As my maiden name was Bird I feel I was born to tweet. Retired teacher. Resisting bucket lists. PhD candidate. Poet. Debut pamphlet 'Remembering' pub 2024.
Nottingham, England
Joined January 2015
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Julie Gardner retweeted
University degrees are not all about salaries. They are about learning to think differently and more carefully. Dispiriting discussion on bbc politics live which focussed entirely on earnings. Ok the financing is v important but the aim is not just a high paid job.
Turning a whole generation into the enemy. It's this sort of lazy judgement that makes me feel like giving up.
I don't suppose the people I've blocked will notice or care but at least I won't have to keep seeing their mean-spirited tweets.
Fantastic production of Susanna from @Opera_North supported by @PheonixLeeds last night.
Well said @doctor_oxford
NHS doctor here, Rupert. If you'd checked your facts before this racist dogwhistle, you'd know that every NHS doctor can speak English - as proven by their IELTS proficiency (look it up... or are you just a populist hatemonger for whom facts don't matter?). Kindness may not solve everything, but my God the hate you spew is builds nothing, improves nothing, and only stokes division.
Julie Gardner retweeted
No matter how many times I watch it, it's such a big broadcasting accident that it makes me laugh all the time.
Julie Gardner retweeted
I lead two primary schools.
Homework is inherently inequitable.
Children should not need homework to succeed in their learning - the school day should be sufficient.
Seeing that I'm a pensioner as well as a self-funding PhD student, I hope the triple lock holds!
University tuition fees in England to rise in line with inflation from next year, UK government announces bbc.in/4hkiUxG
I know I've been retired for 8 years now but I taught primary for 40 and the plan to introduce even more screening fills me with dismay. No wonder our young people have mental health problems.
Julie Gardner retweeted
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
ALT Zack at the Bold Politics podium
Julie Gardner retweeted
I condemn the genocide in Gaza, because it is the right thing to do.
I condemn the anti-Semitic attacks in Manchester, because it is the right thing to do.
Be wary of anyone justifying political violence of any kind.
I condemn all acts of violence on all innocent people.
Julie Gardner retweeted
You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.
Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.
Every year I resolve to submit more poems and every year I lose confidence. Today, after an excellent workshop by @JamesoTrevelyan, of @EmmaPress, I have resolved to be more resilient.
Last night I saw Maxine Peak and Samuel Barnett in the @NottmPlayhouse production of 'The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse. Excellent writing and acting. Brilliant!
Agreed
Farage will never speak for me, his policies will never be acceptable to me and his vile rhetoric will always sicken me.
It’s about time that the media started representing this position as it’s a widespread one.
#BrexitBoats #MoneyLaundering #Racist #Fascism