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Claire Swallow

@seaswallow.bsky.social
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I grew up in the care system in the 1960’s and 70’s. And I now write about it: substack.com/@claireswallow?r=91rfd…

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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
But surely you should be writing for free the joy of it should be all you need for nutrition and pet food?
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Wow… now reform councillors are calling children in care “evil” . Honestly we I read Osbourne. Cambridgeshire. Reform counsellors comments this morning i felt it viscerally. I grew up in care and I am NOT evil. I can tell you who was evil. Mrs and Mr Hort and Mr and Mrs Hilton: staff members.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Yeah. This is a concerted effort to bring down the last bastion of trusted news we have in this country. I am full of despair at this attempted coup. They don’t want us to have reliable information at our fingertips they only want us deluged with propaganda.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
He had tears in his eyes because the president was crushing his testicles.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What racists actually do as opposed to what they pretend they are doing.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
www.facebook.com/share/v/1Jm9...
facebook.com
Redirecting...
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
open.substack.com/pub/clairesw...
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Ingenious Cruelty. (edit)
I have edited my previous version of this, it is inherently the same peice but with slightly better grammer and sentence structure. An essay about the lies that adults working in the care system somet...
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Federal judge orders closure of Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail
Judge’s order finds jail, which has attracted waves of criticism, was causing severe harm to Florida Everglades
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
substack.com/@claireswall...
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Claire Swallow (@claireswallow)
This is really good. A look at our economy view the lens of wealth rather than poverty, “wealtherty”. Understanding how wealth has and still does operate. How it protects itself. And how it has create...
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Have written to my MP, Micheal Payne to ask why.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How much pressure is being exerted by our government?
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It’s chilling but I guess we have known it for weeks.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I am pretty sure I do not agree with everything the Palestine Action believes in but what they do goes not in my mind qualify as terrorism. They commit acts of criminal damage and although recent actions will have embarrassed our government that’s not good enough to proscribe them as terrorists.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Well done but bloody hell that must of felt v scary indeed. Thugs.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I just gotta say… I love a cow.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Exactly…
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Just some cows. In Nottinghamshire. By the river Trent.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#childabuse #boardingschool #growingupincare #sexualviolence #shame
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I have started writing, at last, about my experiences growing up in “care”.
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Claire Swallow @seaswallow.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/clairesw...
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Its fragmentory isn't it?
An exploration of my experiences growing up in the care system, at a special school, as a "cared for child". And other complaints and observations.
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