Alison Benjamin

Alison Benjamin was the Guardian's Society pages editor for many years & an Opinion editor. She writes books and articles about bees and tweets @alisonurbanbees

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

'We're being impoverished': how English councils have cut care during the pandemic https://t.co/eIMxjhXkwv

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

Excellent feature from @SocietyGuardian @_tomwall 'We're being impoverished': how English councils have cut care during the pandemic https://t.co/eIMxjhXkwv

[Rebecca Lightfoot💙 @doctorbecs1]

Utterly soul destroying when patients say they spent xmas day with extended family and now everyone is positive for covid. Especially when I am hearing this from patients gasping for breath in the resuscitation room of ED. Completely predictable and entirely avoidable.

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

Lockdown awakened our interest in nature, but it mustn't be at the expense of wildlife | Isabella Tree https://t.co/anbz32NhRY

[Dr Kevin Fong @Kevin_Fong]

I’ve been in hospitals all over the country this past fortnight, they’re all running hot. #NHS teams who haven’t stopped since March are facing a rapid new surge in #Covid19 cases. They need your help. Stay at home where you can. Wear a mask & keep your distance where you can’t.

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

It's been great getting to know you. Would love to visit you in Devon when it's safe to do so. Keep well.

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

I'm so glad I was in a position where I could help to nurture your fledgling career @DrFrancesRyan Now I hope to write more myself.

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

We’ll all so miss Alison. As editor of the Society section, she was instrumental in commissioning so much of the disability and social coverage you wouldn’t get anywhere else. And gave me my first column. Thanks for everything x

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

That's great.

[Debbieann @ThomasDebbieann]

@AlisonBenjamin1 He's back in North Wales now but has kept in regular touch with everyone, George in particular.

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

Is John still around? @ThomasDebbieann

[Debbieann @ThomasDebbieann]

My uncle John (2nd in, far right), as part of the picket line, Christmas 1984. His camera was used to take the photo. https://t.co/ptttcp5oeZ

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

Thank you @patrickjbutler It's been a pleasure working with everyone @SocietyGuardian for 20 years, reporting and editing on such important social policy issues that others may not consider newsworthy

[Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler]

And with this illuminating piece (going out on a high), it is farewell to my esteemed colleague @AlisonBenjamin1, Society Guardian editor, Opinion desk stalwart, and bee expert, who leaves the @guardian at the end of this month. And will be missed. https://t.co/btzrV0DyDE

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

@ameliagentleman Your feature writing inspired me to write this piece. It's been a pleasure editing your work @theguardian over the years https://t.co/QdftqyYGHM

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

Sad but true. Not so much for the miners who were in the NUM and have a tradition of solidarity, but certainly true for the next generations. No unions in the sandwich factories and warehouse many work in now @chakrabortty

[Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty]

‘Whitehead believes Thatcher has finally achieved what she set out to do in taking on the miners almost four decades ago. Today they feel they owe their allegiance to no one, he says: “Her legacy is a fragmented, individualised society.”‘
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[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

@Melissa_Benn I think it's because I had a connection with the men and had spent time with them 16 years ago, rather than just being parachuted into a place to do vox pops in the street. I also spent a lot of time on it. I could have written four times as much!

[Melissa Benn @Melissa_Benn]

It feels like I've waited a long time to read a piece about the Red Wall seats that actually makes complex political sense, as this one does. Good job by @AlisonBenjamin1 https://t.co/n0n5S5Ijhh

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

Your brilliant book All Together Now really helped me to write this piece. I've just finished it and couldn't recommend it highly enough. My book of the year https://t.co/iUX2rh9wAb

[Mike Carter 🇪🇺 @getcarter7]

'If anyone had said our mining town would go Tory, I'd have thought they were mad'. Keir Starmer should print this out and pin it to his wall. Fantastic and depressing reporting by @AlisonBenjamin1 in @guardian https://t.co/XAb2kX32Ya

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

@GeorgeMonbiot This won't surprise you, but it's a story for our neoliberal times https://t.co/QdftqyYGHM

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

@chakrabortty Read my feature. How could decades of neoliberalism lead anywhere else? Isn't that what history will record? https://t.co/QdftqyYGHM

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

@GoodwinMJ My feature captures much of what your research has revealed. How could decades of neoliberalism do otherwise? https://t.co/QdftqyYGHM

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

https://t.co/QdftqyYGHM @Freedland @johnharris

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

My feature revisiting former miners in Nottinghamshire: 'If anyone had said our mining town would go Tory, I'd have thought they were mad' https://t.co/QdftqyYGHM

[Alison Benjamin @AlisonBenjamin1]

I'm a consultant in infectious diseases. 'Long Covid' is anything but a mild illness | Joanna Herman https://t.co/oHYvgYvwj1