Sidra Khan

Global Marketing Strategy, @google previously The Times, Education sector. Media & Tech content. #UNwomen #WomeninTech

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: A "technical issue" is impacting users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta has said

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[All On The Board @allontheboard]

Today we remember those who fought for our freedom and the sacrifices they made. We are forever in their debt.

#RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

I want to be the first female Chancellor, close the gender pay gap once and for all - and deliver for women across our country.

Happy International Women's Day! #IWD2024

[Sidra Khan @Sidra_tm]

@ParveenKaswan Matriarch is the word

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

Do you know #elephant family is all women group. Made of #mother, #aunts, #grandmother & all other #ladies. Most of the times Male leave herd early. Kids are looked by all female elephants in herd not only mother. Most experienced female makes all decision for family. #WomensDay

[Sayeeda Warsi @SayeedaWarsi]

Today I remember those that fought for the freedoms we enjoy today
People of different backgrounds, race, ethnicity and all faiths and none
I remember my paternal and maternal grandfathers and my great uncle who fought for King and country
Lest we forget

[The Royal Parks @theroyalparks]

Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave Buckingham Palace for the @UKHouseofLords.

They make their way around the Queen Victoria Memorial, with The Green Park in the background, before heading along The Mall in St James’s Park.

#StateOpeningOfParliament

[Refuge @RefugeCharity]

Could you help to replace a child’s school uniform after they’ve fled domestic abuse, so they can have a fresh start this September?

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX]

It’s an exceptionally rare thing – in life or in business – that you get a second chance to make another big impression. Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Our headquarters tonight

[Sidra Khan @Sidra_tm]

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[Sidra Khan @Sidra_tm]

My friend Lucy Sofroniou is raising for Cancer Research UK. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/JXoIqYBo0W

[Victoria Arbiter @victoriaarbiter]

Princess Charlotte looking after her little brother!

[Canellecitadelle @Canellelabelle]

What a beautiful sight😍🤩 I wish all the Wales children a brotherly love as deep as the one between King Charles and Princess Anne😍#Coronation #PrincessCharlotte #PrinceLouis

[ChristinZ @ChristinsQueens]

Middleton Family // Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh// Glouchester‘s // Princess Anne

📸 Sky

#Coronation

[Rebecca English @RE_DailyMail]

Viral railway enthusiast Francis Bourgeois was on the Elizabeth Line with the Prince and Princess of Wales today and has made a rather brilliant @tiktok_uk about it!🚊

[Sidra Khan @Sidra_tm]

Not Charles with a visitors pass at the @Google office

[Bloomberg UK @BloombergUK]

BREAKING: The UK will ban the use of TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden says, calling it a "precautionary move" over security fears https://t.co/dDRJa0uM4z

[Kat Parmar @KatParmar]

Here’s my payslip as a first year doctor in 2005, next to a first year doctor colleague’s in 2023. 18 years later, their take home salary is less than mine was. I lived for free in hospital accommodation and had a fraction of their student loan.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike