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Chris Hillidge

@chrishillidge.bsky.social
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Director at The Challenge Academy Trust. NW England Partnerships & collaboration. HE & Industry. Digital transformation and #AI #Research. MBA 2023 Creator of Fablab Warrington #makerspace #Science #STEM #Partnerships #EduSky

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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is an election for local councillors. Vote for those who have a positive track record of being involved in local issues.
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Warrington Guardian @warringtonguardian.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
MP Charlotte Nichols visits Warrington school to discuss democracy
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MP Charlotte Nichols visits Warrington school to discuss democracy
Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols visited Padgate Academy to engage students in a discussion on democracy and civic responsibility
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Public opinion is irrelevant. It's a negotiation between employees and employers. In this situation, the employees hold all the cards and will either be successful or many will leave for better remunerated shores.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
If we leave kids unsupervised to access social media and we don't discuss how most of it isn't real and how it thrives on clicks and eyeballs from divisive content, then we're not doing our job as parents.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I think its about congestion.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING UNTIL THIS HAPPENS.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I can't disagree.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
If we take single market as an example. They have publicly acknowledged that leaving it has harmed us economically. This alone is a big step with such a politically divisive issue.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It's an error to try to 'out reform' Reform. I agree.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
They have. But the 'Labour attacking greens' angle works better for most of our media so this is the message that gets amplified.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The lack of physics specialist teachers is a severe issue in schools serving disadvantaged communities. We need to see a plan on addressing the shortage of Physics teachers before we can address the social equity of triple science being offered. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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Triple science GCSE plan ‘ignores chronic teacher shortages’
Giving all GCSE students an entitlement to study triple science will force schools to make ‘compromises and substitutions’ without a major recruitment plan, warn subject experts
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Both I think.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Maybe I'm wrong. I suppose we'll find out in the next 4 years.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Lots of schoolkids know Nigels name too. That's the point I'm making. I prefer many of Zack's policies but he'll never get the chance to implement them. Hopefully some of them will start to have a subtle influence on the current government's direction.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It's a long time to the next election. I know quite a few Labour MPs and they are decent people. The message will change.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I completely agree. Whilst I don't think the greens have a chance with FPTP, you can only hope that Labour will see the success they are having with more positive messages and start to change their plan.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Some aren't. But the ratio of faceless/nameless profiles is about 20 to 1 at the moment. Does that not strike you as odd?
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I agree. They are offering an alternative. But is it realistically achievable? They're not going to win a majority under the FPTP system, so what happens if the Greens manifesto has to be delivered through a coalition government? And who would they go into coalition with?
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I don't disagree. But also, bots are an issue on social media. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A global comparison of social media bot and human characteristics - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A global comparison of social media bot and human characteristics
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 09/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
MP asks for explanation from Southern Water amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I don't disagree. I think Labour have struggled (and are currently failing) with how to counteract Reform on immigration. Hate is a powerful emotion and it is being exploited by many politicians worldwide.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
You're on social media by choice though. Surely the point of it is to listen to and share opinions?
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Lawless how? If there is something that you want to say that you don't want your name associated with, you have to self reflect on whether you should be saying it at all.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
First two replies are faceless accounts with no names.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Feels a bit students politics to me. What does this achieve?
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
He's right. Just because I might prefer Zacks populist policies to Nigels doesn't make any of it more achievable. The current government have inherited an absolute mess snd it is going to take adults a long time to sort it out.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I much prefer this option. Spelling out my email address etc at check in has always seemed the least efficient way to get to my room.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I don't think children should be making that decision at 13. A good teacher ignites a love of a subject. A poor teacher could mean a child not choosing to study a subject post 13. That isn't a sensible way to do things.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I disagree. The G in GCSE is for General. Young people should get a broad education that covers as many subjects as possible.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The enforced remodelling of that part of town wasn't all bad tbh
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Her apology works even better for Reform. 'Look what they made me apologise for' 'You can't speak your mind anymore' etc etc. Normalising this kind of language so more people are happy to 'other' whole sections of society, that don't look like them.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It was decadent..
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Adverts aren't a reliable indicator any more. Ads are expensive and often yield poor fields.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I think a SoW with lots of detail for the teacher is a vital starting point for any lesson. The PowerPoint might be one of the resources used but not the main event.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Has a handful of MPs and just lost a by-election that was an 'easy win' for them. Will be long gone before the next GE.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Diagnosed. Note: I'm not suggesting for a minute that circumcision is the causative mechanism.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I really wish we could shift the conversation to the positives that immigration brings to our country. Healthcare would be just one industry that would collapse without it.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/09/2025
NEW: We filed a brief in support of a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on academic freedom at Columbia University. The First Amendment doesn't allow the president to force a university to censor its teaching, research, and faculty to align with his ideology.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We're the professionals, though. In these interactions, it is up to us to manage the conversation. The vast majority of parents will reciprocate.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This has been the problem since 2010 unfortunately.
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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
Screenshot from The Times which reads: "Zia Yusuf, Reform’s policy chief, said that his party’s changes would lead to “hundreds of thousands of people having to apply [for] and ultimately losing their settled status in the UK” on a staggered basis to prevent disruption to businesses.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Yusuf said: “Many of those who will lose their leave to remain are entirely dependent on the welfare state and will leave voluntarily upon losing access to benefits. Those that don’t will be subject to immigration enforcement as part of our mass deportation programme.”
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Worth it for the breakfast though...
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I wonder what sales of these look like this week?
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Agree.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I remember Skrewdriver and their followers from the early 90's. I thought we had put this crap behind us as a country. Unfortunately, not.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The same was said when calculators were introduced. It will become part of established practice soon enough.
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Always a rescue animal! Don't mind what breed!
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Chris Hillidge @chrishillidge.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Ready to move into the Carpathians as we meet our mountain guides.
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