Horatio Clare
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Writer: Heavy Light, Down to the Sea in Ships, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, Running for the Hills, The Light in the Dark and more. BBC, FT, Uni of Manchester
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It's here! Your Journey Your Way. If you might get one for you or a friend -- THANK YOU! Here's wishing fierce strength to ALL of us in the vast mental health community. Change is coming. We need it NOW
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Astonishing moment on Today - Guy Hands, hedge funder, Tory donor, says the UK economy is 'frankly doomed' if we don't renegotiate Brexit. This insane experiment by the Rees Mogg mob is finished. We need a General Election, and our star back
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We call on the publishers of children's magazines to remove plastic giveaways from all covers. Cheap and disposable plastic eye-catchers kill land, oceans and people. Great mags shouldn't need them
@EgmontUK
@RedanPublishing
@NatGeo
please, please help us. Retweet if you agree.
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Here's a story of how we go mad; of heroines and heroes who look after us; of psychiatry's pills and psychology's questions; of radical treatments and systems in dire need of change. I wrote it to pay tribute, to find answers, in hope that it might help
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Would anyone be interested in joining a campaign to persuade publishers of children's magazines to take the crummy world-killing plastic toy tat off their covers? It ought to be straightforward: if they care about kids, they will desist. What do you think?
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The beauty of today! As if the trees and the sunlight have been planning it all year, this infinite gallery of colour, this boundless book of light and movement, the wind wishing through it all, touching everything almost hesitantly, disbelieving. And us, alive in it; now, now..
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Just done it! The Faroe Islands Sound Walk, BBC Radio 3: we're interviewing real elves this Christmas...
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I think we should march for democracy, and demand a General Election, peacefully, legally, and very, very loudly
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THE SWIFTS have returned to Hebden Bridge! Miracles of the spring, glories of the sky, they're back, just now, and screeling... It must have been a fun trip, from Mozambique via Congo and Liberia, the Sahara, the Med, Europe, the Channel - and now here. We are one world, they say
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They'll be on their mettle in heaven tonight, as one of the great souls of our time arrives. Utterly observant, funny, subversive and kind, ready to pen the first and best despatch. Let every reader and writer salute her, in this world and the next. Here's to the Great Jan Morris
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Red kite! The first I have seen in Yorkshire. They were released in 1999 near Leeds, having bred in the Chilterns - descended from four Spanish and one Welsh kite installed there in 1989. And now here, turning the valley under his wing. Good day to you, God of the morning.
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The BBC has also launched two new shortwave frequencies broadcasting World Service English news for four hours a day to Ukraine and parts of Russia:
15735 kHz from 14:00 GMT to 16:00 GMT
5875 kHz from 20:00 GMT to 22:00 GMT. Retweet it, you never know who might see it...
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Here is the true story of people crossing the Channel, what they find here and how Britain actually meets them. (The paywall allows one click!) You may be pleasantly surprised...
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When you wish you didn't have a lockdown barnet and no smart clothes
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Just done it. 'A Traveller's Guide to Mental Health' , my next book, delivered to Penguin 12 hours short of the deadline. I've got hopes for this one... and God knows the shitshow of our current system needs something like it
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It's coming up to that time of year! Fancy a Sound Walk across an archipelago far away..?
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They're back! A pair, just now, twittering madly over the house - all that long, long way from the Cape they've come, and they made it. My heart filled: two swallows on Easter Sunday. Having followed them here in 2008 I resolved to go south with them, one day; a sequel, inshallah
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We call on the Home Secretary to abandon her policy of turning back refugee boats in the Channel. We are appalled that the lives of vulnerable people should be so recklessly endangered. This disgraceful, inhumane policy shames our nation; it must not stand. RT if you agree
#SOS
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The swifts came yesterday, in a swirling gang, with house martins, even more than last year. It is such a joy to see them. 'Hello swifts!' I cried. It seemed to confirm my theory, that they travel in a bubble of clement weather, sensing the air pressure of storms and lows ahead
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HAPPY paperback publication day to this beauty! The moral of the story is, don't do what they tell you, necessarily; find out what you really need - and do that. We suffer as individuals but we are treated as categories. This has to change...
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SWIFTS! ! SWIFTS!!! They're back... Three magnificent big beautiful brown intercontinental border-mocking world-turning swifts over Hebden just now. Ay me..
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Presenting a new series for
@BBCRadio4
On every side this intricate world, dogged by distress, brims with mighty, brave, dedicated and hope-making people. Psychiatry admits it needs scrutiny and change. Here's to the fight towards the light: do join us!
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Strange times these, of love and worry; togetherness and missing; of hope and solidarity above all. Huge thanks and great good wishes to everyone who came with us on the
@BBCRadio3
Faroes Sound Walks. Your company is truly wonderful. All 3 episodes here:
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TWO SWIFTS! ! And the Congo came back to Yorkshire, flashed past my window on bowed wings just now as I was teaching; Ted Hughes said their return means the world is still turning. I say, they turn the world. Welcome back, beautiful devil birds!
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If you would like to join us on the Faroe Islands Sound Walk with
@BBCRadio3
there are still a few days left to listen. The ultimate January blues-banisher, includes free elves
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Huge congratulations and thanks to producer Jeremy Evans
@greatouseradio
and engineer Andy Fell
@andy_fell
who made this beautiful thing, which I am privileged to present. We climbed high; we found wonders! On
@BBCRadio3
at 4pm this week, with love & rain
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We're back - with the Greenland Sound Walk. A chance to hear this magical radio work, produced by Jeremy Evans
@greatouseradio
, recorded and mixed by
@andy_fell
: an expedition along the Arctic Circle Trail for
@BBCRadio3
. From 5pm Weds. Merry Christmas!
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Astonishing that 56 MPs are under investigation for sexual misconduct while the Conservatives cannot find 54 with the guts to express no confidence in the most mendacious, incompetent and destructive Prime Minister Britain has ever had. We need an entirely new political class
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My father, a great man
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Well that was a fabulous
@hayfestival
The work, the humour, the grace and care shown by every member of the production, technical, front of house, catering, transport, media and stewarding teams was just sublime. How fortunate are the writers and audiences of Hay - THANK YOU!
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At 1300 today on
@BBCRadio3
a Bank Holiday special - the UK's first experiment in Slow Radio - a Sound Walk from Capel-y-Ffin to Hay on Wye. It was a complete treat to present. If you fancy it, do come with me and producer
@PhilipTagney
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Three weeks' work, four nights sleeping in car, wild seagoing, dozens of interviews and no Home Office denial. Really proud to work on this
@ftweekend
investigation, pix by Harry Mitchell, edited by Lorien Kite
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The actual best of British, the BBC, has a duty to reflect and represent the people who own it - licence payers - NOT the government, which its charter obliges it to question. As such,
@GaryLineker
is doing the right thing, hopeless Tim Davie the wrong
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Thank you so much for your wonderful messages about the Sound Walks. It is a complete joy to be in your company, with production by
@greatouseradio
and sound by
@andy_fell
Snowdon is up next at 1600, and they are all here. May the hills lift our hearts..
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Set my record today with over 6000 words across the Mail, Express and Mirror about this revolutionary moment in mental health. Imminent Mental Health Act reform gives the chance of switching from an illness to a recovery model. My new book, Your Journey Your Way, explains how.
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Episode two, in which we consider a recipe for partridge droppings, exchange looks with the least intelligent husky in Greenland, muse on historical husband-swapping, and experience a perfect walk, and that cliff. And shamanic drum dancing...
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I've been in Dover for
@FT
@ftweekend
writing about people in small boats crossing the Channel. Much that media and government would have you assume about the feelings and deeds of extraordinary people involved - residents, agencies, guards - turns out to be wrong. Stand by...
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At 11 a.m on
@BBCRadio4
and
@BBCSounds
our journey into psychiatry continues with one of the great questions of mental health: is diagnosis working? Do join psychiatrist
@FemiMind
and me as we ask the hard questions...
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SWALLOWS! In Hebden Bridge. Arrived yesterday evening, saying they have had an epic trip and it feels good to be back...
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Incoming!
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If you fancy a break from it all, and goodness knows I do, at 1400 today on Radio 3 is broadcasting a kind of ghost hunt across Germany in pursuit of J S Bach. Producer Lindsay Kemp and sound recordist Richard Andrews and I had the most magical time of it. Do please join us!
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A pair of buzzards over the meadow, circling watchers below soft cloud. French falconers named them, busards, stupids, because they cannot be trained. Perhaps they're too smart, too strong, too stubborn. And we watch this spring as they do, as if it were the first we have seen.
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1530, Sunday, LLantwit Major These 3 Streams Festival, I am talking about my next book A Traveller's Guide to Mental Health for this man, Robin Jenkins of Atlantic Pacific. He sends lifeboats to places where there are none. Can you tell we were at school together a mile away?
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Planning a piece commissioned by the Daily Mail on what the Labour government needs to do about mental health provision. If you have any suggestions - especially beyond the obvious, like funding and staffing, continuity of care etc - I would be fascinated to hear them. Thank you
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Episode 2, the Postman's Trail, is a beauty of a Sound Walk, made by
@mrandyking
for
@BBCRadio3
, recorded by Andy Fell, contoured, sea-lit and sky-sung by the Faroe Islands. Part 3 this afternoon at 1600
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Heading to
@hayfestival
! A wonderful journey, always. Eight events this year, including interviewing
@RobGMacfarlane
about Underland. On Sunday morning I talk to Kirsty Lang about J S Bach's walk to Lubeck. Darkness and light, then, and it's sunny...
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Woah. Top cop Neil Basu tells the BBC that the Conservative Government didn't like the term 'far right extremism' for rioting thugs, because, they told him 'the far right is a legitimate political position.' Patel, Braverman, Jenrick: are these riots your anti-immigrant legacy?
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A phone-in just now. Host: 'What have you been doing to help your mental health during lockdown?'
Caller: 'Putting together a pilot whale skeleton in my back garden.'
Thank you,
@BBCRadio4
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Dear
@CBeebiesMag
Would you consider joining a campaign to take plastic toys of all kinds off the front of all children's magazines? It would be a wonderful thing to do, for planet, ocean and people - and a terrible thing not to do. What do you think?
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Up the hills! Very kind of Stephanie Billen in the Observer, and all credit to Jeremy Evans
@greatouseradio
and
@Andy_Fell
who put the magic together. In this shot, so drenched my own ma didn't recognise me, on her way to the crossword...
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Annual selfie, n coast of Jamaica. Amazing that Jamaicans forgive the UK slavery, but the UK is not happy to waive the visa fee which prevents many visiting family here. They find it wounding. They gave us boundless kindness & brighter souls. One love, no visa fee...yeah mon
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While we use his gas, Putin gets paid. I'd be happy to live with controlled power cuts to chop his cash off. So from 1400-1700 you could pull my plug. I'd probably wrap up and read. Reckon? Power to business and infrastructure would be exempt. And we could damage the devil. RT..
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A centimetre short of the COVER REVEAL you really want. Out on August 29th
@penguinrandom
, preorderable: all I have found out about mental health in the last 5 years. Includes jackdaws...
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A friend in Wales has a cottage available: one double, one single, beautiful location not far from the sea, shops walking distance. Could you very kindly pass this on to any refugee you might be in contact with, or anyone you know who might be in touch with refugees? Huge thanks
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This is a huge and wonderfully unlikely honour. I get to cut a ribbon in the hospital where I was treated, and to try to say thank you to the extraordinary people who work in mental health, for the vital work they do.
We're marking
#WorldMentalHealthDay
today with the official opening of our Unity Centre in Wakefield by author and broadcaster
@HoratioClare
. Find out more about our new adult acute mental health unit in our short video.
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To HELL with the Bibby Stockholm detention barge. She's gone. We can all feel prouder
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This is Dom, 4545 metres, one of the highest mountains in Switzerland. Alex, the waiter who served me breakfast, said his grandfather put a cross on top of it. I said 'He must have been a local hero!' Alex said, 'No, this is normal here...'
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I think we should lobby and boycott anyone who tries to buy Channel 4. A disgraceful assault on a superb and invaluable institution, typical of this absurd government of vandals.
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Romania, near the Ukraine border, with two men who move the world
Reunited with the last two lorries and
@HoratioClare
. Incredible driving Charlie and Ian. 🇺🇦💛💙🙏
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I'm not rushing into anything. It's going to be a long, cold hunt. But before four years are up I will have these bastards; I have vowed it.
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On Radio 4 today at 1100 psychiatrist
@FemiMind
and I explore the role of therapy in recovery and healing. Words versus pills, EMDR and CBT, and the big question: Is Psychiatry Working?
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a craven hypocrite
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My mum once made me promise never to seek power. She didn't say I couldn't accept it, if offered, tho. Sorry, Mum! (Actually she finds the government so dreadful she lifted the ban. . . )
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Really? You got into a car to find out whether you could drive safely? Is that even legal? I've had a bit to drink - I'll just go for a tootle, find out if I'm pissed? Surely bollocks. They went for a drive, against all law and guidance; he's bang to rights, he's got to go.
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Beautiful morning for sailing turned into a stunning day. Took my hands off the wheel briefly...
@tradewindvoyages
#SeeGolden
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Sticking the paddle in for
@ftweekend
with
@missbarton
. A deep bow to
@nickhayesillus1
for his trip-inspiring The Book of Trespass
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Dear
@tesconews
@sainsburys
would it be possible to add a donate-to-foodbank button to your online sites? Tricky times for you, but amazing if you could go the extra mile.
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At 0930 on Radio 4 this morning episode 3 of 'Is Psychiatry Working?' looks at new ways of understanding and working with schizophrenia and voice-hearing. An extremely brave and resolute interviewee, Rai Waddingham, tells us an astonishing story.
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I've never made a point of catching the programme but wouldn't it be fun, on Saturday, to give
@GaryLineker
his biggest ever Match Of The Day audience? Supporting people who support people...
#MOTD
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A HUGE day for
@NatGeo
@CBeebiesMag
@RedanPublishing
and
@EgmontUK
who have all kindly promised to respond to our call to dump plastic toys from their magazines. Will they go for TRUE CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY or just words, words word? Standing by...
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IN 'Is Psychiatry Working?' on
@BBCRadio4
at 1100 on Friday, our last episode looks at healing and recovery. Femi Oyebode
@FemiMind
and I are deeply grateful to you, to all our guests and to our wonderful producer,
@CloseEm
. We so hope this might be useful
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Icefeathers on the skylight this morning. Cold slowed the wasps. They came out slowly in ones and twos, busier as the sun thawed the roof and their gutter. They are gold in the light, black in shadow. 'So fleeting, so instant this life!' says autumn. A tightrope over eternity
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An ambition achieved! Front page of the FT website on the people who move the world: truckers. Will be the Weekend front tomorrow. We went to Romania the long, slow 40-tonne way. It was ace...
@IanPayn95812670
you're famous mate x
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WORLD'S FIRST SIGNED COPIES! At the Book Case, Hebden,
@bookcasehebden
A real thing in the world - so proud, and so very grateful to everyone who made it with me
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Flight to Rwanda will not be taking off tonight
No one will be deported to Rwanda from the UK tonight after the European Court of Human Rights issued last minute injunctions to stop the move.
The ECHR issued a series of last minute injunctions as the plane was about to take off
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Mum gets a lot of junk phone calls. Happily, one of the starlings can imitate the ringtone perfectly, and now does it daily, to the delight and admiration of many other starlings
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A day so beautiful it defies words; you need to be in it, under a sky as cold and bright as a summer sea. The leaves seem to be ripening and colouring in the light, the jackdaws toppling foolishly in a mild southerly, no bird, no cloud in any hurry - except the wasps, tizzing.
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With
@chriskenyonlondon
@alexander_clare
@robgmacfarlane
Doug Field - and almost with
@londonpillarboxes
and
@diarmaidgallagher
(carousing) &
@rojbert1
Mohit Bakaya (carousing) and Rob Ketteridge (sigh) - here're my men sweeping
@roseythermal
off her feet!
#wedding
#bride
#joy
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Apologies for the me me but I'm delighted to have the lead piece on this morning's From Our Own Correspondent. I went to Calais to ask why refugees want to come to Britain. You won't believe the first answer. On Radio 4 at 11
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Friday's new episode of Is Psychiatry Working on
@BBCRadio4
takes us into . . . medication. Do join
@FemiMind
and me as we take a look at pills, for good and ills
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Wouldn't wish Nigel Farage's country torn apart, his home and livelihood destroyed, his family & friends injured & killed, and he forced to flee by sea, drowning, found by a lifeboat which rejected him. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But then I'm with the
#RNLI
, not Nigel Farage
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This is very heartening and encouraging as we head into the differently-lit season...
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We all have an inner child who just needs to chase guinea fowl.
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Boris you're losing control. Sack Cummings, admit you've made mistakes which endanger us all, apologise, explain local lockdown means complete lockdown (including bars and cafes, ffs), enforce them, extend furlough to all shielders and all lockdown areas. And HURRY you posing nit
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A mission to Greenland with two of Radio 3's finest, Andy Fell and Jeremy Evans, to make your Christmas Slow Radio treat! via
@financialtimes
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With the great Tom Bullough and the magnificent Owen Sheers. We have been blessed with wonderful professional lives, thanks to the readers and writers of Wales and far beyond.
@hayfestival
has been incredibly good to us over many years - this snap from the artists' party...
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Attending the Extinction Rebellion demonstration on Blackfriars Bridge! A wonderful event - the first round of applause was for the kind and helpful
@metpolice
. Editors if you want a piece let me know. Journalists and humans in London - do come down, winter sun, planet saving...
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How wonderful to see this - Heavy Light out in the world, and what a world is
@LittleToller
's beautiful window! Thank you so much, dear Tollers x x
It gave me such joy to be able to put your book
@HoratioClare
in our little shop window this morning. Congratulations dear friend, thank goodness for new beginnings. 💚💚
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Finding company in far places. A very merry Christmas to you, dear friends x x
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One of the most lovely ports in all the world this evening
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The real hero is Charlie Bailey, pictured left, who agreed to share his cab with a blimmin journalist and a BBC mic all the way to the border. He even gave me the top bunk...
to
@HoratioClare
for saying yes to hitching a ride with Charlie and coming back from Ukraine!
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Giving it a bit of this today at 4pm - guest presenting Open Book and talking to the beautiful geniuses who are
@BenMyers1
@frankcottrell_b
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Is Cummings above the law, above the PM himself? Had he a shred of respect for either he would resign. But he holds democracy itself in contempt. Demand the sacking of this contemptible man, who holds himself above the law, above Parliament, press, politicians and ordinary lives.
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The heron flies down the valley, following the beck, as she does every morning, punting gently through the air. She's going to relish this month of Sundays. And there's that squirrel on the beech tree. I love the way he moves - as though every hop is the punchline of a joke
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Brexit democratically dead: More than 100 Westminster constituencies that voted to leave the EU have now switched their support to Remain, according analysis seen by the Observer. Most seats in Britain now contain a majority of voters who want to stay in the EU. (Let's bury it!)
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ENOUGH. News today: poor mental health leaves children 3 times less likely to get good grades. Research says stigma + self stigma stop healing & kill hope. We must KILL STIGMA. Suppose we all just come out. From anxiety to a breakdown - we just share
#StopStigma
Pls RT. Thank you
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