Nick Parry

Dad. Husband. Mid-life cyclist. Heavyweight runner. Skier. Manager of Landed Estates. Usually found by a Bath touch line. Other son’s caddy. MRAC MRICS

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

6 | We are on the board 👊

TCS is over undefended and Ciaran Donoghue slots the extras!

⚔️0-7🛁

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

41 | TCS!!!

Less than a minute into the second half and we have our third! Louie Hennessey sends the ball inside to Tom Carr-Smith who is unmarked and goes over.

Donny adds the extras!

😇26-21🛁

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

It's absolutely delicious that the *ONLY* defence Keir Starmer has now is to claim he "was repeatedly lied to by his advisers and didn't know what was going on in his own house and his own office"

Yet, here he is accusing Boris Johnson of EXACTLY THAT!

You couldn't make it up.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

There is no way of knowing how often Parliament votes against what the public actually wants. Until now.

https://t.co/QpJCcn3FBH tracks every bill going through Parliament. You vote. We compare it to how your MP voted. The gap speaks for itself.

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare.

In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do.

And the cost?

Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

16 | TRY FOR TCS!

Started from a kick chase by Will Muir, the ball find the hands of Chris Harris, Will Butt and Tom Carr-Smith who goes over for the 5.

Tom de Glanville converts!

🛁7-0🍒

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

𝟓𝟎 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐨𝐦 🔵⚫️⚪️

From boyhood fan rising through the Bath Rugby Academy, to earning 50 caps. Congratulations Tom Carr-Smith on a tremendous Blue, Black and White journey!

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑴'𝑺 𝑼𝑷 💥

⚡️ Rockley on the wing
🔟 Worboys at fly-half
©️ Taylor captain's the side at 6️⃣

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[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

𝙏��𝘼𝙈'𝙎 𝙐𝙋 🤩

🔥 Willemse makes first start this season
🫡 Conor Oliver named as skipper
🔒 Holgate and Gwynn in the centres

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The scrapping of an Eton-backed free sixth form in Middlesbrough tells us more about Labour than any manifesto ever could. A project designed to educate the brightest children from one of the poorest parts of the country was not stopped because it failed, cost too much, or lacked need. It was stopped because it threatened to succeed. And success, when it cannot be controlled, is intolerable to this government.

This was not a fee-paying outpost or a vanity scheme. It was a free school, approved under the last government, partnered with a proven academy trust, aimed squarely at deprived pupils with high academic ability. The offer was simple: take children who show promise and give them an education equal to the best in the country. That should have been uncontroversial. Instead it triggered hostility, suspicion, and finally cancellation. Not because of what it would have done, but because of what it symbolised.

The real offence was a four-letter word: Eton College. That name short-circuited reason. Local Labour figures spoke of "elitism" while opposing a free school for poor children. Ministers talked about surplus places and SEND funding while quietly abandoning a project already designed to address a regional attainment gap that everyone admits exists. None of it holds up. The explanations came after the decision, not before it.

Look at the facts Labour prefers not to dwell on. The North East lags badly behind London on A-level results and university entry. That gap has widened, not narrowed. This school was explicitly designed to deal with the A-level drop-off that has trapped bright pupils in the region for years. Its location was central, its funding secure, its academic model tested. Scrapping it did nothing to help SEND pupils and nothing to raise standards elsewhere. It simply removed an option that would have worked.

What happened in Middlesbrough fits a pattern we have already seen. When schools succeed by insisting on discipline, knowledge, and high expectations, the response from Labour is not curiosity but suspicion. Not imitation but obstruction. Katharine Birbalsingh and Michaela showed what happens when deprived children are taken seriously. Instead of being celebrated, that success is treated as a problem to be managed. The lesson is the same here: excellence outside the approved model must be neutralised.

The Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality. Identical Eton-Star colleges have been approved in other Labour-run areas. The money exists. The model is acceptable. What differed in Middlesbrough was not need, but politics. Local ideological resistance was indulged, and bright children paid the price.

This is the quiet cruelty of modern Labour education policy. It speaks endlessly about disadvantage while dismantling the very ladders that allow people to climb out of it. It treats aspiration as a threat and excellence as exclusion. It would rather keep everyone inside a failing system than allow some to rise beyond it, because rising exposes the lie that background is destiny.

We are told this is about fairness. It is not. Fairness would mean expanding opportunity wherever it appears. What Labour practices instead is levelling by denial. If not everyone can have something, no one should. If a school might allow working-class children to outperform expectations, it must be stopped in case it embarrasses the system.

Middlesbrough did not lose a school. It lost permission to excel. A message was sent to its brightest children: know your place. That is not compassion. It is control. And until Labour grasps the difference, it will keep dressing envy up as justice and calling restraint care. Ministers will feel nothing. Children will pay the price.

"Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality."

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

80 | TRY!

No words. Just try.

🛁33-26⚔️

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

Ahead at the break! 🔥

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[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

𝙏𝙀𝘼𝙈'𝙎 𝙐𝙋 💥

💪 Bezuidenhout starts at tighthead
🆕 Five players set for debut
🔗 Parry and Gwynn link up in the centres

📺 Watch live on Clubber TV

📲 https://t.co/os6Ered9Em

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[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

This is a scene repeated all over Britain....
Councils are failing to do the basics, and need to improve their service significantly. Their endless excuses for failure are wearing thin.
@themjcouk @lgcplus @LeilaniDowding

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

60 | TRY! Immediate impact made by our bench and Arthur Green is over.

Shout out to Ewan Richards for the initial break to take us inches short of the Toulon line!

🔴28-27🛁

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Despite imposing an inheritance tax raid on UK family farms—purportedly due to the fabricated "£22bn black hole"—the Labour government is allocating £536m in aid to foreign agricultural initiatives. Speechless.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

China produces more CO2 in just 8 years than the entirety of the UK from 2025 back to the Industrial Revolution. But hey, let’s just blame it on cow farts in the UK.

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

74 | Will Parry finds the gap!

The centre hits a great line and dives over the whitewash.

Worboys converts.

🔴 21-40 🟢

#HARvETF | #FollowTheTrail 💚

[Ealing Trailfinders @ealingtfrugby]

𝙏𝙀𝘼𝙈'𝙎 𝙐𝙋 👏

🫡 Jordy Reid captains the side.
🔙 A first run out for Dan Jones.
3⃣ Geordie Gwynn starts his third match in a row.

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