Today Michael
@MichaelRosenYes
has been in hospital for 8 weeks & I'm v happy to say he left ICU yesterday after a long & difficult 47 days.His recovery is continuing on the Ward & will take time. He has done so well to get through this but please don't expect him back here yet❤️
Very pleased to say Michael
@MichaelRosenYes
is recovering steadily in a rehabilitation hospital. He has been making really good progress this week & has been able to take his first steps today thanks to the great physios
@NHSuk
who are keeping him busy!
Little plea. I know
@MichaelRosenYes
is doing some tweeting but pls don't ask him to read & comment on your unpublished poems, record a short video message, take part in a Zoom meeting, write a blurb for your latest book or do any work of any kind. He is not fully recovered yet.
Here's Michael
@MichaelRosenYes
poet doing what he does best at our friend's birthday last year. We can't be with Michael today, he is still v poorly, stable with improvements - but we will tell him "Happy Birthday Mick" & send him all our love when we see him via a video call 😍
My instinct is to help my husband recover from the terrible physical & psychological trauma of spending 7 weeks in ITU in an induced coma with Covid 19. I really need to reassure & calm him & to explain what has happened to him so he can begin to recover. But I can't visit him.
In this edition of
#comfortandhope
,
@sophieraworth
reads 'These Are The Hands' by Michael Rosen.
The poem is published in ‘These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS’. All proceeds will go to the NHS Charities Covid Appeal.
#R4Today
Hi Jonathan are you saying I'm a victim of the patriarchy for driving someone who was turning blue and dying in front of me to hospital - with our daughter? Nice!
Israel & its allies would prefer we don't mention the nearly 4000 children it has killed in
#Gaza
. But we will.
We named 50 of the children in Trafalgar Square yesterday. Their names will be heard and their memory will be honoured.
#CeasefireNOW
Teams of people in their crews: nurses, doctors, cleaners, caterers, ambulance drivers, physios (and more) made huge efforts to keep me alive - along with many others at the same time. They saved my life and have got me from horizontal to hobbling. Forever grateful to you all xxx
You can fuck right off
@tweetingtrog
Michael is in a rehabilitation hospital. He has been critically ill with covid since 28th March. He spent 47 days in an induced coma on a fucking ventilator & you come on here to bait. Just Fuck off.
Why don't you ask your viewers to caption this one too?
@itvpeston
? How about "committed politician turning up to do his job in the middle of a pandemic. Again."
@jeremycorbyn
inspiring to see Jeremy Corbyn always looking after the communities, preparing food at Light Project food-bank to deliver to people homes before attending parliament to hold the Government to account
Reunited (at a safe distance) with one of my favourite human beings on the
@BBCRadio2
show tonight. Reading a Michael Rosen poem -
STORYTIME this evening is from
@michaelsheen
💙
As the Covid Inquiry
@covidinquiryuk
opens today, here's us on 13 June 2020. We were lucky, where others were not, to be visiting Michael
@MichaelRosenYes
in the garden of St Pancras Hospital
@CNWLNHS
He spent 3 weeks there learning to walk again. Also, beard trimming.
@Katshnn
@MichaelRosenYes
It’s ok - I have supplied Michael
with all the toiletries he needs and might need - He is a poet & is prone to exaggerate for the sake of hyperbole !
@SCynic1
@BBCRadio4
@TheCriminalBar
1. Michael Rosen has never supported the WRP. 2 He has presented Word of Mouth for 20 years. 3 He has never used the programme as a “platform”. 4 He often celebrates Yiddish on the prog 5 He has helped 2000 children write poems for
#HMD2019
in Cambridge tomorrow
@MichaelRosenYes
The Rights Of The Reader, according to
@Deer_Class
. This led on to a fantastic discussion about why it's so important for pupils to have ownership of their reading.
#readingforpleasure
@OutriderTed
@MichaelRosenYes
Michael is being looked after at home by me. He doesn't need to be in hospital. He isn't coughing and he isn't short of breath. He hasn't been tested for the virus.
I reckon It’s you who should be ashamed of yourself, using language like that abt a well-known children’s author, & Holocaust educator who recently published a book abt the loss of his relatives in Auschwitz
Do you hear that
@MichaelRosenYes
? "PLEASE make sure to rest cognitively as well as physically (eg limit being on here!)" Exactly what I've been saying...
@MichaelRosenYes
So lovely to have you back! PLEASE make sure to rest cognitively as well as physically (eg limit being on here!). You’d be v welcome in our
#covid1in20
support group for ppl with prolonged symptoms. A huge help for sharing info and support
@Underthecranes
At Arsenal today, I'm pointing at Eddie (my late son) and me on the Arsenal mural on the wall outside. Eddie is next to the green dinosaur who is called Gunnasaurus and I'm next to him.
@Wrongone100
@MichaelRosenYes
@antisemitism
I know Michael, he’s my husband and I’m astounded that someone can make such a flippant yet offensive and completely unfounded remark In a grim January after a grim year, a cheap crack like this has upset me.
You know that myth about Sisyphus, doomed for all eternity to push a boulder up a hill? Studying law has felt a bit like that at times, but today I'm really pleased to say I'm going to be a Trainee Solicitor at top ranked
@WilsonsLondon
from the start of April. 🤓 🍾
Hi
@Hermesparcels
- We were definitely at home when you say you tried to deliver last night at 10.43 pm - where else would we be on a Thursday evening in December during a pandemic?!
Have you approached
@MichaelRosenYes
for comment about having his & Helen Oxenbury's work defaced by 'The Protocols' by a director of Labour Against Antisemitism
@JewishChron
?
via
@jewishchron
@Writerer
@MichaelRosenYes
@J0e_R0sen
I’m sorry but nowhere have I said that Michael is “on the mend”. I have been choosing my words very carefully because we simply do not know what the outcome will be I’m afraid.
@MichaelRosenYes
I'd like to thank Boris Johnson because, just as I was beginning to think this law lark is too hard & I should give it all up, this disgusting policy has quite renewed my enthusiasm. I've been reading up on immigration law all afternoon. F--k u, as they say in court.
@john_logical
@HildaPalmer
@MichaelRosenYes
Covid zealot? Michael had severe covid. The media (TV, radio, print) all want to know abt his experience & how he's doing. I suggest this is because some respect & admire his work as a children's author, writer & broadcaster & know he can articulate what many are going through.
'Dubs' scheme bringing lone child refugees to safety in UK ends.
Tonight over 200 unaccompanied children, the youngest just 11 years old, will be sleeping outside in Calais and Dunkirk. The UK must provide legal routes of passage immediately.
Children lacking 'discipline and order'. Is that based on, you know, actual evidence, 'cos they were all doing so well on 26 March. Did the attack dogs tell you to go for 'behaviour' now
@GavinWilliamson
?
Young people have shown incredible resilience over the last year, even when faced with numerous challenges and an unprecedented level of disruption.
I am filled with admiration and want to say a huge thank you to all of you.
My open letter here:
@MichaelRosenYes
Oh hello you! That
@Underthecranes
and those kids of yours are marvels as are you! I’ve got to know your front path quite well. Now rest up to get those legs of yours back up it smartish xxx
“I wanted to make everyone that believed in me proud… I knew I could get those grades if I actually did the exams.”
Mithushan Thiagarajah had an offer to read medicine at Cambridge and was predicted 4 A*s. Today he was downgraded and the offer has been withdrawn.
#Newsnight
You've implied that you know where we live. This sounds quite threatening to me. If you carry on in this vein, it won't be just Twitter that I report you to. I've screenshot your comment.
I've just signed the open letter calling on
@pritipatel
to ensure the UK prioritises saving lives - rather than punishing refugees and migrants risking their lives to get to the UK by boat. Will you add your name?
Here's a legally qualified person who actually trains journalists in media law telling journalist
@sophielouisecc
that her tweet is defamatory. You'd think she might delete it now and, you know, apologise. My thanks again
@WhitHealth
for the care you showed to
@MichaelRosenyes
@sophielouisecc
Taken before the first lockdown, so your tweet is defamatory of every single person in that picture.
They could take you to the cleaners, but fortunately for you they’re too busy doing something worthwhile.
That’s so kind of you to choose Michael’s “These are the Hands” tonight
@michaelsheen
- the lovely staff
@WhitHealth
have pinned it up above his bed like a talisman, I hope. Wish he cld have heard you read it. x
I was fortunate to meet the amazing Margaret Meek at various children's book events with
@Michaelrosenyes
over the last 20 years and she was a kind, humane person who always listened to what children had to say:
Margaret Meek Spencer obituary
Here is Michael's
@MichaelRosenYes
"These are the Hands" in a short film to raise money for NHS Charities Together
@NHSuk
using lovely archive from
@BFI
@EVCOMUK
This is good. But, we know the NHS is not a charity & should be properly funded by Government.
I cried as I watched Michael Rosen's 'These are the Hands' a Fund-raising ad for NHS Charities Together: from
@BFI
and
@evcomur
How the NHS has cared for us for 70 yrs.
The most emotional 1 minute 50 second film I have ever seen! DON"T MISS IT - massive!:
@loukwaz1
@MichaelRosenYes
Apart from writing for children, Michael is Prof in Education Dept at Goldsmiths, teaching teachers on MA course he co-devised & has spent his life working in schools, at their invitation.
@SpeakingofBks
organise these visits, real & virtual.
You can fuck right off
@tweetingtrog
Michael is in a rehabilitation hospital. He has been critically ill with covid since 28th March. He spent 47 days in an induced coma on a fucking ventilator & you come on here to bait. Just Fuck off.
@loukwaz1
@MichaelRosenYes
@SpeakingofBks
Here's Michael's Youtube channel with over 400 of his performance videos, made mostly at his own expense & provided free to children, parents & to teachers as a resource to supplement their great work. 550K subscribers & 100 Million hits so far!
@J0e_R0sen
I decided to study law after making a radio programme about unaccompanied young people
@DostCentre
I did my GDL during lockdown & am doing my LPC now
@UniversityofLaw
it's hard work but I'm so pleased to have just been offered a trainee caseworker job at top firm
@WilsonsLondon
Here's
@MichaelRosenYes
with Madame Martine Le Blond Zola, great-grandaughter of Emile Zola at Zola's country place at Médan & site of the Musée Zola Dreyfus. I had just recorded a touching interview with Madame for the programme we were making "Zola in Norwood"
@BBCRadio3
!
@ZealouslyQuoted
@BBCRadio4
You’ve published a false and malicious statement which seeks to harm the reputation of someone in the public eye & damage his relationship with his employer. This is a libel.
@michaelrosenyes
It is so hot I'm staying at the beach, but this one is in Venice, Italy, 92 years ago. It's a jarringly modern-looking photo by Hans Hildenbrand, taken all the way back in 1928. (It's original colour and not colourised).
@onlyoneabou
@DavidDidau
Er,
@MichaelRosenYes
has worked in schools for over 40 years & is Prof of Children's Lit at Goldsmiths in Dept of Educational Studies - he teaches teachers -& is in high demand for keynotes at teacher & Heads conferences across the UK, but what do they know eh?
@joenutt_author
Boris Johnson: The criminal justice system is being "hamstrung by lefty-lawyers and do-gooders".
Let's be clear. He's saying his version of justice, is the opposite of 'good' (aka bad)
@MichaelRosenYes
@ChrisToland68
@agrandlakeofmud
@DavidHirsh
@HicksLlp
Chris also expressed not just a political animus towards Michael which is fair enough, but was personally abusive too & said how he had seen Michael in the street near our home. A complete stranger who neither I nor Michael has ever met or interacted with.
Here's my nan & grandad,Tom & Elsie Cleary enjoying a trip. They went through WWII. Nan in London with two babies nr Woolwich Arsenal & grandad in the Navy, matelot on the escorts for the food convoys for the duration.He once said to me "It blighted our young years." That is all.
@drobern
@AntiRacismDay
@MichaelRosenYes
@KenLoachSixteen
To be clear, Michael has tweeted about his nasty flu-like symptoms. He hasn't said he has the virus, others have inferred that he has the virus. He doesn't have a cough, nor breathing difficulties. He hasn't been tested for the virus because he is being cared for by me at home.
Oh dear, was really looking forward to our trip, paid for in full, confirmed by company in writing, which has just been cancelled with 4 days to go with no reason offered from
@cottagescom
We're not very impressed
@MichaelRosenYes
These wonderful people speak from the heart about the impact of Covid on
#michaelrosen
on a special edition of
#thereunion
@BBCRadio4
tomorrow morning at 9am.
@loukwaz1
@MichaelRosenYes
@SpeakingofBks
You might want to check out Michael's parents, both very well regarded educators, dad Harold Rosen, Prof at Institute of Education & mum, Connie Rosen, teacher trainer at Goldsmiths. I think Michael is on the side of teachers, never against them, don't you?
@rozzleberry
@MichaelRosenYes
I’m just trying to protecting my partner from requests to do things for free while he is still in hospital recovering from being critically ill. I’m sure you wld do the same !