Great to meet PompeyInitMush from.Emsworth just now in Lincoln
Reckon worth checking out his channel. John Ferrett Nick Ralph

Come to Lincoln for work + bump.into folk from Emsworth, Bedhampton, Portchester , Stamshaw + Cosham. Pompey gets everywhere John Ferrett Penny Mordaunt Steve Bomford

Proud to have led our London Citizens team in an excellent assembly last night with 2000+ londoners demonstrating the power, vibrancy and positivity of civil society.

poor Chris Philp MP . He doesn't know that after a GP you already get assessed by Department for Work and Pensions . A physio looking at psychosis + a podiatrist reviewing PTSD. Jokesville, right?

Really looking forward to reading this! Lusaka launch date 5 July.

Just heard Michael Cholbi give a v stimulating and interesting paper on 'grief'. Top notch. Now for the book The University of Edinburgh

On train sixth form students discussing ' really old fashioned mysic' where ' people bang on drums'. So much for AC/DC tickets this summer! :-)

Today, we mourn those killed during the Armenian Genocide and commit to telling their stories so they are never lost to history.

I am inspired by the resiliency of the Armenian people and all they have built, but we can never forget. Honored to have paid my respects last year:

It re-elected I’m committed to working side by side with the Canal and River Trust to improve the West Midlands Canal Network 🚣

This includes co-funding a feasibility study for a major restoration of the Bradley Arm canal to link Wolverhampton, Walsall & Birmingham 🤝🏻

Delighted to see Des Wilson going strong. Another 9 Poland Street alumnus with Frank Field who gave us lead free petrol, freedom of info, Shelter + more . All honour Joseph Rowntree Foundation . Dont we need another hub of an ' alternative civil service'? Mike Tuffrey

Professor Francis Davis FRAI UK Parliament Joseph Rowntree Foundation A tireless champion for social justice and improving the lives of the poorest. A huge loss. Many people also forget that the principles of UC (single integrated benefit) were actually developed by Frank when he was told to ‘think the unthinkable’ in 1997.

He wrote of my 2008 report on welfare 'a clarion call.for a new welfare state, breaking beyond tired Temple-Keynes cliches; welcome + deeply refreshing ' sending copies to friends across UK Parliament . Maybe the last of the radical heroes of Poland Street backed by Joseph Rowntree Foundation .

Amen to this: a brilliant observer of ' the unprincipled society'.

Congrats

When Southampton was championing St George's Day as a progressive festival ( 2012) Seems to have caught on !
Satvir Kaur
Respect
John Denham

“It is a sense of revulsion at injustice and poverty and denied opportunity, whether at home or abroad, which impels people to work for a better world, to become, as in our case, democratic socialists.”

Rt. Hon. John Smith MP giving the R. H. Tawney Lecture (1993),

Another wade on the Itchen Way and Winchester Cathedral now reached on foot from Portsmouth Cathedral ☩ . 2nd June will complete the walk to Salisbury Cathedral in one hit raising funds for Naomi House Hospice.Nick Ralph @timday

Unique circumstances : brilliant airline for the world Emirates

This is a risk to veterans , rape survivors , + abuse survivors who already know treatment is super scarce + DWP assessors so generalist that they struggle to understand severe needs, causing harm already.
Must be resisted Sir Stephen Timms Greg Clark
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A reprise of my reflections for The Tablet on visiting Iraq this year as Iranian rockets dropped Ruth Gledhill Catholic Voices Aid to the Church in Need UK
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