I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.
My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
Abominable, completely indefensible.
US Military: if POTUS orders you to commit war crimes, you don’t have to obey. Let’s not take as read that whatever the criminal threatens *has to* be followed through by others. There’s a choice. You don’t have to be complicit in atrocities. That goes for everyone in the US administration too.
You see the darnedest things on the tube.
'You cannot disconnect the health service of today from what happened during the pandemic.' So good from @drkevinfong.bsky.social, (who gave some of the most powerful testimony in the whole of the UK covid-19 inquiry).
When they decided to follow Reform into the abyss…
He might not even wait till the next day…
This is HUGE mistake. I would understand continuing with the visit, despite humiliating circumstances, if it had any genuine chance of restoring transatlantic relations. But it won’t. Trump will bask in the spotlight, and go back to slagging off the UK one day later. www.nbcnews.com/world/united...
Indeed. bsky.app/profile/ming...
It’s totally pointless humiliation, honouring a murderous, racist paedophile who has zero respect for diplomacy or law. Just another opportunity for him to crow about making leaders “kiss his ***”…
I'm not into gesture politics but I think this visit should be cancelled, actually because it would be a gesture that it doesn't matter that in recent months Trump has repeatedy insulted Britain. But it does. The counter-argument is that it'd keep him sweet: it won't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Indeed. Total nonsense.
And removing those training places hurts the public more than the doctors, who can take their skills abroad…
Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t
It isn’t a tough job. It’s an easy job they refuse to do.
The answer is simple.
The Home Office and the anti-immigration lobby in the media know perfectly well that the actual argument for these proposals has been comprehensively lost and they need therefore both to misrepresent what they mean *and* public attitudes. (1/2)
Changing the rules for migrants already here is wrong and unfair but only affects a finite group of people. Extending default settlement to 10 years or more for everyone is a social policy disaster. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...
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"Act of domination" latest
Thanks, but not going there on this trip (9 April): HK, Chongqing, Zhangjiajie, Changsha, Shanghai. Already so much on my list to see & do!
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Marches and demonstrations stretched across the country, from above the Arctic Circle (Kotzebue, Alaska: population 3,000) to the tropics, with Puerto Rico holding multiple events. There were also 39 international No Kings rallies, according to organizers.
@writersguildgb.bsky.social @togetheralliance.bsky.social march against the far right in London today… #Together #StanduptoRacism
Half a million strong. Together.
The biggest march against the far-right in British history.
