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Bradford-bred. Love LFC. Nigerian-name. Loves The North. Founder of @RECLAIMproject & @ProgrammeRoots & @RekindleSchool & @NorthernSoulLtd
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Hiya - serial founder of cool things beginning with R here:
RECLAIM -
@RECLAIMproject
Roots -
@ProgrammeRoots
& now
ReKindle -
@RekindleSchool
Get in touch if you have a good brain, deep pockets, kind heart, time to volunteer OR you just like the sound of the work
#NewNetworks
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I'm on a London bus.
A stressed woman gets on with 3 small children, no/very little English & cash. Clearly from abroad.
The driver tells her she can't pay with that and has to use a card.
Immediately 2 women get up with their cards & pay her fare.
Decent folk everywhere 😊
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I'm just staring at a wall remembering the horror of it all.
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I'd brazenly broken into an Italian family home at 1am. With a 3yro.
Put my snoring daughter on their couch.
Photographed evidence of their slovenliness (fags & beer)
Used their loo.
All with no one waking OR saying a word.
(Probably cowering behind a door & phoning police)
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"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
RIP
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I then had to pick up Thea and attempt to leave quickly & quietly.
Try to put the mess back in the right place.
Wash up my cup.
Go next door and then use Google translate to write a long snivelling apology to the family and try to explain myself.
Put it under their door at 2am.
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My friend has her daughter in a private school.
They're already on school holidays and so they've flown off on a lovely holiday with ridiculously cheap flights and hotels - prices that skyrocket when the state schools break up.
Another £££s bonus to the already privileged.
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Quick question.
On a train and there's a man who has set up a conference call on his laptop, no headphones and so we are all listening to his whole team meeting and his loud feedback.
This isn't reasonable, right?
Is it just me?!
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An Airbnb host in Spain has declined my week-long booking of her apartment despite all my excellent reviews from previous hosts.
Asked a white friend to try for same dates and it’s suddenly available after all....
#EverydayRacism
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I was asked to go to London for a meeting.
I said a polite no - an 'unreasonable distance'.
Arrangements were made and I stayed local.
I cannot now believe I used to race down to London for 2hr meetings and have a 7hr hour round trip.
One positive change - Never again.
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Our
@RECLAIMproject
Elijah.
17 years old, killing it at Westminster and bringing the house down.
Northern. Authentic. Working class.
Political. Proud.
#DisruptiveLeader
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Last night in Madrid
Idiotic young Spurs fan last night, in a street full of Scousers bellowed: ‘We pay your benefits!’
Scouse guy, four times his size and old enough to be his Granddad walked over and said quietly: ‘Don’t be a dickhead lad’
Spurs fan: ‘Okay’
#LFC
#UCLFinal19
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Mum called.
Delighted to have bought spare pram for the baby.
Asked her to describe it and she said: 'My friend says its a bit EDL'
I've just seen a picture.....
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This image of John Barnes backheeling a banana thrown on the pitch by a racist was so powerful to me.
It angered and inspired me.
He was my hero.
If this picture surfaced now, John Barnes would pop up on TV to say it definitely wasn’t racist and the fan was sharing his lunch.
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Interesting choice of 'Fallen Hero', when 'Convicted Murderer' would have also worked.
FFS!
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@Len_Grant
I'm glad there is some joy somewhere in the world.
I'm sweltering in a boiling Salerno apartment as I dare not go out until I know the coast is clear...
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@_masqueraid
I think this is true.
I apologised to them and came clean to the owner and he said all is cool. PHEW!
Shame free holiday here we go! 😊
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Diane Abbott inspired me as a teenager and I thank her deeply for all she has done.
"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise."
#NotFitToWipeHerBoots
#RacistToriesNoChange
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My dad took himself off solo to the Moscow 1980 Olympics.
(he is that kind of guy)
Anyway...
He spent the whole time explaining to excited Russians and others that he was NOT Daley Thompson but a Nigerian sports-loving social worker from Bradford.
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Morning
@Conservatives
The racist MP
#AnneMarieMorris
needs to be sacked (not suspended) ASAP.
Do the right thing. We won't let it drop.
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I'm profoundly ashamed of the UK.
🇬🇧🇷🇼 In Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of a significant moment for the New Plan for Immigration.
Prime Minister
@BorisJohnson
will set out the full detail tomorrow.
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Man, I'm tired.
Gonna close my black mouth for once and let this picture speak for itself.
#EqualitiesFFS
Welcome to the MPs who were appointed to the Women and Equalities Committee last night.
We will be announcing our future work over the next few weeks.
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Went to the Supermarket in Todmorden to stock up in case
#StormDennis
is bad.
Tried to find an Apple Pie. The woman in the bakery said: We're selling out, everyone is stockpiling Apple Pie & Custard.
Love My Yorkshire/Lancashire people and their priorities.
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The racists clowns who tried to break this woman forgot she was raised by a strong sensible black woman.
Meghan knew her worth & so does he.
Happy Anniversary to the pair of them.
I hope they stay far away from our toxic Island until we've got our heads straight
#HarryandMeghan
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I'm so pleased to see this quick & strong response to Liz Truss' nonsense about her state school in Leeds.
#CallThemOut
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We're in The Guardian today 😊😊
Our beautiful bold brilliant
@RekindleSchool
is on its way 🥰👊🏾
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I'm 48 today 🎉
Raising a glass of fine wine to all UK Black women who have had a tough couple of weeks.
We are here.
We are essential.
We are fabulous.
We set our own worth.
Still we rise. ❤️🥰
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Thea's school has abandoned the kids dressing up as characters for
#WorldBookDay2023
(THANK GOD) & instead they have to decorate a potato as their favourite literary hero.
It HAD to be Rocket - we ❤️ her.
Hope you approve
@DapsDraws
&
@NathanBryon
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Inspiring conversation with 16yr old Clara in Saltaire, Bradford.
Found her chalking the names of all the US black victims of police brutality whilst under restraint in the past few years.
She's done the research.
She's also nowhere near finished...
#BlackLivesMatter
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I'm reading the tsunami of (thinly disguised) racist bile directed towards Naga Munchetty EVERY week.
And Meghan Markle
And Diane Abbott
And how many other black and brown women who dare to demonstrate their brilliance.
It's Exhausting. Depressing. Rage-Inducing and Pathetic.
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I adopted a baby girl a few weeks ago.
This fact and this alone has stopped me from despair at the desperate and terrifying state of UK politics.
We have a lazy, self-serving, dishonest, entitled racist steering this ship.
A low point in British political history.
#BorisJohnson
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Turned down from
@Cambridge_Uni
Working class black boy from Manchester.
Today got A* AA
WATCH. THIS. SPEECH.🔥🔥🔥
@DavidLammy
#StormzyScholarship
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Mum is at the hospital.
The Dr. just told an old lady on the ward in a loud voice:
“There’s nothing more we can do now. Your age, combined with cancer- We’ve done all we can”.
The woman had no family with her.
The doctor just moved on.
Mum sat & held her hand as she wept.
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BEAMING!!!!! (That’s me by the way, smiley black woman, left hand side) 😄
The results are finally in. Here are the top 25 most influential leaders from across the sector, as voted for by Charity Times readers:
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@CatherineSimes
It's all good 🤣
They contacted the host because he sent an email about boundaries but I think my desperate Google translate apology letter did the trick 🙏🏾
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I'm just in floods of tears.
This guy made a difference.
Teaching his poetry to children was magic.
He was clever and wise and creative and kind and had deep integrity.
I told him last year what a hero he was to me.
What a man. 💔
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If you think the UK racial playing fields are equal, lets compare Meghan Markle's press coverage with erm, *random choice* Prince Andrew's...
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When does voting open for Sports Personality of The Year?
The other nominees should just form a circle of pride around Marcus Rashford, representing us all.
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OF COURSE it's on my birthday that we receive the 100% confirmation that
@RekindleSchool
has found a forever home in one of the most beautiful buildings in South Manchester.
Never. Ever. Give. Up.
(A huge thank you to all who believed in our dream) xx
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Many years ago I was invited to a celebratory event at Buckingham Palace.
Arrived with my boyfriend and we were two rare black faces in the massive crowds.
I got a tap on the shoulder and
@HackneyAbbott
smiled, said hi, asked what I did & said congratulations for my work.
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Please Just Stop.
We are not quite as stupid as you think we are.
This is the story of Ahmed, who left Somalia for Rwanda.
His thriving business in Kigali is testament to how well migrants are integrated after they arrive in Rwanda.
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Organisations, please stop asking me to speak for free.
- about young people
- about black people
- about northern people
- about women
- about everything
I have a mortgage, a daughter and a brain.
Thank you x
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Love this reply.
Now muting this thread as I need to stop cringing soon & go out.
Thanks everyone 😊x
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Putting on an 'out of office' Adoption Leave msg for two months is such an incredible feeling!!
No emails - I'm emotional...
Huge week next week - Cannot wait!
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Listening to
@BBCRadio4
describe 'the murder of a prostitute'.
I think they mean 'the murder of a woman.'
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Been celebrating today one year exactly since my adopted baby girl moved in with me.
We cannot win the league too. My heart can't cope.
I'm crying man. 30 years....
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If neverending toddler-enhanced lockdown was good for one thing, it made me focus on achieving one small dream.
Now the proud owner of an old but already adored campervan ♥️
#AdventureAwaits
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I'm a Foster Carer and now an Adoptive Mum.
I'm sat at my desk bawling at that wonderful
@JohnLewisRetail
Christmas advert.
Powerful and Beautiful.
Like kids in the UK care system.
♥️
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Laughing quietly at the fact
@LozzaFox
had no idea what he was stumbling into when he 'borrowed' the name of the charity
@RECLAIMproject
for his vanity project.
This charity works with young people to ensure they know they can be seen and heard.
They're not having it.
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Sometimes the word 'proud' doesn't come close.
This young man has achieved so much; a genuine community changemaker and now a brilliant educator &
@RekindleSchool
Trustee 🥹
I feel very old but happy as hell ☺️
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From the school newsletter 🙄
The only queen my kid will be dressed as is Queen Latifah...
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I try with all the positive affirmations of Black beauty with my daughter. She's 3 and I want her to always know that her skin & hair is just perfect.
I may have overdone it...
She ran up to 3 black women chatting today & bellowed:
HELLO AFRICAN LADIES! YOUR HAIR IS BEAUTIFUL!
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I've had to wear this homemade Shrek Head for the past hour to maintain toddler calm in the house.
I don't know who I am anymore...
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Interrailing with a *lively* 3 yr old.
6 countries, two big backpacks.
Follow your dreams I thought...
Sanity lost somewhere in Munich
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It's absolutely wild that James Cleverly made that "a little bit of Rohypnol in her drink every night" *joke* and is STILL in post.
He's the HOME SECRETARY!
We're trying to raise kids right, teach them about consent and challenge the insidious Andrew Tate BS.
He has to go!
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I run a charity for young people.
This is not a word that I have ever heard used.
Anywhere. By Anyone.
#Youthquake
'Youthquake' named 2017 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
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Me, with a very serious face and lockdown hair asking about the UK National Curriculum and its myopia regarding certain events in British History.
#SkyDebate
#Race
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It's 7am. It's my birthday.
I'm crying at this.
It's gonna be a long emotional weird day....
THIS is how you say goodbye to the children who are temporarily not in your school. You show your appreciation and treat them like superstars. This is the
@McrAcademy
way. Keep making magic everyone until we reunite.
@UnitedLearning
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Twenty years since this sweet boy left us.
I was a first year teacher and my Bradford class were devastated. They held an assembly for him. What else could they do?
Rest in peace Damilola. 🇳🇬♥️
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There's no defence of this nonsense.
The school has brought national condemnation on itself for absolute pettiness and a lack of understanding of family financial priorities.
Terrible leadership.
Holderness Academy has defended placing a child in isolation for wearing the supermarket version, insisting parents were made aware of the policy in June.
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Simple new campaign for schools?
#BeMoreJack
Jack on his friendship with his classmate - a Syrian refugee called Rani - is lovely
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I yawned noisily just now. I'm totally shattered.
The toddler looked at me with her big brown compassionate eyes, left the living room, came back and handed me a Nespresso capsule.
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The storm last night felt apocalyptic.
Nature illustrating that something terrible befell the UK yesterday.
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“The very serious function of racism … is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being."
Toni Morrison.
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I sometimes think the whole North/South divide is nonsense and basically we are all the same.
...but then my (very) Yorkshire four year old just asked if she could have "a new gravy jug" for Christmas.
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Big grateful shoutout to a
@SalfordUni
student called Connor, who just found my lovely mum, totally bewildered, lost and on the wrong train in
#Burnley
and walked her to the bus station and helped her find a way home.
Thank you loads!
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@casca1987
I went back onto the Airbnb listing because the furniture looked different to what was advertised.
Then realised we were in the wrong place and re-read his instructions that were very clear about WHICH actual front door it was.
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Came in an activist.
Leaving as one.
Favourite t-shirt for final day
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A man at a bus stop in Kings Cross just gave me a wink and offered me some hand sanitizer.
Watch this space Twitter...❤️
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To the nasty bastards who mock her incessantly & think they're hilarious laughing at any mistake she makes, she will go down in the history books as a Cambridge grad, UK's first female black MP, much loved by her constituents and a Shadow Home Secretary.
She made a difference.
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Working with kids in Manchester today.
Just had message from hijab-wearing Muslim girl asking if we can walk her safely to her bus, as the EDL are marching today.
Scum.
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This is EXACTLY the right point to end an excellent article by
@JenWilliamsMEN
'They’re our girls, collectively. And if modern feminism is the
#MeToo
movement, then it has to care as much about the women in the shadows as those in the limelight.'
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The lawyers have said we may finally get the keys to
@RekindleSchool
new HQ...
NEXT WEEK!
I refuse to believe it until they're in our hands. So many months of waiting and negotiating - so many false dawns.
There will be loud noisy tears.
This is the absolute dream 😭♥️
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Oh man. 😡😡
Just pulled to one side by security at Stansted Airport who then checked through my HAIR!!!!
I can’t cope watching white women with thick long hair sauntering past and staring at me.
An Asian woman in a hijab just gave me a sympathetic nod....
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A selfie - especially for those who tried to dim my light.
Not having it anymore. Much love.
Me
x
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It’s
#NationalAdoptionWeek
and I’m approximately 4 weeks away from changing my (and her) life forever.
I’m adopting a little girl and have been guided and supported through the process by caring and brilliant social workers. 😀
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@0xBeckford
That's really not the point I'm making.
Not a motivator, just another benefit.
There's plenty more.
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Sending solidarity today to all who have been bullied in their workplace.
There's plenty of us in the charity sector too who have faced our own personal Priti Patels and wear the deep battle scars of tangling with these vile creatures...
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I've just completed a 15 page funding bid.
THIRTY THREE Questions
I could have written the info in 2 pages.
Some poor sod is going to have to read between the lines of all that padding.
Another poor sod (me) sat in the same chair for seven hours writing it.
No one wins really .
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My mum shrieked with proud Nigerian Mama delight that I’ve been nominated as one of 100
#BA100
Modern Britons
(I think she senses forthcoming flight upgrades....)
I’m chuffed too. Thank you
@British_Airways
and Happy 100th Birthday. 😄
#BA100
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Moving beyond melanin 😔
Nothing to celebrate here.
At all.
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Quick question, have people got examples of phrases that are used like 'Hard to Reach' to describe communities of people failing to receive their fair share.
I'm compiling a list...
Ta!
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@nytimes
I was the perpetrator I’m afraid.
I smiled at a woman outside Holborn Station and said: ‘your hair looks amazing! Where do you get it done?’
Her eyes widened in fear & she backed away, obviously traumatised by my breezy brazen northernness.
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Today in England feels heavy.
The weather
The racism
The result
The toxicity
The violence
The damage
The reputation
The leadership
The direction
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I remember watching Grenfell thinking; THIS is the moment the UK people will stand as one & hold the Govt, all who lined their pockets & the cronies who stalled on legislation to account.
THIS will be our tragic line in the sand where we'll say 'No More'.
I was so wrong.
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The cost of an Adoption Medical is around £80.
My lovely doctor: 'I'm not charging you. You're doing a wonderful thing and these lucky kids will get a lovely mum.'
#weepy
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Any UK school that books Katie Hopkins as a keynote speaker should be investigated.
We all know what she is.
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Decorating for when my new daughter moves in - in three weeks😍
The framed black Wonder Woman came before anything else!
#AdoptionExcitement
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The sun FINALLY came out today so we ran to the hills.
Then received notification of my Covid vaccination next week.
Most hopeful day in months 😍
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What time is the national U-turn about schools outside London?
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@ESpringW11
No reply yet.
It was written on my daughter's James and the Giant Peach notepaper - all that I had available 😬
I'm laughing remembering because it had her scribbles on one side and I had to Google translate, "Please ignore this side!"
They probably just think I'm utterly bonkers
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WTAF?!!
I named the charity I founded in 2007 'RECLAIM' to give hope and encouragement to black kids from Moss Side.
Imagine if it has to share its name with Laurence Fox's big idea.
2020. A year of continual crap gifts.
The new party - provisionally called "Reclaim" - could launch as soon as next month. The party's name is subject to approval by the Electoral Commission. Registration papers are due to be submitted in the middle of this week. 3/
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Despite everything, this has been a fabulous birthday, spent in the company of my favourite person.
Also, thank you Twitter for the ❤️
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My girl's childminder is a STAR.
Each week is themed - usually around different countries, religions, histories.
They eat the food from that region, she brings in community members to speak to the kids, they eat relevant food, they learn the dances, language.
They're all under 5
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