I've volunteered for Liz Truss's campaign team to help out with slogans for the next six months. Everyone's saying that 3 words do the trick, as with 'Get Brexit done'. I thought of 'Wrap up warm'. It's got that good mix of folkiness, urgency and gaslighting that wins votes.

How do you console an English teacher?

There, their, they’re

Jennifer 💙💚🇺🇦 Stand with Ukraine. I’ll just put this here (again)… (Oh and just for the record, I’m a recently retired left-of-centre positively rebellious teacher).

Award-winning cartoonist to shine light on people who feel invisible with Stoke Newington Art Trail london-post.co.uk/award-winning-…

An opera choir in Odessa sing ‘Va, pensiero’ (Choir of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco, as the city braces for a Russian attack.

LONDON BRIDGES fundraising for Freedom from Torture on JustGiving justgiving.com/team/crossingb…

Purcell concert at The Old Church. A few seats still available! operacabaret.org/2016/08/purcel… via The Opera Cabaret

Home operacabaret.org via The Opera Cabaret

What a great night! All thanks to our Opera Cabaret singers and audience!

Very sad to learn of Oliver Sacks' death. What a great and humane writer/thinker. mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/sci…

Delighted that Hampstead hero Nicholas Winton will be honoured on a stamp next year for saving 669 Jewish children. itv.com/news/2015-08-2…

Booking soon opens (February 1st) for Opera Cabaret at Primrose Hill!

Turkey took more Syrian refugees in 3 days than Europe took in 3 YEARS. We've got days to up Europe's ambition thesyriacampaign.org/en/actions/pro…

Buddhism&Psychology Excellent! Assignments & suffering are both optional...the good news of the four noble truths! #buddhismpsych

A reminder about the PAS Radio 4 Appeal this Sunday, January 5th, at 07:55 and 21:26 - please do tune in! (repeated Thurs 9th at 15.27)