Jo Noble-Gresty

Originally from Bournemouth. Lived and worked in London for many years as a Palliative Care pharmacist. Now retired. Mum to Calum, Ryan and Lindsay.

[Jo Noble-Gresty @jonoblegr]

@GaryBarlow We had a ball 💃 you just keep getting better and better 🕺 Thank you for the most amazing spectacular tour #circuslive 💖 Now time to relax and recharge with your family 😘

[Jo Noble-Gresty @jonoblegr]

@BBCSteveR Beautiful 😍

[Henshi @HenshiG]

Cicely Saunders fell in love with a dying man.

London, 1948. David Tasma, a 40-year-old Polish Jew who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto, was dying of cancer in agonizing pain. Cicely, a 30-year-old medical social worker, sat with him for weeks. He told her there was no proper place for people like him to die with dignity.

Before he died, he gave her his life savings — £500 — and said:
“I’ll be a window in your home.”
She built that home.

Born June 22, 1918, in north London, Cicely trained as a nurse during WWII and witnessed hospitals abandon the dying — isolating them, leaving them in pain, treating death as failure.

After a back injury, she became a medical social worker, then, at 33, entered medical school on a doctor’s challenge. She qualified as a doctor in 1957.

At St Joseph’s Hospice, she pioneered regular morphine dosing to control pain without addiction or drowsiness, and developed the concept of “total pain” — addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering.

In 1967, she opened St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham — the first modern hospice combining expert care, teaching, and research. David Tasma’s £500 seeded it; a plain window honors him.

She pioneered home care, outpatient services, and bereavement support. Her words:
“You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life.”
Her model spread globally, birthing the modern hospice and palliative care movement.

Cicely married Polish painter Marian Bohusz-Szyszko in 1980. She worked at St Christopher’s into her late 80s and died there of breast cancer on July 14, 2005, at 87 — cared for by the principles she created.

Before Cicely, the dying were forgotten.

She turned love and grief into a revolution of dignity that has comforted millions.

Every hospice on Earth owes its light to her window for David Tasma.

[Jo Noble-Gresty @jonoblegr]

@Sofpip @takethat @iamzoebirkett @GaryBarlow Gary sitting on the throne got me 👑💖

[Jo Noble-Gresty @jonoblegr]

@Sofpip @1982loula @GaryBarlow @takethat Nice hats 👒 💖

[Jo Noble-Gresty @jonoblegr]

@LittleMeThatter @GaryBarlow Quite ingenious 👏👏 Love how they always surprise us at the start of a show 💖

[Jo Noble-Gresty @jonoblegr]

@takethat So grateful that we get to share in your fabulous shows 🤹‍♂️🎪💖 xx Thank you ☺️

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994.

The deal was simple: Ukraine surrendered its massive nuclear arsenal, and in return, those powers promised to respect its sovereignty.

Everyone needs to remember that

[Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3]

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

We have been told that Gaza’s borders are closed indefinitely. If they stay closed, @wckitchen will run out of food this week. We are cooking 1M hot meals every day. We need food deliveries every single day to feed hungry families who are not part of this war. All the NGOs in Gaza need more food, medicine, medical equipment, fuel, tents, personal care every day. We cannot wait...let the humanitarian trucks go through today! #ChefsForGaza

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo XIV:

“War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.  The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.

“Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself, or in the pursuit of the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men and women.”

“Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion.

“This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.”

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Imagine if a few days after discovering the slaughter of Auschwitz a dodgy businessman associated with the son-in-law of the US President addressed a meeting convened by the President to discuss building a pleasure resort on top of Auschwitz. That’s how repulsive & amoral this latest Trump money-making con is!

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

🚨 This is unlawful.

Under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, acquisition of territory by force is prohibited. The West Bank is recognised as occupied territory under international law, including by the ICJ (2004 Advisory Opinion; 2024 Advisory Opinion).

Annexation, whether formal or “de facto” through settlements, infrastructure, administrative integration or transfer of powers, violates:

🔷 The prohibition on acquisition of territory by force

🔷 Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention (transfer of civilian population into occupied territory)

🔷 The Palestinian people’s right to self-determination

➡️ It also entrenches an unlawful situation that third states are under a duty not to recognise or assist.

This is a direct challenge to the international legal order.

All states must respond with direct consequences to this act of wilful violation of the law.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

Change has never been easy. It takes persistence and determination, and requires all of us to speak out and stand up for what we believe in. As we honor Dr. King today, let’s draw strength from his example, and do our part to build on his legacy.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace..."

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr., an extraordinary man, who was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent campaign against racism. He also fought to secure economic justice for people living in poverty.

Watch his Nobel Peace Prize speech: https://t.co/FS7oRfGXyz

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

I don’t know whether the news in your countries is truly covering what is happening to our energy system. I’m writing in the hope that maybe this way we will finally be heard.

Russia continues to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure every single day. These are not abstract strikes — they leave people without heat, electricity, and basic safety in freezing temperatures. Homes grow cold within hours. Families, children, elderly people are forced to survive, not live.

Maybe it is time for the truly harsh sanctions against Russia — the ones that were promised and talked about so much — to finally be enforced. Because words of concern do not stop missiles, and silence only gives the aggressor more time.

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today, on what would have been his 97th birthday.

The United States will observe the federal holiday to honor him on Monday, January 19.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Today, The King Center honors the life, legacy, and enduring moral courage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on what would have been his 97th birthday.

His belief that “unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality” continues to guide our work to help humanity create the Beloved Community—through justice, truth-telling, and nonviolence.

We remember.
We recommit.
We carry the work forward.

#MLK #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence