Tara Douglas-Home

Management Consultant specialising in the Supply Chain Tweeted views are my own and not IBMs.

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

"Consensus is growing" SAVE director Henrietta Billings is quoted in @BuildingNews about a new cross-party House of Commons report on heritage and housing.

The report suggests ‘Reuse first’ should be the guiding principle when we're creating new homes. https://t.co/qZXbUDUMsI

[Tara Douglas-Home @TaraDH1]

@andyburnham limited announcement on his plans. “I am going to control things and reduce costs just like what I have done in Manchester with the buses” . What great news. Fewer people travel on buses under his watch and he is leaving the city with a £1.3bn mountain of debt. A taste of things to come. Not a taste the country should be looking forward to.

[David James @drdavidajames]

Ladies and gentlemen: @bphillipsonMP, the Secretary of State for Education.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Daniel @MrDanielBuck

You need to visit Michaela! 😚

All of our staff, teachers and support staff, are dressed impeccably. 😊

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

🚨Leading conservation experts and MSPs sign an open letter in today's @heraldscotland.

The letter organised by SAVE, urges Deputy First Minister to call in highly controversial plans for the demolition of the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Church in Glasgow.
https://t.co/l8oRCn6mrc

[Joe Nutt @joenutt_author]

If a Tory minister had forced over 100 perfectly effective schools to close, and 43,000 pupils out of school, in a country desperately in need of genuinely good schools; the entire mainstream media would be screaming blue murder. That Phillipson remains in post is a scandal.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

💥In sad news, we've received an update that Sheringham's charming 'Streamline Moderne' bus shelter was demolished today. We understand it will be replaced with a modern equivalent.

Locals ran a strong campaign to try save the much loved 1950's shelter
https://t.co/T8hfoqE2P7

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

One of the UK’s largest solar farm projects has been approved across the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border. Nearly 4,000 acres of prime farmland vandalised by solar panels.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Jeremy addresses Chris Packham’s derogatory comments about Clarkson’s Farm whilst appearing on Gogglebox.

Mr Packham's comments came as he watched Clarkson's Farm during an episode of Celebrity Gogglebox, where he criticised what he sees as an unrealistic portrayal of farming exclaiming the following -

"Already, right, that's not what a farm looks like. Most farms are horrible monocultures, which have been sprayed with deadly chemicals time and time again. The ground is pumped full of fertiliser, and loads of the animals are indoors in crates, being crushed and kept in the dark."

Mr Clarkson rejected the comments outright and rebutted with the following -

"The endlessly angry Chris Packham went on Gogglebox this week and erupted in blind fury about the Winnie the Pooh-ish opening credits to my farming programme," he wrote.

"Now, of course this kind of stuff plays well in a room full of nose rings and Palestine flags at a vegan activist meeting in Hackney," Clarkson wrote.

"But he was on a television programme, and it didn't play well at all."

"Because it's b*llocks"

"And Chris knows it's b*llocks because, back in 2012, he came to Diddly Squat and spent the day in our woods, foraging and bird watching," he claimed.

"If there had been some animals in a crate, being crushed, I'm sure he would have noticed and said something."

Well said Jezza.

[Tara Douglas-Home @TaraDH1]

From a Secretary of State for Education this is pathetic, embarrassing, and gobsmacking in its trivialisation of her actions of destroying children’s education not only in the private sector but her incompetence in the public sector with unfounded imposition of costs on schools, gimmicks with so called celebrities who are failures and the erosion of standards, quite unbelievable.

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

This is deeply unprofessional and unserious.

Your policy has seen thousands of pupils without a school place, thousands of jobs go and you are snickering about t-shirts for social media clout?

Resign.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Whatever you think of American politicians at least they stand up for their people and their democracy.

Superb.

If only our government would do the same for British interests.

At least @KemiBadenoch has the right idea.

[Tara Douglas-Home @TaraDH1]

Well done @Councillorsuzie . As she said
The left frequently use vile language against their opponents. The dear of Widdecombe is only the latest in nastiness. Usually a sign they have lost the argument as they kill down debate with personal attacks.

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

I cannot tell you how furious I am with the ‘righteous’ left in politics, and I told them so! 👇

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

322 Labour members of Parliament have nominated Andy Burnham for leader.

He will become PM unchallenged. This is still unacceptable right @DavidLammy?

We need a General Election NOW.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Andy Burnham told the papers he wants to stop Labour’s plan to release rapists and paedophiles from prison early.

He had the chance to vote to stop it last night.

He didn’t even show up.

[John Reeks @wartsandbrawls]

Hard to comprehend how much damage Labour has done to education in so short a time:
- Ending Latin Excellence Programme
- Ending Academy freedoms
- Ending the PE and Sport premium
- Taxing independent education
- Cutting HE teaching grants
- Fiddling with Ofsted ratings
Any more?

[TimForAlI 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪 @timmyvoe]

Today marks 1,400 days, 46 months exactly since Nick Brown, Starmers former Chief Whip was suspended from the Labour party and we still haven't been told why

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Labour ‘boosting education funding with VAT on independent schools’ - latest news

[Tara Douglas-Home @TaraDH1]

and @jamesmurray_ldn was educated at St Pauls and watched as @bphillipsonMP the philistine destroyed the education environment that took him to where he is today.

[Jenny Reilly @crit_gen]

He watched women get expelled from his party,
Watched as an MP couldn't attend conference because of threats,
Watched rapists being sent to women's prisons,
Watched women lose their jobs,
Watched women face violence on the streets,
Never once stood up for them.