Tried to be an ecologist 🐍,now an NHS devotee (data geek📈 & Px). Boater, veg grower, student of DAX💃 ,cowboy boots & all things sequin🪩 Views my own🧝♀️💫
Her mother was killed in #Iran protests. Standing over her grave, with her shaved her, holding her hair in her hand, not wearing compulsory hijab… This is how defiance looks like… Iranian women are making history.
#MahsaAmini
Say what you like about Universal Credit claimants, but last time I checked, none of them made millions of pounds shorting sterling ahead of the mini-budget
Hilary Mantel: "We see the ugly face of contemporary Britain in the people on the beaches abusing exhausted refugees even as they scramble to the shore. It makes one ashamed. And ashamed, of course to be living in the nation that elected this government..."
Someone earning £1 million a year saves £42,500 in tax - way above the national average wage - thanks to Kwarteng cutting the top rate of tax. Staggering
It's the @UN's #InternationalDayOfPeace today, so we're returning to this chat with the legendary @MichaelRosenYes and Michael Foreman ❤️
The duo worked on book Please Write Soon together, and here share how we can talk to children about conflict: https://t.co/JGjycMGPKY
Liz Truss says high energy bills are "a price worth paying", but who's paying?
It's not oil and gas giants, whose profits are expected to be £170,000,000,000 in the next 2 years.
It's ordinary people, whose energy bills will be up 97% this year.
She's making you pay, not them.
Poet, activist and UNICEF supporter @TheAmandaGorman will be reciting a new poem at #UNGA this Monday.
We can't wait! 💙
Tune in live 19 September, 8:30am EST.
We condemn these arrests in the strongest possible terms. Free speech is fundamental to any democracy. At a time when the media is saturated with fawning over a king appointed without discussion or consent, it is even more important.
https://t.co/KumzT5Cb49
Bipolar UK has launched a new video as a reminder that talking about suicide doesn't increase the risk of someone taking their own life. In fact, research clearly shows talking about suicide reduces the risk. You can watch the video here >> https://t.co/ljtSxsX3As