Retweeting for daytime people

Great. This means either - 1. care homes let people in without testing, or 2. they provide tests to visitors but probably increase the already massive costs. Or we get constant rolling shutdowns due to infections like the one in my Mum's care home.

Congrats to me - graduated my MSc from Birkbeck Politics this morning. Lovely ceremony with great speeches from Joan Bakewell and Lisa Nandy MP

You seen this Craig Martin 🤣

Pay attention people.

Impressive that BBC Newsnight has got on two white male Tory MPs called Bob in a discussion about the runners and riders for our new PM. As far as diversity in panels go it’s a new low 🤣

Particularly as the PM has removed the word 'women' from the role.

Once again the Minister for Women and Equalities is an afterthought as a 2nd job in a random department. See my blog for Birkbeck Politics from earlier this year on why why this is a bad idea and is ultimately failing 50% of the population 10-gower-street.com/2022/02/08/equ…

My blog for Birkbeck Politics (from a year ago) shows how the political establishment have been guilty of this failure. On the day a violent rapist in a position of trust is sentenced to 30+ years in prison, shouldn’t our leaders prioritise womens policies? 10-gower-street.com/2022/02/08/equ…

Just heard Rishi Sunak on the news headlines giving a speech about sector specific maths teaching, and I honestly thought it was a clip of Maurice from the IT Crowd.

I spent the day at A&E with my Mum who is poorly with probably a bad infection. The staff were kind and amazing. We spent most of the time sat in a queue in a corridor along with many other patients. On a Thursday afternoon. Capacity was apalling. People were screaming with pain.

FYI PJ Taylor

Featuring an anecdote about the colouring prize I won at a regional Labour Party conference in the mid 1980s. Spoiler alert - it was not a cash prize 🌹

And just over 12 hours later it turns out another of their candidates is being investigated by the Gambling Commission. Did Rishi Sunak break a mirror or walk under a ladder or something 😂🤦‍♀️

The new Prime Minister Keir Starmer seems to be keeping his commitment to have a 50/50 cabinet. But will he go one step further and make the Minister for Women and Equality a standalone position with a full Cabinet brief?

'His sheer audacity made change beyond just civil rights': Sky's Trevor Phillips reflects on meeting Jesse Jackson news.sky.com/video/his-shee…