Each and every one of us with a platform has a responsibility to correct others on the truth about asylum seekers claiming benefits and free homes. They can’t. They receive just £49 a week or £9 if given food. Only if and when they get refugee status can they claim or get a job.

The media told me a lot about the multi-millionaires who tragically lost their lives in the yacht sinking, just as I learnt plenty about the billionaires who lost their lives in the titanic sub I will never know anything about the migrants who lost their lives in the channel

For #NationalWildlifeDay: A thread dedicated to some of the UK's most iconic, and endangered, wildlife. 👇🧵

“It’s all right to telephone the island that is a mirage.” I love that line. I always feel it’s not all right. It’s silly and self-defeating. No-one’s gonna pick up. But I keep ringing, anyway.

Who needs money and job security when you can receive a periodic wellness email reminding you to stretch

We walk unknowing amid the shadows of our past and, forgetting our history, are ignorant of ourselves. Salman Rushdie #past #shadows

A day of days. One of the finest poems we have ever published at Northern Gravy. Grenga (An Inquiry into Failure) by JP Seabright 💜 northerngravy.com/poems-by-jp-se… #Grenfell

Bird people BTO RSPB. The Merlin app gives me Cetti's warblers very frequently. I’d never heard of them before I got the app. I find it hard to believe I’m hearing so many of them. Is Merlin right? P’raps climate change is pushing them north? #ukbirder #cettiswarbler

The loneliness, and the graft, of living with the long-term illness of a partner — and how it feels to be told to ‘stay positive.’

Remembering my lovely bro, Dave on his birthday today, the anniversary of his death tomorrow, & everyday. Don’t like the phrase ‘lost his fight against cancer’ but love the picture, and the headline is spot on. A senior A&E nurse, with a big heart & GSOH, who loved his family. 💔

Congrats Ruth Jones MP, well deserved. I've just written to you about the need for mandated #swiftbricks which I'm hoping you'll support through the PMB process. I've also written to my own MP @ClairehughesBA. We've a chance in Wales to do the right thing. Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Absolutely thrilled to get another invite to read my poetry to an audience, this time in Derby, next month. My writing is so personal, it's hard for me to get my head round the idea people are interested. But I'm so grateful! Watch this space for deets! #poetrycommunity #newpoet

I speak to many utterly demoralised, burnt out teachers suffering, mostly, from personally ambitious SLTs who think they have to ‘show they’ve innovated’ for their promotions. What it means in reality is wholly disregarding the expertise & needs of teachers on the frontline.

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” Leonardo da Vinci #learning

One of my awesome nephews is biking all the way from Eastbourne to Amsterdam to raise money for St Wilfrid's Hospice who took care of his step dad, my brother, Dave, in the last days of his life. Bung George a few quid if you can. Hospice care is so precious. justgiving.com/page/george-fo…

A Muslim friend is back at work in her school and already has had to deal with anxious students who have experienced/expressed the following: 1. Over the summer, 2 Bricks thrown through windows and the girls are afraid to go out still because someone pulled their head scarves

I've learnt that Farrow & Ball have a paint colour called 'Dead Salmon.' How utterly dystopian! Salmon, to me, are the very epitome of sparkling, leaping, aliveness. But also, why not coat your room in a colour that reminds you that our rivers are dying? #salmon #dyingrivers

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” Graham Greene, Ways of Escape #writing

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung #Unconscious

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”   Søren Kierkegaard #despair #authenticity