Wife & Mum superhero living & working with MND, depression & anxiety. Charity legacy management specialist. Lover of chocolate/coffee. Views strictly my own etc
Renowned Director Ken Loach Delivers Powerful Words at Cannes on Israel's Genocide in Gaza
"The worst thing is not the violence of the bad, it is the silence of the good.
I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it.
BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition:
Iceland!
Ireland!
Netherlands!
Slovenia!
Spain!
Put Apartheid out of our lives.
"It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”
I cannot say this strongly enough:
If a person is working full-time and has to be on Universal Credit, the "benefits scrounger" is the employer.
We are subsidising companies to accrue high levels of profit while underpaying the value of their labour.
@tanita_tikaram We were there and it was fantastic thank you. I was reliving my youth until middle age smacked me round the chops when I was admiring your shoes thinking “ooh they look comfy”!
@simon_francesca You are a really special part of so many lives so thank you. I read your books to our boys until they could read them themselves, they listened to them on CD going to sleep at night & I read them with children in school who were happy to be reading. Thank you x