Clare Brindley💙

Like a festival...wee bet on the ggs ...the sea....Stoke City. All views are my own.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

⏳️ 1960s: This fascinating footage is of a "Totter" (rag-and-bone man) traversing London in the 1960s. Seeing the sights and hearing their accents is a heartwarming and heartbreaking experience.

Rag-and-bone men were self-employed scavengers who travelled the streets with a sack, handcart, or horse and cart, collecting unwanted household items to resell for a living. Though they had a lot less than people today, they also had a lot less to worry about compared to the corporate, unsafe world that we currently call home.

I wonder how many of our relatives did this job or simply dealt with these polite roughians as they strode through lost London. Their kind are seen no more. 🐎

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot the 13 mistakes in the picture?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?

Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.

They succeeded.

Please remember these heroines who saved lives:

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Excited to bring you this - looking forward to this @ChrissieEvert

[Clare Brindley💙 @profwit]

@STILLTish When I was HoD 2 Saudi students came into my office wishing to make a complaint. They asked how long they would have to wait to speak to the HoD. I said please begin as I'm the HoD. They left!

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

@GillianSmith16 We would encourage parents to respond to our full survey:

https://t.co/lXF8pD0RqL

[21group @21percentgroup]

Cuts to Strategic Priorities Grant make clear: Gov't is driving ~15% contraction in UK higher education

Ironically, there are record number of ex-academics as MPs watching the decline

Hope political careers work out, as nothing to go back to

https://t.co/mpzlbevfbZ

[21group @21percentgroup]

A vanity project turned into a money pit at Nottingham University

Staff pay the price

Those at the top? CBEs, not consequences. Those who didn't understand "listed building" status have moved upward

This tells you everything about UK Higher Education

https://t.co/oL8AC6vtYN

[Your Southend @YourSouthend]

A large group of “feral” youths were seen jumping barriers and pushing past staff at Southend Victoria train station after returning from visiting the seafront.

The incident happened on Thursday evening, May 28, and has sparked calls for more British Transport Police officers at Southend Victoria and other stations across Essex.

The railway union RMT said the situation was “feral, unpredictable and could have escalated quickly”.

The group were seen forcing their way through the station’s ticket barriers, with Greater Anglia staff standing by as they pushed past staff.

Security officers employed by Greater Anglia were present, but appeared not to challenge the group, seemingly due to the number of youths involved.

The RMT is now raising concerns about the lack of British Transport Police officers available to help protect railway staff and passengers.

Kathy Mazur, RMT regional organiser, said the situation was “totally unacceptable” and said there were “no BTP officers in sight”.

She said visible patrols can make stations safer, pointing to BTP evening patrols at Kings Cross and St Pancras in autumn 2025, where RMT says staff assaults dropped by 59%, violence by 21%, public-order incidents by 41% and shoplifting by 25%.

The BTP said that just after 7pm on Thursday 28 May, officers on duty in Southend had been diverted to an emergency incident at Laindon station, where they arrested a man on suspicion of assault and took witness statements.

RMT has also criticised a three-year British Transport Police Authority funding plan approved in December 2025, which the union says could lead to frontline staff reductions in 2028/29.

The incident has sparked debate about fare evasion, station safety and the pressure placed on railway staff when large groups gather without police officers immediately present.

[Clare Brindley💙 @profwit]

#rosewednesday

[Your Southend @YourSouthend]

👏 This boy deserves a thank you.

After school, he heads to a Southend beach with a litter picker and sack, spending his free time clearing rubbish from the shoreline.

Every bag helps keep beaches cleaner and prevents rubbish ending up in the sea.

Southend BeachCare Group said: “Thank you to him for making a difference for our wonderful local beaches, keeping them litter free and stopping the rubbish going out into our precious seas.

“Please support him with likes and comments.”

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

@PreetKGillMP Any discussion of a single patient record must include scrutiny of Palantir’s access to patient data.

https://t.co/KVDMdmWh8N

[Clare Brindley💙 @profwit]

@CarlBovisNature About 6/7 years ago in E17

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The top civil servant at the Health Department "worked for or held shares in 12 companies that benefited from public contracts with DHSC or related health organisations"

She was elevated to the top role by Wes Streeting

She should resign. And we must end NHS privatisation.

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

@BBCNews Any discussion of a single patient record must include scrutiny of Palantir’s access to patient data.

https://t.co/KVDMdmWh8N

[tern @1goodtern]

Tennis is really in a bad way, isn't it.

The injury list is growing every day.
It's brutal.

The lingering damage of every covid infection is an accelerant factor.

https://t.co/88H4YuzLUx

[Women's Voices Australia @womensvoicesau]

Not sure I could love Germaine Greer any more than I do. Everytime I watch this clip 💜💜 her a little more. For all the sex denialists this is the original critique of “gender”. Take note: Women are a sex class.

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

Concerns about NEET rates have put the spotlight back on the "lockdown generation".

Yet one important factor remains largely invisible: experiences of young people in Clinically Vulnerable families differed significantly from their peers.
@TrevorPTweets @ChildrensComm

[#PostedInThePast | Helen Baggott @PostedInThePast]

Donkeys on the beach, Llandudno:
"This is where Uncle Arthur & Aunty Joan went yesterday & spent a very nice day. Such a lot of little girls on the sands."
Sent to Miss Harris, St Albans in 1912.

#Genealogy #PostedInThePast

[Queen Mary UCU @qm_ucu]

Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @PrivateEyeNews!

A million pound @CardiffUCU alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…