Peter Shearman

Was the Labour Party candidate in Windsor GE17 & GE19. Views are mine, retweets =\= endorsements etc.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

@DavidGauke @_PaulMonaghan @Prosper_UK_ If that’s the case, then why do NI contributions determine your eligibility for a state pension? Sounds like a contributory principle to me.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

@theobertram @SMFthinktank It’s an interesting idea, and I’m a fan of Basic Capital/Income concepts, but if this is about housing, that isn’t a demand problem. House prices would inflate again with a newly capitalised community of first time buyers. Pensions of tomorrow enriching homeowners of today.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

This April I’ll be running the @LondonMarathon for the @samaritans, in memory of my close friend and fellow @ReigatePrioryFC alumni Joe Lane.

Joe leant on the Samaritans during his darker moments, so grateful for any support people are able to give

https://t.co/zUKkem8ot1

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

@ReigatePrioryFC if Ray Connolly was a mascot

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

3 ko matches. Six hours of football. Ahead for less than 1 minute across all of that. And still won 🏆

Tremendous

#womenseuros2025

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

What happened to ‘contact with consequence’ @FA_PGMOL? #WHUMAN

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Premier League statement on West Ham penalty.

“The referee did not award a penalty to West Ham for a challenge by de Ligt on Ings”.

“The VAR deemed there was sufficient contact on Ings��� lower leg and recommended an on-field review. The referee overturned his original decision and awarded a penalty”.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

@amonizfootball There’s a human flaw at the heart of VAR, which is that referees are just as tribal as everyone else in football - it’s just that their tribe is referees. So on subjective matters they back up the on-field decision wherever possible, rather than focus on the correct decision.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

Private schools that play occasional weekend sports fixtures: stop being so f*ing selfish. All you are doing is taking kids away from grassroots teams (meaning teammates are denied a game) to play in matches of poor quality, with no developmental purpose, that the kids hate.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

If Netflix aren’t commissioning ‘Strictly: Jive to Survive’ for the new season I’m cancelling my sub

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

Someone told me about a semi in Manchester that had been flipped from £575k to £1.8m in one day, described by the council as market "manipulation".

We finally identified the house and it turns out the flippers are... a property firm who have been paid millions by the council!

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

Thank goodness

[Prof Colin Talbot @colinrtalbot]

A short photo-thread of just some of the responses to the D Day Dodger …

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

Black phlegm of coal miners “shows lungs are working”, says Sunak

[Charters School @ChartersSchool]

Students @Charters6Form welcomed local representatives from a broad spectrum of political parties to the Charters Question Time debate today.
Our thanks to @jackmrankin, @julian_tisi, @PeterLShearman & Michael Boyle for taking part.
Read about the debate:
https://t.co/s2b7XxsucD

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

@john_actuary See, I would consider that a form of maladministration. “We know this approach doesn’t work, but we’re doing it anyway.” is a pretty poor way to do anything, frankly.

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

This is dumb. That’s a description of most tackles. Making ‘a genuine attempt to play the ball’ has got nothing to do with something being a foul or not.

[The Anfield Talk @TheAnfieldTalk]

The KMI panel (Key Match Incidents) have concluded that Michael Oliver was correct NOT to award a penalty for Liverpool against Man City.

“[It was] a genuine attempt to play the ball . . . with both players coming into contact with each other as a result." [Via @TimesSport]

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

Yet you pick Jack Grealish, a guy with more yellow cards than goal contributions this season, having played less than 8 90s of Premier League football (16 mins in 2024), and who hasn’t made three of the last four MATCHDAY SQUADS for his club.

This is what an agenda looks like.

[Jacob Whitehead @jwhitey98]

Six writers from @TheAthleticFC picked our England squads, 100 days out from the Euros.

Five of us picked Anthony Gordon. Four chose Jarrad Branthwaite. Three went for Kobbie Mainoo. There was a shout for Ross Barkley.

Marcus Rashford? Zero.

https://t.co/pXNnbLRQAi

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

This is such an odd thing to brag about. What is wrong with these people?

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants.

This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

A council has warned that it could in effect become insolvent this year because of the huge financial deficits it has racked up on special education needs, in the latest development in the local government funding crisis

By me, for the Observer https://t.co/6BG35iv7Qy

[Peter Shearman @PeterLShearman]

@DevilsITDPod You talk a lot about decision-making, & how that affects the impacts players have on a game. How does that show up in data?