Prof Richard Barker
@swrb1
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Emeritus Professor of Child Welfare. Personal account, RTs not necessarily my views.
Joined June 2011
Sadly, obituary of my much loved wife, Sue Barker, a wonderful woman @socialworksusie
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Other lives: Social worker who took on almost every role across children’s and adults’ services, fostering, adoption and safeguarding
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Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax
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The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21
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Portmerion, sadly visited after a funeral, what a beautiful place.
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If you’ve spent years abroad paying little or no UK tax, it’s reasonable to pay Capital Gains Tax when you return. You’re coming back to the roads, hospitals and schools the rest of us have been funding. https://t.co/CWFmRmz2Mc
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The tax implications of a return to the UK are ‘troubling’ expats who have flown back to the UK from tax havens like Dubai
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"Experts"? Wadhwa and Belcher? Two men who oppose women's rights to single-sex spaces - really?
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How desperate and low.
Farage has been campaigning this week to bring back handgun ownership in UK, he has obviously forgotten the reason they were banned. Exactly 30 years ago today these children went to school in Dunblane, Scotland and never went home again.
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Torsten looks at the Cabinet (Reeves - sister an MP; Cooper - husband was an MP; Miliband - brother was an MP; Nandy - grandfather was an MP; Benn - father was an MP; D Alexander - sister was an MSP; Chapman - husband an MP) and feels relief family no longer influences politics
Hereditary peers out of the Lords at long long last - delivering the rather simple principle that you don’t deserve a vote in Parliament by virtue of which family your were born into
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It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did. But if your mate put you there? That's fine. Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
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This is probably the most pathetic party stunt I’ve ever witnessed. Dumb and dumber cosplay village idiots.
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You were in Government for 14 years. You were a Defence Minister. Your party cut the army by 10,000, to the lowest it has ever been.
No. 10 will brief against @KemiBadenoch, defence chiefs, Tony Blair and anyone else they can think of. Anything to distract from the only thing that matters: we must spend and deliver more for our armed forces. When will we wake up? What level of tragedy will it take? @bbclaurak
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Creepy!
We are delighted to welcome @Nigel_Farage and @blockchain as strategic investors in Stack. Nigel’s long-standing support for British business and his belief that Bitcoin will play an expanding role in global finance align closely with our vision. With https://t.co/a3pldNImn8
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Louise Casey and social care proposals - brilliant .
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If anyone can make the public pay for a national care service, it’s Louise Casey, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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You’d think the phrase “Kwasi Kwarteng’s Bitcoin business” would have any sensible investor running for the hills.
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Reform’s so-called ‘Shadow Education and Skills Secretary’ is with Farage on the Isle of Wight instead of attending Parliament for tonight’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill debate. Turns out her commitment to education is about as real as her title: completely nonexistent.
WATCH: Reform UK Local Election Tour. Join Nigel Farage & Suella Braverman LIVE from the Isle of Wight. 🚨 https://t.co/nDdYK5Xs9I
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A year ago today Farage and his partner bought a house in Clacton, in cash, worth £885,000. Nigel told the world he bought it, but when it transpired he didn't pay enough stamp duty (he owns 4 other properties) they said his partner paid and he had lied. However, she does not
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Wow… never heard this story before 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
"On a bitterly cold December evening in 1997, President Bill Clinton was leaving a holiday concert at the Kennedy Center when he noticed a homeless veteran sitting outside the entrance, shivering in a thin jacket and holding a cardboard sign that simply read 'Marine - Desert
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