MY DAUGHTER DID IT! Following her petition and our subsequent meeting with the headteacher, she went back to school today to find newly built walls between the males and females toilets. I am so proud of her. It shows that making a stand, however small, can make a difference.

We mourn the loss of Rebecca Cheptegei and remember Agnes Tirop whose talents were taken from the world at the hands of femicide. We stand united against violence towards women both in the sports industry and beyond #EndFemicide #TotalShutdownKE #StopKillingWomen #SayTheirNames

The Report of the Grenfell Inquiry is all the more compelling because the Chair was chosen on merit: my letter in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times .

Today, we pay tribute to the former Mayor of Ipswich Dr. Albert Grant OBE (1934 - 2024). A dedicated public servant, Albert's tireless commitment to our community has left an indelible mark on the town he so dearly loved. In recognition of his service to Ipswich, the Town Hall

🟡 In celebration of 80 years of The Harris’s ‘Pauline in The Yellow Dress’ by Herbert James Gunn, this week’s @ArtUKDotOrg #OnlineArtExchange is #yellow Like Gunn, Sir John Lavery was a renowned portraitist. His ‘Eileen in Primrose Yellow’ is one fine example.

So that’s the end of an era. For the past 9 months I’ve been a cleaner at RAF Coningsby. I’ve never said where I work and what I do on here before as I didn’t want any hassle from it but now it’s over, I want to say a couple of things

Richard Dunstan Disability Rights UK Check the charity’s governing document before amplifying this story. It isn’t constituted as a charity for the sole purpose of assisting disabled children, but for unrestricted charitable purposes

Richard Dunstan Disability Rights UK Of course it’s right to question why it describes its activities as it does on the Charity Commission’s website, but it clearly isn’t constituted as a “disability organisation”. It’s a relatively small general charitable grant-making trust

This beautiful sculpture was built by the Irish people in their own country to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe. They were grateful because in 1847 the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine.

The Noble Lord Pancake Richard Dunstan Disability Rights UK I don’t have the slightest connection with any Tufton Street organisation. I’m an independent lawyer in private practice. And one of the areas of law I know something about is the law of charities

Tributes pour in after ‘force of nature’ and ‘legend in the world of housing law’ passes away insidehousing.co.uk/home/tributes-…

Ring that bell Dan Pembroke! .. Javelin Gold! A T13 world record and the 3rd best throw but any man in the UK this year! 🥇 British Athletics 10th athletics medal. #Paralympics2024

Lad can throw!!! 🤩 🥇 Dan Pembroke soaks up the glory of becoming a world record holder and Paralympic champion. #C4Paralympics | #ParalympicGames | #Paris2024

Hereditary peers have no more of a stake in our country than I do, owe their positions to historic patronage and arguably less well placed than me to scrutinise legislation (as has been part of my job for decades). Yet no one gifting me a place in the House of Lords

What DoUBelieve Proud Native Americans The larger story is astonishing. The Choctow had not yet themselves recovered from the Trail of Tears, but heard of the famine, and felt for the Irish, and sent what little they had. The Irish never forgot./2

Women of the Day Louisa Swain (1801-1880) of Charleston, South Carolina, the first woman in the USA to vote in a general election, and Lilly Maxwell (1800-1876) of Manchester, England, the first woman in the UK to vote in a parliamentary election. OTD in 1870, 69 year old Louisa

The Twins, Kate and Grace Hoare by John Everett Millais 1876 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

Camille Pissarro's Garden

A moving funeral service yesterday of a much-loved Mayor, councillor, civic leader and campaigner. RIP dear Albert. 🌹 Ipswich Labour 🇬🇧🌹

Audrey Ludwig Fairly sure, Audrey, that “having a stake in our country going back generations” is a not too well disguised code for “we rather like having a white House of Lords, thank you”