Yay! A thing I love about the National Trust is colleagues tell you when it’s their ‘brimstone day’. The day on which you spot your 1st yellow brimstone butterfly of the year. I was just in need of timeline cleanse and one landed just next to me. Happy brimstone day to me!

Er, James…… This is your Government’s policy to help 20,000 Syrian refugees, announced just after this article!

Which 4 days later you welcomed!! “I welcome David Cameron’s announcement that the UK will provide sanctuary to thousands more Syrians” cleverly4braintree.com/news/syrian-re… 🤦‍♀️

'Means testing has never been the basis of any court system & it's never been the basis of any compensation scheme. It would be a further injustice to #WASPI women to make that the case here.' Exactly, Jane Cowley. #WASPI Campaign #1950swomen

As it’s #WorldLupusDay here’s a brief video explaining this complex and often debilitating condition

Hope it’s useful x

📢END DETENTION NOW!

Jesuit Refugee Service UK 's new report into the continued abuse in immigration detention adds to the mountain of evidence that detention causes HUGE harm to people seeking safety.

Read the full report here 👉 jrsuk.net/after-brook-ho…

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We need a compassionate, fair and effective asylum system that:

✅makes timely decisions
✅recognises women’s specific experiences of gender-based persecution
✅provides safe routes for all those who need them

theguardian.com/politics/artic… Together With Refugees 🧡

The tiny Goldcrest stars in today's #NestKnowledge !

Goldcrests build small, deep, cup-shaped nests, hidden in dense foliage.

Nests are crafted from twigs and lichen, then intricately woven with spider silk to withstand high winds.

Egg ID: Up to 12, dull white with brown specks

Do you support Clive Lewis MP’s call for the English water companies to be brought back under public control?
#water #TorySewageparty

On World at One, Richard Walker, a former Conservative, who runs Iceland says in survey of 4000 of his customers on cost of living crisis “94% said its not getting better”

“Immeasurably wrong” for Government to tell the public to feel grateful we have exited recession, he says.

Me too- I think it has to do with sharing info on vaccines, viruses, science etc…

I am delighted to have been re-elected as co-chair of the APPG on Dementia.

This is a cause that is incredibly close to my own heart and I know that many constituents across #Oldham East & #Saddleworth will have been touched by this condition.

'I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.'
-Josephine Baker #FridayFeeling

Stalking is not a frivolous game. It is a crime that has a devastating impact on its victim. Stalkers crave attention and can target multiple victims. It’s not for media to decide if someone is stalking, it’s for the trained professionals who understand stalking & the risks.

Well done all! And thanks for all the shares: Only a couple of hours in and the first of our young women is about to arrive at the home of her new host… Plus at least one NEW host has also signed up #Chuffed

Starmer really exceptional here. Focusing laser-like on the true issue: The failure to process claims. Refusing to get dragged into some nonsense discussion of the ECHR.

Fears of an EU army forced many to support #Brexit .

Now the EU is determined to spend big on defence, Brexit Britain looks set to lose out.

“In the four years since Britain’s departure from the EU, the UK industry has in effect already been shut out of certain activities such…

5 babies dead from whooping cough.

Worst outbreak in 40 years.

Vaccines had nearly eradicated the disease.
As vaccines uptake increases, disease falls dramatically.
As people avoid vaccines, babies die.

It's not rocket science.
Vaccines work.

theguardian.com/society/articl…

.#WASPI Campaign's Angela madden said 'They can’t just get it catastrophically wrong and walk away. We have MPs from all parties that are very supportive.' #WASPI #1950swomen
WASPI chief unleashes five-word ultimatum to No10 over DWP compensation row express.co.uk/finance/person…

‘I know what it’s like to have a body that can’t keep up with your mind’

As part of our special programme about how to age well, author Pippa told anita rani how her perceptions of ageing have changed because of her experience of a chronic illness.

Listen here ⬇️

Doing a victory lap because it has taken ONLY eighteen months for the economy to BEGIN to recover from the economic damage that your party caused in the space of a forty-minute 'mini budget' is, by any metric, pretty obscene, in my view. How about just: 'Sorry. We're trying.' ~AA