It’s time to hand in my body armour after 30+ years covering conflict for the BBC. How have our ways of surviving on the battlefield evolved? Here’s a bumper 🧵

I had no idea Danish laws were so restrictive! 12 weeks — so within 6-8 weeks of finding out that you’re pregnant, for most people — is really repressive.

An extended case study on why this is a self defeating argument - using Teesside University, which Simon is rightly very proud of.

The 1907 National Trust Act says the charity’s job is to benefit ‘the nation’ - that’s everyone - people of any background or race. I’m a proud member. Around 8% of what the Trust owns is pay-to-enter, which is a member benefit. But the law says the National Trust is for everyone

I am on TikTok and content creators are literally stopping mid makeup video or tutorial on how to inspect a new love interest’s shower (run if there’s 3-in-1 which is honestly facts) to talk about Palestine and I cannot emphasize enough how much we’re in a whole new world.

Reading Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley wonderful Imperial Island in a Boston airport lounge in prep for my and Steven Fielding’s interview with her for our Progressive Britain podcast next week. Stayed tuned!

Very proud to represent Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley whose masterful, revealing, fascinating IMPERIAL ISLAND is out in paperback now (with very appealing pink type)

they’re giving people made sick by the parasite £115 lol

When I was involved in student activism, one of the (many) faults of our movement was an undisciplined impulse to react to every provocation, reacting to everything with panicked urgency. This level headed refusal to take the bait is so refreshing and impressive.

My school days were sad and lonely and I was never allowed to be myself for even a minute. This thread on clause 28-era schooldays is a must-read. We must never go back. Children deserve the space to be themselves.

Meant to link this to #mentalhealth week

For countless young people, the internet/smartphones provides the only help they have for mental health issues

Obviously, any govt that wants to deny them that would ensure youth mental health services are fully funded and accessible

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ME AT MY ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW FOR MY JOB AS 'HEAD OF NOT PUTTING PARASITES IN THE WATER SUPPLY': yes I think things have gone pretty well, apart from all the parasites in the water supply

BOSS: agreed, here is four hundred and sixty thousand pounds

Happy paperback release to Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley's IMPERIAL ISLAND.

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.

Out now with Vintage Books

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/imperi…

Sorry but surely nothing is actually stopping him acting other than people not wanting to work with him or am I missing something x

This sounds awful. Why don't they head down to the local youth club instead? Or enjoy the clean and functional facilities in our many public parks? Or go for a healthy swim at a modern leisure centre or clean local beach?

Congrats to Tehila Sasson: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

'This is popular! Yay! The whole point of doing this! Better shut it away where I can't see it any more because 99% of interactions with strangers on this platform are unbearably toxic!'

The education secretary today.