Aimee Toze

English teacher.

[Aimee Toze @aimeetoze]

@Lucy_Worsley @PBS Please please please tell me where you got those boots! 🙏

[Brendan May @bmay]

The best defence of centrist politics (and argument for it) I’ve heard in a long time. He’s so good on this stuff.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

The idea that the BBC is a waste of money, can get fucked. Our publicly owned broadcaster is the ONLY thing we do better than anyone else in the world. 'In Our Time' on Radio 4 alone is worth the licence fee.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Nigel Farage says it upsets him when people call the far-right violence 'The Farage Riots'. So people should definitely not do that

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

British Gas profits leap from £72m to £751m in a year https://t.co/AmtgJPFoFt

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🚨 Byline Times has been investigating stories other media organisations fear to cover - but this comes at some extra legal cost. Help us make such that doesn't hinder our journalism

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[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

If you’re near a W H Smith or Waitrose, please pop in and buy a copy of @BylineTimes! They’ve just launched in shops and it’s so important that we support decent journalism (there isn’t much of it about right now!) 🗞️ 🌟

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Harlyn Bay, Cornwall back in the news again. Not in the least shocking considering there had been 13 sewage dumps between 18 June and 18 August with 8 in July alone.

Pretty standard stuff for @SouthWestWater

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Between 2012 - 2022 @AnglianWater paid shareholders £4.6 billion and now they want to put up your water bill because they didn't spend enough on infrastructure.

No doubt you'll remember that come the general election. Oh, and @ofwat did what exactly?

https://t.co/zcE3xDOZ5w

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

£4.9 billion profits, up 40%, when your nan daren’t leave her immersion heater on. There is something unfathomably wrong with this. But hey, don’t pay attention to these cowboys, look at the boat people instead.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Good old @SouthWestWater always dependable, always reliable, always crap.

Highest water bills in England, customers living under a hosepipe ban since last August and this morning dumping sewage into huge swaths of if not most of Cornwall and Devon. Ho hum.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

What is it that you actually do, @mercer_felicity ? Take a break from obsessively attacking Vorderman to provide a breakdown of your duties. The people paying your wages have a right to know.

[Aimee Toze @aimeetoze]

@BBCWomansHour @caitlinmoran @itsanitarani @stevetoze

[Aimee Toze @aimeetoze]

When your team need a point you step up!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

In the 2 weeks since saying "SORRY", 3 water companies have already paid out £672m to shareholders, that's your money and they still want to fleece you for another £10bn.

Remember that the next time you find yourself standing at the ballot box.

https://t.co/zQitkQ8jGx

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Aimee Toze @aimeetoze]

@everydaycyclist @LipsonValePS @plymotion @SustransSouth @fridedaysbb @CyclePSSP Brilliant!

[Craig Honeyman @Craig_Honeyman]

Jeff Stelling is a national treasure. One of Teessides greatest exports.