Peter O'Hara MBE

Founded OLM in 1991 to work with great colleagues to do great stuff in technology & publishing in social care @pavpub @nalandatech @valuingcare

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

READ THIS:

This is brilliant. One of the best summaries of Trump’s policy towards Ukraine. Devastating.

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

This may be the most Mississippi tweet I’ve ever seen.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

@JDVance JD Vance's political career:

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Keisha Lance Bottoms is the great-great-granddaughter of an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek.

She will soon live in the Georgia Governor’s Mansion, mere miles from where he was enslaved, as the first-ever Black woman elected Governor.

[Joe Hanley ⏹️ @JoeEHanley]

With Josh MacAlister now Children’s Minister, this book, edited by @robin_23_99 & @SWConcern, is worth revisiting. It explores his legacy in children’s social care, the missed opportunity of his ‘once in a generation’ review, & helps contextualise the current direction of reform.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Trump failed at regime change in Iran but he succeeded in Texas

[Alex Ritter @Ritter_Alex]

Newest family member 🐾 #takkie

[Joe Hanley ⏹️ @JoeEHanley]

Unlocked Graduates closes down. Think Ahead will be next. It is noteworthy that Teach First and all its spin-offs are seemingly in decline, with one notable exception: Frontline, founded by Josh MacAlister, who is now Children’s Minister.
https://t.co/1P1axtDy96

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

If this doesn't inspire you to get off your ass and save our democracy, nothing will. In this moment in history, as Trump is systematically destroying the republic, this is the most consequential video y'all are going to see.

[Joe Hanley ⏹️ @JoeEHanley]

Timeline of note:

2024 – Frontline loses DfE funding for social work CPD
2025 – Frontline’s founder, Josh MacAlister, becomes Children’s Minister
2026 – Frontline receive new social work CPD contract 5x larger than their previous contract

[Viviane: RNLI supporter, no Burnham fan @LaindonFEMINIST]

If true, and I bet it is (but don’t know) , this is what decent wealthy people do. Like back in the day when philanthropy was a thing.

[Mr H @StephenAHenry]

A stormy River with a wee rainbow thrown in, during storm boelo yesterday

#DailyPictureTheme #Pano

@DailyPicTheme2 @PanoPhotos

[Stop the Nonsense @kasthomas]

@tszzl Under capitalism you will never see cures for major diseases. Treatments that make money, yes. Cures, never.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Seventy years ago, Europe and the entire world faced a very important and, in many ways, decisive crossroads, when the people of Hungary rose up for freedom and against the Soviet system. The courage and love of freedom shown by Hungarians proved remarkably strong, and they still amaze all of us in Europe.

Unfortunately, the world did not make the strong decisions needed to help them at that time. This led to further decades of totalitarian rule across much of Europe, which ended only with the revolutions of the 1980s.

The year 1956 could have changed a great deal. This lesson now gives us grounds to say with absolute certainty: when people show courage and love of freedom, it is worth supporting. It deserves support everywhere in the world, so that freedom grows.

I thank everyone who remembers history, honors people's courage and love of freedom, and does not shy away from decisions when decisions are needed. We honor the heroes of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956!

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

In April of this year, the U.S. Army conducted an exercise in Germany called Joint Resolve, inviting Ukrainian drone units to participate.

At the height of discussions in the Oval Office about possible American amphibious landings on the Iranian coast, U.S. generals wanted to test whether their best ground combat division could withstand an enemy highly skilled in modern drone warfare. And during those exercises in Germany, an ordinary Ukrainian FPV drone unit reportedly completely wiped out the U.S. Army's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division, approximately 3,500 soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, in the simulated battle.

Thanks to Ukraine, American generals were able to see firsthand that a landing operation in Iran could result in devastating casualties among American troops.

When that orange bastard claims that “Ukraine has given America nothing,” he ignores something absolutely priceless that Ukraine has given the United States: the opportunity to avoid yet another strategic catastrophe into which that orange head was pushing the country.

There is an old saying: If you knew where you were going to fall, you would spread some straw to soften the landing. Well, the Ukrainians provided that straw for the Americans.

Only an idiot like Trump could believe that his friend Vladimir, who supposedly provides Iran with only “a little help,” would not send several experienced Russian drone crews to Iran to help destroy American forces.

Ukraine may have saved the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American soldiers. Because Ukraine did not keep the experience it had gained through blood and sacrifice to itself. Instead, it shared that knowledge with the Americans, even as Trump's decisions betrayed Ukraine.

That experience was purchased with Ukrainian blood. And Ukraine shared it with an ally that should never have turned its back on us.

[Peter O'Hara MBE @olmpeter]

From Rainbow Hunting to Plane Spotting, nice hobbies to have!

[Mr H @StephenAHenry]

@DailyPicTheme2 There's an aircraft in this image - taken from another, right in the middle which looks absolutely tiny

#DailyPictureTheme #Tiny

[Emily @skittleshotpack]

@BohuslavskaKate Permanent silence from this evil man would be best for all of us . He wants to hand putin a victory and it’s never going to happen.

[Mr H @StephenAHenry]

An unusual perspective of Gourock, taken from the Paddle Steamer Waverley as we headed for home on the penultimate sail of the season - Saturday evening.

@DGourock @ArgyllSeaGlass @discinverclyde

[Peter O'Hara MBE @olmpeter]

The “Rainbow Warrior” is back

[Mr H @StephenAHenry]

Straight off the back of the camera - that's how vibrant the rainbow was

Shipping VIPs again @Western_Ferries