Gina Garratt
@ginaspireite.bsky.social
Proud happy mum, grandma and spireite from the land of the crooked spire. My home, family and Chesterfield FC my happy places. 🥰
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END OF NORMAL TIME: CHESTERFIELD 2-2 LIVERPOOL UNDER 21s
So that’s a point apiece so far, despite the Spireites looking on course for all three having gone 2-0 up.
There is now another on offer in the penalty shoot-out, though.
Stand by for updates…
#Spireites
So that’s a point apiece so far, despite the Spireites looking on course for all three having gone 2-0 up.
There is now another on offer in the penalty shoot-out, though.
Stand by for updates…
#Spireites
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
END OF NORMAL TIME: CHESTERFIELD 2-2 LIVERPOOL UNDER 21s
So that’s a point apiece so far, despite the Spireites looking on course for all three having gone 2-0 up.
There is now another on offer in the penalty shoot-out, though.
Stand by for updates…
#Spireites
So that’s a point apiece so far, despite the Spireites looking on course for all three having gone 2-0 up.
There is now another on offer in the penalty shoot-out, though.
Stand by for updates…
#Spireites
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64’: GOALLLLLLL CHESTERFIELD!!!!
DYLAN DUFFY!!!
A quick-fire double for the Spireites, who are now in really strong position to advance from the Group Stage!
🔵⚪️ 2-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
DYLAN DUFFY!!!
A quick-fire double for the Spireites, who are now in really strong position to advance from the Group Stage!
🔵⚪️ 2-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
64’: GOALLLLLLL CHESTERFIELD!!!!
DYLAN DUFFY!!!
A quick-fire double for the Spireites, who are now in really strong position to advance from the Group Stage!
🔵⚪️ 2-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
DYLAN DUFFY!!!
A quick-fire double for the Spireites, who are now in really strong position to advance from the Group Stage!
🔵⚪️ 2-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
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63’: GOALLLLLLL CHESTERFIELD!!!!
BAILEY HOBSON!! BACK IN BLUE, BACK IN THE GOALS!
It is a rather fortuitous one in truth, as Hobson’s effort bobbles along a slippery surface and under Liverpool ‘keeper Fabian Mrozek.
🔵⚪️ 1-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
BAILEY HOBSON!! BACK IN BLUE, BACK IN THE GOALS!
It is a rather fortuitous one in truth, as Hobson’s effort bobbles along a slippery surface and under Liverpool ‘keeper Fabian Mrozek.
🔵⚪️ 1-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
63’: GOALLLLLLL CHESTERFIELD!!!!
BAILEY HOBSON!! BACK IN BLUE, BACK IN THE GOALS!
It is a rather fortuitous one in truth, as Hobson’s effort bobbles along a slippery surface and under Liverpool ‘keeper Fabian Mrozek.
🔵⚪️ 1-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
BAILEY HOBSON!! BACK IN BLUE, BACK IN THE GOALS!
It is a rather fortuitous one in truth, as Hobson’s effort bobbles along a slippery surface and under Liverpool ‘keeper Fabian Mrozek.
🔵⚪️ 1-0 🔴⚪️
#Spireites
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Our boy is 8 now, loves drawing fish & birds though his AuDHD means he’s easily distracted and seldom finishes stuff, meaning reams of paper covered in unfinished bird compendia/ocean habitats. Which is lush, BUT I thought a drawing app might help him focus a bit.
20 mins later: GANNET ❤️
20 mins later: GANNET ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Our boy is 8 now, loves drawing fish & birds though his AuDHD means he’s easily distracted and seldom finishes stuff, meaning reams of paper covered in unfinished bird compendia/ocean habitats. Which is lush, BUT I thought a drawing app might help him focus a bit.
20 mins later: GANNET ❤️
20 mins later: GANNET ❤️
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🎥 Match preview from the SMH Group Stadium, where Chesterfield host Liverpool Under 21s in the group stage of the Vertu Trophy (7PM kick-off.)
Provided by @bensportstory.bsky.social
#Spireites
Provided by @bensportstory.bsky.social
#Spireites
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🎥 Match preview from the SMH Group Stadium, where Chesterfield host Liverpool Under 21s in the group stage of the Vertu Trophy (7PM kick-off.)
Provided by @bensportstory.bsky.social
#Spireites
Provided by @bensportstory.bsky.social
#Spireites
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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🚨Confirmed Chesterfield team news for tonight’s Vertu Trophy fixture against Liverpool Under 21s 🚨
XI: Boot; Tanton, Donacien, Grimes (C), Sheckleford; Naylor, Hobson; Mandeville, Darcy, Duffy, Dickson
SUBS: Daley-Campbell, Gordon, Cook, Fleck, Markanday, Berry, Bonis.
#Spireites
XI: Boot; Tanton, Donacien, Grimes (C), Sheckleford; Naylor, Hobson; Mandeville, Darcy, Duffy, Dickson
SUBS: Daley-Campbell, Gordon, Cook, Fleck, Markanday, Berry, Bonis.
#Spireites
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨Confirmed Chesterfield team news for tonight’s Vertu Trophy fixture against Liverpool Under 21s 🚨
XI: Boot; Tanton, Donacien, Grimes (C), Sheckleford; Naylor, Hobson; Mandeville, Darcy, Duffy, Dickson
SUBS: Daley-Campbell, Gordon, Cook, Fleck, Markanday, Berry, Bonis.
#Spireites
XI: Boot; Tanton, Donacien, Grimes (C), Sheckleford; Naylor, Hobson; Mandeville, Darcy, Duffy, Dickson
SUBS: Daley-Campbell, Gordon, Cook, Fleck, Markanday, Berry, Bonis.
#Spireites
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As somewhat anticipated, plenty of changes, with Tom Naylor and Liam Mandeville the only remaining starters from Saturday.
Bailey Hobson, recently recalled from his loan at National League side Brackley Town, starts.
Meanwhile, Liverpool academy graduate Adam Lewis is not in the squad.
#Spireites
Bailey Hobson, recently recalled from his loan at National League side Brackley Town, starts.
Meanwhile, Liverpool academy graduate Adam Lewis is not in the squad.
#Spireites
🚨Confirmed Chesterfield team news for tonight’s Vertu Trophy fixture against Liverpool Under 21s 🚨
XI: Boot; Tanton, Donacien, Grimes (C), Sheckleford; Naylor, Hobson; Mandeville, Darcy, Duffy, Dickson
SUBS: Daley-Campbell, Gordon, Cook, Fleck, Markanday, Berry, Bonis.
#Spireites
XI: Boot; Tanton, Donacien, Grimes (C), Sheckleford; Naylor, Hobson; Mandeville, Darcy, Duffy, Dickson
SUBS: Daley-Campbell, Gordon, Cook, Fleck, Markanday, Berry, Bonis.
#Spireites
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
As somewhat anticipated, plenty of changes, with Tom Naylor and Liam Mandeville the only remaining starters from Saturday.
Bailey Hobson, recently recalled from his loan at National League side Brackley Town, starts.
Meanwhile, Liverpool academy graduate Adam Lewis is not in the squad.
#Spireites
Bailey Hobson, recently recalled from his loan at National League side Brackley Town, starts.
Meanwhile, Liverpool academy graduate Adam Lewis is not in the squad.
#Spireites
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Pleased for Paul Cook tonight, managing the side against a team from the side he has supported since boyhood. I hope he has a good 'un.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pleased for Paul Cook tonight, managing the side against a team from the side he has supported since boyhood. I hope he has a good 'un.
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If anyone wants to know what Gibb was actually ‘like’, this Twitter exchange is a great cameo. Writing the alt text for the screenshot was fun, too! #EduSky
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If anyone wants to know what Gibb was actually ‘like’, this Twitter exchange is a great cameo. Writing the alt text for the screenshot was fun, too! #EduSky
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Yorkshire teenagers: ‘It brings us so much joy to keep 1940s music alive.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Yorkshire teens bringing 1940s music into the 21st Century
Teenagers Siena, Emilia and Lottie are The Duchy Darlings, a musical trio covering wartime songs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yorkshire teenagers: ‘It brings us so much joy to keep 1940s music alive.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...
Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist Rants
EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...
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We used to call them ‘the mirror world BeeGees.’ This is what happened to people who came to Nick Gibb’s attention (me included). My opinion hasn’t changed (for the record!) #EduSky
Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity
An Observer investigation finds DfE tried to cancel conference with ‘unsuitable’ speakers – and experts who criticised state education policy had files kept on online posts
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We used to call them ‘the mirror world BeeGees.’ This is what happened to people who came to Nick Gibb’s attention (me included). My opinion hasn’t changed (for the record!) #EduSky
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Great episode from the @newsagents.bsky.social especially education people who can see what Robbie Gibb was doing at the BBC while his brother Nick was on a similar mission at the DFE. #EduSky
Inside the BBC: What really went on
YouTube video by The News Agents
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Great episode from the @newsagents.bsky.social especially education people who can see what Robbie Gibb was doing at the BBC while his brother Nick was on a similar mission at the DFE. #EduSky
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🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bo...
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
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…be able to behave like this, regarding the BBC?
I never appeared on Question Time, by the way.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06...
I never appeared on Question Time, by the way.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06...
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
…be able to behave like this, regarding the BBC?
I never appeared on Question Time, by the way.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06...
I never appeared on Question Time, by the way.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06...
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This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.
Should politicians…
Should politicians…
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.
Should politicians…
Should politicians…
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◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
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Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax...
...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax.
...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax.
County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax...
...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax.
...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax.
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Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
Firm leading council savings review could receive £30m
The county council currently needs to plug an expected £90 million gap in its day-to-day spending
leicestermercury.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
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“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.”
How disgraceful.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How disgraceful.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.”
How disgraceful.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How disgraceful.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Regarding the BBC and journalist integrity. We’ve had examples of a major lack of it before, and yet one of its journalists found guilty of it has been allowed to continue and is more prominent than ever… #newsnight #r4today #bbcbreakfast #politicsLive #bbclaurak
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Regarding the BBC and journalist integrity. We’ve had examples of a major lack of it before, and yet one of its journalists found guilty of it has been allowed to continue and is more prominent than ever… #newsnight #r4today #bbcbreakfast #politicsLive #bbclaurak
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We won strong EU laws against child labour ＆ nature destruction, but Manfred Weber (EPP leader in the EU Parliament) is siding with the far-right to undo it.
Tell him to protect our future, not big business.
share.greens-efa.eu/s/ALqmxtUq
We won strong EU laws against child labour ＆ nature destruction, but Manfred Weber (EPP leader in the EU Parliament) is siding with the far-right to undo it.
Tell him to protect our future, not big business.
share.greens-efa.eu/s/ALqmxtUq
Send him an email now and tell him to not give in to the far right.
share.greens-efa.eu
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Please send an email and share if you can. It takes 2 mins!
We won strong EU laws against child labour ＆ nature destruction, but Manfred Weber (EPP leader in the EU Parliament) is siding with the far-right to undo it.
Tell him to protect our future, not big business.
share.greens-efa.eu/s/ALqmxtUq
We won strong EU laws against child labour ＆ nature destruction, but Manfred Weber (EPP leader in the EU Parliament) is siding with the far-right to undo it.
Tell him to protect our future, not big business.
share.greens-efa.eu/s/ALqmxtUq
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BBC invited Kelvin McKenzie on BBC breakfast to talk about ethics
"Unless your editorial intent is explicitly to explore ethical failure through the eyes of those who perpetrated it, it’s a reputational risk with limited public-interest upside"
- ChatGPT pro
bsky.app/profile/bria...
"Unless your editorial intent is explicitly to explore ethical failure through the eyes of those who perpetrated it, it’s a reputational risk with limited public-interest upside"
- ChatGPT pro
bsky.app/profile/bria...
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
BBC invited Kelvin McKenzie on BBC breakfast to talk about ethics
"Unless your editorial intent is explicitly to explore ethical failure through the eyes of those who perpetrated it, it’s a reputational risk with limited public-interest upside"
- ChatGPT pro
bsky.app/profile/bria...
"Unless your editorial intent is explicitly to explore ethical failure through the eyes of those who perpetrated it, it’s a reputational risk with limited public-interest upside"
- ChatGPT pro
bsky.app/profile/bria...