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Older women win landmark climate victory at human rights court independent.co.uk/climate-change…

Dear UK public,

Yesterday, hot on the heels of widespread concern among doctors at the govt’s project of replacing NHS doctors with doctor substitutes, GMC released a blog about its future intentions.

It left doctors like me reeling.

Here's why 🧵

gmcuk.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/dev…

Simon Armitage releases spring-themed poetry collection celebrating blossom theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

In conversation with Amol Rajan for BBC Radio 4 TODAY SHOW airing tomorrow. We may have got a teeny weenie bit #emotional Thank you so much for having us ❤️ BBC Radio 4 Today

Happy #WorldDownSyndromeDay , Reubs. We love you 😘 #upsyndrome #AssumeThatICan #Downsyndromeawareness

Dear 🇬🇧,

Please read - this NHS scandal potentially affects you all.

🧵 Having studied the data, just released, from the Royal College of Physicians members' survey on PAs, I couldn't be more disgusted by the lack of probity, honesty & fairness of those who lead my Royal College. 1/n

Happy #InternationalWomensDay
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'Cornrows, Afropuffs and Joy', Brooklyn, NY (2008) by photographer Adama Delphine Fawundu #womensart

#FridayFeeling

Thankyou so much for a fantastic learning experience @UWC_OT in Cape Town. We look forward to many more collaborations in the future with ⁦QueenMargaretUni⁩ ⁦QMU Occupational Therapy⁩

‘Both Sides Now’ … I can’t get the magical Grammys performance by Joni Mitchell out of my head since, so a wee Sunday playin of it to soothe the head n heart a lil 🤍💛

My heartfelt thanks to everyone who braved watching #BREATHTAKING , who commented, who shared their own experiences, who chose not to look away.

Here are my reflections on the astonishing public response to the series - available on ITVX now 💙 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My Irish Post column this week celebrating the Steinbeck festival and tenx9

January is always a difficult month.

Please, if you can, buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops.

Sherlock & Pages
Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸
The Book Corner
Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop
DRAKE The Bookshop
Golden Hare Books
Broadhursts Bookshop
Pages of Hackney
Book-ish 📚
The Book Case

' an invisible cloak to mind your life' ...what we all need these days.

Importance of supporting independent bookshops

'In the raw wind of the new world'

Hello—indy bookshops are special places, but they need nurturing.
Here’s a young one, only open a few months, struggling a little.
Lots of love & care’s gone into its opening.
Anyone wanting to buy a book or two—esp nature, place, travel—I’m sure they’d love to hear from you.

Any support really appreciated in these quiet months…

Been a struggle since we opened. As expected but still worrying for any retailer:

How to survive this 83rd day of January:

1. Find a cozy bookstore.
2. Hole up and read.
3. Repeat.

There is a group of folk going around filling pavements and cracks with mosaics.
I’m having problems getting tweets out…Sorry.
The brainchild of this operation on the streets is from Lyon ‘Ememem
‘Pavement Surgeon