Day 20 of Auctober! Executive dysfunction is often labeled as "laziness" when in reality it's your brain saying NO! against your will. It needs to be de-stigmatized and better understood. The more we learn about it the more we can do something about it. #auctober #auctober2024

"I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer." That shame was never hers to carry. Gisele Pelicot is so right and so brave to refuse it and to demand that it changes side. lbc.co.uk/news/gisele-pe…

One of the earliest born people to be photographed: Martin Routh (born 1755), President of Magdalen College for 63 years. Photographed aged 99 in 1854.

My phone calendar keeps letting me know that today I should have checked onto my flight to NZ. Instead, I'm on my own facing divorce and uncertainty. Thanks Calendar, bitch

You're at your French village hall vin primeur, they play Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb (🤷‍♀️) you can't hold it together cos he left 2 months ago you're just a flipping idiot & fall apart. A few friends get it (🧚‍♀️) & others will report back to say ' she was up dancing'. I'm a mess

Please let it not be true

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

“Now, we have no electricity in the city, no water, no central supply heating, no mobile connection, no internet connection, but we have no RUSSIANS” 😅 #AnniversaryOfKhersonLiberation 🇺🇦

Speaking to my son on video today as he sat in neonatal with his wife & newborn 🥰 anyway Wes Streeting an idea he mentioned to help NHS costs. Buy thermostatic valves for rads, so temp can be reduced from max requiring windows to be wide open to compensate for the heat 🥵.

I really don't expect so much support. But, please if there's anyone outside the biased media, who thinks Keir Starmer is a kind of pretty good Prime Minister, please repost

Look at the ice we had last night 💎😍 Moonlight with auroras made it even more memorable✨ 📍Ranua, Finland

I really admire this woman and I am in awe of her strength Gisèle Pelicot: a name that will never be forgotten ♥️

1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital. Here's Jane & me in happier times.

This week’s cover PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025 Gisèle Pelicot

Only in a year where #GiselePélicot holds 50 men who raped her to account does a rapist President get named Person of the Year (for the second time). The message is clear: misogyny rewards power, while survivors like Gisele fight to ensure #ShameMustChangeSides.

English spelling is a cruel joke Why does ‘gh’ stay silent in “daughter” but sound like an ‘f’ in “laughter”? The thing is, English spelling is actually 100% logical — for the Middle Ages Here’s how the 'gh' sound disappeared from English, and left chaos in its wake…🧵

Sangita Myska March 2023 Keir Starmer said he remained “absolutely committed” to reversing the move to abolish the LTA tax-free limit, indicating that the reported tax break applied to his DPP pension pot would go with it. independent.co.uk/business/starm…

Metro I lost my 54yo mum 32 years ago due to breast cancer. She was far too young and never knew her grandchildren who now have children of their own. By rights she could still be alive now, a lovely grey haired, cuddly 86yo mum, but she and I never had that privilege. Disgusting.

I stand with Jess Phillips. Do please reTWEET if you do, too. This is beyond party politics now. It’s about whether as a nation we still have self-respect. #IStandWithJess