Next year let's forget the Oscars, BAFTAโs, BRITs or SPOTY. No more actors, singers or sports stars on the red carpet. Let's have nurses, paramedics, doctors, cleaners, carers, lorry drivers & shop staff & give them the awards, accolades & red carpet treatment!
#COVID
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Inspiring interview - separately
#PatrickHutchinson
also said 'It's not black versus white, it is everyone versus the racists.' I think he is not just a national hero, but an international one.
"If the other three police officers who were standing around when George Floyd was murdered had thought about intervening like what we did, George Floyd would be alive today."
Patrick Hutchinson, who was pictured carrying a protestor to safety at violent demo says what happened.
In
#Durham
, North East England for my sonโs graduation today. Saw this plaque near
#DurhamCathedral
which reminded me that the city was called Denelm or Dunholm, as in
@TheLastKingdom
Brought tears to my eyes - I too am a family doctor but use the medications he mentions for completely different, more 'mundane' indications. I can't even imagine what he and his colleagues endure on a daily (and nightly) basis
#SlavaUkraini
You can easily recognize a person who has been on the front lines by looking into their eyes. These eyes have seen death every day. Eyes like these know the true value of life.
Today my wife attended a beautiful and poignant exhibition of Ukrainian ๐บ๐ฆ art in the Royal Academy of Arts in London
@royalacademy
. Here are three of her favourites.
#SlavaUkraini
Stephen Hawking: โMy advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesnโt prevent you doing well, and donโt regret the things it interferes with. Donโt be disabled in spirit, as well as physicallyโ - wisdom
Had the pleasure of visiting Castello Aragonese in
#Ischia
- a fortress started in 474 BC, site of centuries of battles and sieges, involving at least the Greeks, Cumaeans, Tyrrhenians, Romans, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Arabs, Normans, Spanish and English
#Italy
#Naples
The entire squad knelt in Anfield's centre circle ahead of today's training session in a powerful show of support for the
#BlackLivesMatter
movement.
Unity is strength:
This is the incredible moment Lucy, a 13-year-old who is blind and neurodiverse, played a highly-complex Chopin piece, leaving
@MikaSounds
and
@Lang_Lang
speechless.
The Piano, presented by
@ClaudiaWinkle
, starts tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.
Stream Free on All 4.
#ThePiano
Trump's moral squalor, not impeachment, will remove him from power | Robert Reich - what a quote: 'he is the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins โ pride, greed, lust, gluttony, wrath, envy and sloth'!
#FBR
Any player who collapses holding his face/head should be taken off for a 10 minute head injury assessment - that will stop all this cheating and prima donna behaviour
#TOTMUN
I find this picture so incredibly moving. This is
@GretaThunberg
aged 15, sat alone outside the Swedish Parliament Aug 2018 - the first school strike. In just one year, sheโs created a wave that will change the whole world. Never underestimate the power of one young person ๐๐
Thereโs nothing like a New Yearโs Eve old-fashioned, non-digital board game with the family! Some of you will not have ever played this ancient marvel!
#MouseTrap
Itโs been a lovely Christmas Day - delicious family lunch & fantastic presents. The highlight was having my 81 year old mother over for the day whom we hadnโt seen for 4 months. Merry Christmas ๐ to all & hope that next year will be a healing time for us all in so many ways.
Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death | Robert Reich - No other advanced nation denies healthcare and work protections, or loosens lockdown while fatalities mount
#FBR
Ukraine: Displaced dogs form queue after feeding station installed | News | Independent TV So civilised, even socially distanced! This tugged at my heartstrings
#SlavaUkraini
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Congrats to the high school Class of 2020, as well as to the teachers, coaches, and most of all, parents and family whoโve guided you along the way. Thanks for letting me be part of your big day!
Trump can't shift public attention from coronavirus to the streets of America | Robert Reich The president shows no leadership on public health but wants to be a strongman on law and order. Voters wonโt buy it.
#FBR