Suzze

Chief Executive Officer-The Restore Trust, Board Trustee of Voscur. #Community#SocialJustice#SocialValue#VCSEs. Opinions my own.

[Dominic Minghella @DMinghella]

We can all be refugees
Nobody is safe,
All it takes is a mad leader
Or no rain to bring forth food,
We can all be refugees
We can all be told to go,
We can be hated by someone
For being someone.

- Benjamin Zephaniah, 'We Refugees'

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis and then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan.

The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit.

Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long.

While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was "the most dangerous and important post in France."

She was offered a way back to Britain and refused.

In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this.

She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up; she made three attempts at escape. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris.

Her last word before being shot was, "Liberté!"

[The Bristol Cable @TheBristolCable]

📢#Bristol! We're doing a 24hr crowdfunder for supplies needed by #BartonHouse residents.

We've been in touch with the locals running things on the ground, and will be taking supplies to Cafe Conscious tomorrow.

❤️Donate here: https://t.co/QTkIhzg044

[Dr Lawrence Hoo D.Litt @LawrenceHoo]

RESIDENTS OF BARTON HOUSE

Due to the developing emergency at Barton House, Barton Hill, Cafe Conscious, 182 Avonvale Road is open for hot drinks, lentil soup, toilet facilities and to sit and rest.

This is free for all residents of Barton House and support workers.

If you are able to please donate bottles of water, wet wipes, nappies, baby food, toothbrushes and toothpaste you can drop them off to Cafe Conscious or we can collect, thank you in advance.

Hoo Law 2023

[Penelope Gibbs @PenelopeGibbs2]

Half of those accused of imprisonable offences in magistrates' courts are now unrepresented - % which has recently increased. This is a scandal, particularly given that most would have been eligible for legal aid. No-one should face prison without a lawyer https://t.co/uyAhZZQnc1

[Robert Buckland @RobertBuckland]

I am deeply concerned by the rise of attacks on people, pets and livestock by XL Bully dogs . The Government should take action and ban these dogs.

[Russell Webster ✍️ @russwebt]

Quick calculations:
Prisoner Food allowance £2.70 per day
Prison Dog allowance £5.38 per day

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

I could watch @JayneSeckerSky cross-examine Suella Braverman all day:

‘We’ve recruited 20,000…’

‘You’ve recruited 3,000 additional police officers. You *lost* 20,000’.

…

‘You’ve got 149,000 police officers at the moment. There were 146,000 in 2010.’

[Matthew Jury @MattJury_Law]

Every situation/relationship is different and there should be no need for any hard and fast rule

But …

Perhaps, it’s often the case that children are given their father’s name for the very reason Dr Proudman describes

A man can never truly hope to enjoy the same bond as a mother has with the child she birthed

Perhaps giving your child their father’s surname is a gesture of connection

I for one am grateful to have been afforded that privilege

Why do battle lines always need to be drawn?

Parents can decide for themselves

Whatever works for them

[Russell Webster ✍️ @russwebt]

Jailing shoplifters will not address root causes, says senior Tory
Sir Bob Neill criticises government plan for failing to consider mental health and addiction problems of many offenders
https://t.co/bTZqWM3owJ
@syalrajeev on @neill_bob intervention

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Inflation in Spain has fallen to 2% - here’s why https://t.co/MEUwDoOl7q “Spain capped energy prices by more than the UK, lowered the cost of public transport, taxed excess profits and put in place limits on how much landlords can raise rents”.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Interest rate rises to 5.25%, highest since the financial crisis of 2008.
It will hit the less well off the most, mortgages will rise and businesses will struggle further.
Breaking: WILKO has just announced it's on brink of collapse.
General Election Now
https://t.co/odrQYYCaW6

[Suzze @Suzze05]

@MarvinJRees @SwanseaUni Congratulations Marvin, I have proud welsh roots too so understand the sentiment👋

[Leroy Skeete @LeroySkeete]

Don't be offended by what I'm about to say but it needs to be said

It's totally understandable to have personal fear and concerns regarding some things in our society

But as a man who was raised (abandoned really) by a misandrist. I do think that with regard to the constant narrative that all men are monsters. You need to look at the bigger picture

I'll start with the current trendy phrase: Toxic Masculinity

That doesn't correlate with the rate of suicides among men

Young men are still more likely to be killed on the streets. And before you use the argument of it's because of other men. A lot of killings have been over women, or instigated by a woman

But that doesn't make all women bad

Give us a break, because we all play a role in this.

The other night it was really late so it was dark. I saw a girl and I crap my pants because I didn't want her to think I was following her

So, I crossed over

We can all play a part

My mum was and is a man-hater. So sometimes I get suspicious of the man-hating

My mum used to beat my dad up and he left when I was a child. She wasn't nice to me either

Yet, she flew under the radar with zero consequences - now in her 80s

The point is, yes there are some wicked men

However, there are a lot of men who suffer abuse too

I come from a very tough hard background and I suffered it.

The point is, rather than constantly attacking men. We should work together because it might be a man that saves your arse one night

We ain't all bad

Rt

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

I don’t like this sort of politics. Societies are made up of individuals with different backgrounds, opinions, economic interests and moral and philosophical positions. The primary job of politicians in my view is to at least try to navigate these differences (guided of course by their own hopefully well-thought out political philosophy) with the aim of building a stable consensus - a necessary foundation for a well-functioning and prosperous society. That’s very hard of course, but it should be the desired destination. Nobody gets everything they want in a democracy, because a free society is a collection of individuals who hold different views, but also nobody should feel absolutely defeated. This is not compromise in a wish-washy sense of the word - it’s the very essence of and indeed the guarantor of our freedom as individuals. As Feynman memorably said, democracy is based, like science, on a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance; running societies is very hard, and nobody really knows how to do it, so we regularly change direction whilst building on the achievements of the past. Understanding this requires humility, and the instinct to unify rather than to divide. Seeking division therefore runs counter to everyone’s interests because it undermines a key idea underpinning democracy itself - the idea that individuals have legitimately differing views. To Mr Sunak - topically - I would say read some post-war Oppenheimer. He was aiming to persuade national leaders not to do what this article says you want to do, because in the context of countries with atom bombs, that would be literally playing with fire.

[H.E.T. @HolocaustUK]

"I want from the world, at least one thing. That this terrible tragedy should never happen again".

On the 15th May 1944, the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau began. Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert BEM, who was one of those deported, speaks on her experience.

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

“You go there to witness. Auschwitz is the FINAL END of the story not the beginning. This is what happens in a modern state when humanity does nothing. Auschwitz was built by civilised people & enabled by humankind who did nothing.” https://t.co/icnZTiuSDh

[Suzze @Suzze05]

@DovForman @AuschwitzMuseum @JewishNewsUK @piersmorgan @theJeremyVine @RobbieRinder @nprscottsimon @Dannythefink @reallorraine @RE_DailyMail @richardpbacon So incredibly sad, how heart breaking just 13 years old & the last connectiion to her precious brother! As the daughter of a hungarian refugee, this deeply moved me. #NeverForget

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

On leadership, challenge and bullying (as discussed on the @RestIsPolitics pod on Dominic Raab) - here is a reprimand to Churchill from his wife: “My Darling,
I hope you will forgive me if I tell you something I feel you ought to know.
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[Suzze @Suzze05]

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