Roger Hopkins Burke

Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Derby. Consultant and author. Two sons: Tom (Teaches History) and Oliver (Music Student, Durham Uni).

[Roger Hopkins Burke @RogerHBurke]

Homeless lady with two dogs https://t.co/XGVxBucj97

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

You may be a little disappointed in or even a little disillusioned with Labour’s start to government, but what a relief it is not to have Tories running the country into the ground any more.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

So, this absolute weapon suspected a local Travelodge was housing illegal immigrants and he let rip about it in a Tweet, but it turned out it was NHS nurses and their families on holiday. Reform UK, what a Party, eh?

[Willy Woofter @WillyWoofter]

"So what first attracted you to beating up women?"

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

IOC’s Mark Adams today on Olympic boxing scandal: “It’s not helpful to start stigmatising people. I think we all have a responsibility not to turn it into some kind of witch-hunt.”

I would say that by far the greater responsibility is for the Games to protect women’s safety.

[Roger Hopkins Burke @RogerHBurke]

@redrumlisa Been well aware of this for some time but frightened of the implications. It seems we are all coming out now.

[Kate Barker-Mawjee @KateBMwriting]

My dad is nearly 90 and every official communication he gets requires the downloading of an app or the setting up of an online account. How do older people without relatives manage?

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING
So so happy
The increasingly impressive ⁦@RachelReevesMP⁩ has just formally announced the appt of COVID CORRUPTION COMMISSIONER will take place within weeks

Many of us have campaigned for this & everyone who has supported (that’s you)…this is great news👍🏼

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

@Sorelle_Arduino @NadiaWhittomeMP @Keir_Starmer She has no experience of anything - she is pointless.

[Roger Hopkins Burke @RogerHBurke]

What photo ID will you need to vote in the UK general election? - BBC News https://t.co/8n7fGszad3

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Conservatives say they can’t afford the State Pension because it's too expensive

We've the lowest State Pension in Europe, one of the highest retirement ages in the world but we're the 6th richest nation in the world

You'd have to be damn stupid to believe their lie

#newsnight

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Here is Ian Acheson’s devastating letter resigning from the Tory Party in fury at the PM’s failure to attend the international section of the D Day commemoration. Mr Acheson is a former prison governor and advisor to the government on countering extremism

Dear sir,

I am writing to resign my membership of the Conservative Party with immediate effect.

If you are at all interested in knowing why, you might want to watch yesterday's news coverage again to understand the depth of feeling around this country's Prime Minister shunning his duty to our few remaining veterans in Normandy to scuttle back to London to do a news piece defending an indefensible tax claim. Electioneering ahead of a solemn commemoration of those who gave so much for the freedoms we enjoy today is simply unforgivable. And, I might add, alien to the core values of the party I joined.

It was an act of either colossal stupidity or cynical calculation. Either way, it revealed to me that while I still embrace a conservative philosophy, I am no longer willing to have it outsourced to a bunch of mendacious, incompetent and disreputable clowns. Country before party. Always.

Yours sincerely

Ian Acheson

[Roger Hopkins Burke @RogerHBurke]

Well put Lisa!

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

The consequences of promoting mediocrity because they are mediocre. They will defend the status quo with their lives because otherwise how does the mediocre survive ? By reproducing their own mediocrity. No threat.

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[@Understanding_Desistance_&_Rehabilitation @URehabilitation]

We have 3 more posts to fill (Sociology):

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[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

Perhaps if @AlexChalkChelt can't get them to explain it one of the excellent @neill_bob remaining tasks as chair of the Justice Committee can require their attendance in public to do so. Corporate failure at this level paid for by the public purse should carry consequences. 11/11

[Roger Hopkins Burke @RogerHBurke]

Gawd! I’ll be Liz Truss next!

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Natalie Elphicke’s long statement that explains her defection to Labour is brutal about Rishi Sunak. Here is just one choice extract: “The elected Prime Minister was ousted in a coup led by the unelected Rishi Sunak. Under Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives have become a byword for incompetence and division. The centre ground has been abandoned and key pledges of the 2019 manifesto have been ditched. Meanwhile the Labour Party has changed out of all recognition. Since 2019, it has moved on from Jeremy Corbyn and now, under Keir Starmer, occupies the centre ground of British politics. It has accepted Brexit and its economic policies and defence policies are responsible and can be trusted.”

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Just been messaged from a Scottish teacher who was attacked with a weapon in the classroom, and the student wasn’t suspended, and is still in the same school as the teacher, who now lives in fear of a second assault. Tell me again that the Scottish Ed system doesn’t need its approach to behaviour rebooted.

No teacher should dread being assaulted as an expectation of the job. Schools need to support their staff. To do so, political leaders need to get serious about behaviour. Drop the obsession with no-exclusions. It’s ruining the education of countless thousands. Invest in alternative provision.

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

You know we are in deep trouble when people's housing need are in such dire situations that we turn to abandoned churches. It takes on another level of God will provide. The social contract is over where WE work, pay tax & abide by the law & yet there is NO social goods

[Roger Hopkins Burke @RogerHBurke]

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