Publisher and mum. Taking more time to travel, bake, run, write. Always supporting the fantastic First News.
Richmond, London
Joined February 2010
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The collapse in violent crime over three decades has been one of the most striking developments of my lifetime.
News is about what’s going wrong, and rightly so. But the bigger picture also matters
From today’s figures:-
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On Charles de Gaulle, greatness and the best war film I’ve seen in years👇 newstatesman.com/culture/fil…
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Andrew Bailey is right. Most people don't realise how shockingly *bad* the UK's goods trade has been after Brexit and the pandemic.
UK exports are 23% lower than the pre-2020 trend and imports are 16% below the trend.
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🐈🐕 We would like to welcome our latest batch of Small Animal Residents who started work at our referral hospital last week!
➡️ To register your interest in applying for 2025 residencies, please visit rvc.ac.uk/study/postgraduate…
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Oh, this is so good…
#WeAreOvercowded
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Ham Open Gardens 12-5pm 19th May
This is a great day out for all the family with privileged access to over 20 gardens. Free for under 16s. BBQ, jazz band, tea and cake. Proceeds to local charities. Tickets in advance at hamandpetersham.com/ham-open…
@EventsKingston @hamhousegarden
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Every few years, I search for this 2019 clip of Blair again. The bluntness of his ‚power is power!‘ doesn‘t only apply to geopolitics, but equally to energy policy & the delayed energy transition. Raw power. No longer a lack of technologies or knowledge.
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Admittedly I’m both a friend and a fan of @Dannythefink, but this is outstanding. Two astonishing stories of suffering and evil but also of resilience and love.
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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland is the most magnificent documentary ever made about us. Stories of love & loss, hatred & humanity, heat & light told in a stripped back, unsentimental fashion that keeps you utterly transfixed. Film-making at its finest
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opini…
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Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊
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Dominic Grieve, "A Conservative leader at some point in the future is going to have to face up to the fact that if you want to maximise the UK's economic potential, you have to be in something as close to the EU Single Market, because that gave us 20 years of sustained growth."
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One of these two PMs leads a country which enjoys the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world with the United States. And it’s not ‘Global Britain’. #BrexitReality
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BBC finally admitting the obvious, eg. from a veg supplier in NL:
“"We have too many tomatoes! We used to export them to the UK but it now takes a truck driver 77 hours of queueing to take tomatoes to the UK and all truck drivers simply refuse." bbc.co.uk/news/64762429
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Wending my way home after a long day, with the sun setting over the Peak District hills and the smell of woodsmoke and autumn in the air. The only sounds were the sheep and my own footsteps, heavy with a quiet tiredness, knowing I'd earned a fire, a good book and a lot of cheese.
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I feel positively nauseated this morning by what the Tory Party has done to our country. I long for a huge magical broom to come and sweep the whole disgusting lot away.
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"Brexit is, and was, and will be a total disaster," economist @MazzucatoM tells me.
"There has been a massive flight of business investment away from the UK."
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The Telegraph - "Downbeat predictions by the Treasury and others on the economic consequences of leaving the EU -aka Project Fear- have been on a long fuse, but they have turned out to be overwhelmingly correct and, if anything, underestimated." telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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“Art is to console those who are broken by life” Van Gough.
This isn’t activism. Its an attack on every person, especially the least privileged amongst us, who can enter a shared space (free of charge), look upon those Sunflowers & dare to dream.
I wish I was sentencing them.
Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The action was dramatic but the picture was unscathed and is already back on display. The frame was damaged slightly, according to The National Gallery. Adding as context because people might believe the protesters damaged the painting. twitter.com/nationalgaller…