Freelance writer and Deputy Ed of @SustainEurope magazine. Fan of history, sci-fi, equality, literacy. Ex: NHS, Literacy Coordinator, ENCo, health columnist.
Joined January 2011
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Don't normally use Twitter anymore because: Elon. I'm only back to say I won't be using @sainsburys anymore, either. Advertising on GB News? Forget it.
Ironically, I'd just gone over to Sainsbury's from Morrisons (constant subs, OOS, terrible packing). I'll solely use @Tesco now.
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Never, ever thought I would have to stop shopping at M&S because they wanted to sponsor hate - what are you doing @marksandspencer ????
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Really, really dismayed to see that @marksandspencer are advertising on the racist and anti-LGBT+ @GBNEWS. Get your act together, M&S, otherwise I’ll be taking my custom elsewhere.
No more clothes from @marksandspencer for me after discovering they advertise on GB News.
Disgusting.
Does @YouGov *ever* answer emails from the people who help it provide its data, or should I just give up waiting??
I've had a Connections issue for weeks. Emailed twice. Nowt. Why even bother having an email address?
Anyone else have a problem with the @YouGov Safe extension? I've happily used it for ages to download Netflix, Disney and Prime data, but Apple is a nope. I've emailed them but never got a response. It always says I'm not logged in (yes I am) or I don't have a subscription (I do)
What a beautiful cover! 🤩
Congratulations to @BrightVerity and A Midwinter Murder which broke into the UK Top 100 chart yesterday at #98!!! 🙌🥳
You can grab this gripping and twisty Golden Age murder mystery here: ow.ly/CKLK50UuNO8
It's the lies from @BritishGas that I've found most difficult. Again and again I've held off going to the @EnergyOmbudsman because they said it was sorted. Nearly 2 and a half years later, with payments I don't owe taken from my account by a DD I didn't sign; it's not. Disgrace.
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This is appalling - the service to bereaved family members is non existent. Too many folk having the exact same terrible experience. @BritishGas you need to sort this
1/2 Well, there we go. It's the evening of the 4th of December, the date by which @BritishGas promised me, as they have done dozens of times before, an update.
While waiting the requested week, I've had:
- yet another payment taken illegally from my bank account (no 6)
And...
2/2 ...
- a bill in the name of my mother (dead for 2 years and precisely 5 months, today).
And @BritishGas now wants me to pay for a day in January when the house wasn't mine and the account was meant to be closed.
Tempted to skip the energy ombudsman for the small claims court.
Today is the last day for @BritishGas to contact me. They also said they'd update me after 5 pm yesterday. Nope. @guardian if you think your recent British Gas horror story was bad, you should hear mine. Over two years of incompetence and stress. Continually lied to. Disgraceful
In August 2022, my Mum died. I told @BritishGas immediately. Over the last 2 years & 3 months, I've been in an ongoing battle with them (for clarity: her account was in credit). I can't even bear to go into detail, but it's beyond belief. Insensitive, incompetent. Ombudsman time
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📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
Hurry up! My copy of Five Acre Forest should be here tomorrow 😊
Four days left to order these wonderful books. The publisher has given until 14 November, but after that, no more. Buy a copy of each of them now! The last chance for you and @TrishaNicholson #nonfiction #welovememoirs #BooksMakeGreatGifts
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We’re excited to celebrate Hope Week from 11 – 17 November! 💚
Each day, we’ll spotlight actions you can take & inspiring individuals working to brighten our world.
We're bringing people who are passtionate about nature together.
Live event info + more👉🏽 wtru.st/hopeweek
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It doesn't feel the right moment to celebrate this, but I guess we are going to need our children to be more scientifically literate - including, especially about scientific racism - than ever before.
So thank you for this honour.
We are very happy to announce the shortlist for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2024, with six books chock full of tales of Arctic adventures, amazing ancestors and astrophysics. The winner will be chosen from among these six by over 19,000 young people across the country. #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2024/1…
