Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦

Addicted to learning, safeguarding & politics | CEO The Essential Training Company, @OneOfManyWomen #Coach, Toastmaster & MC, Trustee @CoalfieldsRegen

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

I have fallen out of love with @Twitter and into the arms of @LinkedIn.

Strange times.

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

@CllrJoshNewbury Congratulations and very best wishes, Josh! 👏

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

@G_R_Morley @StaffsFriendsAC Thank you, Graham - both for this, and for all your support along life's journey. 🤗

#safeguardingchristmas

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

40% of new teachers leave the profession within the first 5 years. Though they arrive with a passion to nurture children, they leave because the tight hand of regulation squeezes initiative & innovation, & the lack of govt investment slowly overwhelms them. It’s time for change!

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So, based on everything we have seen by the end of this day, I guess here's my humble theory regarding the Kakhovka Dam destruction:
- Russia, as an occupying power, in violation of international law and despite multiple Ukrainian pleas, completely failed to ensure the security and proper maintenance of this key facility of very special importance.
- Russia, despite Ukrainian and international efforts, absolutely failed to impose a demilitarized zone surrounding this key facility, and, similarly to facilities like the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, it absolutely failed to abstain from deploying military forces in the facility's vicinity.
- And, in the first place, by default, as an aggressor waging a destructive war of conquest and openly defying the law of war, it is directly and solely responsible for the whole of the ongoing massive loss of life and the destruction taking place in Ukraine.
So it's more than obvious that regardless of the destruction's very immediate cause (be it Russian bombs planted or deadly Russian negligence), all 100% of the blame is on nothing but Russia.
I guess no one is taking seriously a dumb conspiracy theory saying that the dam could be destroyed by Ukraine -- for the sake of... causing a major technological disaster, with over 80 cities and towns flooded and the whole region affected, in a territory it pursues to liberate from the foreign aggressor to no substantial military effect?
With or without the major flooding, Ukraine is not even close to seriously expecting a successful and decisive landing operation in the Dnipro east bank, due to very obvious challenges and complexities.
So, given the fact that the sudden disaster also seriously affected Russia's military presence in the region -- I guess the most probable answer is that Russians fucked things up. Yes, AGAIN. As they often do.
They absolutely failed to ensure the dam's proper operation, especially given its poor condition, and, knowingly committed gross violations, very possibly due to the fear of a possible limited Ukrainian assault from across the Dnipro.
Fucking around and finding out, Vol. 45633. Knowing what Russia and its system is, the insane stupidity, IMHO, feels like a very likely answer. The result is what we're seeing now live. An insane tragedy for Ukraine that we will have to deal with for decades to come.
However, the dildo of consequence is coming soon, too.
Again.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

The dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant across the Dnipro River, occupied by Russia, was destroyed in the early morning hours of June 6, sparking a humanitarian and environmental disaster in southern regions of Ukraine. https://t.co/9CnIKB5cbq

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

When my Ukrainian friends told me about an ill timed and ill judged @UN celebratory message today I thought, no surely not?

But yes, indeed here it is. What the absolute....

[United Nations @UN]

Tuesday is Russian Language Day.

Follow @UnitedNationsRU for updates on the UN's work in Russian.

[🇬🇧Graham🇬🇧 @G_R_Morley]

A brilliant article written by @CloudBusiness9.

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

Oh my God. Total support for #JuniorDoctorsStrike

[Dean @Dr_DeanS]

If you are wondering why we are striking.
This is my payslip right at the very end of my second year as a doctor.

[Nelle Andrew @Nelle_Andrew]

My husband just went for a run.
It’s 8pm but he did it anyway. He felt entirely able to. It didn’t occur to him he couldn’t or what might happen if he did. It didn’t occur to him to be afraid. That is all.

[Munya Chawawa @munyachawawa]

Suella Braverman hosting Match of the Day this weekend. ⚽️🥲#MOTD #garylineker #ianwright #alanshearer

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

The #solidarity for #Lineker in response to the BBC's dreadful miscalculations is heart-warming stuff.

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

Match of the Day pundits Ian Wright, Alan Shearer, Micah Richards, Jermaine Jenas, Alex Scott and six members of the commentating team all confirm they won't be involved in today’s MOTD in solidarity with Gary Lineker.

Now that’s what you call team work!

[Aisha Nicole Malik-Smith @ANMalikSmith]

BBC chairman, Richard Sharp, donated £400k+ to the Conservative Party & helped Boris Johnson secure a £800k personal loan.

BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, is a former Conservative Party candidate.

Gary Lineker tweeting about inhumane govt asylum policy isn't the problem.

[Marion Langford 🌠💙🇺🇦 @LallyLangford]

This is dynamite from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports News. Absolutely nails it. He has the Tories and BBC on toast. Well done!! 👏 Take 2 mins and watch👇#garylineker #ImWithGary #MOTD #ToryFascists

[Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins]

Interesting to watch this back. In 2021, Gary Lineker talked to me on The Media Show about tweeting. BBC DG Tim Davie had never called him to say, 'you can't tweet about that', he said. And added: 'I don't think they could do that anyway. I mean, I'm my own person.'

[Dr David Nicholl @djnicholl]

#ImWithGary …..if you walk into BBC Centre you literally walk past this quote from Orwell. A shame Tim Davie & the other Execs didn’t read it 🤷‍♂️

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

BBC Director General Tim Davie, who was previously a Conservative Party candidate and Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party, says that forcing Gary Lineker to step aside is about "delivering on impartiality"

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

Beautifully put. She made me feel inspired and enthused about politics. What a formidable figure she was. Thank you, and #RIP #BettyBoothroyd 🙏

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

So sad the legendary Betty Boothroyd has died. She was plucky, smart, tenacious and clear eyed about her politics and principles. She was a wonderfully authoritative speaker. What a class act. We will not see her like again.

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

This news brings me joy. 🌹. Luciana Berger rejoins Labour Party after antisemitism apology https://t.co/Z2wdJbH63S

[Trudie McGuinness 🍀 🕊 🇺🇦 @trudiemc]

@PollyBLabour @ThanetLab @UKLabour @SELabour @SME4LABOUR @LabourCID @LabourEuropean @fbunational @JewishLabour @Labour_Business @serauk @OpenLabour @LabourCC Wonderful news, congratulations!