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Adrian Lyons

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Former HMI (16 years) and current education consultant. Editor of Teaching Business & Economics. Salvation Army music leader.

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Firebird7x3 @firebird7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apparently people have also been buying RNLI Xmas cards and sending them to Reform via their free post address .... 😂😂👏👏👏🙏🙏 Reform UK, FREEPOST RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC, 83 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0HW
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
At last there is something I agree with Farage about. Were he to become UK Prime Minister, it would indeed be a state of emergency.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend this crucial debate on water ownership? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to attend the water debate
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Is there any greater confluence of staggering stupidity and enormous wealth than this man? What pleasure do such rich idiots get from making the world a worse place for everyone?
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Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social I wish to protest at today’s news coverage for a crank candidate in the Clacton by election, calling for war with France. Surely there should now be equal coverage for the policies of Count Binface.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Genuine question - in this short period between PM Starmer giving the King his resignation and PM Burnham being appointed, is David Lammey the head of government?
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am currently reading for review the brilliantly written ‘How to win a Trade War’ by @soumayakeynes.ft.com and Chad Bown. It is very rare that an economics book makes me laugh out loud, but I tried to read page 74 to my wife and I couldn’t get the words out because I was laughing so much.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Andy Burnham arriving in London on a late train and then getting stuck in traffic is known in English teaching as a metaphor
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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v0 App | Adrian Lyons FRSA PFEBEA
An important and fascinating read. The key feature seems to be inconsistency.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
‘Our exam system suffers from conflating the need to rank with the need to show achievement.’ Excellent and very sensible thread from @jillongovt.bsky.social
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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#economics #business | Adrian Lyons FRSA PFEBEA
Members of the Economics, Business & Enterprise Association (EBEA) – the UK's only subject association dedicated to teachers of Economics, Business and Enterprise – will shortly receive the summer edi...
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Former UK foreign secretary David Miliband, on Radio 4 Today Programme, summed up the Labour government’s fundamental problem this morning in a single , pithy , analytical sentence: ‘the things they promised not to do are stopping the things they promised to do.’
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My goodness- @vicderbyshire.bsky.social is so good! Great interviewer, not argumentative for the sake of it, but also doesn’t take crap from bullying men.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’m one of the four!
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... ‘Quite why the hatred is so profound is something of a mystery. Labour has done some good things in office. Keir isn’t venal, like Boris Johnson. He’s not deranged, like Liz Truss.’
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Desperate to please but pleasing no one, Starmer’s latest reset could be his last | John Crace
Monday’s ‘make or break’ speech was one of the PM’s best but the signs are that most Labour MPs have already seen enough
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
BBC radio 4 right now: ‘how did you vote?’ ‘I voted Reform’. ‘Can you tell me any of their policies?’ ‘ I don’t care’. Isn’t democracy wonderful!
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/05/2026
It's Europe Day! Today, we celebrate all that Europe stands for. And we celebrate all of us, the citizens of Europe. Because all together, we are Europe. Happy Europe Day!
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
To wake up to find we now have 5 ‘Reform’ councillors in Colchester makes me feel physically sick.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 05/05/2026
Liberal Democrats are proud to serve their community. We don’t sow division; we fix potholes and church roofs, and we always sweat the small things. 

🔶 Vote Liberal Democrat this Thursday to elect a local champion for your community. 🗳️
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Tired of soaring supermarket bills? 🛒 The PM is planning a bold new law to match EU trading rules, slashing border red tape to finally bring food prices down. Let’s show him the public has his back! Sign here:
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Apparently President Trump believes that assassinations of leading government figures including heads of government is wrong and that only ‘whackos’ would do it.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... Excellent analysis in today’s Guardian. Describes with acute accuracy the qualities of the President of the United States and the rationale for why he is adored by the MAGA community.
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It’s no surprise Trump has met his match in Pope Leo – the US president represents the polar opposite of Christianity | Jonathan Freedland
Name the deadliest of sins – cruelty, deceit, avarice – and Trump will both exhibit them and celebrate them, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
@andrewrawnsley.bsky.social writes re EU membership, ‘some mistakes you get to correct. Others persist in being damaging for years’. With his clear and logical account of why this is likely to be the case, I fear he is right.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It must be a sign of my aging that I just can’t get excited by NASA astronauts stopping short of what NASA astronauts did several times around 56 to 54 years ago when they actually walked on the moon.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
David Dimbleby speaking on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social making so much sense! Fully agree
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I’ve been waiting all day for coverage of Robert Jenerick celebrating Lady Day.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
As a British Salvationist I would not normally publicise the words of an American Roman Catholic cardinal, but this is so spot it needs to be listened to by anyone claiming to be a Christian youtu.be/408wLQVioAk?...
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Evangelicals WANT This War: A Catholic Response to Christian Zionism | Cardinal Burke Responds
YouTube video by Veritas Catholica
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
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First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 15/03/2026
"We know that within that first hour of war, between 140 and 160 Iranian school girls were killed by an American Tomahawk missile," says Emily Maitlis. "Now, if that's what Trump thinks of a success, I am speechless, frankly" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-ca...
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‘I can't bear to hear Trump talk about the success of first hour of the Iran war’ | The News Agents
Donald Trump claims the US ‘won’ the Iran War in just one hour of strikes – during which time 165 people were killed at a girls’ school. Will America keep buying his narrative of events?
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
@mercedesamgf1team.bsky.social @mercedesamgf1br.bsky.social does anyone know when Mercedes will sort the 400 v charging capability for the CLA 220 + model please? I know Mercedes says ‘spring 2026’ but spring officially began a week ago.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Warning to anyone with @virginmediatv.bsky.social Just wasted a morning on 3 separate phone calls. Received a ‘free upgrade’ to a Virginmedia 360 box replacing our perfectly acceptable TiVo box in our bedroom. Having installed it we discovered we could no longer record because the 360 box has no
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Wonderfully hilarious woman starting the vox pop on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social anti immigrant woman wants to leave this country and move to America where they are getting things right- presumably clearing out the immigrants - you know, immigrate you would be.
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T4Yorkshire 🇪🇺 @t4yorkshire.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I've just written to my MP asking them to attend the Brexit Referendum Anniversary Debate. You can do the same in just two minutes: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-e...
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Urge Your MP to Attend the Debate on the EU Referendum Anniversary
Nearly a decade after the 2016 referendum, the effects of Brexit are no longer theoretical. They are visible in the economy, in pressures on public finances, and in the UK’s changing role internationa...
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
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First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
'The danger is not that schools are being judged harshly, but that judgments are becoming harder to interpret, harder to trust and harder to learn from. Clarity matters. Without it, even positive reports leave more questions than answers' schoolsweek.co.uk/our-game-of-...
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Our game of guess the grade was more baffling than we hoped
How do pupils 'thrive' in a school where curriculum and teaching aren’t rated as ‘strong’?
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My comment piece in today’s edition of Schools Week
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The excellent @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social writes that ‘The danger for Reform is that it looks more and more like a refugee camp for discredited Conservatives than it does the insurgent force for change that it claims to be.’. Makes sense as a refugee from the Con Party is essentially Nigel Farage
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This really is horrendous
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Starmer needs to find the courage to follow his arguments about the failures and costs of Brexit to their logical conclusion. His recent foreign policy speech fell short by continuing to gloss over hard truths, and pretend Britain can keep muddling through.
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Please @lisanandymp.bsky.social can you identify for me when anybody voted to leave the Customs Union? EU yes (marginally) but single market or customs union was never on a ballot and in fact Brexiteers suggest we would remain in those institutions. If just 2% had been swayed by this misinformation…
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 01/12/2025
Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on. We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I love @classicfm.com and I love Christmas carols, but on Thursday afternoon I had to turn off ‘White Christmas’ and this afternoon I had to turn off ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ - it’s one of my favourites, but NOT in November - please, no, no, No!
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Less than a minute into the budget and Rachel Reaves uses that disgusting phrase ‘brightest and best’. Presumably these are not the people who keep our health service and social care going. These are the people to who I am grateful
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Adrian Lyons @adrianlyons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
You have to feel sorry for all those MPs who can’t believe their luck to be called in what is normally a PMQs with a huge audience watching BBC 2 for the budget only to find that BBC2 abandoned PMQs immediately after the LOTO’s questions to discuss the budget which has not yet happened.
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