As Lord Chancellor, I approved the JAC recommendations to appoint Lord Burnett as LCJ, Bs Hale as Supreme Ct President & various other senior judges. I did so with no knowledge of the candidates' political views or whether they even voted. 1/4

Talking on in the pouring rain to the accompaniment of Things Can Only Get Better. You wouldn't script it like this. Too much of a humiliation, it wouldn't seem plausible.

It’s meant to be.

Things… Can Only Get Wetter…

Time to #Take Back Control and #Vote Tactically.

🎸🇬🇧✔️

Coming out of @tesco realising you just spent £40 on eggs and bread

We are THRILLED to have been ranked 2nd in the world and 1st in the UK and Europe in this year's QS QS World University Rankings! 🎊🥳 #QSWUR Thank you to everyone in #OurImperial community for making this result possible! 💙

What’s wrong with buses?

20mph stats from Wales are amazing: 📉 32% drop in casualties 📉 20% fall in car insurance claims 💷 NHS + police + insurance + property damage savings due to less accidents means payback for implementation (£34m) is about 6 months 🤯 transportxtra.com/publications/l…

Congrats to my friends in The Labour Party. Extraordinary turnaround. Please use your thumping majority wisely, we all need you to get this right. As for Conserative Party UK, my party, hear this: tack back to planet sensible & competent. Do not spiral off to the nebula of bonkers. Or else.

A busy day Imperial College London, submitting a proposal with Dr. Abigail Ackerman 🦥 David Dye Kathy Christofidou on the future of sustainable metallurgy. Wish us luck 🤞🏼

Up next from the group Oscar Langdon Imperial Materials CDT_ACM talked about his PhD research using electron diffraction to investigate novel Ti alloys! Beautiful materials to look at under #greenelectrons & lots of fun to co-supervise such an awesome student with David Dye 😎🔬

Wait, but, everyone told me #ULEZ was nothing but a cynical money making scheme "Ulez expansion led to significant drop in air pollutants in London" theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Thanks MicroanalysisSociety for the Heinrich award ! Whoever nominated me I can’t thank you enough ❤️🔬Thanks to my amazing research group and all the wonderful ppl that mentored my microscopy journey in Ireland Tyndall Institute , US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory & UK Imperial College London Imperial Materials

UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted. ‘Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge produce world-class engineers. Yet post-graduation, their trajectory is an economic tragedy - and a hidden arbitrage opportunity.’ josef.cn/blog/uk-talent

If you're in the mood for a serious think about the roots of modern British fascism, and how we create a movement that can defeat it, start here... youtu.be/Z55AEOPYlYc?si…

Some great news! 1) Felicity will be joining the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial, as a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, to start her own research group on materials degradation / characterization for nuclear power! Congrats Dr. Worsnop!

Dr Jess Wade is awarded the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture for her achievements in functional materials and her outstanding project which will support early career women scientists to pursue academic careers in materials sciences. #RSMedals

That is one piece of statistic. Testament to the focus placed on safety.