Marion Billingham

[Autism care and share @autcareandshare]

Hi all im incredibly lucky that 18 months or so ago I was employed to help parents through the EHCP process part of my is that I also do webinars , I have a upcoming webinar where ill be giving hints and tips on transitioning to a new school, all based on my own lived experiences as a dad a carer and also autistic myself if you want to join us please register in the link below, this is open to parents and carers and professionals, kind regards Adam.
https://t.co/0ur031RgV5

[Marion Billingham @marionb711]

I strongly oppose Dido Harding being appointed as Chief Executive of NHS England. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/BDf68Ox7dc via @UKChange

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury.

He was given less than two years behind bars.

It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Vaping as bad as smoking for the lungs and health of young people, research study finds https://t.co/iaUp0xaP11 perhaps doctors will stop recommending it now, rather quicker than it took medical profession to stop recommending smoking in the mid-C20

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Was he more baby-faced than the 12-year-old he raped??

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Healthcare assistants in the NHS are being paid just £12.92 per hour.

That’s just 21p above the National Living Wage.

Please retweet if you think they deserve better and help raise awareness of this issue.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Did you opt out of autoenrolment into a workplace pension either from the start of a job - which you can do within 42 days - or actually join but later chose to leave because of cost of living pressures? @Moneybox or me would love to hear from you!

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one.

Please retweet for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

[Autism care and share @autcareandshare]

As most of you know my role is to help and support parents and carers through the ehcp process, and other things like reasonable adjustments and benefits too, if you need any support please send me a email [email protected]
Kind regards Adam.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We couldn’t agree more 💙

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

This post is really getting some people’s knickers in a twist so please do keep liking, sharing, and following 🙏

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @TedUrchin]

Who would be the best Prime Minister of the UK?
Don’t forget to retweet far and wide please.
Oh, I’ve left off Wes Streeting. He has no chance in any case, the wet wimp, but have included Darren Jones, a potential strong contender.
Please add an alternative if you wish.

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Steady… you don’t want a few facts getting in the way of their racist narrative!

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Sunday, June 14th is President Barack Obama Appreciation Day!

RETWEET to spread the word!

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

This hasn’t gone viral the way it should.

Jamie Corry, an Irish lad from east Belfast, has lost his home of 13 years after masked rioters set fire to cars outside and it engulfed his house in last night’s violent chaos.

He stood right there and begged one of them:

“This is my house. This is my house.”

They didn’t care.

They burned it anyway.

“They’ve done it to one of their own.”

These racist, uneducated thugs and street urchins destroy everything in their path. They don’t care who gets hurt: locals, families, their own community. Just mindless arsonists ruining innocent lives with no excuse.

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

An open letter that should be read by all women (and all men, actually) before they decide to vote Reform.
What have we become? 🤷‍♂️

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

I see that the phone Nigel Farage claimed was "hacked by Russia" has now been "mislaid" and is unavailable for examination.