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Woman of the Day Dorinda Neligan born OTD in 1833 in Cork, a volunteer nurse in wartime and a much respected headmistress who took to civil disobedience at the age of 76 in the cause of votes for women. Naturally, she did it in style. She managed to get arrested but was not

Visual story of our hospital stay at start of year Hospital admitted today: “Staff sometimes take a step back & leave the loved one or carer to provide much of the care.” That carer was me Stayed 24/7 doing all care while DWP stopped both PIP & CA reality of unpaid care 🧵

Sometimes I’m asked ‘why do you care?’ ‘Swifts are one of the oldest species on earth. They spend more time airborne than any other bird yet when they come home they come home to us. They’re on the brink. They just need a brick with a hole in it.’

My mother grew up in chaotic, life-limiting, rural poverty but my father and her library card changed her life. She died a good death last Saturday. My tribute to her in today’s The Scotsman scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

Though their voices tremble, they sing with unyielding strength — Afghan women continue to defy the Taliban’s oppressive "vice and virtue" laws that ban them from speaking in public or showing their faces. Their courage speaks louder than any restriction. با آن‌که صدای‌شان می

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Please, MPs, see that this bill only gives more choice to some by taking it away from those more vulnerable. Please protect my patients Janet Daby MP Gregor Poynton MP James Murray Claire Hazelgrove MP Gerald Jones MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 Nic Dakin MP Warinder Juss Edward Morello MP Our duty of care UK

Mike Batt J.K. Rowling Jack David Elon Musk Carrot cottage rabbit rescue 🙏 There wouldn't be a dry eye in the house! 🐰🐇🐰🐇 This is a lovely piece about how it all came about, for those who are interested. songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/bri…

"there is no effective freedom to choose if the alternative option, the freedom to draw on high-quality end-of-life care, is not available." Gordon Brown, in the paper below theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Anyone who is bereaved lives in the shadow of a myth about what a ‘good grief’ looks like. Look at almost any film or story about losing a spouse and there is a distinctive timeline, in which the same old landmarks crop up.

I am delighted that Emma Pallant, Year 1 teacher at Wood Farm School, has been shortlisted for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year in the The Pearson National Teaching Awards Best of luck to Emma, and a big thank you to all our excellent teachers on National Thank a Teacher Day!

Huge congratulations to Emma Pallant, Year 1 teacher and Silver winner in the category ‘Outstanding New Teacher of the Year’! Celebrating with colleagues today at Wood Farm #ThankATeacherDay The Pearson National Teaching Awards Anneliese Dodds

A hare among poppies❤️🐰❤️ I am ecstatic to have caught this shot. #SummerSolstice

Beautifully written. Prof. Mark Taubert 🙏🏻

‘My 30-year-old daughter, Domenica, who has Down's syndrome – and loves life – is highly suggestible and would intuit what her interlocutor wanted to hear, without understanding what she would be agreeing to. Yet in law she has what is called 'capacity'.’ dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

One of the photos given to me by the late photographer Tish Murtha, a huge talent and good friend. Thanks to the promotion of her fantastic daugter Ella, her great work is rightfully more widely celebrated.

‘the following year she took her own life, leaving a note in which she told Derek: “since I was diagnosed as having cancer, you have done everything conceivable to precipitate my death.. desertion and abandonment and subsequent harassment of a dying woman” firstthings.com/touching-the-a…

Ella Fitzgerald Too Darn Hot youtu.be/PlMWW4R1ZBM?si… via YouTube

How Scotland's top university is giving the gift of world class music to children from working-class communities: my feature in The Herald heraldscotland.com/news/education…

Just joining the many nature-, travel- and outdoor- writers on here to say that, if you fancy reading about journeys of recovery that ACTUALLY HAPPENED, I have the GPX files to prove that I did indeed run/walk/crawl the routes I describe in In Her Nature uk.bookshop.org/p/books/in-her…