“I don’t think hungry children is the place to start.” This is what ex No10 Comms Director Lee Cain told Boris Johnson when the then PM rejected Marcus Rashford’s campaign for free school meals because Johnson felt public spending was too great. Cain points out no member of the

Good luck tonight England. And well done to Ollie Watkins for acknowledging #selfdoubt & #impostersyndrome. 'Mindset is huge', he says - and we agree. We specialise in boosting #confidence theconfidencepeople.com

This election week, a useful msg from #confucius ‘words can lead to actions that influence the world’ That is at the heart of our #publicspeaking training. Are your words having the right effect? #inspire #persuade #convince #power #influence

Excellent article re #genderdifferencesandconfidence What we may need to redefine though is what #confidence is. How would YOU characterise it? economicsobservatory.com/why-are-there-…

Believing in your idea, your PoV, yourself is the first essential for #confidentcommunication The craft is in lighting the same fire in your listener.

‘An experience not a pathology’ #impostersyndrome BBC Radio 4 @sarawheeler Yes. It’s always possible to move on from the feeling of not being good enough.

Next time you think about marching through London with a placard declaring the Iranian theocracy to be on “the right side of history”, just bear in mind this is a regime that takes out women’s eyes for protesting against their horrible misogyny. How progressive.

This is horrifying.

I’m sure you can back up that assertion with a quote of mine, because otherwise it might look like you’re exactly the kind of person I’m describing: fixed beliefs, zero evidence, inventing grievances to justify a desire to silence people who say things you don’t like.

On the holiest day of the year we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with “what about…” This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the

You have to be pretty sick to go and chant “from the river to the sea” at a train station on the day of an antisemitic terrorist attack in which two British Jews were murdered.

I don’t know what most Brits feel, but I’m appalled and ashamed.

The torture of this little girl is unbearable. The global indifference to her plight is also unbearable.

The yellow ribbons are a sign of remembrance for the 48 people being held hostage in Gaza. Having interviewed many of their families, seeing the ribbons and remembering their pain, feels very personal. This teeny park near where I live (a place my then toddler thought was

Happy 20th anniversary to @Lumos! Over two decades, we've helped 280,000+ children and young people flourish in loving families, not institutions. Through our work across 12+ countries, we've supported the transformation of child protection systems and driven lasting change. We

If this is real and un-doctored/AI-ed, the answer to ‘why do they hate women so much?’ is ‘because they’re afraid of us’

Good

Sweet - and funny 😊 A v gentle poke in the ribs for mansplainers and also for anyone (like me) who does sooooo enjoy being right 😛

BREAKING: Music legend Bruce Springsteen drops a bomb on MAGA world by announcing a surprise nationwide tour to defend America against "our wannabe king" and his "rogue government." Best of all? The first stop is in Minneapolis. "Fans, friends, and good folk from coast to

Oh dear oh dear oh dear…