Jennifer Howze

Writer. NOON Editorial Director | Bridport Shortlist | Deborah Rogers Foundation Longlist | @BritMums | Formerly @Netmums Ed Dir & @TheTimes Alpha Mummy

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'That was quite exhilarating'

Kent Police has praised a van driver who gave a lift to an armed police officer to help catch a fleeing suspect in Margate.

Watch the dramatic footage from the officer's body-worn camera

https://t.co/ryvdKsX7Ms

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

@tancredipalmeri This almost makes me cry

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

@paulpowlesland @TracyEdwardsMBE @EnvAgency Brilliant outcome. Unusual too - typically govt agencies spend loads of money defending boneheaded ideas before capitulating to common sense…

[Sarah Deech ☕️ @londonette]

Legendary geneticist @RichardDawkins was interviewed on @TimesRadio.

This 15s clip said a hell of a lot.

“The words male and female have a very well established meaning in language. And allowing personal feelings and preferences to distort language is, I think, reprehensible.”

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Do you still say “cows” when you pass cows while driving or have you lost your whimsy?

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

Oh how I can relate!

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I felt like I was the king of the fucking world whenever my mom would get back from the grocery with one of these sweet bastards. Guess I’ll be having ... whatever the hell I want, bitches.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“I’m often asked if I regret taking this stance, giving up years of my life, having to raise and spend millions of dollars in legal fees, called a bigot… wouldn’t it have been easier to pay him $20,000, let him into the app & just accept that the word woman has evolved? No.”

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

This is shocking

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

Over 70% of England's water infrastructure is owned by foreign governments, overseas pension funds and international investors.

Your water comes from the ground beneath England.

The profits leave the country.

Northumbrian Water: owned by Hong Kong and a New York investment firm.

Yorkshire Water: owned by Hong Kong and the Singapore government.

Wessex Water: owned by a Malaysian billionaire's family.

Southern Water: owned by Australian asset managers and US investors.

Thames Water: owned by Canada, Abu Dhabi, China and Australia. £20 billion in debt. Sewage in your rivers.

Only Severn Trent, United Utilities and South West Water are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Nobody voted for this.

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

Hear hear!

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

Lovely lunchtime seeing off daughter and her friends on their way to a pool party at one of their grandmother’s house in North London. Jolly? Yes! Am I jealous ? YES!

[Tim Ferris @mrtimferris]

@NaturalEngland https://t.co/E7Btalb7Yt

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

Unintentionally hilarious: I love Eve Hewson but… famous person whose father is famous, who gets calls from Spielberg and says nepotism makes it easier to break in says fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? The fame machine can be a monster but it does have its upsides, no?

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

@EddieBa95442882 Absolutely no question. And there aren’t even any knockoff pretenders because nobody else could make a filling that fluffy and silky

[meghan @deloisivete]

Drinking my breakfast, but in the protein shake way, not in the fun 1950s way

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

@ThrillaRilla369 That’s crazy talk

[Quentin Letts @thequentinletts]

Man with two kitchens stops others from improving their homes. https://t.co/pYahnZ13ZN

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

@sharrond62 Exactly. Why isn’t there focus on making men’s loos more welcoming to transwomen. To create transwomen spaces / stalls / amenities? After all the queues are shorter and they probably have the room…

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

@KristenWaggoner @ADFLegal Indeed. Reading the decision not to prosecute we could infer that basically any sexual assault occurring during sports is to be accepted as either part of the game or the cost of participating!

[Jennifer Howze @jhowze]

Oh yes. They are amazing

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

A Brit, here for the World Cup, discovers those magical pillows of biscuit smothered in peppery, sausage gravy.

Welcome to ‘Merica, brother! 🤣🇺🇸🔥