“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan Jan Egeland of Norwegian Refugee Council is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”

GRRRRR.., Sugar beet farmers have the green light to use a banned pesticide deadly to bees. Bee-harming neonicotinoid use "makes a mockery" of ban. So a pointless crop is worth more than our wildlife!! How has this happened??? bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

A few years ago in the UK, 104-year-old Grace Brett, was a member of a band of guerilla knitters and was thought to be the oldest street artist/yarn-bomber in the world #WomensArt

WHAT A MOMENT ❤️

The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914 #WomensHistoryMonth

A selection from the huge varieties of potatoes grown in Peru 📸The international potato centre

The full episode is out now wherever you get your podcasts! SuperHighQuality.lnk.to/Podcast #LostInTheDream

Leeds Street Scene (Oil on Board) by Stuart Walton (b. 1933) #Art #OilPainting

Asante Gold: UK returns looted Ghana artefacts after 150 years bbc.co.uk/news/uk-687895…

Yarn-bombing is thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and a group known as Knitta Please, who began the "knit graffiti" movement to brighten up public spaces in a form of street art with crochet and knitting #WomenArt

The power of street art - a thread 🧵 1. Patrick Commecy

it *is* possible to look cool in the pouring rain

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Perfect Friday afternoon polling Luke Tryl. Cheers! 🍻

Loving #katieboulter and #AnnaKalinskaya playing women’s doubles US Open Tennis as they are having such fun & thus playing themselves into winning positions 😊

PMQs was so good natured & sometimes actually funny then…

Wilfred Reilly I kept my last name for lots of reasons, one being that my PhD was in my maiden name. Overall though, changing my name felt like a radical break with the person I had always been, of a sort I didn't want to make - and that no man is expected to make. Approaching 30 years married

Book Review: Renegotiating Patriarchy by Naila Kabeer Naila Kabeer Looking forward to reading this! frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/book-review-re…

.Guaguas Global As well as waiting 90 minutes(!) from 0930 at Aguamarina today only to see 3 91s go past without stopping as already full 😔 We always have to stand from the airport after a scramble even to get on - surely indicates more frequent 91 buses needed? Please advise…