I lost my lovely, cheeky cat, Blue yesterday - he died very suddenly just before dawn. Only eight years old. He'd even survived falling into the Thames one night as a kitten. A good companion.
"We couldn't get it past our junior members of staff."
Why publishers turned down Hannah Barnes's book on the Tavistock gender clinic scandal. From
@HadleyFreeman
's piece in
@thetimes
Classic quote... After the wildlife-loving Earl of Arran steered the legalisation of homosexuality through the House of Lords.
#AVeryEnglishScandal
#LGBT
“Even sympathetic people will come to resent a left that refuses to make distinctions between deliberate slurs, awkward mistakes and legitimate disagreements. Cowing people is not the same as converting them.”
Yesterday was not the ideal day to have a bike accident, so I'm grateful to the police officers who took me to hospital in the back of their van. I got lots of help from passers-by too. Hope to be back to normal service soon.
Mourning my sister, Elaine. We didn’t always have the easiest relationship, but there were lots of good times too. And she always had great taste in music. Can't believe she's gone. RIP
I left hospital yesterday evening. Still feeling very fragile but I have an op on my hand tomorrow morning and then start treatment on the bones in my face. Thanks to all the staff, especially at
@uclh
acute medical care. And thanks to everyone who has posted lovely messages here
Slowly on the mend after what seems to have been a very mild bout of Covid-19. It flattened me for a few days, and I'm still only able to move around in short bursts. The good weather helps. Thanks for all the lovely messages.
“When I google “who predicted Russia war against Ukraine” I get Mearsheimer, a retired Russian general, and a blind psychic, but no bevy of IR scholars.”
@tylercowen
on why
@Kasparov63
was more accurate than the academics.
A quick up-date. Nearly six weeks after I fell ill, and I’m still recovering. Short walks or bike rides are OK, but I’m getting lots of headaches too. I’m trying to do things in very short bursts - dipping into the non-loony end of Twitter is good therapy, I think.
“Privileged people don’t understand just how privileged they are.”
@Miss_Snuffy
on why she pushes her pupils so hard, and why she doesn’t use Marcus Rashford or Raheem Sterling as role models.”
Beautiful. (One for
@marinamaral2
?) RT
@aflashbak
Inuit woman, Kootucktuck, in her beaded attigi. Fullerton Harbour, Nunavut, February 1905. Photo by Geraldine Moodie
I wrote about how a cascade of media failures led to a bunch of inauthentic, mistranslated, and truncated quotes from Israeli officials about Gaza being cited everywhere from the New York Times, NPR, and the BBC, to the International Court of Justice.
The first feature I've written in the seven weeks since I fell ill. I'm still not up to speed - it took me three times longer than usual - but it was good to get the brain cells working again.
Shivan Davis: "We're adding to the levels of disruption"
Louise Atkinson: "We have to stand up and have to fight for the future of education"
Watch as two teachers passionately debate the rights and wrongs of strike action
#newsnight
"Whether we condemn or take action against such grotesque violence should not be contingent on whether it suits a particular political agenda."
@InayaFolarin
HT
@DontDivideUsNow
First thing I saw when I woke up after my op at St Mary's this afternoon. A different kind of theatre... (Glad to say I don't need a wheelchair at the moment.)
@ImperialNHS
So grateful to
@Alicepit1
for sending me her painting of my cat Blue, based on one of the photos I took of him. I scattered his ashes in my neighbour's garden a few days ago.