Elaine Johnston

Political, strong sense of fairenss & justice. Interested in walking, jazz, politics and tackling workplace abuse.

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@grahamblues65 @mrdanwalker Except that there seems to be less diversity now. It seems that only a small selection of women are appointed to vacancies. I know this may be controversial but I generally enjoy listening to men on the radio far more than women. The listener’s views seem to not count anymore

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@Matt_Pinner Mabel

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@JeremyVineOn5 Who’s profited from cruelty??

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@BBCNews Oh my you’re all so expert on how this should be managed

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@v_keddie @GordonBrown But this! You fall for that childish nonsense?

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Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.

'I feel all sleepy,' she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

Roald Dahl, 1986

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@bo66ie29 Greed

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@Stopworkplacebu No such thing, there is always a reason. When it’s not obvious it’s usually something to do with the person who hates. Feeling threatened and inadequate are 2 possible reasons.

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@thebluestshade Very ignorant comment.

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@labourlewis I absolutely hate it when the noisy crowd on social media assume everyone thinks like them. The absolute mess that the Tories created over 16 years is hardly mentioned. The money they wasted, the lies they told and the hardship they caused ……………

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@HazelAppleyard_ @jk_rowling It must be really horrible to live a life in cynicism

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@AlexParkerDC Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@BarbMorgenroth @jk_rowling Great comment. Some men - not all though.

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@Headteacherchat Work with the children and their families to find out why their attendance is poor. It might require an individual approach for each of them.

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@4spursboys @KirstieMAllsopp That’s true but it’s the children who are missing out on so much more. They will pay a high price for the neglect and role modelling

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@KirstieMAllsopp Such a rude and ignorant comment from @RafteryMary

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@AngrishMusic @theAliceRoberts Working from home is lazy? Judging people by your own standards?

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@DavidAHoward @DeborahMeaden High earnings and dubious values is not success. How sad that success in life is measured by money alone

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@DrakesReturn @DeborahMeaden @GOVUK @Keir_Starmer Wow! What an intelligent comment! Well done.