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Working in Motorsport & Education. Sometimes both at the same time. Official MD ANT (March 23) Joined Twittersphere 2011

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Joined March 2011
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Fabulous evening @RGS_IBG for the Annual Awards. Immensely proud of my brother @ChrisClarkofBC Rightly deemed to have had a 'Profound Influence'. Richly deserved. I spent most of the evening grinning. Well done Chris! @BSG_Geomorph @IAGAIG @EAGeomorphology @EGU_GM
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Don't tweet on here. Except it's this tweet's birthday I believe.
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“Riddled with wrong assumptions”? Then name one. Mr Tice has identified zero errors in our reporting. Hasn’t even tried. Just vague whinging about how unfair it all is.
‘How much did you fail to pay?’ Reform’s Richard Tice tells @TomSwarbrick1 that the story claiming he avoided paying £100,000 in tax is ‘riddled’ with ‘wrong assumptions’.
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This is v good @SophyRidgeSky & an example for all journalists. Politicians always claim ignorance about the difficult issues they know perfectly well the interviews exist to get answers on - they should be called out for relying on deliberate ignorance.
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Replying to @gavinantonyrice
I don’t object to his “fact”; I object to his inability to be civil, polite; his persistent rudeness. His “fact”, moreover, did not contradict ZG’s “facts”; his starting point is always to patronise and belittle - ie to bully, rather than to think and engage respectfully.
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Given Robbie Gibb is in the news, does someone want to ask him how this is going??
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5.5 tonnes 1100bhp 0-60 faster than a Carrera Limited to 100mph #TruckOrTreat #TrickorTreat
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Today’s Poll: Would u agree to 3% extra council tax to help tackle climate change inc energy-efficient housing, improved air quality and flood defences. Pre-pandemic a council proposed a referendum on this, I polled then (link in replies), this is to see if views have changed.
13%I'd vote yes
3%Shd be voluntary. Id pay
12%Shd b voluntry Id NOT pay
72%I'm against
50,634 votes • Final results
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This is a gross betrayal of the electorate, fraud of the highest order and gross misconduct in a public office. People in Britain suffered Johnson sold himselm to the highest bidder. Johnson should answer for these crimes in a court of law. RT if you agree.
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Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
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Pope Francis dismantled the lie that is trickle down economics in just 37 words.
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Hi @grok Does the owner of the @DailyMail avoid tax? If so, doesn't that make his papers headline today a bit hypocritical?
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🚨 Mail owner Harmsworth: around 54 properties Farage: 4, all acquired since the Brexit Jenrick: at least 3, including a £2.5M London townhouse and a £1.1M manor Tice: doesn't disclose quantity or value of his properties on the MP's register ALL: privately educated wankers.
Well done Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Robert Jenrick, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson, Ben Habib, Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox, Carl Benjamin, Isabel Oakeshott, Douglas Murray, Allison Pearson, Douglas Carswell, Dan Wootton, Elon Musk, Matt Goodwin, Suella Braverman, Calvin Robinson, Rob Bates, Jonathan Harmsworth, Paul Marshall, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Hunt, Paul Golding, Konstantin Kisin, Patrick Christy, Martin Daubney, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, James Melville, Katharine Birbalsingh, Claire Fox, Kelvin MacKenzie, Mike Graham, Charlotte Gill, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jeremy Vine, Alan McCormick, James Orr, Peter Thiel, Bev Turner, Iain Duncan-Smith, Ben Elliiot, Danny Kruger, Michael Shellenberger, Miriam Cates, Niall Ferguson, Philippa Stroud, Winston Marshall, Alex Phillips, Jeremy Kyle, Sarah Pochin, Arron Banks, Michael Gove, Liz Truss, Matthew Elliot, George Cottrell, Lois Perry, Nick Tenconi, Mark Littlewood, Peter Whittle, Trevor Phillips, Nick Candy, Zia Yusuf, and all the others working hard to turn England and Britain into an embarrassing, dysfunctional, unequal, unwelcoming, dangerously polarised, violent, racist shithole, where almost everyone has forgotten that divisive irresponsible scapegoating rhetoric led to WWII, and to the Holocaust. But at least the fucking flags are out now! And the calls for 'mass deportations' of non-white people - many of whom have escaped war, persecution, or torture - along with Muslims who have chosen to make their home here, are growing louder and louder, every single day. You're not 'saving' Britain. You're not 'defending Western civilisation'. You're not 'protecting women and children'. You're doing the exact opposite, by turning ordinary people against each other in order to protect the ultrarich against democracy and progress. And you're getting paid handsomely for it. Well done. Mission nearly accomplished. These are your boys. You must be so proud.
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Left: Rylan, "If I arrive on a boat in Calais, I get taken to a four star hotel" Right: Newsnight show what one of these four star hotels looks like once it has been adapted to house four asylum seekers in a single room with two bunkbeds and a tacky divider Dear @Rylan some of your concern is perfectly normal and valid, and with 70,000 spaces in asylum accommodation oversubscribed because the Conservatives cut funding to assessing asylum seeker claims resulting in setting up hotels to house asylum seekers, awarding some contracts well over £1 billion to hotel owners, some of who have also been donors to the Conservative party, the whole thing stinks But what's worse is that you've repeated some mistruths and false statements about asylum seekers in your rant, and while I don't blame you for having expressed those views as Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer, instead of challenging and correcting these falsehoods, has decided to become a pound shop Reform-like populist with his divisive rhetoric, who could blame you for being so misinformed? I encourage you to seek better information, better explanations, and perhaps if it really bothers you, to use your huge reach and platform to petition our government to do better eg ending homelessness Remember how at the start of covid we managed to end homelessness within a few days? Not only is it possible but it's simply a question of government policy (in fairness to Labour they are doing quite a lot, just not enough and not at the speed they could be doing it) But, and I say this politely. Reform UK are not your friends. By wanting to take us out of the European Convention of Human Rights and repeal the Human Rights Act, they're taking away the very institutions that helped shape gay rights in our country and allowed you not only to flourish, but simply have the right to live your life however you wish - the moment those protections and rights are lost, society suffers There's nothing worse than getting angry and upset at incorrect things e.g. the four star hotel trope often levied by the far right Instead, become better informed, so you can get angry and upset at the actual things that are wrong with the system, and help campaign to change them
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As far as I can see English private school closures have been the same for decades. The last 12 months seem to have been below average. This school has been in financial difficulty for years. Is this like the millionaire exodus - present in newspaper columns but not in data?
Another private school has announced it is closing down (the King Alfred School). Labour’s school tax is the greatest act of educational vandalism in our lifetimes. These schools will never come back
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Something very concerning is happening in Hull & East Yorkshire. The new Reform UK Mayor has launched a website for a “£1m Community Fund.” Here’s why residents should be worried 👇 1/10
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The people protesting outside asylum hotels aren't ordinary people. They're bigots. Most Brits are far more decent.
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
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Spot on. And not just the Beeb - @Nigel_Farage gets a very easy ride because he is treated as fellow commentator and fellow mainstream media critic of main parties. Never gets challenged on his Brexit role. Rarely on actual policy. Well said @EdwardJDavey
Watch @EdwardJDavey call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.
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What a bizarre tweet. Norway and Iceland are in the single market; Switzerland is integrated into the single market for most goods. All three are in Brexiteer terminology "rule takers"
Norway, Switzerland and Iceland show us how small countries not in EU can do so much better than the EU. It is nonsense to say the EU‘s size is crucial to prosperity. The single market is an unhelpful over regulated customs union.
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Anyone notice that @SarahForRuncorn hasn’t posted about the visit that she claimed she would do last week? Anything to report, Sarah? Maybe she found out that her constituent Rhys McDonald, who we assume she was referring to, pled guilty at a Crown Court to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred. They were not 'HATEY WORDS' as she called them. He actually posted on Facebook, and he was calling for protests at hotels housing immigrants. He stated it was about 'an ideology' in reply to a post about getting rid of them. They posted this 30th July, right during the Soutport Riots and unrest around the UK. He was sentenced to 28 months. He was calling on people to go to hotels and get rid of people. Hatey words. Aimed at inciting hurting people.
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Alongside goading a visibly upset Reeves during PMQs, Badenoch is now demanding that she reveals the personal matter that caused distress. Thus proving that Badenoch isn’t just utterly useless but a sociopathic piece of shit.
After a Treasury spokesperson says Rachel Reeves was upset at PMQs due to a personal matter, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells journalists that "something strange is going on" and insists the Chancellor immediately disclose what is happening in her personal life
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