Charlotte James

Never Complain, Never Explain.

[Jack @j4ppleby]

'I've triggered a by-election by mistake'

[British Transport Police @BTP]

Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi laid a wreath today at the 7/7 memorial, in memory of all those who died and were injured in the awful terrorist attack.

Our thoughts remain with the victims, their families and all those injured and affected.

21 years on, we will never forget.

[Paule @baldandglasses]

The whole of the UK waking up on Sunday to find it 13 degrees less hot and a breeze 🥳

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

All these men chose to rape an unconscious woman because her husband invited them to do it.

They didn’t say no.

They didn’t get her help.

They violated her instead.

Name and shame every last one of them.

[Charlotte James @MissCEJames]

@Eve_Barlow @novaexhibition @nicolelampert I went a couple of weeks ago. It’s incredibly powerful and moving. Had the honour of hearing a survivor testimony as well. #WeWillDanceAgain

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

So a hidden camera has been found in the ceiling of the UK Home Office/MHCLG building.
The exact building where the decision was made to approve China’s massive new “super-embassy” in London.

Unredacted plans already showed China wants a secret basement next to critical London data cables.

Now, a spy camera is found in the heart of our government.

The public deserves full transparency on Labour's handling of this national security nightmare.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

On Friday, the Ukraine War will have lasted 1569 days - longer than the First World War

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

100,000 signatures in under 72 hours supporting 10% VAT on hospitality! Huge thanks to everyone who’s signed and shared so far. This is just the start - we’re aiming for 1 million. Let’s keep pushing. Share and get your teams involved 👉 https://t.co/MEDVqI2nlS

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest duets of all time, this 1987 archival footage from Ibiza captures the iconic song "Barcelona." It stands as a vivid testament to the perfect fusion of Montserrat Caballé’s sublime operatic vocals and Freddie Mercury’s captivating stage presence—a masterpiece that left an indelible mark on music history and went on to become the official and defining anthem of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Today, wreaths were laid to remember all those who lost their lives in the London Bridge terror attack nine years ago.

We will never forget what happened on that day. London will continue to stand united against hatred in all its forms.

[𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 @Arealmfngl]

If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[°♥° @na212_]

The weather today 😭

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

This is the single most shocking testimony I have ever seen. 

Even more shocking is that so many people that I (& probably you) know decided on that day that the people behind this perversion deserved their active public support.
It is hard to have any faith in humanity when we see how easily large groups of people can be manipulated into supporting activities too cruel and disgusting even for the devil.
And not because they understand it, but simply because they see that as the fashionable position to take.

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

Yeah TikTok is bad for our mental health but what about Outlook and Teams

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

UPDATE:

Please join me in praying for a swift and complete recovery for the victims of yesterday’s attack:

Shlomo Ben Baila
Nachman Moshe ben Chaya Sarah

[Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb]

This is upsetting. It’s such a gratuitous historic act of national vandalism and self-harm.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

I want to stress British Jews are super concentrated in NW London. there are only 250k of us. Roughly around 100k of us live in this area and surrounding areas. It’s like a small town that’s now under sustained attack. This is the heart of the community and every connected Jew across the country will ties, friends, family here. It’s not felt like disjointed and episodic attacks but like small town the size of Worcester is under attack by an IRGC-cut out.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

It’s all too clear that a country in which Jews are attacked on the streets simply because they are Jewish, synagogues need to employ security, & anti-Semitic slogans & images are paraded through city centres or exhibited in art galleries is exactly what we’ve become.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Jewish people in our country are under constant attack.

This is no longer a growing pattern. There is an epidemic of violence against Jewish people.

It is now a national emergency and needs to be treated as such by the Government and public authorities.