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Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans Ben gave his construction cronies Story £35 million of our cash to refurbish Middlesbrough railway station. Was this money well spent? No, it was not. A thread....

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After checking the list of Oscar winners I can confirm that my knowledge of culture is rapidly declining. I peak between 1992-2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Local TV news in the North East is usually a 2:1 ratio of actual news and weather vs football ⚽️. Like most reporting on football, it’s essentially HR updates in shorts. Boring as heck.

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On a mission today to cancel a bunch of subscription services. There’s a couple of hours I’ll never get back. It’s 2025. Surely we should be able to cancel something online if that’s where we subscribed? Looking at you, #beer52!

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Sadly I missed the Bat-Shark Repellent, but I’m thoroughly enjoying the camp silliness of Batman (1966), but most of all I think I need the Batmobile. #batman

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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I’m still trying to figure out how Anthea Turner managed to mispronounce WASP 🐝 to sound like ‘rasp’. She has one job. #totp

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This episode has more rat tails than a city sewer. 🐀🐀🐀 #totp

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Radiohead doing their thing there. By which I mean, delivering an astonishing performance of a classic song with incredible intensity and making it sound like a soul in pain. Glorious. #totp

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Repeat. #totp

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I can’t stand this Eternal song. The constant key changes upwards make me unreasonably tense. It goes on for hours. #totp

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Love a bit of Faith No More. Less of a fan of Monaco. #totp

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The Bookseller - Rights - Amazon MGM Studios develops TV series based on Iain M Banks' Consider Phlebas

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With LFS caveats, seems a clear & worrying upward trend in % of young people not in education, employment or training. Now nearly one million, with rises seeming sharpest among young men. Reiterates importance of incoming Youth Guarantee in England, plus growing apprenticeships & investing in FE.

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Elon Musk, "USAID.. One of the things we accidentally cancelled was ebola prevention" 👀

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

I’ve worked in the digital skills and #apprenticeships sector for nearly 20 years, so colour me not-shocked-at-all when a lot of the IfATE debate yesterday was MPs talking about ‘reducing the snobbery around apprenticeships’. Reader, we’ve been talking about this for 20 years.

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Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm evidence to be heard in private Taxpayers paid for it. Surely we should be able to see how it works. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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For the fans, the IfATE abolition bill will be debated in the Commons for the first time this afternoon. Key opposition attack lines will be: - Skills England won't be statutory or independent from DfE - Too much power to SoS - Skills England not accountable to parliament

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Equally bored, frustrated, bemused, and terrified by any news item mentioning Trump, Musk, Badenoch, Farage, and Tice. Which is, apparently, every single news item. Every. Single. News. Item. #rightwingbias #rightwingnewswatch

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open.substack.com/pub/theteess... Looks like TVCA can’t even bring itself to admit it lost in court over the land dispute with PD Ports.

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Week 2 of #couchto5k started. Jo Whiley said she is proud of me, and that keeps me going.

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"Career Connections" with BCS Early Careers and Juliana Smith Connect with other early career professionals in tech and digital, sharing career insights and tips. #techcareers #careeradvice #jobsintech #careersintech https://buff.ly/41d8HeW

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How cool is this? Sport Direct: NFL is using GenAI to shorten the distance between fan and field #genai #nfl #artificialintelligence https://buff.ly/4b6nhJV

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Double A Side from The Jam after an epic Top 10. That’ll do nicely. #totp

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And the award for the promo video with the least relevance to the song goes to… George Benson and Never Give Up! #totp

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1982 doesn’t need to do much to win the episode of the night, does it? So far it has been pretty poor. Give it a few tracks…. #totp

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Enjoyed that bit of Placebo there. Not one you hear much but still a decent tune. #totp

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Barlow always makes me think of Gru in Despicable Me, constantly trying to impress his mum with ever more diabolical schemes. ‘Look Ma, I’m in a boy band!’ ‘Meh.’ ‘Look Ma! Solo career!’ ‘Meh.’ ‘Look ma! The Royal Variety Show!’ …. ‘Meh.’ #totp

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Throw some shapes! You Are Not Alone! #totp

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So far, so dull tonight. Musical equivalent of beige wallpaper. #totp

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In the age of AI, the apprenticeship skills ladder needs to be more adaptable than ever before

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2025 Reform: Apprenticeship System Simplified with Payment and EPA Changes

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Make apprenticeship funding top priority, poll suggests

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A coordinated national effort is needed to empower councils on their digital journey. We’re calling for a Local Government Centre for Digital Technology to accelerate digital transformation and public sector reform. #LocalGovernmentTogether https://orlo.uk/Qo9eT

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EDI policies are under attack. What do we do about it?

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Are we ready for voting at 16? Large majority of teachers believe curriculum fails to provide pupils with sufficient political education to vote, poll shows ft. thoughts from @samcarling.bsky.social on importance of critical thinking @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

National Engineering Policy Centre report urges AI sustainability

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It is going to take a while to rewrite those history books to explain how the US actually lost the Cold War in the long run and became a Russian puppet state, all thanks to one election result.

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Delivering on the AI Opportunities Action Plan: Creating the UK’s AI profession https://buff.ly/3QlMXbE #AI #AIpolicy #EthicalAI #GenAI #digitalskills

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