Jackie Kay
@JackieKayPoet
Poet and author of Red Dust Road
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20-06-2012 00:32:26
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So today was my last day at my part time barista job. I will miss it dearly - and to cheer myself up, I bought my fave Jackie Kay book to re-read. This is the book I studied for Higher with Miss Marshall 📚 and without it I might not have even ended up on the course! 🤍
Bravo you and to your great teacher Miss Marshall 📚 and to all great English teachers like my one Mrs
Hughes who I am still in touch with . Who would we be without those that hand us the key and show us the door to the great house of literature? 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
.Jeremy Hunt wants to slash taxes for the rich, while cutting support for struggling families. This is just wrong. Agree? Join the national outcry against this plans now, and get him to change his mind: 38d.gs/-v39
Enough is enough. Suella Braverman's article in the Times is dangerous, divisive, and shows she's unfit for office. Rishi Sunak must sack her now. Agree? Add your name: 38d.gs/samy
Thanks Michael Eaton Aisling Walters Wasyl Cajkler Chris Rolph John Lucas, Phil Goad Jackie Kay for lovely speeches Seckou keita & Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club for beautiful music Sue Dymoke's celebration. Sue's film by Mike Atkinson & Graham Lester George features Ian McMillan & many more.
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Here's another for you Suella Braverman MP. 18 year old boy from Enfield. His Mum dies and he has no family. He ends up homeless living in a shed. He gets my contact details and I help him. I put him in the Travelodge on the A10 for 2 weeks until I can find him a room in a housing…