Prints below right by printmaker Ellen Heck, one of the many artists featured in the womensart book REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁 Via any bookstore, e.g. www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Nothing like punching your own voters in the face AND hurting the green transition! Great work Labour.

Morning all #LabourIsDead The anti-wealth tax IFS is recommending reform of children's developmental/educational needs assessments, rather than increasing tax for the wealthiest 🤔 'Review' of SEND criteria incoming - for a system which already fails thousands 😠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rachel Reeves, at IPPR, says the idea of the populist right that foreign workers depress domestic workers’ wages is simplistic and wrong…

More of this, please. London has felt a sad and angry place recently.

Yes!

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

www.theguardian.com/education/20... The drum roll of voices questioning autism diagnosis in the UK is growing. Rather than question the school system or austerity, they suggest that kids are not really disabled and don't "really need it" (cahms/ehcps).

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Motherfucking wind farms…

Jesus christ! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EXPERT COMMENT: Dr Ben Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Healthy Buildings, explains that with temperatures expected to hit 31°C in the coming days, it’s more important than ever to keep your home cool and comfortable #heatwave DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT: www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...

this made me laugh so much

"Polling points to a “perception gap”, with half of MPs underestimating levels of public support for the net zero target." "72% of people say they would support onshore windfarms being built in their local area, with 17% opposed, MPs assume the opposite."

If you're going to attack immigration levels in 2022-3, you need to say something about provision for Ukraine & Hong Kong (which Labour backed). Blaming a "one-nation experiment in open borders" is not levelling with voters or restoring trust. It's telling the kind of lie on which populism thrives

"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner." Italo Calvino.

I know we say it as a reality check - “touch grass” But yesterday I spent hours in the garden and it made me feel better 🤷🏻‍♀️ Go touch some dirt. Say thanks to a tree. Plant something for the pollinators. Log off.

Amazing lists this year. A few on the fiction list I've not picked up yet! Can't wait to get started.

Aww thank you! Let me know if she likes it and I’ll be happy to send her a bookplate and postcard. 🧚💚 You can find out more about the first book here: www.hsnorup.com/into-the-fae...

The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.

A comprehensive comms success.

Elbows up, Canada.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "The party of work" So, let's punish those with a proven disability

Re-reading the first Emily Wilde book was a great idea - I enjoyed it just as much second time around and now I can't wait to get started on the next in the series... #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Does anyone else have that terrible, inevitable sinking feeling? Like when the government was in denial about Covid in early 2019... something terrible is coming around. #putin #trump #Europe #ukpolitics #Ukraine #usa

Temperatures at North Pole soar to 20C above average and above the melting point of ice #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/the-s... Oh my God. Just fuck. What the hell. Genuinely thought it wasn't going to be so bad, but it just got worse and worse!

This is how you do it...

... the number of posts tagged to major subjects on BBC News in the last year. Elon Musk: 181 Xi Jinping, leader of nearly 1 in 5 people worldwide: 33 Mark Zuckerberg: 14 Bangladesh, home to 175 million people: 92 Why? What's the point? Everyone else (the NS included) has an excuse... (4/5)

Journalists will be able to report from any family court in England and Wales from 27 January after a successful pilot. A transparency order protecting anonymity must be granted but the presumption is now that this will be granted "unless there is a legitimate reason not to"

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

An amazing interview, I had to rewind and listen again!

The only Syrians who should be forcefully escorted back to Syria are the ones hiding in Moscow. The absolute *state* of Europe right now.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's state media is denying rumors that President Bashar Assad has left the country, says he is performing his duties in the capital Damascus

Hello there, 👋. Reclining Bunny in the moon.

5 reasons why The Shining is a Christmas movie 1. Snow 2. Red rum 3. Hyperactive kids 4. Big snuggly jumpers 5. Huge family row ending with someone putting an axe through the door.

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

My sewing effort for E'S nativity role, Mary. Now I just need a stylish, yet holy, headscarf/ veil. #craft #sewing #preschool #primaryschool #nativity

Polly, our lovable lab-doodle, is a furry enigma wrapped in a chaotic whirlwind. One moment, she's the epitome of canine wisdom, gazing at us with soulful eyes that could melt the iciest of hearts. The next, she's a tornado of fur and mischief, wreaking havoc on unsuspecting socks. #dogsofbluesky