Emily

This week I wrote about how millions of vulnerable and disabled people are no longer eligible for a covid booster.

Here's a petition you can sign to stop that happening petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

(and the article www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...)

I spent 60 hours in A&E waiting for a bed. When I eventually got to a ward, 2 of the 6 beds were occupied by patients ready to discharge but lacking a social care package.

A SERIOUS request to @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social — please create an account for Bloomberg Citylab here on @bsky.app. Citylab has been an excellent platform for articles about cities (I used to write for it, and @langealexandra.bsky.social won a Pulitzer for it!).

REPOST if you support Citylab.

Watch our LIVE camera from the puffin colony on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK YouTube video by National Trust

This @nationaltrust.org.uk Puffin webcam on the Farne Islands is rather wonderful.

looking through the results this morning and, you know what, I always imagined I'd enjoy the death throes of the Conservative Party a lot more than this

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George Monbiot on Ukraine/Putin: “It’s as if he’d come to the UK, he’d occupied Kent, Surrey, Sussex & then somebody else like Donald Trump comes along & says fine guys just live with that. These people who go on about sovereignty will sell anyone down the river” 👏

The Telegraph who hate illegal immigrants, advising Brits how to be illegal immigrants.

Excellent piece in a week when the 'economically inactive' are targeted.

4 in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working [prob higher figure in reality] with mothers are hit hardest.

There's much that sibling carers will see in this too.

#SEND #familycarer

'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest

I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health.

And all this goes on unacknowledged.

Long read for The i Paper:

inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Reminder that Storyville Books in Pontypridd has suffered a great deal of damage this weekend - help this indie bookshop by ordering books using the link below if you can please