BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 👑 And the FIRST Black AUTHOR to win it let alone Black WOMAN since the prize BEGAN in 1994? Sorry for all the caps but what are you telling meee #Nibbies

The many roles of a head teacher are some are so ridiculous it is hard to believe them. To lighten up the day, tell me one story of something you never expected to do as a head. I'll kick off... 5 sheep somehow 'broke' into my school field so I had to herd them and round them up

Working class went from being called ‘low skilled’ to ‘essential & frontline’ in a matter of days. Tories used the working class to carry the UK through a pandemic. Now they’re planning pull the ladder away. We must never allow ‘low paid’ to be called ‘low skilled’ ever again.

Having a cat is like having a teddy bear that is always investigating a murder.

Stunningly ill informed. Stunningly ill timed. Stunningly useless.

I always enjoy posting a summer book list around this time of year. 📚 are so important IMO - especially in tough times - for wellbeing, perspective, understanding. So even though my reading has been limited this year due to COVID, here’s a few that I’ve enjoyed and recommend.

Provide support? Call out racism?... Yes! ☑️ Be a saviour? To make yourself feel/look good... No! 🚫 Listen to those that live through it?... Yes! ☑️ Make it about you? When you have not lived it or felt it yourself?...No! 🚫

Amazing that this even needs to be said, but still so refreshing to hear.

I’m glad F1 have issued this statement but some of the responding comments appall me. What a society we live in. #BernieEcclestone #F1 #lewisisright

Bernie Ecclestone 🙄

If only Klopp was a politician too #klopp

LIVERPOOL.

The Welsh have a word for the unattainable yearning you feel for a place that no longer exists, or to which you can never return. *Hiraeth* is a homesickness you feel when home is years ago and far away, if it ever existed at all. #thread

We are the minnows in the sea of literary prizes but our prize is committed to equality and justice on all intersections of human experience...and narrative. We are saddened and disappointed by this statement.

It’s not good enough @TheBookerPrizes I’m saddened that you think it is acceptable. Surely you can see that by having her as a Honorary Vice President her views are connected to you...unless you state that they aren’t...which you have had the chance to do so... and you haven’t...

Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together: Business Insider

It has been confirmed to me that one of the staff members at Home Farm who had previously tested positive for covid-19, recovered and was tested negative twice has tested positive again.

https://t.co/uCyPV70Wgw Three Leeds schools and now second in Doncaster closed. We are working in worrying times- stay safe everyone @chrisdysonHT @joanne_jobutts @rrunsworth @kateowbridge @neilayates @HannayJeremy @smithsmm @MrARawlings @llewelyn20 @Thinkingschool2

Knowing it’s been a strange year when a pint and a haircut is the ultimate dream