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Lydia Whitehead retweeted
It was inevitable. The song is a mess, like the situation the BBC has found itself in. But this one's dedicated to all the dudes showing solidarity with @GaryLineker on @BBCMOTD. ⚽️🎶
#IStandWithGary
#GaryLineker
#BBCQuestionTime
#WatfordFCManagementApproachNeeded 🐝
Anita from the OU being brilliant as ever.
The low pay, high workloads, casualisation and inequality staff face mean students aren’t getting the support they deserve
@ANLecturer tells BBC Politics Wales why we are set to strike
#ucuRISING
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
How does @netflix @NetflixFilm @NetflixUK find ideas for flicks? Can I suggest/recommend BlackMahler.com - The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Story? A great true story, relevant, poignant, made for the screen & well overdue.👏👏👏 amazon.co.uk/Black-Mahler-Sa…
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
Long Covid can be debilitating & it is here to stay
Employers & pension schemes need to start treating it like the serious disease it is
UCU official Lydia Richards writes in the Guardian on Long Covid, risk-averse pension schemes and tickbox HR depts
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
BREAKING 🚨 | A leaked Treasury document has revealed energy companies will make excess profits of up to £170 BILLION, in the next 2 years.
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
Really great thread here about why the colours on the weather forecast are not about scaring us about heat, and *shock horror* some people on social media doctor images to ‘prove’ a point.
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
Thanks for all those asking about Olive and Mabel - they're just enjoying a bit of rest at the moment.
Pretty Yende has the most glorious voice and is stunning as Violetta. Thoroughly enjoying this production whilst sitting in Cambridge and introducing my daughter to the joy of #ROHtraviata
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
Rishi Sunak said today that he has "absolutely no idea" about links between his wife's family company and Putin.
He should ask his father-in-law.
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
Front Publishing have stolen my book and are selling it on Amazon. My book on the right. Theirs, left, is a bad photocopy of my text with a different cover. Please share and shame them. (Yes, we are n the process of getting it removed.)
And so we have Jess to give witness to the deaths of these women at the hands of men. A long list but as she says in reality it is much longer.
It is an honour to make this speech and to work with the families of these women who were killed. I wish I didn't have to do it. Thank you to @K_IngalaSmith for her tireless work.
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
We’re outside the UK visa application centre in Rzezsow, Poland.
It’s -3 degrees. People have been waiting in this queue for 3 hours.
There are children here. An 84 year old woman.
And plenty of room inside, but they won’t open the door.
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
.@ukhomeoffice has denied entry to a 69 yr old Ukrainian widow, fleeing the fighting in Kharkiv, to join her daughter in the UK. They suggested she apply for a visitor visa or remain in France, where she has no relatives & doesn’t speak French.
Sickening.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
Lydia Whitehead retweeted
Right that Immigration Minister has deleted tweet saying Ukrainians can come pick UK fruit.
But still no answers from @pritipatel to my Qs.
Problem remains. Home Office is restricting Ukrainians to current visas with high hurdles & delays.
That’s not sanctuary, it’s shameful
