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Peel Classics

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Head of Classics in a Surrey School. All views my own.

Surrey, England Katılım Ocak 2013
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Stewart Wood
Stewart Wood@StewartWood·
Brexit’s tragedy: we gambled on free trade just as the world turned protectionist; we dismissed European continental solidarity as the platform for our security just as events made it more important than ever; and we bet the farm on the Special Relationship just as Trump arrived.
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Sarah
Sarah@Sarah404BC·
Six years ago today 13:50. Much missed. 😿🌈 Having moved house, we don't find the rare stray hair anymore… (sound up 😸)
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
Prem Sikka@premnsikka

Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them. On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping. Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws leftfootforward.org/2026/01/public…

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Angela O'Brien
Angela O'Brien@GrecianGirly·
🏛A beatiful snowy Athenian Acropolis filmed on 16th February 2021. ❄ (🎥 Aris Ziotopoulos. Music added by me via Filmigo)
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The Secret Barrister 🦋
The Secret Barrister 🦋@BarristerSecret·
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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Prem Sikka
Prem Sikka@premnsikka·
The Curse of Private Equity Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores. Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages. Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Assets stripping continues. What next? theguardian.com/business/2025/…
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Prem Sikka
Prem Sikka@premnsikka·
Curse of Private Equity. Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years, Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services. Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist. thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…
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Alison Fisk
Alison Fisk@AlisonFisk·
Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago! Which is your favourite? ❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63·
When we warned of Putin's rising dictatorship in the 2000s, we were dismissed as fearmongers, even hysterics, in the West. Now a similar process is underway in the US, with Trump following the Putin playbook. My latest in The Atlantic on fighting Putinization: 👇
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Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla·
Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/
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Sarah
Sarah@Sarah404BC·
What Greek Mythology Teaches Us About Women’s Rebellion Many female characters in Greek mythology offer models for today’s challenges - but ancient Greece was strict patriarchal: women were considered minors under the guardianship of fathers/husbands greekreporter.com/2025/06/15/gre…
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Héraklès Citharède
Héraklès Citharède@HeraklesCithare·
Icône du musée archéologique national d'Athènes, cette épée en bronze brille par sa poignée aux incrustations d'or et de lapis-lazuli dont le motif en écailles s'achève par deux têtes d'aigles. Mycènes, XVIe siècle av. J.-C.
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Prem Sikka
Prem Sikka@premnsikka·
35 yrs of England water privatisation. Companies have 1,135 criminal convictions 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage in rivers, 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn debt, people robbed. £112m exec bonus, last decade Must end privatisation. leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nation…
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Angela O'Brien
Angela O'Brien@GrecianGirly·
Sculpture group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros from the 'House of the Poseidoniastai' on the Greek island of Delos. Aphrodite holds a sandal in an attempt to fight off the advances of Pan. Dated to 100 BCE. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 📷 me.
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Angela O'Brien
Angela O'Brien@GrecianGirly·
Over 3,000 years old!! A rather smug-looking Mycenaean anthropomorphic vase, dated 1250-1180 BCE. Found at Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. It kind of reminds me of those posh hoity-toity butlers you see in period costume dramas! 😂Love it! 🥰On display at the Archaeological Museum of Mycenae. 📷 By me.
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