Sarah Teather
@SLCT2015
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Director Jesuit Refugee Service UK @JRSUK . Music lover, besotted aunt, amateur gardener. (Recovering) former Gov Minister &MP
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I think this anniversary is a good time to say more publicly that I was wrong then and I am delighted now that gay people have the right to be married. And I am sorry that I got it so wrong. [3/3]
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Next week marks 8yrs since gay marriage became law. In 2013, I tied myself up in ridiculous intellectual knots trying to find a way to navigate Catholic teaching on marriage & my liberal instincts & campaigning history on gay rights. In the end, I voted against the bill [1/3]
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Wise friends said to me then it didn’t fit with what they knew of me and I would regret it. They were right. In the years since as friends & acquaintances have got engaged & married I have inwardly cheered and thanked God that I was then in an irrelevant minority. [2/3]
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We thought you might need a bit of cheering up with all the gloom around, so here is some nice personal news we’ve been telling friends gradually (slowed by COVID-era socialising) since the summer…
@richardwatson1
&I are getting married next year ❤️
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Today is a dark day in Britain's history. The country which was once at the forefront of championing the refugee convention announces it no longer supports the right to flee and claim asylum here.
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We had a beautiful day today including listening to some breathtaking singing &playing from friends. Thanks to all who helped us celebrate the blessing of our marriage. X
@richardwatson1
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Today is the anniversary of the Brent East by-election, 18 Sept 2003, when I was first elected as an MP aged 29. Though I’m no longer in Parliament &life is very different, it is a day I shall always remember with huge gratitude!
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Today is the anniversary of the Brent East by-election, when I was elected to Parliament. I do something different now (I’ll be at a conference with refugees today) but the day will always be v special for me. (2003 news: Lib Dems seize Brent East victory)
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Raising a glass to my hubby this eve - he’s been doing ground breaking investigations
@BBCNewsnight
for 24 yrs. All staff were told today the programme’s being turned into a politics chat show next year. Here’s to new ways of making trouble
@richardwatson1
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Inclined to agree with this analysis - nothing about immigration bill or Rwanda plan is intended to be workable. It just creates visible theatrical crisis & trap for Labour. Cons party think their polling goes up when immigration is high on agenda. It is a campaign tool.
2 minutes on Newsnight last night to say:
The government has deliberately created a crisis as a campaign tool
They have stopped processing asylum claims, letting numbers build up, in barges or hotels, just so at the next election they can say they’re the ones to fix it
#r4today
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‘Sarah Teather revealed the Hostile Environment Working Group in 2013. Now director of Jesuit Refugee Service, she said: “The Home Office has a culture of enforcement & disbelief which runs deep into the walls... a culture from the top.”’
@JesuitsBritain
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Today is my 5th anniversary as Director of
@jrsuk
. Giving thanks for all the refugees, staff &volunteers I've got to know &all they've taught me. Smiling to myself remembering the highs, lows &hilarious moments. Thinking about how much I miss the conversations of the Day Centre.
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If you are an early riser, I’m on
@BBCR4Sunday
tomorrow on a panel discussing the moral &spiritual issues raised by our response to asylum seekers & channel crossings. Programme starts at 710am
Our director Sarah Teather
@SLCT2015
is on
@BBCR4Sunday
's Sunday programme tomorrow morning talking about Channel crossings. Click on the link to tune in.
#empathy
#humanity
#ChangeTheStory
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Just starting back to work
@JRSUK
after a few months of sickness. I’m not yet fully well & having to phase back v gently (so apols to people who want me to do events - not ready just yet) but it is emotional (in good way) to be back & see colleagues again today. Deo Gratias.
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On 6 June, I started one of those learn to run C25K thingies. I couldn’t jog the 90sec intervals required for 2 weeks. Today I finished the programme &jogged 36mins in the mist, covering 3.6k. I jog slowly so not yet doing 5K, but I’m beyond chuffed to have completed this.
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It is my turn today to be a test volunteer for
@JRSUK
new emergency response team - getting food&hygeine packs out to destitute refugee friends in London, checking our health& safety protocol has everything in it before we invite volunteers. I have an E London round to do
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We
@JRSUK
have joined with >20 orgs to call on PM to give destitute asylum seekers &others with insecure immigration status leave to remain during &beyond this Covid-19 crisis, for their safety, wider public health &so they can help the UK recover
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Many horrifying aspects of the latest govt attack on refugees. But as a former coalition Children’s Minister who worked with Conservative Home Office colleagues to stop the practice of routinely detaining children, abandoning this is particularly shocking.
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Today I’m with the
@JRSUK
team at Napier barracks & nearby drop in day centre for asylum seekers. I’m here alongside a local CoE chaplain, Catholic deacon, 2 religious sisters &our volunteer translator. We work on behalf of the church with people of all faiths &none.
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This is the funniest and most cheering article in the news all week “I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake” | Life and style | The Guardian
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Alternatively, if you have a spare room & want to make a difference to the lives of asylum seekers who would otherwise be sleeping be sleeping on the streets of London in their sleeping bag you could consider hosting through the
@JRSUK
At Home scheme...
Today I'm launching
#ComeKipWithMe
- asking Londoners to invite me into their homes and show me the city through their eyes. I want to know your concerns and your ideas. And I promise to bring a sleeping bag and a box of chocolates!
Sign up:
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We
@JRSUK
launch a report today rooted in Catholic Social Teaching: Being human in the asylum system. We argue for radical new approach to place human life at the centre. You can hear a refugee from the JRS community speak & an interview with me on
@BBCR4Sunday
from 13’50”
Catch up on JRSUK’s director Sarah Teather
@SLCT2015
& refugee friend Mark sharing the reality of life in the asylum system on
@BBCRadio4
's Sunday programme for the launch of our new report
#BeingHuman
in The Asylum system: Listen @ 13:50
#WithRefugees
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We’re running a vaccine clinic
@JRSUK
today for refugees with the impressive team from
@NHSBartsHealth
- integrated model of legal advice, housing support, food &offer of jab under one roof. Weather a shocker (& I’m on outdoor reception duty!). Found my thermals...
@Abbasmirza70
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Jesuit
@JesuitsBritain
novices hard at work today with
@JRSUK
staff, moving our emergency response food bank stores and putting up gazebos to welcome refugee friends for the
@JRSUK
vaccine clinic with
@NHSBartsHealth
later this week
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Bishops calling for a time limit on immigration detention in Telegraph today
@JRSUK
#Catholic
and
@churchofengland
Bishops in
@Telegraph
today supporting
@DavidDavisMP
and cross-party MPs amendment for a detention time limit
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This. We know from talking to refugees that they experience being dragged from their homes by Home Office enforcement as a violent assault. Many have flashbacks afterwards. To video something like this and share it for electoral coverage is beyond shameful.
Earlier today the Home Secretary posted a video of people seeking safety being removed from their homes and driven to detention.
Videoing and publishing such content is extremely disturbing.
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Terrible, devastating news of the death of adults &young children, drowned trying to reach safety in the UK. We pray for all who died, their families who grieve &those on the boat who survived, whose trauma will be compounded by witnessing this.
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Since lockdown I decided to just give in to waking at dawn & go out for a walk close to where I live, when the birds are busy but there is still frost on the ground. Here are a couple of photos from this morning’s early glory on the river Lea
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If you are up early tomorrow, you can catch me on
@BBCR4Sunday
around 730am talking about the impact of the pandemic on people without secure immigration status like the destitute asylum seekers we work with
@JRSUK
Listen to
@BBCRadio4
's Sunday programme tomorrow morning at 7:10 to hear JRS UK director Sarah Teather
@SLCT2015
speak about our work with destitute refugee friends during the pandemic. 📻 📻 📻🗣🗣
#Listen
#Radio
#SundayMorning
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I wrote a piece about moving on from politics (I didn’t write the headline &I didn’t compare myself to Ardern 😂). Was trying to make the point that more people able to give time to political service for shorter periods might be good for society &democracy
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Just did my first ever 5k run (slow jog) in this lovely park 😊😊 Took ages obviously (49mins), but I’m dead chuffed. When I got to end of C25K programme I could jog 35mins but was long way off 5k. Been steadily increasing distance since...
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Oh no, Shirley. She was such a personal support to me during my time in Parliament. Her humour, wisdom and kindness always made the most difficult situations seem clearer to face.
Sad news - Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, has died aged 90
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Today is my 4th anniversary as part of the
@JRSUK
team. Giving thanks today for all I’ve learnt, esp from refugees but also from our staff &volunteers, Jesuits, colleagues in others orgs &more. Reflecting on the highs & the lows on the journey - both have helped shape the way...
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Gathering with a big
@JRSUK
group at the
#RefugeesWelcome
#togetherwithrefugees
rally in Parliament square, hoping the rain holds off! Lots of friends from other organisations here today - many who have devoted their lives to this work!
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Thinking of my hilarious, generous, loyal younger brother, Matt, on the 5th anniversary of his death. Missed him this weekend at our wedding celebrations, held in the church where he’s buried. His daughter, now 5, was a brilliant chief bridesmaid. ❤️
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It is the 3rd weekend of Advent & M&S are selling hot cross buns... Is this an invitation to meditate on the themes of the passion threaded through the nativity narrative or a sign of disincarnate commercialism that has lost any connection to seasons?!
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Children need time with their friends, extended family, days out, birthday parties, sleep overs, music, drama, games. This narrow minded proposal treats children (&teachers) like machinery you just run for longer for higher productivity.
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#AmberRudd
has resigned. This only makes a difference to anyone’s life (other than hers) outside the Westminster bubble if the policy changes. The next Home Secretary needs to end the
#HostileEnvironment
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Wow. This video made me weep with gratitude. Thank you
@RNLI
for your faithfulness to your mission &your integrity &courage.
We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:
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Today is the feast of St Joseph - a day to give thanks for step parents. The older I have become, the more I admire my step-dad for choosing to take on and love three young children (+ a dog, multiple cats &more besides) when he fell in love with my mother.
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“Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.” Office of Readings for Holy Saturday
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Having a cup of tea in the Hurtado Centre garden on my own this morning, feeling a bit sad. Our team have done such great things
@JRSUK
to respond in the last 6 months but I miss refugee friends &the sense of community amongst staff when this place was a hub of activity.
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I’m feeling a bit gloomy. I had rather intended to ignore Brexit day as a thing and focus on the many other more interesting &fruitfully challenging things going on around me. But as today has gone on the sadness caught up with me...
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Ahead of a debate in parliament on need for a time limit on how long someone can be held in immigration detention, new research published by
@JRSUK
tomorrow in “Detained &Dehumanised” provides further evidence on the damaging impact of detention.
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Oh what a surprise. The Prime Minister seeks to distract from the outcry about his law breaking by sending refugees to Rwanda. Trying to save his career by inventing new forms of cruelty for people fleeing war. What a piece of work he is.
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Today’s major achievement: getting our most technophobic religious sister volunteer onto zoom so we can restart
@JRSUK
refugee women’s prayer gp. After 90mins trials &error, when I saw her on video, I cheered so loud my next door neighbour messaged me to check all ok...
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More hostile environment aggression from the Home Office that ruins lives: "Home Office tried to deport 300 skilled migrants under terrorism law"
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I actually think this might be what holiness looks like.
"My job isn't to judge him... my job is to care for him."
This Jewish doctor looked into the eyes of the man who killed 11 people in his own synagogue.
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Delighted to have opportunity to speak to
@NHSBartsHealth
Board today about collaboration with
@JRSUK
to provide holistic vaccine clinics for destitute homeless refugees & other vulnerable migrants. Big thank you to Barts.
@A_WilliamsNHS
@Abbasmirza70
@CAlexanderNHS
@JanFlint
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Terrible news. One of the things that continues to shock me is that so few people (apart from
@maybulman
) even report these tragedies. People dying on our doorsteps & we barely seem to notice.
UPDATE: It's now been confirmed that the individual has sadly lost his life in hospital
@JRSUK
: 'The desperation of people making this treacherous journey is an indictment of our failure to provide safe means of sanctuary to those fleeing for their lives'
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The more we hear the more jumbled it gets. They evidently gave zero thought in advance to people wanting to see the people they love. What kind of weird silo is policy making in now that it is so divorced from real human lives?
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East London this morning is full of people in their finest - the usual Church goers in glorious African & Indian attire are joined on the streets by Muslims dressed up for Eid al-Adha. If you aren’t off to some celebration for God you are definitely missing the party...
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Really rather a lovely piece: “My atheist family was appalled when I converted to Catholicism – but it’s given me great peace” | Adrian Chiles | Opinion | The Guardian
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It is within your power to change this devastating pain &suffering Home Secretary: end the
#HostileEnvironment
#SittingInLimbo
epitomises the unimaginable suffering endured by the Windrush generation. On behalf of successive governments, I apologise again to victims & their families. I will do all I can to ensure
@ukhomeoffice
protects & listens to every part of the community it serves.
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There are days in this kind of work when you have to get up, go on and remind yourself that hope is a practice.
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Second
@JRSUK
refugee vaccine clinic with
@NHSBartsHealth
today. Massive thank you to the team. Every person vaccinated is a sign of hope.
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Interesting thread. I know many an asylum seeker struggling with destitution who’s made a coffee last the night in a McDonald’s. Oh, also, McDonald’s tends to have disabled facilities making it a lifesaver for my husband. Many posh restaurants are a lot less welcoming…
Whatever your politics, this explanation of why a family may be spending time regularly in mcdonalds is worth reading.
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Even with all the other lines in the sand we have crossed, this misleading Braverman stuff is a new low. Yet I worry public response gives her the outraged attention she seeks to fuel her leadership bid. It is the impact on real people’s lives the world over I can’t bear.
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It is now a total nightmare to send parcels to friends and family in countries in Europe. Brexit: the futile exercise in self harm everyone predicted it would be.
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In a bleak news day, this is a cracking story. “Magawa the landmine detection rat given gold medal for bravery” | Animals | The Guardian
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Join us on Monday for an online prayer vigil, remembering the lives of the people who drowned in the Channel this week and all the men, women and children who have died this year trying to reach safety.
The horrifying and avoidable deaths of five people this week has moved and angered us.
On the feast of All Souls on Monday, join us to take some time to come together.
Sign up to attend our online vigil to lament, to grieve & to cry out for justice.
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This beautiful drawing of St John Henry Newman, was given to me by
@NCCBrent
when I was an MP. It hangs in my office
@JRSUK
, as it did in my Ministerial office, his kindly gaze a daily reminder of what my life is for &a promise of his prayers
#NewmanCanonisation
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This news is devastating. So many lives lost - including a child. As long as we build walls to keep people out rather than safe &legal routes to seek sanctuary, people will risk their lives with criminal gangs in desperation, with tragic consequences.
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Seems like the world is on fire with crises & injustice - Marcus Rashford has demonstrated that we can all play our part in responding &if we mobilise together we really can make a difference, one problem at a time. We are not powerless.
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Great to see my colleague
@TheRealWillNeal
on
@BBCNews
talking about conditions at Harmondsworth & the anxiety detainees experience &share with
@JRSUK
staff &volunteers. So much “othering” going on from ministers, we’ve forgotten the human consequences of indefinite detention.
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Disproportionate rates of school exclusion. Disproportionate rates of imprisonment. More likely to be sectioned and drugged... er... how on earth can anyone look at this evidence around the state's use of force and deny there is nothing here about race?
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This is brilliant news. Matt cares deeply about education, social justice, &human rights &has a track record of making a difference. We worked closely together on campaign to get constituent released from Guantanamo bay in parliament. Matt will be a superb MP for H&K
So proud and totally humbled to be chosen by
@LibDems
members as our candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn. I will work every day with our amazing
@CamdenLibDems
team to fight for our area and win here so we can
#StopBrexit
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Been at a deeply moving performance of Max Richter’s Voices this evening in London. What a week to hear the Universal Declaration of Human Rights read with such hopeful but meditative music. Something of the outdoor venue helped too to frame the longevity of its truths.
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1st time on a bike in 25 years. A bit terrifying. But I have a week off this week to practice...
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Preoccupied this morning by the murder of David Amess, the thought of his family’s grief &the realisation it could have been any of us doing a surgery, or our (young) staff, who triaged the queues, fended off the aggressive, &supported the most vulnerable.
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Well done
@EnverSol
for calmly reasonably making humane arguments on
@BBCNewsnight
. How revealing to hear the former border force chief talk about rewriting the refugee convention to stop asylum.
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Thank you +Rose
@DoverBishop
for putting the case for compassion and understanding towards asylum seekers on
@BBCr4today
this morning and pointing out the need to tell the truth to the public
@JRSUK
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Huge thank you to the several hundred people who joined our prayer vigil this evening on zoom and Facebook live, to pray, and to be in solidarity with those who died in the Channel last week and those who journey and are still seeking safety.
🕯️This evening the JRS
#community
came together to remember those who have died seeking safety.
#Thankyou
to
@DamianHoward8
for leading us in prayer,
#thanks
to all of our readers, to Antoine Paumard of
@JRS_France
&all of you who joined us.
Watch:
#JRS
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Look, 7miles isn’t a very long cycle ride people. Stop focusing on petty irrelevances & yelling hypocrisy &get the government to get a grip on stuff they can do that will help like paying people to self isolate &giving out laptops &mobile data to families with kids at home.
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A year ago today a random neurological hit stole my voice. Sorry to those who’ve found me a bit quiet - I’ve been working to get it all back. The good news is I’m loads better. Chatting isn’t quite as fun it was, but I can again. Prob I listen better now for enforced silence…
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Didn’t have MOTD pegged as the turning point in the resistance! It has cheered me up no end!
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Honoured to be speaking tomorrow at the launch of the Pope’s new statement for World Day of Migrants &Refugees. More details here!
@JRSUK
@M_RSection
@JesuitsBritain
@JesuitRefugee
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There is a lot of stuff around about lockdown as a kind of quasi retreat with time for prayer etc. All v romantic but I don’t know anyone who isn’t currently even more busy &zoomed out. Personally I miss the reflective space of a daily commute!
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If I lived here, I would do nothing else except watch the weather, all day.
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This article also mentions the new research published today by
@JRSUK
.The new report ‘Detained &Dehumanised’ provides further evidence of the long term damaging impact of immigration detention on people who are forced to experience it
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I’m meant to be on holiday but finding it hard not to look at news - 1st time in yrs media waking up to consequences of dehumanising migrants. Is it too much to hope it may finally herald start of a change for those we work with
@JRSUK
who have endured injustice for so long?
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Absolutely silent &deserted Holy Saturday walk at dawn this morning
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Watch
#SittingInLimbo
on
@BBCOne
and then say there is no institutional racism at the heart of government policy. And this story isn’t over. The
#HostileEnvironment
still exists and is still destroying lives.
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The most dramatic place I have ever been. Lochs and sea, mountains and rivers, sun and driving rain, all simultaneously. In ❤️ with Skye…
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Good grief.
British High Commissioner was refused UK passport for his son born in Trinidad in 2011. "You can't be more British than the British High Commissioner but he wasn't British enough." Unbelievable...
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I should be outraged by this. But it is just bizarre - childish, puerile and attention seeking. The stuff she said on benefits too - a weird, mish mash of right wing slogans, pantomime and cliche.
‘I would love to be having a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda. That’s my dream. That’s my obsession’ Home Secretary Suella Braverman
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Really beautiful profoundly moving excerpts from
@doctor_oxford
new book. A must read article this morning: ’All that is good in human nature is here’: life and death in an NHS hospice | Books | The Guardian
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This was a distressing watch but also outstanding humane reporting from the front line by
@CliveMyrieBBC
Watch this powerful & moving report from
@CliveMyrieBBC
& remember the message : “Don't end up like us, please”
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