Is this a parody?? Is this actually their shortlist?! Harry and Britney?

I’ve got a fun piece on ‘the future of crime reporting’ in this excellent new issue of The Fence

This man is an utter embarrassment.

The interview I did with Nuala for Woman’s Hour last year about care was one of the most thoughtful and sensitive I’ve done. This seems like a wonderful appointment!

Great piece that - among other things - gives an insight into the complexity and contradictions of laws on modern slavery, with bonus input from Emily Kenway.

Emily Kenway Really enjoying your book. Love your writing style but also breadth of subject. So many excellent points I hadn’t considered before.

Twitter, what are your favourite apps/websites (i don't know tech language) that stop you accessing websites? ideally where you can set times rather than outright block them 24/7/. For a laptop, not a phone.

We are just beyond parody at this point.

'Activism and mutual aid shouldn’t feel like volunteering or like a hobby—it should feel like living in alignment with our hopes for the world and with our passions. It should enliven us.'
- dean spade in Mutual Aid

I really have no idea how I’m going to vote in the general election, beyond obviously not voting Tory. Is it just me? The FPTP electoral system is such a failure.

Extremely well dealt with here by Ashley James who I only know (ageing myself here) as someone off Made in Chelsea but is apparently much more!

Man convicted over benefit error worth 30p a week fights to clear his name theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

As older Americans’ needs for medical care & other support grow, women bear the biggest burden of caring for them. Women speak of their experiences & author Emily Kenway discusses the unseen costs of #Caregiving with PBS NewsHour. tinyurl.com/y53jxb7m

Could you join our Power and Accountability committee? Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is recruiting four new members with expertise in...

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May I recommend that if you are a person, funder, or policy professional, who cares about care, you give Care Full a follow, a new org gearing up to intervene and make change, led by 2 people who understand care firsthand which is vital for good policymaking.

In the UK, the Carer's Leave Act has come into effect, meaning #unpaidcarers are now entitled to 5 days of unpaid leave💜🧡

Emily Kenway writes about why this is vital but also not enough 👇🏾 We need to shift our perspective of what is valuable to society.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

- Rumi

🚨 We’ve got 12 days to get this urgent petition to 100k signatures. We know we can do this!

We need a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite families & offer sanctuary until it is safe to return.

Sign + click on the link sent via email after to confirm: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

💹 Political polling shows that the NHS is now the top priority as we go into the next election.

On #WorldHealthDay , catch up with our NHS panel to see if there is a way we can fix the @NHS and social care: bit.ly/3PQrNmp.

Emily Kenway Thara public health Cambridge Public Health

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