This town will not accommodate the numerical totality of our combined mass. Wife, mum, carer. Blackbelt in thriftiness. Pragmatist. Bit random. Mrs Smith.
Patience is a conquering virtue.
The learned say that, if it not desert you,
It vanquishes what force can never reach;
Why answer back at every angry speech?
No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what,
You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
Geoffrey Chaucer
@TheAttagirls
@HazelArcher11
I’ve always felt, with no real evidence to back it up, that Brady enjoyed her torment and was effectively torturing her too.
@TheSimonEvans
I suspect people laughing are those who have stuff all year round. We only ever had lots of chocolate at Christmas and birthdays. Quality Street was a once a year treat, still is. So it is disappointing and a bit depressing for some of us. They were dismal this year & tasted meh
@eshaanakbar
Same. A woman who just wants to live in her tiny flat, but is surrounded by huge numbers of men who think women shouldn't be allowed to have their own space. They try to break into her flat, abuse her wherever she goes, because they don't want her to have a place to call home.
@MPSWestminster
If the police do not know that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK then I fear the police are not doing their job and are failing to protect the public. How can they possibly be doing their job if they don't know what the terrorist organisations are?
@carolinefff
@ZacGoldsmith
I've looked further and I'm completely shocked. This looks like direct marketing to a very vulnerable group of teenagers and young adults. This is a very niche demographic.
I'm not sure what they expected?
'A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags'
“We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you’re the one doing the threatening.”
Dame Maureen Lipman attacks ‘bleeding heartless liberals’ who fail to condemn Hamas
Senior figures from politics and entertainment declare solidarity with British Jews.
@carolinefff
@ZacGoldsmith
If that's the picture they're using it will have a strong appeal to young autistic adults. They must know that East Asian culture and appearance has a strong pull on them. I can't see how this is anything other than deliberate marketing to a vulnerable group?
@afneil
Because UK institutions and well meaning people have turned a blind eye to racism and religious hatred in diverse communities. Not just to antisemitism, but also inter community hatred and intolerance. The idea that racism and hatred only exists in white people is toxic.
Well the genie is well and truly out of the bottle now. What's been seen cannot be unseen. The tolerant society is a sham, a facade. All our institutions, corporations and society at large harbour racists and religious bigots. What's going to be done about it?
@habibi_uk
@UKHomosexual
Bunch of badly brought up weirdos who think it's fine to harass ordinary people at work and those going for a quiet coffee. All for a rumour and apossible association Jewish people. They're a bunch of racist bigots.
Dactylitis (sausage finger) is often associated with the type of arthritis I have. I hope all the fuss about King Charles having sausage fingers doesn't make people who suffer this, often painful, condition embarrassed about it.
@JaneQuaife
@alexrubner
Telling boys and men not to rape is about as effective as saying 'end all crime now'. The ones who are rapists already know it's wrong, they're criminals.
A reminder I'll be off here for Lent. So won't be back til some time around Easter, major events permitting. Posting as I inadvertently worried some people last time I was off.
@SamuelVimes10
@IanDunt
This 👆 all day every day. It's even worse than it used to be because there were other routes into good jobs. Now it's all exam results.
@metpoliceuk
@Tilly_TeaCup
Hi
@metpoliceuk
Can you tell me when the curfew for women, children, Jewish people & others ends today please? What days of the week is the curfew in place? It would be helpful for visitors, as well as residents, to know when they can leave their homes.
#Londoncurfew
@DreyfusJames
As a disabled person I just wouldn't travel on a train unless there was no other alternative. I don't look disabled, but I can't stand for very long. Train companies don't honour reserved seats so I cannot trust them. I'd have to sit on the dirty floor.
My thoughts are. Only people with quintuplets, or more, who have to go out alone with them are allowed to make any criticism and then only if their quintuplets have similar temperaments. Otherwise just shut up.
@DontDivideUsNow
How are we tolerating this racism in full view? It's so divisive and harmful. Young children don't care about the race of their playmates. It's adults who put these ideas into their heads.
@MissMaSunshine
@AntoineSpeaker
@itvlondon
No wouldn't. All these kids, regardless of skin colour, are a complete pain. It's all criminal and anti social behaviour and it's not being dealt with. No-one wants it. This isn't a race issue. It's a society wide issue of young people going off the rails and not being stopped.
@IsabelHardman
Those of us with a chronic severe mental illness are mostly being ignored. You can't 'talking therapy' out of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. Medications often don't work or only partially. Our care is dismal and wholly inadequate.
@autcareandshare
Is it noise, or is it feeling vibration? I've always been a bit noise sensitive, but since acquiring some hearing loss I'm far more sensitive to vibration. I can often feel something before I can hear it.
@DanWuori
@AlethiaWrites
It's awful. It's a betrayal and makes me wonder what else is going on. It looks like they're on the first steps into abuse for laughs.
If you wonder why vulnerable people don't see their GP there's a barrier right from the start. 21 mins on hold so far. If you were say very depressed would you be capable of ringing and ringing daily to not get through? Add say hearing or speech difficulty. You give up.
@FamEdTrust
@Commonswomequ
True. I was very much a gender non conforming girl. I'm heterosexual and happily married. I remember saying a few times I wish I was a boy as a child. To a certain degree I'm still gender non conforming. The last time I wore a dress/skirt was over 30 yrs ago.
@v_j_freeman
Seeing the propaganda on here I'm not surprised. A line of people evacuating an area of Gaza was described as ethnic cleansing and just like the trail of years.
I'm temp deactivating. Only mentioning in case I worry someone. I'm not really enjoying it here,it's just another stressor when I have a lot on my plate. I have til 5th Sept to get a complaint in about mum's care. There's no advocacy available as they're inundated I'm on my own
@DreyfusJames
@WestYorksPolice
Her emotional knee jerk reaction was completely unprofessional. An autistic person could take years to recover. Other forces do better. We had a good experience with South Staffs police when our autistic relative was very unwell. The officer was amazing. He was so patient
@yuanyi_z
In the Netherlands there are documented cases of people being killed by assisted dying wholly because of their symptoms of autism or intellectual disability. Things like loneliness and finding it hard to cope.
@v_j_freeman
The be kind people think being kind means never actually doing any of the very difficult things that keep civilisation intact. They make themselves the blind ally of evil.
I don't see what's the problem with a male only private club, as long as women are free to create their own women only private club. Seems silly to me.
@AuschwitzMuseum
@HeidiBrave
@X
@Support
X support don't seem to recognise anti semitism at all. I reported one that told Jewish people to get in the ovens and they said it didn't breach anything. They don't recognise tropes.
Will be deactivating for a while.
"A reminder I'll be off here for Lent. So won't be back til some time around Easter, major events permitting. Posting as I inadvertently worried some people last time I was off."
@sigourneybeaver
It's making our desire to get out of the city feel more urgent, even though we're a long way from London. What about all the people who work Saturdays and need to use public transport and cross public spaces? Are Jewish people supposed to stay home? Women & children not safe?
A reminder that I will be off Twitter for Lent from 14th February til Easter, as usual. Unless there's a major event of course. I'll post reminders again beforehand as I inadvertently worried some friends last time I went offline.
@SVPhillimore
The wheelchair users left on trains after they've switched the lights off or stuck on a platform with no working lift, or miss their train because of it.
@eshaanakbar
Same. A woman who just wants to live in her tiny flat, but is surrounded by huge numbers of men who think women shouldn't be allowed to have their own space. They try to break into her flat, abuse her wherever she goes, because they don't want her to have a place to call home.
@TheSimonEvans
I like seasonal treats. They help lighten things when you're on a tight budget. Something to look forward to and plan. Also free treats like spotting the first snowdrop. Nice little things dotted through the year keep you going.
@WasiqUK
Makes no sense to exclude any race. Surely most races, including white people, can be representative of real Londoners as it's a very diverse city?
@Hardley76
@soniasodha
Or think surgery and hormones make them into a woman with the same medical needs, which it doesn't. It's an illusion. A gynaecologist would be completely irrelevant for their health needs.
@POCX100
@JamesHarrisNow
@LyndonRosser
Except there's been precious little sympathy and a whole lot of hate out on the streets. Calling for the extermination of Jews isn't sympathy for anyone, it's bigotry. There were celebrations almost immediately Jewish civilians were slaughtered.
@alexrubner
It's not. It's reality and it's sensible advice. Frankly a 15 yr old boy shouldn't either because he's likely to be a victim of different forms of crime.
@afneil
Exporting the problem elsewhere where their is less care, creating unemployment and enriching other countries, some who are hostile to the UK, all in one fell swoop.
Er? No
"The court heard about the defendants' seemingly normal backgrounds & family life. To anyone who did not know what he had done, Hanbury seemed a perfect family man with children and a longtime partner."
"Hanbury has 40 previous for 89 offences."
The idea that racism and religious hatred only exists in white people is an ideological sickness. There's clearly racism and hatred within multiple, diverse groups. It should not be tolerated. It hurts everyone. I expect all racism to be prosecuted & dealt with even handedly.
@TheNewEuropean
@Miss_Snuffy
Genuinely helping children from underprivileged backgrounds doesn't seem to count for much to you does it? Any old cr*p will do for children as long as it appeals to your politics. You're one of the reasons under privileged children are kept down.
My colleague
@lehain
is tweeting the details but today's provisional Progress 8 scores represent an absolute triumph for
@michaelgove
,
@Miss_Snuffy
,
@MerciaSchool
et al - and for
@StarAcademies
too. These are now the best schools in the country, in some of the toughest places.
Had some good news about the vet fund for the dogs. The deceased owner's family have managed to get £500 together into the promised vet fund. So we can make an appointment for Lola for the test. It's not going to fix the long term issue, but has taken the pressure off a bit 🙌