Keir Starmer (1985, BCL) is a barrister and the leader of the Labour party.

Sir Keir was called to the Bar in 1987 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002. He practised from Doughty Street Chambers since its inception in 1990 and was appointed Head of Chambers in 2007. His main…

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Atalanta BC (Bergamasca Calcio) are, as the *B* suggests are from Bergamo. In early 2020, Bergamo was 'Ground Zero' for COVID. I suspect there's still much grief in the city.

So this week in politics we have William Wragg. A man who sent photos of his John Thomas to a random stranger on Grindr, who then blackmailed him demanding the phone numbers of his fellow MPs, who then all received dodgy text messages, and Wragg had to sack himself in the end…

Heath and social care workers are good at dealing with uncertainty .
However the degree of ever changing daily uncertainty about staffing , space , equipment , tools , environment , IT
in the current and potential future landscape is causing early exits and burnout .

*The UK's Fifth Nation.*
A commentary of the forthcoming Mayoral Election

Dear Adrian
You're doing a brilliant job of working out the perplexities of dying & grief.
All the stuff you wish you'd known, you'd have known in the days when death was more familiar.
You're not 'banging on,' but reminding us.
Thank you.
Shelagh Fogarty
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Couldn't resist the temptation

The Belfast Agreement: 26 years ago today. Forever a reminder that not all politicians are pointless wankers on the take.

North-East Cricket Clubs, drowning under the expectation of the season ahead.

The Good Friday Agreement was signed today in 1998. The following people deserve credit for it.
Tony Blair
Mo Mowlam
David Trimble
Gerry Adams
John Hume
Albert Reynolds
John Major

The spine road to Blyth 😳

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Elswick's only Nobel Prize Winner.
Bill Corcoran Dan Jackson

British Army Officer who became a Trade Union Official, a friend of Yasser Arafat & whose younger brother was in the IRA. Typical Irish family of that era Irish Emergency Logistics Team 🇮🇪 Bill Corcoran Tyneside IrishCentre

I have been an NHS doctor in acute care since 1989

My then girlfriend and now wife now thinks that all those times i disappeared for a whole weekend in the hospital i was having an affair

Cheers. Wes

So will England and Wales Cricket Board be imposing points penalties & removing Test Match status from Headingley? Given experience of Durham Cricket debt carries greater punishment than institutional racism

Yorkshire report HUGE loss of £7.1 million despite hosting Ashes dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

Not one of VAR's finest moments

Richard Tice out of his depth on Today talking about healthcare

Interesting one from Facebook. Apparently, posting congratulations to Athletic Bilbao for winning the *Copa del Rey* breaches Meta's *community standards.*

Has Steve Zuckerberg had a seance with Franco?

was given this 30 years ago by a young couple outside the old San Mames after an unforgettable trip to Bilbao. I wonder if they are still together? And did they get tickets for the cup final? A little corner of the Leafy NE3 wardrobe will always be red & white... #AthleticClub