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With election fever gripping the nation, join us for fab talks! 📜✨ Necessary Women: Women Working in Parliament with @satisfactory2Ø Thurs 13 June, 2pm. Discover stories of unheralded women like Eliza Arscot & more Book online tinyurl.com/59pv5a29 #Election2024 #AncestryHour

COST COMPARISON Glastonbury weekend ticket £355 Full car service + MOT £235 Pet insurance £360 Football season ticket £495 5 take-away Coffees/week £3.75 - £975 Did you know that you get all your GP practice services for a year for £165 It’s too little & been cut £35 #GPCrisis

Big loss to parliament - she just gave this interview following her defeat:

Timpson’s are well-known for employing ex-offenders to help them back into work. They pay their tax. They value their staff. And then there’s this. CEO James Timpson (who’s also Chair of the Prison Reform Trust) is the new Prisons Minister. Great appointment

Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).

'Matthew Taylor told govt voters wouldn't understand if extra funding was handed to private hospitals, so they can treat more NHS patients awaiting planned care, rather than used to help the service itself cope with what is expected to be a tough winter.' theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

Anniversary - 37 years, unbelievable! To celebrate we went to Il Portico for lunch as a special treat. And it was lovely. Thanks to James Chiavarini and all the staff.

But hang on, I hear (some of) you say... what about small boats? They're the main thing most politicians talk about after all... So how DO small boat arrivals compare with legal migration? Here's your answer in a chart 👇

Wild Things from the Past- A Thread 🧵 1. 1920s toaster x.com/RescueRestore_…

A very rare event will be visible in the night sky. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in a neat row

As part of Ian McMillan & my exhibition The Songs The Morning Sang, we invite people to take part in the 1st World Early Stroll Day On Saturday 14th June head out early, or early’ish to capture where you live We’ll post whats created & build a slideshow of this one shared morning

The lights are still on in the pub. The shopkeepers are setting out their stalls, fruit and vegetables, red tomatoes. A green bicycle yearns for a rider to take it somewhere, anywhere Ian McMillan Andrew Brooks #WorldEarlyStrollDay #urbanstroll

This was a lovely thing to be part of!

In 1988, an antiques dealer visited the French village of Vignacourt, following a tip from a friend, who had seen striking images of soldiers. He soon realized no other collection of First World War photographs was as fine or as comprehensive. nyer.cm/JVxMMbt

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging ITVX documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's government squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE - while nurses wore bin bags, NHS staff started dying, and grifters like Michelle Mone saw

Thirty-five female journalists crowded into the White House Red Room that March day. There weren't enough chairs. Many sat on the floor. Male reporters watched from the doorway, smirking. The manager of the Associated Press said these gatherings wouldn't last six months. Eleanor