s j

Architect. Brixton. Swimming. Lidos. Cycling. Bereaved mum to Jefferson 💔 2009 - July 2023 #SUDC #ChildLoss

[s j @architect_SW9]

@luxmy_g @heidibeirich @globalextremism We are in Toulouse at the moment, we saw this poster, the misinformation not restricted to England, it’s highly organised across Europe

[s j @architect_SW9]

Please can you follow this up, we are in Toulouse for a few days, and we saw this abhorrent poster. What’s happening in England is not isolated

[Kim Leadbeater MBE MP @kimleadbeater]

While some people are spending the lives they are lucky to have throwing bricks at police officers, attacking places of worship and setting fire to public buildings I am thinking of these 3 beautiful children and their families, friends and community today❤️

[s j @architect_SW9]

@SangitaMyska @LizWebsterSBF Yes agree, organised through whatever their networks are…I’m in France at the moment, this is a poster we spotted in Toulouse, it’s a strategy that’s highly organised, words cannot express the shock at this.

[s j @architect_SW9]

@seatsixtyone @PeterIntheswim We took this ferry in 2005 as the start to our honeymoon… Newcastle to Bergen. Pity it was stopped, hopefully it will be resurrected 🤞🤞

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

After 14 years of Tory government, public services are broken and people are worse-off.

I’m asking for your support on the 4th July as the Labour Candidate for Clapham & Brixton Hill so I can keep fighting for real change in Parliament.

#VoteLabour #GE2024

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[s j @architect_SW9]

@ClaireCarmalt Well done Rosie ❤️we are sadly in the same position, my eldest just finished her A levels and school, after losing her younger brother less than a year ago. Their strength ❤️❤️ don’t know how she’s done it

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

'The 'How are you?' question is just too big'

Actor @halfpennyjill lost her dad and her partner to unexpected cardiac arrests, almost 40 years apart.

She told @claremcdonnell1 her advice for supporting someone who is grieving 🎧 🔽

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A 5 yr Belgian study showed the BIG impact of increasing vehicle weight on road deaths & injuries. When a person on a bike or walking is hit by a pick-up, the risk of serious injury increases by 90% compared to a car. The risk of death goes up by 200%.
https://t.co/1q7zo4fBLK

[The SUDC Foundation @SUDC]

SUDC is one of the most under-recognized medical tragedies of our time. Despite its devastating impact, it often lacks the awareness and research funding it desperately needs. Join us in raising awareness and supporting those affected. 💔 If you agree, please LIKE and SHARE.

[jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky @JonnElledge]

So I've written something about losing Agnes
https://t.co/eUMyVtuf4Z

[SUDC*UK @SUDCUK1]

💙⭐️Empowerment Week⭐️💙

Empower. Connect. Support, Learn.

Join the SUDC Foundation for a series of virtual training and webinars focused on advocacy, research, and the power of peer support.

Visit their social pages for more information.

#SUDCAwareness

[Child Bereavement UK @cbukhelp]

Our group for young people has produced a list of tips for other young people on how they can support a grieving friend.

For more information on supporting a bereaved friend, visit our website: https://t.co/8YPq6y7PB0

[David Kessler @IamDavidKessler]

Unfortunately, we live in a grief-illiterate society; one that pushes us to move on, when all we need is for our stories to be heard. We wish to share the memories, love, and experiences we once had with those we loved. In our hearts, this allows us to honor their memory.

[Winston's Wish @winstonswish]

Is my child grieving 'normally'? What do I say? How do I support them? If you're supporting a grieving child or young person, join one of our free Grief Talks.

📅 Monday 18th March | 6.30pm
📅 Wednesday 20th March | 6.30pm

👉 https://t.co/mBMIJWGMH4

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go."

Necessary losses and the art of letting go: https://t.co/hpQRFYrQG1

[Future Lidos @future_lidos]

"Lidos are true public and community spaces, providing health, wellbeing and happiness to all... Our support [for] this invaluable Toolkit [will] help others build capacity... so that they can be enjoyed by communities for years to come.”
Eilish McGuinness, CEO, @HeritageFundUK

[SUDC*UK @SUDCUK1]

💙⭐️Shine a light on SUDC⭐️💙

Spread the word about SUDC Awareness month, educate someone new with our SUDC information sheet and share SUDC UK's social media posts. #SUDCAwareness

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"They are preventing aid to starving children."

@NRC_Egeland tells @krishgm very little humanitarian aid has entered besieged Gaza since 7 October, and "tens of thousands" of aid trucks have been denied access by Israel.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Two days ago, Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland was in Gaza and warned that “the chaos around the aid… is becoming worse and worse because there's so little aid coming in… I'm pretty shaken actually from what I saw.”

Now, over 100 killed in exactly the circumstances he feared.