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Pete Turton

@peteturton85.bsky.social

A walking cloud of portable darkness. Eurovision, paddle boarding, appalling clarinet playing.

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Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 2d ago

Polanski had a simple effective message at a time when Starmer had no answers: Everything’s shit and the rich are taking the piss. Their member base grew to extraordinary numbers,meaning when a fringe of people suggest conference motions, they then don’t represent their new members. Tricky stuff

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · last wk.

Lovely stuff. Now start trials at 9am, scrap two hour lunch adjournments and end the day at 5pm. I get it’s not as easy as that given the preparation barristers and judges have to do, but honestly I got more work done on jury duty waiting for things to happen than I would have done in work

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last wk.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · last wk.

Some Charlie Kirk wannabe has set himself up on the Liverpool uni campus under a Union Jack gazebo. So that’s fun. I don’t know what worse that it’s happened or that people are just stood around it like they’re watching the antiques roadshow

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 2w ago

But which one is the truth - either: We subject children to academic subjects they don’t want to do for 5 years, hate the education system and leave unprepared. Or We decide “no no, vocational subjects for you Darren!” and say its classist.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Critics, however, say the focus on technical education risks widening the gap between richer and poorer children. Sam Freedman...wrote last month: “The more we ration a full set of academic GCSEs to children from better-off families, the more we will bake in existing inequalities.”'

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 3w ago

Polanski pledges to raise taxes to rich people so that we can afford to pay for Adele to take part. He’s calling it A-Del-th tax. No you fuck off.

ESC Discord@escdiscord.com · 3w ago

🇬🇧 A committee of MPs is set to review the United Kingdom's Eurovision selection process. "We want to get to the bottom of who chooses our entrant, on what basis and whether our dismal record [...] is the result of bad song choice, weak performance... or something else"

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 3w ago

Is Eurovision value for money? That’s the question government needs to ask when assessing it. At a time when the bbc is slashing programmes, 10 hours of tv for the cost of one episode of bloody Casualty is probably good value

ESC Discord@escdiscord.com · 3w ago

🇬🇧 A committee of MPs is set to review the United Kingdom's Eurovision selection process. "We want to get to the bottom of who chooses our entrant, on what basis and whether our dismal record [...] is the result of bad song choice, weak performance... or something else"

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 4w ago

I dunno I just read this as Ed Sheeran chose performing his syrupy diarrhoea music over his friend in a problematic venue.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …
Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 4w ago

People: there’s a potential concern there’s a lot of barbers springing up on the high street Politicians: how about a GMC for hairdressing?

Vikki Slade MP@vikkislademp.bsky.social · 4w ago

💈 Today is the first reading of my Presentation Bill seeking mandatory registration for all hairdressers and barbershops in England. The Bill has genuine cross-party support and was developed on the back of an excellent Parliamentary event, co-hosted by local barber Mike Taylor...

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · 4w ago

The fact that in Liverpool in the 21st century your child’s school place is determined by whether you pretend to like the popes fictional character or Henry VIII’s fictional character absolutely blows my mind. That priests are complicit in knowing kids rock up to church for a school place is nuts

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Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · last mo.

Now I’m not sure, but Mrs Bacon at Wade Deacon High School screaming SIIIIING, SIIIIIING to 300 bored widnesian teenagers during an assembly hymn, made them any more Christian. Pretty sure forcing them to write lines from BBC Come and Praise as a lunchtime punishment didnt work either.

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · last mo.

We think the Supreme Court has it right: forced Christian worship in schools is wrong. Instead, school assemblies should be religiously neutral and inclusive, instead of forcing religion on children. Agree? Add your name. humanists.uk/action/keep-...

Pete Turton@peteturton85.bsky.social · last mo.

All medical students DO and have always learnt about interactions and polypharmacy.The F1 in general surgery isn’t the right person to suddenly de-prescribe. Point 2 is valid but 10 is an entirely arbitrary number WHERE DO YOU THINK 1850 GERIATRICIANS ARE GOING TO MAGICALLY APPEAR FROM IN 4 YEARS.

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Shaun Lintern@shaunlintern.bsky.social · last mo.

Almost 8 million over 50s are taking 5 medicines a day - the threshold for #polypharmacy - About 2.2 million take 10 drugs a day. For frail, elderly patients drugs can have cumulative, harmful effects and the NHS just isn't geared up to tackle the problem: #tomorrowspaperstoday