Lover of stories, nature, words, culture. Communicator. Feminist. Ex-EU citizen.

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Joined February 2011
Wins the internet today. 😃💦
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Hi team @Smartsheet, are you aware of issues since the rollout of the new version? My team has been experiencing glitches ever since it went live.
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Perfection.
Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody
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Remember his name. A hero who died protecting others. Continue the thread using the hashtag #FarazTahir to honour his name 🙏🏽❤️‍🩹
Faraz Tahir, the sole male victim in the Bondi Junction stabbing, was a Pakistani Ahmadi seeking refuge in Australia. His life marked by bravery & escape from persecution in his homeland was tragically cut short. Let's honor & remember Faraz Tahir's courage 🙏 #SydneyAttack
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Ian Hislop, "Three British aid workers have been killed, whereas 30,000 Palestinians have been killed.. It's grim but true. If you kill people who aren't Palestinians, then it suddenly becomes unacceptable" Clive Myrie, "How has Netanyahu explained the deadly strike?" Paul Merton, "These things happen in war" Ian Hislop, "Biden has now said enough is enough and Israel have got to change the way they pursue the war" Clive Myrie, "Biden said in a statement he was outraged and heartbroken" Ian Hislop, "He's so furious, he just signed a new arms shipment" #HIGNFY
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On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis and then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan. The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit. Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long. While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was "the most dangerous and important post in France." She was offered a way back to Britain and refused. In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this. She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up; she made three attempts at escape. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris. Her last word before being shot was, "Liberté!"
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We thought the horrors that befell these two girls couldn’t happen again - wouldn’t be allowed to. Today, thousands of people deny the Holocaust and the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide of its own while the world watches and the “West” facilitates.
Anne Frank photographed with her sister Margot at the beach in Zandvoort, Netherlands, in 1940. Margot was the elder sister of Anne, and according to Anne’s diary, she also had kept a diary of her own, but no trace of it has ever been found. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
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Reminders for the week. Pass them on to family, friends and loved ones…
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The hashtag #GoHomeMeghanMarkle is trending. That’s grotesque. It’s 1st degree bullying on a shameless level. What on Earth does that say about the people of this country? How can we talk about the Queen exemplifying compassion and be this baseless and unkind at the same time?
I’ve never seen this before and it makes the hounding of them by the British tabloids even more grotesque
The cutest 😄❤️
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As the drought warnings kick in and the great and the good assemble to speak crisis I am sitting next to one of many of my farm wetlands created by the beavers. The solution is obvious. Let them be. Reintroduce them swiftly in numbers everywhere. They will reirrigate the land.
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If you see a Guide Dog on an escalator, please be patient. Guide dogs are taught how to get on & disembark an escalator to keep them safe. Any unexpected movements could result in an accident for either of us. Even after a long day, look how concentrated @Kika_GuideDog is ⬇️⬇️
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Unless we create safe routes to asylum, *we* are complicit with the people smugglers These are the facts: 👉🏽Migrant numbers are down, not up 👉🏿UK receives fewer than other countries 👉🏼Most who arrive are granted asylum Pitel is misleading the country
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Two people had the nous to try to help this hapless driver in a dangerous situation without regard for themselves. That’s what people do, day in day out. We just don’t see it broadcast in the same way as we do the bad stuff. #everydayheroes
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If you care about the NHS, please take two minutes to watch this video. It explains why the NHS Bill - which MPs will vote on on Tuesday - will be such bad news. Please let your MP know what you think of it. Please also RT so others can understand too.
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93k NHS staff vacancies. £6bn spend on temporary staff to fill gaps. 55% of staff working unpaid extra hours each week. 44% saying they've felt ill with work related stress. NHS desperately needs long term workforce planning. Govt must make this happen this week. R/T if you agree
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Congrats @thecct for inspiring a great article on a really important topic. Brill writing on #heritage crafts from Laura Freeman in the Times. thetimes.co.uk/article/8f0fe…
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The Vote Leave cabal promised us £18bn a year (£350m/week) for the NHS. That would easily cover the cost of Social Care reform. Vote Leave are now the Government. Where's the money they promised? Why are they raising taxes instead?
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27 year old Zarifa Ghafari became Afghanistan's first female mayor in 2018. The Taliban killed her father & has vowed to kill her. “I’m sitting waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. And they will come for people like me.” inews.co.uk/news/world/afgha…
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This reminds me of William Morris’s philosophy that all items should have function and beauty... 😍
Underneath a crocheted canopy, created by women/textile artists of La Línea de la Concepción, Spain, to create shade for their community in the dry summer months #womensart (via @ malkymacintyre )
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