‘Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen’. John 4:20
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nicola schofield 
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Encouraging children to think critically re technology to influence change in the world. Tweets personal & often local! niccodeclub.wordpress.com
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Desperately concerned for the #nhs . Had to take my foster daughter to A and E (a severe reaction). Not only were there no ambulances “get yourself here” - no response to 101 - we had to share triage; staff had tears in bloodshot eyes; huge wait; 1/2
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Just one of several examples of newspaper stories acting like elderly people stuck in hospitals is a new thing. The strikes aren’t causing this. This is causing the strikes.
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For 2 years in a row I’ve bought a tree with roots. Both died 💔 I couldn’t handle another loss. So I brought in last year’s dead Christmas tree from the garden…and painted it!
Christmas tree recipe:
1 dead tree
1 tin of non toxic green paint
1 paintbrush
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I recently had a thermal imaging survey done of my house, to help us prioritise our budget on the best things to do to help keep our home warm. Here’s some of what we found: 🧵
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And in the Welsh speaking town of Trefelin,Argentina 🇦🇷❤️🏴⚽️
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Diwrnod braf i ddathlu!
@welshfootball_ some more of those celebrations in #Trevelin!
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There is something wrong with this country when a major national newspaper happily prints deranged and dangerously inciteful nonsense like this.
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6 meter high Christmas tree, Trivento, Italy, made with 1,300 donated crochet squares #WomensArt
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Huge, huge shout out to the incredible staff at Withybush Hospital for nursing Rhod back to health recently. Saw one nurse sit with one distressed patient all night, rubbing his back. Absolute angels ❤️
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My train from Manchester to London was fine so of course the one home has been CANCELLED with no more trains leaving tonight. Which means a train to Birmingham and then a bus to Manchester. HOW IS THIS OK
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Are you putting on a school performance soon? If you do decide to use audio and video for a live or pre-recorded performance, here are some things you might want to consider to help safeguard staff and children: swgfl.org.uk/resources/safe
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HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top actress in Hollywood, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today's Bluetooth and GPS technology.
What a gal.
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I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.
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It would be useful for grocery customers if removed option for "Click for refund" from grocery orders. I'm told this isn't actually an option & the only way to resolve issues is to phone customer services directly.
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@AmazonUK @Morrisons Impossible to get help/ refunds on terrible grocery delivery 3 days ago. Please advise how to contact an actual person
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"Sewage questions to MP prompt police home visits."
No doubt and or can confirm if this story is true and if so why they think their response was reasonably, necessary or proportionate?
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If you think we don’t need to codify in law that women have a human right to choose to have an abortion, Jacob rees-mogg just argued against women who are victims of rape or incest having a right to have one.
Women deserve equal rights. Whoever is in government.
#trustWomen
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The train is full.
The next train is cancelled.
The train after costs £184.70 for a single.
There is no WiFi, and the shop only takes cash.
Travelling Avanti - only marginally preferable to crawling from London to Manchester.
TLDR: Strikes aren’t the problem on our railways.
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"It is my dream to meet you in real life. Imagine meeting your idol."
@ManCity mad Finlay wrote an emotional letter to his favourite player and hero, @JackGrealish. What followed was a moment he'll never forget.
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NEW: Rishi Sunak is appointing an “independent” investigator from outside government to establish facts of Dominic Raab allegations and report back to him.
However, No 10 concedes that PM himself will be “ultimate arbiter” of complaints. The judge and jury, if you like.
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Dear service providers, if you’ve now been experiencing ‘unprecedented high demand’ for two and a half years since the pandemic started, it’s now your usual demand and you need to up your resourcing to meet it.
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This bin costs thousands of pounds because it alerts & that it is full.
Yet it so rarely emptied that its almost always in this state... (Breaking the contract that should invoke fines if the council ever enforced of the contract). #MuckyMerton
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Autumn will continue to be a wonderful spectacle in #WimbledonPark, unless AELTC succeed in their plans to chop down dozens of verteran trees, bulldoze and pour concrete all over the golf course, despite signing covenants in 1993 promising not to:
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This is extraordinary and deeply worrying. The plea "can I show you my press card?" - which would have avoided this - is just ignored. Police should not be arresting journalists in this country.
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Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25.
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Some weeks ago, in an effort to confuse and misinform the general public, @SoutherWater change how they display their sewage dumping map, making it much more difficult to read and understand.
As display of public good I thought I'd change it back again. Here's today's map.
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I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵
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However he was just any of us on a bad day. He had risk factors. But he was just a human being, who was loved, and valued and meaningful, who couldn’t see this for long enough to do a thing that I think we all have capacity to do. Which is why we all must be part of the solution
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I wanted to produce a thread to counter the sickening, dehumanising attacks on refugees and those seeking asylum in this country.
Then there was the petrol bomb attack in Dover and ghastly Gullis naming hotels that housed refugees. Final straw.
So... here are just a few...
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One of the biggest collectors and commissioners of modern art in the world is...Nandos.
This is fascinating piece about how the chicken restaurant chain owns 22,000 works and keeps on commissioning young, African artists.
[Piece is from 2019]
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📽️Outsized baubles from a Christmas display have caused chaos on London's Tottenham Court Road after rolling into traffic.
Read more here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/0
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Legal Twitter - a summary of fruitless activity.
This working week I have toured north London & the West Midlands, pointlessly.
Yesterday I left home bright &early to go the Hendon Mags for an all-day deportation appeal. I got there at 9am. The cells told me my client 1/5
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This is quite an extraordinary fact. I wonder how many have other EU passports?
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in 2016, only 47 British MPs & Lords held an Irish passport
- by 2021, that figure went up to 227
- in 2022, there are now 321 of them with an Irish passport
Our ruling class seems to have remained in Europe. People next?
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“Little man”? Honestly?
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Minister for food Mark Spencer tells Sky: “We all talk on personal phones don’t we. When I ring my wife, maybe there’s some little man in China listening to my conversation between me and my wife."
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Quick question: is your mind noisy?
Is your headspace filled with constant questions and a running internal monologue, or can your mind be quiet and still? 🧠
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Always nice to see my son’s apple return home from it’s daily school outing
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Fancy coming shopping with me for a bit? I’m working on a piece for a national newspaper & looking for 4 households to take part. If you’d like a budget makeover on your weekly supermarket shop, drop me an email at jackmonroediary@gmail.com with the subject SHOPPING - cheers!
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Sunak, I suspect, thinks that he will be a prime minister with more integrity than Johnson just because he is a better person. He probably is. But he hasn't understood that integrity begins with personal relations, by not behaving petulantly and childishly, by setting an example.
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