Today is my last day at the BBC. To be totally open, I’m being made redundant Whether running More Or Less during the pandemic, reporting on Grenfell & the climate, I’m extraordinarily proud of my work Public service broadcasting can be engaging & essential & I hope to continue

Say hello to our clay palomas who have flown all the way to the UK from Amatenango del Valle, #Chiapas, #Mexico. Not sure if they were made by Doña Juliana who was well known for making pots from barro in the shape of the bird which symbolises peace #BMSartesanía @britmexsociety

TODAY - there’s still time to join the @britmexsociety book club online session with author Andrew Paxman and hear him speak about William Jenkins, the Carlos Slim of his day. #Mexico

Excellent contributions from all speakers including Richard Burgon MP Jen Craft MP Ashley Dalton MP Anna Dixon MP for Shipley 💙Rachael Maskell MP Amanda Louise Martin Sharon Hodgson Cllr Claire Young MP 🔶 Munira Wilson 🇺🇦 Kim Leadbeater MBE MP Fred Thomas MP David Davis MP Jim Shannon MP Shaun Davies MP James Wild MP

Fascinating talk from Andrew Paxman for @britmexsociety on his book ‘Jenkins of México’ about William Jenkins who “launched what was probably the first corporate takeover in #Mexico” “In post revolutionary Mexico, philanthropy has often been undertaken for political or business gain.”

Published #onthisday1955 The Silver Chair children's #fantasy #novel by C.S. Lewis & illustrated by Pauline Baynes 4th book of The Chronicles of Narnia Set mostly in Narnia decades after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader & less than a year later in England

I know many people have worked hard to improve #accessibility in Paris in the run up to #ParalympicGames2024 but this shouldn’t have happened - and the response sounds risible.

This is NOT OK #accessibility #Paris2024Paralympics #Basketball #Final #Gamesmakers

The other Private Members ballot held this week … #Oasis #Tickets #Accessibility ticketmasteruk

Dynamic pricing is bad enough but for thousands of people with disabilities, just getting into the queue for an #accessible ticket for #Oasis was impossible #NoWaySis

Remembering the talented (& very modest when I interviewed her) artist Pauline Baynes born #OTD 09/9/22. Best known for illustrating the #Narnia books by CS Lewis & #LOTR by Tolkien. For more info see paulinebaynes.com - a labour of love by Peter Thorpe. #Books #Reading

Online sessions make this #accessible to many more people #Music

The Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is Alistair Carmichael MP after being elected unopposed.

If anyone can help Jem Collins and her amazing team Journo Resources with a room in London (or the £ towards renting one) please get in touch with her directly. NUJ

Plenty of food for thought from yesterday’s session on #Procurement Institute for Government with input from Cabinet Office, Army’s Andy Milner, Peter Schofield, Head of Procurement (Manchester City Council) & Burges Salmon’s Laura Wisdom Glad to hear references to #HumanRights & #SocialValue

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Institute for Government session on #Procurement IfG events #Corruption #Transparency

“It is hard to overstate the importance of unpaid family carers.” - new MP Anna Dixon MP for Shipley #ValueCarers #UnpaidCarers

Plenty of new faces at Deirdre Costigan MP’s #WestminsterHall debate on the government’s priorities for the upcoming #COP29 in November. Pippa Heylings 🔶️ seeking assurance that govt will name/send a climate envoy & Uma Kumaran MP looking for commitments re a just energy transition.

Trust Jim Shannon MP - aka The Honourable Member for Westminster Hall - to remember the plight of #Waspi and #50sWomen who, in addition to suffering loss/delay of their pensions, will now lose #WinterFuelPayment

“My constituents are pleading I do something and I am trying…” No one in York Central could complain that 💙Rachael Maskell MP hasn’t been working her socks off for those she told today’s Westminster Hall debate are “frightened.” #WinterFuelPayments