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Caroline Aliwell

@calaliwell

🇬🇧in🇧🇪 Policy & Public Affairs Consultant. Previously @CitizensAdvice, @Shelter, @HouseOfCommons, @Europarl. Twittery thoughts on consumer markets.

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2 things I love about my daughter right now. 1) she shouts "a bit sick" as we board the metro, which clears us space. She's actually demanding a biscuit. 2) She then shouts "Mummy, asseyez-vous" (she's very polite), which usually guilt trips someone into offering me a seat.

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The process of registering a death in the UK is the most infuriating, inefficient and needlessly complex task that someone really ought to fix.

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The European Parliament hearings of the new European Commission Commissioners-designate will take place between 4 and 12 November. With a mandate given by European citizens, MEPs will ask, assess, scrutinise and vote. This is European democracy 🇪🇺

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My lovely mum died and I told myself I needed to hold it together until her funeral. Get to that day, then fall apart. 2 days ago, I found myself staring at her coffin. Expecting to absolutely fall apart as scheduled. But I just sat there. Numb. Grief is a funny old thing.

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Tomorrow at around 13.00 Roberta Metsola Roberta Metsola and EC President Ursula von der Leyen will hold a press conference following the Parliament’s vote on the College of Commissioners. You can follow on site or via Parliament’s webstreaming. More #EPhearings: europa.eu/!38njwQ

Tomorrow at around 13.00 <a href="/EP_President/">Roberta Metsola</a> Roberta Metsola and EC President <a href="/vonderleyen/">Ursula von der Leyen</a> will hold a press conference following the Parliament’s vote on the College of Commissioners. You can follow on site or via Parliament’s webstreaming. More #EPhearings: europa.eu/!38njwQ
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Just when I thought motherhood had stripped me of all dignity, it turns out that my toddler can unlock and open toilet doors in public when I'm sat on them.

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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…