A dove arrived with its message of peace

Wonderful to meet #Zo’s niece/cousin Dorota Zawacka Wakarecy again today. Dorota runs the Zawacka archive in #Toruń, which hosted a press conf for the Polish edn of my biog of #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentkaZo today… her blessing for the book meant the world to me!

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Looks like Ruby has gone off the rails

News article on the hub today - The doctors banned from practising abroad cleared to treat in NHS. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... (via @thetimes.com)

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One reflection talking to other Jews today is how unshocking this is. Numbing, upsetting, scary but not shocking. We all knew it was coming. Given the enormous rise in antisemitic incidents in recent years, it's a surprise it hasn't happened more often.

All roundabouts are the same: you give way to the right when you join. But it wasn't always so. In February 1960 Middlesbrough was the first place to try a new priority to the right rule. The queues vanished immediately, and the new rule stuck. #middlesbrough www.roads.org.uk/articles/rou...

Heaton Park. My heart is broken. British Jews have been warning you about this for years. It’s Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur. This is one of every Jews worst nightmare. Why we have so much security at synagogue. The anxious thought you try and push to the back of your mind. Heartbroken.

It was too expensive. This was the right decision and should be presented as such. Tunnelling the previous 10 miles was, largely, a error that added massively to the cost and time issues with HS2 - we should be far more advanced with it but for these people.

One of my favourite ongoing history bits is the 800 years of attempts and failures to establish regular transport links between Oxford and Cambridge. it’s hilarious

Oh yuck I really hate email based two factor authentication. Just implement TOTP, passkeys or hardware keys!

Last month the seventh annual World Patient Safety Day took place on Wednesday 17 September. Read more about this event and its theme, ‘Safe care for every newborn and child', in the blog below⬇️ www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...

Stepping back to 1972 on the Bakerloo line. Although 9 minutes between trains…

Trespassers on the line so this train is going nowhere fast 💨

Serbian police have arrested eleven people for Islamophobic and antisemitic attacks in France, designed to convince French Muslims and French Jews to each blame the other and to exacerbate ethnic tensions inside France. They allegedly acted on behalf of Russia. www.timesofisrael.com/serbia-arres...

I do not understand what Labour think the immigration system is for. I accept there are many possible answers here but what is their ideology that drives this?

The greenfinches are looking particularly green this morning

Add ‘London’s Muslim mayor speaks in front of a large advert for stout’ to the list of pictures to confuse some of our non-metropolitan brethren, along with ‘London’s Muslim mayor leads the city’s Pride parade’.

I’m in the train

Busy charging my laptop battery chargers in the plug socket for laptop battery chargers only on board this 450 today

Poland is surely on its own wave but h*ngary is one of the biggest eu beneficiaries while contributing nothing

Urgh I'm not liking MacOS Tahoe with its massive rounded corners wasting huge amounts of space.

Paige says hi

Please enjoy this picture of a stripy cat #cat

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

Cooking carrots #yum #tasty

It’s like Piccadilly Circus for greenfinches out there!

The far-right digital network Black Sun Rising Militia planned to paralyze Europe in a coordinated attack on synagogues, mosques and several Swedish media houses last year, reports SVT Nyheter

To all Europeans; If you want this👇not to happen to you and your children, increase your support of Ukraine. Ukraine is the only force stopping fascist Russia from attacking Europe.

Oh god this is the story of life in the public sector. I do know that agreeing a simple place based funding formula is not in fact that simple, but it could be absolutely transformational in really enabling local leaders to meet local needs.

But now we're back to this sort of nonsense I'm sure public toilets are needed. But why put up more barriers to accessing funding? And then there's this baffling array of funds worth tiny amounts of money. All designed with good intentions, but why not just increase LAs grant funding instead!

Good explanation of why this and the last government have no interest in addressing the underfunding of local authorities, instead choosing to micromanage the spending of small pots of money on random projects

Drinking coffee ☕️

An Egyptian Goose and goslings spotted this morning.

Wood pigeon is here with its stock dove friend

Saw an interesting mushroom 🍄

Something tells me russia plans to strike NATO countries with drones

I would genuinely like to know who the hell in the No.10 comms team thinks: 1) that a comms strategy from 1995 was the way to do the big 'unite the country' message 2) that leading it with 'our opponents were right' was a good plan At least its in the Telegraph so no one will see it

At a Durham University Venture Lab event in London celebrating female entrepreneurship. Dame Alison Rose is speaking.

Dog in the Central line!

Charging my laptop battery chargers in this plug socket for laptop battery chargers only in 450048

Just visited the magical Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt. Many of the headstones have the symbol of the house the family lived in, which was then later often taken to be the family name. Here is a headstone with a distinctly non-Kosher lobster symbol.

I’m in the Northern Line

A guide to the identification of bracket fungi www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/10...

Saw a beefsteak fungus #fungi

(1/3) The initiative will ask GPs to think again if, after three appointments, they have been unable to offer a substantiated diagnosis, or the patient’s symptoms have escalated. While some GP practices use similar approaches already, Jess’s Rule will make this standard practice across the country.

🆕In this blog, Aurora Todisco, hub topic leader for Patient Engagement, explains why it is important for an organisation to be ready before they embark on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety

This stunning eider is about to collide with a massive stick #eider

A kingfisher is here