Freya

Penchant for podcasts and puns.

[Madeline Hayman-Reber @MadelineHayman]

Reminder to journalists and everyone else to lead by example and capitalise the words Aboriginal and Indigenous, and not to abbreviate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander to ATSI. We are a race of people, therefore a proper noun should be used, and we are more than an acronym.

[Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry]

If British-made riot control equipment is being used to attack unarmed protesters and journalists in the US, those exports must immediately be stopped. We cannot be a party to the violence of the American President against his own people. My full letter to Liz Truss is attached.

[Virendra Sharma @VirendraSharma]

Unfortunately I have been excluded from Parliament and disenfranchised by the new Parliamentary voting system. Medical advice is for me to stay at home, and where we had a perfectly workable remote voting system Jacob Rees Mogg has chosen to scrap it so his PM looks better.

[Freya @tweetingfreya]

@hartles2 But wine is essential!

[Robyn Pennacchia @RobynElyse]

The scariest thing I have ever found out in my life is that if you are super confident, 99% of the time people will just go along with you.

[zooey deschanel @ZooeyDeschanel]

My only regret is never having asked where they got this incredible wallpaper.

[V&A @V_and_A]

A chair of many colours. Decorated in Pointillist multicoloured squares. The hand-painted Proust chair is a postmodern bricolage by Alessandro Mendini.  

Learn more about furniture at the V&A here: https://t.co/yRtF5ybmup

[Freya @tweetingfreya]

@science_of_art @ChrisGiles_ @SJPickering @jburnmurdoch Thank you Julie - don’t usually say such personal stuff on here.

[Freya @tweetingfreya]

@damianjbyrne @Carina66079219 @ChrisGiles_ @SJPickering @jburnmurdoch I respectfully disagree. Worse of both worlds in UK due delayed lockdown. It would be no use if my father had his heart treatment if he died of contracting the virus due to no lockdown. The NHS was put in an impossible position. Please don’t use my example for your own agenda.

[Freya @tweetingfreya]

@Carina66079219 @damianjbyrne @ChrisGiles_ @SJPickering @jburnmurdoch Thank you. Many other countries did not have to make those tough decisions because their health care system was not put under such a strain by controlling the virus earlier

[Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_]

The UK has suffered 60,000 excess deaths, directly or indirectly linked to Coronavirus, according to official figures.

Only the much larger US has had more.
UK has had the highest global excess death rate (per million)
And only Peru has had a higher increase in deaths

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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Kitty Shepherd, contemporary British ceramic slipware artist #womensart

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

#Summer Contemporary English painter Emma Haworth, known for her parks and semi urban landscapes with an added hint of magic #womensart

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Now - SHAMEFULLY - deleted from the BBC feed. RT far & wide, and while you’re at it, I defy you to point out ONE WORD of this which isn’t factually true and “impartial”.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

It says a lot about the political culture in the UK that the only person who has faced any consequences for Dominic Cummings' actions is a journalist who pointed them out. https://t.co/azi0sguJYe