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[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

Current perspectives on impact and digital strategy.
I had a great time writing this with @GeorginaBrooke and I hope you enjoy reading this and find it useful.
#Impact #Strategy

[Georgina Brooke @GeorginaBrooke]

Why does digital strategy in the sector feel hard?

Perhaps because we're not used to evidencing how digital impacts audiences

@SimonTanner explains how impact frameworks can help

https://t.co/JUnlzs97rq

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

I attended the International Higher Education Forum 2026 and here is my summary of what the Baroness Jacqui Smith, as Minister of Skills within the Department of Education, shared with the audience.
#IHEF2026

https://t.co/e7uGxCfmT3

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

Impossible to overstate the importance of Jenni Murray to the movement of women that changed our politics, economy & our society; that changed our lives. She was the broadcasting wing of the women’s movement. We all owe her. RIP. https://t.co/7h2gLI9qqh

[King's College London @KingsCollegeLon]

Could working from home help reverse declining birth rates?

Couples who work from home at least one day a week are having more children & planning larger families, according to a new @Kingspol_econ study, co-authored by Dr @cevatgirayaksoy.

Read more⬇️
https://t.co/7TPdpaYNHi

[African Leadership Centre @ALC_KCL]

Africa does not lack ambition.

What we lack is execution that delivers progress at scale.

When conviction meets capital and scale,
Africa can build.

#AfricaWeek

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

Dan Simmons, author of the Hyperion Cantos, has passed away
https://t.co/Q6AuvdvLOH

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Stop saying every screen version of Wuthering Heights is terrible, there is a perfect adaptation and it was made by Monty Python.

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

Love these recently found quotes from Charles Darwin of all his hates. Particularly the "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees".
Source: the Charles Darwin Archive

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

Anni Domingo, Tessa Hadley and Romola Garai in conversation with Professor Lara Feigel on the legacy of Jane Austen.
@kingsartshums @kingsenglishdpt #janeausten

[Public Sector Executive PSE @thepsenews]

🎓 UK education goes global

New International Education Strategy aims to grow exports to £40bn by 2030, backing British schools, colleges and universities to expand worldwide.

More 👇
https://t.co/frcXq5kyc1

@educationgovuk #InternationalEducation #UKGrowth #Skills

[King's College London @KingsCollegeLon]

The Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Malvern chose King’s to launch the Government’s new International Education Strategy.

She joined a roundtable with Prof. Shitij Kapur about our global education programmes.

https://t.co/syYIMAgGes

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

⬆️ That's all 32 final photos for this round! 😀
The Top 2 in each group will go through to the last 16. 🐦
Please vote and share! 🙏😀🐦♥️
#BestOfBovis2025 🐦

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Carol of the Bells in Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

@carlosradioguy @heart70s Happy Christmas to you and your family x

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

The legendary Paul Ayris has passed away. His influence is beyond measure. He was a very supportive colleague and a brilliant strategic mind. He brought people together and made significant change happen. RIP Paul.
https://t.co/ankeuwp8P1

[Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner]

Post on yesterday's paper given at #HETL2025 conference
King's #Singhasari Indonesia was the focus. We analysed our innovative hybrid teaching focus on delivering digital expertise essential to growth in #Indonesia.
@KingsCollegeLon
https://t.co/k7bj0zBBul

[mona siddiqui @monasiddiqui7]

In London for BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 10/12/2025 - banning social media? I argue against it https://t.co/g2gN3XPesV

[TutuLegacy @TheTutuLegacy]

Our heartfelt condolences to Mthunzi Gxashe's family, loved ones, and everyone his life has touched.

REST IN PEACE MTHUNZI GXASHE, ARCHBISHOP TUTU’S SON-IN-LAW & GENTLE SHADOW

The Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust and the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation were devastated to learn of the sudden passing of Mthunzi Gxashe in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Mthunzi was married to Archbishop Desmond and Mrs Leah Tutu’s eldest daughter, Thandeka. Mthunzi was also an under-stated and unsung hero who shadowed and served Archbishop Tutu through the final period of his working life.

He drove the Archbishop, travelled with him, fixed and fetched things, provided companionship, and joined him in celebrating the Eucharist. His devoted service extended to Mrs Leah Tutu, and he was a valuable soundboard for the Tutu legacy organisations. Read more here: https://t.co/KECseY8pox

[YouGov @YouGov]

The government has said it is not in favour of dimming the sun through geoengineering techniques like "stratospheric aerosol injection" in order to combat climate change - YouGov found this year that only 16% of Britons are willing to support such a move

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[Kaveh Madani @KavehMadani]

Deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. David Malone.

A dedicated and visionary leader, he served with integrity and touched many lives, including my own.

My condolences to his family, UN colleagues 🇺🇳, and the people of Canada 🇨🇦.

May his legacy continue to inspire us.