Ruth Arnold
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Just got a little wet lying on my back in the grass with my son on a clear night looking up. So glad he woke me to see this wonder.
Males of my household are now mixing
#NorthernLights
phones and whiskey.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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Ending an incredibly busy day in London with this most beautiful sight.
A family reunited. Who couldn’t rejoice at this sight and wish it for all those who long to hold their loved ones in their arms.
And my respect for them all could not be higher. What courage and love.
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#IWD2022
an image of hope. My beloved ‘adopted nieces’ and daughters of Afghan
@CheveningFCDO
scholar
@NZafary
After a harrowing journey, safe in the UK, thriving at school.
The education of girls changes their lives and the world. Girls in Afghanistan deserve this chance.
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Breaking.
So good to hear that
@BorisJohnson
has just said UK will accelerate visas for the 35
@CheveningFCDO
scholars - interview airing now.
This is the right call and we must do all we can to honour it. Grateful to all who have lobbied so hard.
🙏🏻
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Any politicians questioning the value of the BBC might just pause and think about how important
@BBCWorld
@BBCNews
is now to the whole world, especially those seeking reliable information.
Special thanks to
@bbclysedoucet
and team who’ve only just left Afghanistan.
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“The UK’s 144 universities contribute £130 billion to the economy, more than farming, forestry, fishing, mining, arts and entertainment combined.”
UK has 11% of the world’s most-cited research papers
2020-21, 21,000+ startups spun out of UK universities
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“...Oxford insisted on access conditions.”
Surely one of the most life-saving contract clauses ever. Thank you to those who had the moral strength and vision to think in this way. 👏🏻
A reminder that AstraZeneca has pledged to sell the vaccine for zero profit to developing nations in perpetuity after Oxford insisted on access conditions.
UK drugs watchdog approves Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine via
@financialtimes
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
With permission, this gives me hope.
My beloved Afghan ‘nieces’ escaped Kabul with their
@CheveningFCDO
scholar father - happy and safe, learning English, thriving. Afghan girls receiving education.
We can be this country.
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Extraordinary image.
And now an Indian PM will meet President Biden and a Vice-President who is the daughter of an Indian international student who travelled to the US to further her medical career.
Glad for Indian students and
@NAFSA
colleagues message is more welcoming.
1990s :: Narendra Modi Standing Infront of The White House In America
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@EJWoolf
Thank you for sharing this.
I thought you should know that Virginia’s words have a new relevance to Afghan women barred from eduction but determined not to be defeated by the locks on libraries and the gates of universities in our own time.
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On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a portrait of a female scientist at work, one of my favourite paintings in the
@NPGLondon
-
@NobelPrize
laureate Chemist Dorothy Hodgkin by the glorious Maggi Hambling.
#IDWGIS
❤️
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Really moving speech.
So glad for the new graduands who got to hear this, and sharing for the rest of us.
❤️ 🧑🎓
A snippet of Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s (Self Esteem’s) speech this morning when she accepted her honorary doctorate ❤️
@SELFESTEEM___
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I am so glad to see that a comment about ‘reliance on foreigners’ has triggered such an outpouring of gratitude for all the times these ‘foreign’ doctors, nurses and specialists have been there for us.
When
@MichaelRosenYes
writes These Are The Hands, many belong to them.
A good day to thank the Portuguese nurse who found a vein for my chemotherapy when nobody else could, and the Spanish surgeon who did the emergency operation that saved my life.
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@ProfCathHarper
@Kent_cc
@Kentlive
I’ve been looking and just seen that the wonderful Sikh charity
@Khalsa_Aid
is delivering water and food to the drivers stuck in Dover - they did the same in the Somerset floods a few years ago. Good people, fast to help. 👏🏻❤️
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Didn’t expect the thing that would make me laugh out loud this morning was
@bbclysedoucet
impersonating a cuckoo on
@bbcradio4
Broadcasting House.
Safe travels back to Ukraine Lyse, and our thanks for seeing the joy as well as the horror. Hoping for peace, somehow. ❤️
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@behaviorbunch
Or beginning a professional encounter with eye contact AND shaking hands. Then deciding that someone is not suitable if they ‘look shifty’ and uncomfortable with touch.
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
I love fashion and textiles of all eras, but this takes my breath for its modernity, artistry and skill.
Designed by Maria Baldwin for Hollander in NY. She also supported suffrage and cockle opposed slavery. What a woman.
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Ending each day with something beautiful and a poem.
I took my mum tulips today. She has Alzheimer’s, but there was a window for pleasure.
Such perfect flowers.
And love this fabric from the Exhibition Universelle in Paris, 1889. I’d love a dress in it.
h/t
@AStitchinTime13
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In praise of cyclamen.
These wild beauties flower in my garden through minus zero nights and thick snow, delicate but tough.
Each year they spread wider, feeding off the old log. The final gift of the fallen tree.
I find this sight so beautiful and inspiring.
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On
#IWD2022
I think of brave, good women around the world.
-
@bbclysedoucet
reporting
- old women crossing the river Irpin
- Afghan teachers
- a small girl singing in a basement
And of a better world shaped by international friendship like this one in times of peace. 💪❤️
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Some things are so painful you can hardly bear to think of them, but you must because the alternative is worse.
Good MP
@TulipSiddiq
has secured a debate for constituent Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her brave husband Richard.
Hoping a way can be found. 🙏🏻
Photo
@MarcDavenant
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And thanks to all who have messaged asking me about my eldest.
So proud he’s bagged another A level today (despite dyspraxia and dyslexia so profound when he was young teachers worried he might never read).
Next steps his choice but ready to support, whatever the journey. 💕
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What this article doesn’t say is that international students cross subsidise home students, courses are financially viable and buildings maintained and built because of them.
If the UK wants less ‘reliance’ it must reverse a decade of real terms cuts.
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Not quite ending the day with something beautiful and a poem…
I love fabrics and colour as my grandmother and great aunts did before me. This reminds me of them.
‘The Japanese Robe’ by Alfred Stevens in 1872. Via The Met and thanks to
@AStitchinTime13
for sharing.
Gorgeous.
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I do not want to ‘shame’ my GP, rank our surgery or do anything to deflect her from her thoughtful combination of professional experience and patient care.
This has been a grim time for GPs and the backlog is real and heavy.
What I actually want to say is thank you.
#NHS
💙
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Breaking.
News from the Afghan
@CheveningFCDO
scholars.
In the midst of the most unimaginable circumstances, news to bring tears of relief from
@NZafary
You will be truly welcome.
#WeAreInternational
❤️
We made it, all of us! Collectively and with strong strategy and approach we crossed 15000 people! Thank you
@laurie_bristow
for special care inside compound. 🙏 you
@laura91864389
@RuthArnold
@danbloom1
@M_Veselinovic
@ShoaibbinRahim
@CheveningFCDO
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@GetWellShow
@SophieRunning
@waitrose
This statement is inadequate. The language does not need to be more sensitive, it needs to be correct. Treating symptoms which exist alongside autism is not the same as reversing autism. To say so is not trying to shut down debate, it is challenging harmful misinformation.
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Ending an incredibly busy day with something beautiful and a poem.
After lots of writing and thinking, something purely sensual from
@V_and_A
collections possibly designed by Jean-Charles Worth.
Cocktail anyone?
And thanks
@AStitchinTime13
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
This is my beloved adopted niece Mahnoor who had her birthday this week.
She came to this country from Afghanistan at the worst of times but she has learned English, is doing well at school and is full of light and hope.
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What are universities for? What the founders of
@sheffielduni
believed. Public benefit, scholarship, teaching.
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So moving to hear
@BBCSteveR
and
@bbclysedoucet
on
@BBCRadio4
#bbcbh
If you need a reason to fiercely protect
@BBCWorld
and its impartiality, listen to this.
The experience, empathy and courage of BBC correspondents helps us look past our borders to other lives and stories.
What's it like living in a world of alternative reality, where Russian state media & many Russians tell you “Russia didn’t invade Ukraine” & “Russia never starts wars”? Where everything's upside down? I’ve written this piece Parallel Reality to show how I feel.
@BBCRadio4
#bbcbh
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What a brave man speaking in tragic circumstances. Even more so because experts like
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
have been speaking with urgency on this issue from the beginning.
I’d like to thank her and hope the tide is turning and that we will measure more than just mortality.
"If something happens to me, please let the world know."
Nick Guthe, who lost his wife to long COVID, recalls her last words and warns government leaders from across the world to "act quickly" to support those who are currently suffering.
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@Andy_Wheatley
Dear Andy. I am deeply grateful to
@FinanceDirCFO
for introducing me to your feed and caring, wise thoughts. Then over recent days I’ve read the pieces you wrote during your beautiful Edward’s life and afterwards. All I see is love. Ruth
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@trishgreenhalgh
I couldn’t read this without saying again how sorry I am you faced this sad way of losing your dear mum, and your careful consideration at an anguished moment.
I could not be with my dad when he died as I was in labour. Some things we just can’t control, even as we regret them.
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Personal news. After many farewells, exited about a new chapter working as a Consultant in the Charity & Education sectors. Truly proud though of inspiring initiatives over the years w students & colleagues
@Sheffielduni
across HE & beyond. Thank-you.
#WeAreInternational
🌍🌎🌏❤️
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@SebastianEPayne
Hi
@SebastianEPayne
- wondering if you could highlight this or any other charities just practically looking after people stuck there through no fault of their own.
@ProfCathHarper
@Kent_cc
@Kentlive
I’ve been looking and just seen that the wonderful Sikh charity
@Khalsa_Aid
is delivering water and food to the drivers stuck in Dover - they did the same in the Somerset floods a few years ago. Good people, fast to help. 👏🏻❤️
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Still peaceful in my house as young men sleep, so listening to music, drinking coffee and just quiet.
It all goes AWOL from here but, for now, deep calm.
And thanks to
@peaklass1
for so much beauty this year and my Xmas profile pic.
“And is there beauty yet to find…”
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@trishgreenhalgh
Thank you for always being so clear.
I remember someone rolling eyes once when wider mask wearing had stopped. I was actually on my way into a children’s hospital full of the most vulnerable little ones. People who are immuno-compromised need extra protection and prevention.
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Ending each day with something beautiful and a poem.
Tangential connection to the PM wedding only through this, as it was also designed by Christos Costarellos who does wonderful things with lace after a Greek tradition.
I think this is just exquisite. Tagging
@kateStrasdin
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@Joseph_Fasano_
I would say that a poem happens in two places.
In the mind and heart and life of a poet. And in the mind and heart and life of a reader.
Unless the audience are themselves AI simulations, whatever is heard will be human.
A poem is a prompt to another human being.
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“…we need to feed Ukrainians while Ukrainians feed the world.”
What a terrible irony - the consequences of war for the people of those countries immediately affected and those to whom they export grain, oil, fruit.
#Ukraine
#Afghanistan
ICYMI Shocking stats: "9 out of 10 Ukrainians will fall into poverty if this war continues until end of year..a shocking number especially that it comes from a 2.5% poverty rate, just before the war started."
@Manalfouani
@UNDPUkraine
told
@BBCWorld
#UkraineRussiaWar
#Ukraine
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Ending each day with something beautiful and a poem.
In my garden roses in bud, each day nearer to the scent of summer.
This is the sweetest. 'Souvenir de la Malmaison', a Bourbon rose created in 1843 after Château de Malmaison where Joséphine de Beauharnais had a rose garden.
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So very pleased to see this.
A small group of
@CheveningFCDO
scholars amidst so many in need, but each one important nonetheless.
I understand scholars and any immediate dependents will be issued visas, and hope this is indicative of support for other UK-Afghan scholars.
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There are a lot of things said about universities. But whatever your view, today thousands of people had life-saving vaccines because of decades of work carried out in these remarkable institutions. Just one of the great things they do.
So the word I’m reaching for is thank you.
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He wasn't able to read until the age of 11, and only recognised he was dyslexic after having his own child.
He took a foundation course at Epsom School of Art, now
@UniCreativeArts
Richard Rogers, architect. 👏🏻
Access matters. Neurodiversity matters. Arts matter.
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@trishgreenhalgh
How deeply proud she would have been of the service and courage you’ve shown since then, but I’m sure she was already. x
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
I remember my grandmother and great aunts crocheting. Look carefully at this and wonder!
In Alhaurin de la Torre in Spain, women textile artists have created new sunshades for the town centre.
Thanks to
@womensart1
❤️
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“Across the rest of the Islamic world, women study and qualify proudly as doctors and they serve their people with skill and dignity. My sister – my hero – Dr Brishna simply wants to do the same.”
@NZafary
speaks for and with his sister.
#Afghanistan
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Catching up on radio. Jarvis Cocker walking through Edale with
@MagicMagid
- a place of hard-won freedom of movement I don’t take for granted. Beautiful voices of appreciation.
#Home
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First dose of the
#AstraZeneca
vaccine at the Eyam Surgery - my local village known for a previous pandemic decimated without the precious hope we have today.
Thank you especially to the brilliant scientists from around the world who made this country home.
#WeAreInternational
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Tonight I am going to pretend I am at a magical party with all I love from around the world in the same comfortable house. We will be safe, our loved ones ok and peace and understanding breaking out globally.
I’ll be wearing one of
@kateStrasdin
outfits.
Happy new year all! ❤️🥂
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@VictoriaCoren
@Mark30765839
I just wanted to thank you for explaining this so clearly and powerfully.
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Trying to make sense of lockdown (as so many things through life which felt beyond my capacities) has taken me back to poetry.
None as powerful as these by Linnet Drury
@OxfordSpiresAc
- a 17 year old voice for our thoughts and times. Thank you.
@IMcMillan
@MichaelRosenYes
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@TVKev
I support my vulnerable mum and next week take my 16yo for treatment at Great Ormond Street which would be cancelled if he tested +. Just checking it’s ok with you if I wear a mask on the train?
Also, how do you suggest I handle it if someone criticises us for wearing a mask?
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I hate this headline
@FT
Overseas students have been cross-subsidising UK research, teaching and facilities for years, as well as being an invaluable talent pipeline for scholarship and vital research in medicine and science.
It is not their fault public funding has fallen.
Britons squeezed out of top universities by lucrative overseas students
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Incredibly touched and thrilled by this and the recognition and support by so many over so long for
#WeAreInternational
- incredibly grateful that
@UKCISA
@A_M_Graham
@Yinbo_Yu
have picked up the baton with the
#WeAreInternational
students ❤️🌏🌍🌎
The winner for outstanding contribution to the industry is
@RuthArnold
particularly for her work on the
@weareint
campaign
Thank you to
@NCUKTogether
for supporting
#PIEoneers20
this year!
#PIEoneers20
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
Some of my favourite people share my love of vintage fashion, charity shops and
@eBay_UK
old velvet. Recycling with style.
So for them and me with thanks to
@kateStrasdin
@metmuseum
the Dior May dress. Exquisite.
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Look who came to
#ICE2019
to show solidarity with international students and to say thank you for all they do for Sheffield. Thankyou Sheffield Mayor
@MagicMagid
#WeAreInternational
🌎🌎🌏❤️
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Message from
@stevesilberman
whose book Neurotribes has been so important to the understanding of neurodiversity - thank you from across the pond from the many here who appreciate it, and have a lovely Thanksgiving together.
A special Thanksgiving message from me and my husband
@WardQNormal
to all young
#LGBTQ
folks who feel exiled or marginalized by their families today: We love you. Have courage. You'll get through this and build your own family someday. We wish you the best.
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As the U.K. awaits the Immigration White Paper, time to remember the incredible skilled contribution made by so many at all salary levels. It isn’t just universities which need to realise that
#WeAreInternational
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@GetWellShow
@SophieRunning
@waitrose
As someone who has worked in communications for decades I know, as you do, that many people will see a cover headline without ever reading an article. You clearly imply the reversibility of autism. This is wrong and
@waitrose
should not associate with this crass & harmful line.
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
I know the world is preparing to party for
#Eurovision2023
but after a busy week I’m ready just to crash.
Thanks though to
@beatricegroves1
for sharing these images of wild garlic which she explained indicate ancient woodland.
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“…the UK appears set to rejoin the EU’s flagship £85bn Horizon science research programme…”
‘appears’
It really shouldn’t have taken this long or to have been so long questioned with real impacts on science and vital collaboration.
‘“I dare not hope, I just want this to be over. It’s been so tortured for so long,” said Mike Galsworthy, a co-founder of Scientists for the EU.’
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
I deeply admire the determination of
@John_Dabell
who (really) lives with incurable cancer by embracing every single day.
Thanks John for this view today and for sharing your spirit. It’s magnificent. Always a teacher.
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@Dr2NisreenAlwan
How hurtful to see this. We all owe so much to those immigrants who are crucial to the NHS and so much more.
I also wonder if they realise that the vaccines they need were developed by Muslim scientists in a company led by the son of a Holocaust survivor.
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I have the great privilege to know Dhionis.
When people say not all international students do well-paid jobs or are scientists, it’s true. He also has a lovely wife now with him.
But he worked in our NHS in ICU during Covid and he trains NHS apprentices.
The word is thank-you.
International students bring so much to the UK
Dhionis from Albania was an international student at
@UniversityLeeds
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic he worked as a nurse in intensive care alongside his studies🏥
"I was so happy to help in such a crisis"
#WeAreInternational
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Very moving picture to see this week as vaccination begins in India and half of Delhi’s healthcare workers have already received a vaccine.
However terrible Covid is, and it is, we are not left without knowledge and hope.
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Meanwhile in the UK such a depressing headline which misses the fact that international students underpin UK higher education and research… even of middle class students.
It is not the fault of international students public funds don’t cover costs.
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And as a bonus an utterly exquisite image of a swan’s plumage taken by
@beatricegroves1
Thank you so much for sharing this.
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
Nellie Bly, investigative journalist. She travelled the world, advocated to end slavery, reported on war in Italy, went undercover in a NY asylum.
What a life. Thinking of my journalist friends now.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
Quietly marking the end of exam season with pizza from the village and a wood-fire oven. The luxury of a low-key pleasure and another milestone in our shared life.
And pre-rain, this rose opens by my door. The first of many.
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
What is beautiful about this to me is not an MBE (or the work it recognises) but the courage and integrity of the woman who received it and the joy of the mother in her daughter. She was already proud.
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
❤️
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Depressing to see criticism of universities shift to SUs and 'snowflake' students. I suggest anyone labelling so easily spend a day with dedicated young people who volunteer across the city and try to make society better in so many ways.
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Heading through
@StPancrasInt
and they have put up my favourite Christmas tree so far.
Beautiful design by
@Hatchards
incorporating seating - now to make the real version in my own house…
📚❤️
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Important thread on childcare. Want to free up UK labour market - address this.
25 hrs (pt) childcare is more than university fees in London.
I managed 2 days/week childcare with husband working flexibly and me dropping to half time. With good jobs then, still a stretch. Tough.
To put some figures on this parents pay on average over £7000 per year for each child under 2 for a 25 hour place in a nursery.
In inner London that‘s £9300 a year. Full time it’s £17000 a year.
1/3 of areas in England don’t have enough childcare for parents working full time.
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I aspire to a life which is the human equivalent of
@DalrympleWill
suitcase.
Well-loved, well-travelled and happily lived in. Sent in for occasional repairs but still fit for purpose and mellowing nicely. Although maybe slightly less orange.
I am on the way to Heathrow& I just wanted to say a big big thank you to Joe, the brilliant craftsman from Globe-Trotter who has just restored my beautiful, old, extremely elegant orange Globe-Trotter: she is as good as new again while looking as fabulously well-travelled as ever
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Ending each day with something beautiful and a poem.
Where revolutions begin. Virginia Woolf's writing table in the garden at Monks House by Gisèle Freund, with thanks to
@womensart1
".. there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
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This exquisite poem by an 11 year old poet is a reminder that we must never reduce the way we see young people to a SATS score. Truly beautiful.
@bbcpoetryplease
@MichaelRosenYes
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Bravo
@FutureLearn
“FutureLearn will offer the women in Afghanistan free access to its premium digital learning platform for the duration of the Taliban’s ban on their participation in higher education.”
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Some of the writers I love most wrote out of pain and loss, and I reach for them on dark days. Some are all about the beautiful.
Some a moment of life that make me gasp.
So tonight two poems both glimpsed through bathing.
First Henri Cole.
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@Dr2NisreenAlwan
Authoritative
Persistent in identifying and highlighting key issues
Persuasive communicator
Willing to learn
Engages positively with experts, media, policy community
Acknowledged when mistakes have been made, including her own
Resolute
Warm and empathetic
Multi-tasker
👏🏻
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I am struck by how many dear friends say the news triggers trauma from previous conflict.
As a child I knew an old lady who found meals with us difficult because she’d nearly starved in a ghetto. My dad told us, just be kind, it’s hard. His words echo in my mind again now.
My deepest empathy is with the Ukrainian people. I personally lived under war as a child and the horror of the experience doesn’t leave you. Up to this day, my heart sinks when I hear fireworks or a plane flying. If war doesn’t destroy you at the time, it lives with you forever.
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Brexit reminds me of childbirth. When I attended an antenatal class I remember a range of birth ‘choices’. As the midwife described each one, I mentally rejected it until I realised there weren’t any more to choose from. Not relishing any of them didn’t stop me going into labour.
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At last. So pleased for international students, universities & the U.K. economy. Well done
@UniversitiesUK
@UKCISA
@nusuk
@APPGIS
@PaulBlomfieldMP
@Lord_Bilimoria
@HEPI_News
@Destination4Edu
@Yinbo_Yu
@CBItweets
@englishuk
@RussellGroup
@London_First
#WeAreInternational
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@trishgreenhalgh
Oh no.
The parliamentary equivalent of mistaking
@trishgreenhalgh
expertise for a Miss Triggs’ situation.
🤦🏼♀️
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
My beautiful boy, 21 this week. 🥂
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There are no words for how grateful I am to see this. Progress.
The Afghan Citizen Resettlement Scheme - pathway 3 has launched. It will enable eligible
@CheveningAfghan
@CheveningFCDO
to be considered for relocation to the UK.
🇦🇫 🇬🇧
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@professor_dave
Sad to hear this. She didn’t engage with me either on the same issue at an event where she was a speaker although I was informed, polite and seeking understanding.
When so much SEN support for a pupil relies on respectful cooperation and listening, this was a red flag to me.
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Only 3 England players are not descendants of recent immigrants.
“The squad is a wonderful example of the benefits of
#Immigration
, and is a celebration of
#diversity
.”
Thanks
@peteqconsult
for this lovely reminder of the benefits of a diverse country.
#WeAreInternational
👏🏻❤️
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I have long believed that
@MarcDavenant
Outsiders project with and for homeless people is the most important in depth photographic project I know, filled with the humanity and humility this deserves.
We will soon see nativity scenes of a family offered shelter. Some need it now.
Billy in his tent under an abandoned building, York, from the Outsiders project. Now Suella Braverman wants to make giving tents to people like Billy illegal. Billy has learning difficulties and cannot get support or shelter. The tent is all he had through last winter. The impact
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Thanks to
@timeshighered
for publishing my thoughts on the often under-appreciated contribution of international students to research in UK HE.
With a cross subsidy of £1 in 4, we owe them a debt of gratitude for their contribution to the research of which we are rightly proud.
The UK has international students to thank for its high
#REF2021
scores: the extent of research‘s cross-subsidisation by overseas student fees is too rarely understood, says
@RuthArnold
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@MagicMagid
😎 - btw I was asked about our new Sheffield mayor by an
@FT
journalist in Beijing who had picked up half way across the world that this was a city welcoming to many nationalities.
#WeAreInternational
and proud of that 🌍🌎🌏♥️
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Ending the day with something beautiful and a poem.
After a tiring day, escapism from the lovely and brilliant
@kateStrasdin
I’m a sucker for vintage velvet and this is gorgeous. 1920s by Yvonne May in the collection of the
@museumatFIT
- if only I could take it for a spin.
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Talented Indian students & loyal graduates have consistently explained to their UK universities how important welcoming visa policies and post-study work are to Indian students. Crucial we listen and that universities are 'open to the world'.
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@irinibus
And many of us are impacted by caring responsibilities in our 40s and 50s.
Personally I am hoping that my 60s and 70s will be a period of greater unallocated time and freedom. I don’t have the slightest intention of letting someone tell me I can’t be creative at any age.
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@ChristmasRowena
I did the same when my dad died. A little cash bought an old VW camper kept in perfect condition by its single careful German owner. Instead it had wine and coffee, beach towels and kit for a new baby dad sadly never met. It took my new son to his first trip to the sea, Abersoch.
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