Priti Patel, Michael Gove, Gavin Williamson, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Robert Jenrick have something in common. They all were found to have breached the ministerial code but didn’t resign. So if any Tory has anything to say about Angela Rayner’s resignation remind them of it.
Radio 4 doesn't seem to be reporting Nigel Farage's US congressional committee appearance. Which is odd, considering they can't usually get enough of him.
"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"
@AyoCaesar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"
Hedy Lamarr, born in Austria in 1914, was a Hollywood actress and inventor who co-developed frequency-hopping technology during WWII, a foundation for modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
She also designed aviation components for Howard Hughes, embodying both intellect and elegance.
“I made my appearance at 8 o’clock on the morning of August 21st in the year 1920. Pooh was only a year younger (given as a 1st birthday present) and my inseparable companion. As you find us in the poem ‘Us Two’, so we were in real life.” ~C.R.Milne #HappyBirthdayChristopherRobin
The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.”
I’ve always loved the quote, because it so simply encapsulates our situation as the newest members of the human species: We enter the world with fine tuned powers of observation, ready to learn and engage.
But without at least one significant adult (and hopefully many more) ready to dedicate to our need for connection, it is impossible for our development to optimize.
Or as Urie Bronfenbrenner explained:
“Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.”
You won’t run across any better example than this gorgeous video shared to IG by amyjoannswart.
It’s hard to tell who’s more crazy about the other. And that makes for a lucky little one, indeed.
Josie Ryan, hanging out her washing in the last cottage abutting Dublin Airport in the 1980s, on Collinstown Lane. (I've just shown this beaut of a 747 in @AerLingus 'Shamrock' livery to a six year-old Irish AvGeek who absolutely adores double-deckers.)