Because she has a socially responsible job and can't just take 6 weeks off at the drop of a hat. And we're (hopefully) electing her husband, not Victoria Starmer. Men can be humans too, all by themselves. Mystery solved. Serious journalism at the Telegraph!!

On the phone trying to talk my 81 yr old technically challenged mum through reconnecting her iPad to the internet & then to FaceTime her. She is insistent she hasn’t got a WiFi symbol or a camera icon. Losing the will to live when she says I’ve got a fan and a hot water bottle 🤣

No way… You mean they weren’t actors after all?!

🔴 BREAKING: Labour GAIN Stroud from the Tories LAB: 25,630 CON: 14,219 REF: 6,329 GRN: 5,729 LDEM: 2,913

A slice of (Tory) toast, then bed. That was quite a night!

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Thanks for another fascinating day!

“NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!”

I know there will be no quick answers to the last 14 years but not being treated like the enemy is already making a difference to how the job feels. Bridget Phillipson has already made teaching look like a better profession to join.

‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German theguardian.com/education/arti…

Good news about German this year – after years of decline, the rise in A level & GCSE numbers in German is encouraging. Impressively, 10.4% got a grade 9 in German GCSE! With our partners of the "Making The Case For German" initiative, we aim to ensure this trend continues.

This is going to end up in so many A Level English Language essays. (Good!)

Shero.

I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” independent.co.uk/asia/south-asi…

In the green room Stroud Book Festival preparing for my event tonight at #LansdownHall 8.30pm Tickets on the door × #Stroud

UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt #StormDarragh

For me there’s only one contender for Person of the Year. Gisele Pelicot. The woman who has recalibrated how we think about rape by refusing to feel shame. “It’s time we change the way we look at rape”, she said outside the court today. And…more than anyone I can think of…

Calling the chancellor 'Rachel from accounts' is misogyny not humour.

Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. I was (and am) blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if