the police. Maybe she doesn’t.

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@Isla_Skinner

3 years

@devisridhar In a flight yesterday - everyone masked except children and some of them were anyway - because they had to to achieve their desire of going on holiday. Why can’t trains etc enforce similarly?

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11 months

@doctor_oxford Honestly think approach them official channels is best bet @doctor_oxford

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2 years

@MissusShep @MattHancock @imacelebrity @TheSun Ot course it’s not, if he really wanted to do that there many more legitimate ways he could do that.

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4 years

Isn’t @JessGillamSax not only a fantastic musician and @BBCRadio3 presenter but a passionate and shining star of an ambassador for the importance of musical education for our children. Great interview on @Channel4News @HilaryConductor @thomas_leech

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1 year

@Towler @Notfollowingthe @midkentforbrit1 Who gets to decide ‘proprieties’ and why? What you are talking about really is social norms which will always be a changing thing. To pretend otherwise is delusion and vanity. ‘My way or the highway’ is not God’s way.

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5 months

@JacquesHughesUK @tesssummers98 It wasn’t a private school when he went there. Are only rich people allowed music lessons? In those days many state schools provided great music tuition - benefitted from it myself. Properly price now is entirely irrelevant.

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4 months

So while @Keir_Starmer was spending time with #DDay #veterans , listening to and honouring them, #Sunak scuttled off home early to get back in the studio STILL LYING and trying to bluff for his life to save his skin. What do we think of that?

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2 years

@MrJohnNicolson @heraldscotland I’m astonished and appalled that the Herald has done this - frankly it’s a sacking offence as far as I’m concerned

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@Isla_Skinner

2 years

I still meet local people who’ve never visited this - or don’t know if it’s existence! It’s everyone’s - go look #Bradford ! #bradford2025

Bradford Cathedral

@Bfdcathedral

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Hundreds of years of history in one photo! - The Nave Arcades & Clerestory: 15th Century - The Cathedral font cover: 16th Century - The timber ceiling: 18th Century - The angels: 20th Century . #bradford #bradfordcathedral #religiousbuilding #history #medievalbuilding #cathedral

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8 months

Oh Millicent! #CallTheMidwife

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7 years

@slouise_louise @junglejim11 @toryboypierce Gosh just like the British expat communities world wide .. funny that

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2 years

Thx @Lenniesaurus for this thoughtful reflection - crystallised some different snd difficult aspects of the grief of loss experienced in the context of the last few years @heraldscotland #death

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@heraldscotland

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"Perhaps the cruellest thing about grief is that life doesn’t stop when you lose someone." | Touching reflection on grief and death by @Lenniesaurus ✍️

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8 months

@Dr_DeanS Do we need to start refusing to give informed consent if we are not assured of the presence of an actual anaesthetist?

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@Isla_Skinner

3 years

So so impressed with #TeamGB not just producing winning performances but with attitudes and spirit that is truly inspirational. 4 x 100 M relay team - your pure joy and teamwork is a beautiful thing. #Olympics @adam_peaty

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6 months

@AnthonyAinsdale @alan_muso @MalcolmCGodfrey He didn’t believe in it you know. He was pro Europe then saw a chance to get the top job riding on a tide of unhappiness and issues because of austerity. It was sheer opportunistic self-serving ambition.

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3 years

@Slapintheface99 @DrBenLovell Seriously - this should not need the pain team to visit should it?

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8 months

@TomABacon @AliceGoodman17 It’s a joke when you look at just how often the Tories have U-turned which they conveniently ignore when they are indulging in playground politics. He’s wrong and he can’t admit it because he’s weak and has no judgement.

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2 years

@PickardJE When they said she was a ‘details person’ this wasn’t what I thought they meant…,

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11 months

@WorldByWolf @SuellaBraverman You assume too much

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7 months

@naomicfisher This horrifies me - as a teacher I cannot get my head around how people in teaching - who presumably care about children and their overall welfare and have SOME understanding of their situation and needs - can behave like this?! More like prison officers than teachers imo

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@Isla_Skinner

6 years

@Channel4News @krishgm I’d thank him for speaking the truth

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10 months

@sugarplumNat Thank you for your courage. I am truly scared now in case I or someone I love gets sick. I never thought I’d say that.

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4 years

This is something quite special - unique for sure - but powerful, moving, exciting and then exquisitely sad - I’ll remember this for years to come - thank you @E_N_O #bbcfromENO get it on catch up if you missed it!

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Here we go 🙌 Handel's Messiah on @BBCTwo from the @LondonColiseum starting now 🎶 Who's watching? 🙋‍♀️ #BBCfromENO

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@GillianKeegan @Conservatives Are you familiar with the idea of comparing apples and pears and the issues with that Gillian?

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@Isla_Skinner

9 months

@DrRobgalloway The fact we now have a name for it is chilling. It’s been normalised. I’d like those in power to go lie on a trolley in a corridor for 24 hours and see how that feels even being well. Then engage their imaginations ..

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6 years

@JuliaHB1 If she was truly liberated she’d choose whatever she wanted .. it’s not hard to understand Julia

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2 years

@markdpryan @wil_dur @borofergie @Conservatives @NorthHertsDC ! That’s awful then. Gives person impression they’ve applied when they may not and then be deprived of vote!

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@Isla_Skinner

7 years

Lovely to see lots of people coming to explore @Bfdcathedral for #heritagedopenday - trips up to bell tower popular !

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1 year

@implausibleblog @robinthemint What a weird thing to say ‘I don’t think x adds anything to their education or health’ @GillianKeegan I don’t think you understand the fundamental reasons why people withdraw their labour or that it is a last resort!

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@Isla_Skinner

10 months

Look at the variety of Ellie’s dances tonight and her skill across the board! Every one fabulous. She’s outstanding. #StrictlyFinal #StrictlyComeDancing

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@DrBenLovell It’s not good is it. I’m wondering if someone is sorting this pronto? If not then firmly insist they do. Have had to fight hard for adequate post op pain relief myself - as a non medic that means being very assertive which is an added stress - so I’m not surprised.

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@HoldentheAces @Mel_Deans @MartinSLewis I’m sorry but that’s not at all guaranteed and it being in your will is irrelevant if you are still alive but don’t have ability ( capacity) to make decisions for whatever reason. Please don’t put faith in things ( like care) that doesn’t always work as you’d think

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@JackieClinch @BameFor Totally out of order. This is a child. Are you happy for him to be bullied and abused - assaulted - because he is black?

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@Isla_Skinner

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@VictoriaAtkins @Telegraph So why do patients feedback so very very often that ‘not enough staff’ - ‘staff run off their feet’ -‘had to wait hours for call bell to be answered’ ‘had to ask 4 times for pain relief’ ‘had to wait hours for discharge’. Go read FFT comments. Oh and let’s see the FTE numbers.

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@theAliceRoberts @martinalesky @JKAConductor @AdrianEdmondson It’s not the dislike of ‘classical music’ (what does that mean here) but you seeming to think that’s not something you are allowed to say that I and others find odd I think.

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@JamesEsses @MetroUK It’s a blatantly false comparison AND assumption made that it’s always a good thing to prescribe the pill to teenagers ( remembering the age range that covers! ) apart from anything else

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@jonsopel @RishiSunak Frankly I don’t want them flying to Oz just for this because they happen to have got to the final. Men or women.

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In a year that has been unlike any other in my lifetime, the fact that @bbcproms is still celebrating the sheer wonder and diversity of music is a great big chunk of pure joy! #ThankEUForTheMusic #SaveOurArtists #BBCProms #LNOP @EUflagmafia

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11 months

Sorry really wanted to like it but I’m out #BoatStory

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@tiffy201 @WaliNazar1 That look in her eyes at the end 🥲

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@NativveResearch Depends what you mean by mental health. I get a bit antsy when people talk about it without recognising the profound differences between something like ‘mental/emotional wellbeing’ and more serous and disrupting mental health issues..

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@itvpeston @Ofcom @dawes_melanie @LeeAndersonMP_ The idea of Lee working harder to be impartial .., yeah ..

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2 years

Excellent communication from @lewis_goodall as always. If you, like me, get quickly lost when economists start talking about £ v $ etc etc - this will help!

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@lewis_goodall

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Striking thing is that beyond the energy measures Friday didn’t need to happen. There was no need to have a budget so quickly. Unfolding as it did, it’s made an already growing sterling problem and cost of borrowing problem, worse. Here’s why both matter.

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@markj_57 @Bats1961 @Brizo751 @AntacsB @lucyallan They really don’t. Unless they are rich.

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@MelJStride May I suggest you first of all focus your attention on a fair, humane and ACCURATE assessment of people's health, disabilities and needs before you start shouting about tougher sanctions. Not too much to ask is it?

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The only showdance that really put it out there was Ellie #StrictlyComeDancing #StrictlyFinal

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3 years

@Luigi_awake @Nigel_Farage It’s not illegal to seek asylum

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@TheBengwin @Towler @WilliamClouston Yeah that’s the trouble with basic books.

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@implausibleblog She’s just a loud mouth -literally just shouts over anything that she doesn’t want you to hear. It’s her MO. Appalling, what is Sunak thinking? #bbcqt

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2 years

@JournalistJill @bennite75 Would they cancel a ‘men’s shed’ meeting or event? Mmmmm

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6 years

@andyhislop1 @PaulAllen007 @Telegraph Yes but it’s the rather corporate feel obsession or conversely ill-informed emotional tabloid sentiment that is way beyond ‘remembrance Sunday’ and actually to my mind somehow cheapens the true meaning

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3 years

@thetimesscot These are not ‘leftwing’ - or shouldn’t be - these are moral values in any decent society.

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2 years

@SilvioTattiscon @FerretScot @heraldscotland Oh so you didn’t read it. What a shame it’s quite useful to read something before you comment on it.

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@michaelgove @liz_langfield Because, Michael, what have you been doing for the last 13years? Creating or exacerbating these issues through your atrocious policies and cuts to funding. Now desperately trying to reverse because oh yes there’s a GE coming. Funny that.

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@drmattuk I’d already written to @PhilipDaviesUK who requested a response from Minister which completely failed to address my concerns; pointed this out and asked for more - so far - nada. I’ll send your thread and urge him to read it before tomorrow, if he can be bothered.

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@danielgoyal It’s abhorrent that they’d even propose this though - and that there are peoole out there who might cheer at this idea. How depressing is that? @DWPgovuk all time low

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@BetulaAlliance @Towler Do you follow the rest of Leviticus?

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3 years

@CallTheMidwife1 what a great tribute to a decade of extraordinary writing, acting and so many other things that make this so special #CallTheMidwife

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@Ask_foradoctor @LittlePersonDoc There’s so much here this is awful but the anxiety / depression to PD one on the basis of HOW MUCH psychiatry training is breathtaking. Gives impresario too she is doing the prescribing /referring. NO mention of supervision! How can this be? Is @gmcuk being made aware?

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@medicalmodelbri I’m sorry but this diminishes my confidence in the role rather than increasing it. It’s a long stream of jargon phrases that doesn’t tell me as a patient what the real scope and limits of the role are. And as a patient who works in the NHS so had more of a clue - that’s worrying

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