"One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn’t do his job, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity.” —MLK Jr.

Feminists’ attitudes towards men – Six studies, in the most systematic examination yet of feminists’ actual and perceived attitudes toward men, find that feminists’ attitudes toward men are broadly positive and broadly similar to other people’s attitudes toward men. Findings: 1/4

So #AssistedDying gets funded 100% while palliative care and social care have to beg for basic support?

Today is International Day of Education — let’s not forget Afghanistan—the ONLY country in the world where girls education is banned. 1224 days since teenage girls were barred from school and 764 days since women were shut out of universities by Taliban. This injustice must end.

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

I have spent a lot of time today thinking about safeguarding - how every project or policy for vulnerable people needs to ensure that it doesn’t inadvertently make them more vulnerable. Pushing through a bill that ignores rights and needs is so deeply wrong.

In all the talk about peace, minerals, and just letting Putin keep the land he’s occupying in Ukraine, where is the talk of what will happen to the Ukrainians in those places. Or of the Ukrainians who have been forcibly taken to Russia. What of the people?

Listen to the soul-stirring Miserere Mei Deus on Ash Wednesday as we begin Lent. Wait for the top C, one of the most perfect moments in music ever 🖤 🎶

THIS.

My local smiths had a stony faced woman at the till who was usually on the phone to a friend and looked very inconvenienced when you wanted to pay. I would only stop there if I was desperate as a consequence. Not surprised it’s closing. #whsmith

Three really excellent letters in today's Times on the unworkability of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill. Increasingly the professionals who'll be responsible for administering it are speaking out against it. It would be reckless for MPs to vote in favour of it.

So Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a flunkie goes "Deport!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

We have raised concerns about existing deficiencies in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. We believe the bill in its current form lacks adequate protections for patients and professionals. Full statement: ow.ly/EOhP50W692q

I’m genuinely shocked that this incredibly ill thought law has succeeded. When I worked in a hospice, we had to fundraise approximately £10,000 a day to keep it fully functioning. To see this bill succeed before palliative care is fully funded and available is almost

One thing I have learnt from some years in politics, victory or defeat are rarely final. So you keep on fighting.

It is heartbreaking seeing how many people feel vulnerable after the #assistedsuicide vote. Disabled people wondering what this means for how they will be seen, valued and supported (support is already nearly zero). People who work in palliative care scared for their patients…

Amazing day listening to youth workers and parents about the challenges young people in Lambeth are facing. Young people for whom the combo of youthworker + parent support has been life changing against a background of low confidence and limited opportunity. #youthwork

Scrapping qualifications for over-16s could leave thousands unemployed independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

David Hockney