Great Gable sunrises

Thread 🧵 On the eve of #Grenfell Inquiry's report, I wanted to post a series of videos that remind us that amid all the politics, real people are at the heart of this. Music was our solace at Opera Holland Park where one of the victims, our friend Debbie Lamprell, worked. /2

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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 .

Deep connection

People who follow me know about my attempts to get Keir Starmer to recognise the ubiquity of misogyny. To no avail. Now he heads a government that gives a pay rise to train drivers (9 out of 10 male) & takes money from poorest pensioners (2 out of 3 are women). Shame on him.

Winding your way down on Shingle Street ..🎵 #sharemondays2024 #fsprintmonday #bnw

I had one of the post masters on this page. Here is the speech for Mr.Bates vs The Postoffice. UK Prime Minister this is shameful. You can hear the anger and shock in the audience. Post Office #BeautyTies #NTAs #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #PostOffice

Loch Garry

A fish rots from its head

This was one of the most extraordinary and emotive experiences I’ve had as a journalist. Seven convicted sex abusers sat silently in the dock - many looking to their families in the public gallery or glumly staring at the floor - as a survivor of the ‘harrowing’ ordeal they

This is a scandal that all politicians in Scotland should be commenting on so well done Sue Webber MSP 💜💙

Excellent from Victoria Smith Rape crisis centre CEO resigns over failure to protect single-sex spaces @UnHerd unherd.com/newsroom/rape-…

Violence against women is a bigger issue than ideology thetimes.com/article/54f6e2…. “Opportunistic,sexually predatory males will take whatever chance they get to access victims when their targets are defenceless, incapacitated or cowed into silence”. #SingleSexSpaces are vital.

Your reminder on the day Huw Edwards is sentenced. Consumption of child abuse pornography enables a world wide business in the sexual torture, violation and life long trauma of the most vulnerable amongst us to flourish. No mitigation can ever excuse the grotesque harm done.

There are mothers in UK prisons for shoplifting nappies or not being able to pay their TV licence, while a rich male celebrity walks away with a slap on the wrist for watching little children being raped. We cannot allow this to be our reality any longer. Something MUST change.

There is no work half as good as fell gathering in the sunshine with your community

People seem to think being a shepherd means you are an old bloke Loads of shepherds are young, because you need to be fit, and many are women