Miranda Green

As someone who is still here five years later and had this type of chemotherapy for BC, and has looked (through my fingers) at the stats, in a very real sense ET IN ARCADIA EGO - an absolutely wonderful letter about how the human mind makes creative connections

either too much cheese or not enough cheese.

or the make-up-your-bloody-mind weather.

totally agree - what a ridiculous fortnight this is turning out to be all round - also: don't bloody resign, make sure you fix it! Slight shades of David Cameron's tum-ti-tum post-Brexit vote.

ah well now that's a very good question Venetia. the whole question of how people are seen at work is totally down to gendered assumptions - still the case in my view and experience! There is bags of research on how same behaviours/traits are seen differently in men and women. A whole other column!

known as the cursed ratio!

Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.

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Book 76, “The Nuns Escape to the Chalet School”

ah The Goodies - what larks!

Should I be myself at work? The pros and cons of preserving a professional self

Should you be yourself at work? Rachel from Leeds asked us last Sat in the @ftweekend.com magazine so I looked into it for her - short answer, don't let it all hang out if you want to be a leader and also (depressing this) people prefer if you fake authenticity www.ft.com/content/1407...

great

Met a senior surgeon in a Sussex hospital a while ago and they were absolutely all over coping with the pandemic too, coped with 'hot' areas for Covid and 'cold' to keep the other treatments going - mindblowing that it was such a postcode lottery. managers yes also intelligent innovation from medics

Interesting to see TeamNigel’s back catalogue getting belated scrutiny that was absent at the time from the broadcast media.

totally agree with the implication here - it's the whole experience isn't it? some of that is 'soft' but some of it is actually very relevant to recovery as well - eg spending an entire day yesterday trying to get someone very frail discharged and safely home - well managed "extras"

after gruelling 4 days in and out of St Mary's with my ancient mum, the ICU/high dependency bit is amazing + well staffed - the bits that let the whole thing down are eg wheelchair transport/the pharmacy/the things that actually do affect health/block beds but are non medic/nursing

yeah so agree

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Annotated: the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan Draft agreement has shocked Europe and is unlikely to satisfy Kyiv or Moscow

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Prosecutor Mark Heywood has today told the Old Bailey: "It is clear that he read from the script he had with him."

Gill sent a YouTube link to his speech to Voloshyn and wrote "V should be pleased by this".

He was then asked to "encourage other MEPs" to take a similar stance

Here's what appears to be the result - Gill and two other MEPs making strikingly similar comments to the European Parliament, following a trip to meet the pro-Putin TV channels

the principle is widely supported Venetia - not really the same thing - for example, look at what Luciana Berger is doing on an amendment to protect young people, and many others on trying to spot and prevent coercion and improper influence. The Commons did a bad job and what could be higher stakes?

blowhards, blah blah, in harmony, blah blah, out of tune and harsh, blah blah, hot air, *dies quietly*

I'd also like updates on this please! Agree with Gavin, far to little tracking and joining up of dots on this AND awful right/left coding on the wider lockdown conversation distorts the entire thing

I prescribe Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf - a great series. He's a total duffer.

Get Through It (as in Blur)

ironic since this is what so many anti-monarchy republicans do too! thanks for these posts, very interesting

this has been initially upsetting and then interesting but I'm now leaving if that's ok - the rest of the day calls

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Definitely worth it!

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so true - both are fundamental

oh god, good luck with that - it's a trade off - for me, having her right here rather than worrying the entire time is a massive plus, and she's now safe, but I appear to be accidentally running an offsite care home! all best.

yes it's all mad - I'm extremely keen on multigenerational living as it happens as it would solve a whole bunch of modern problems at a stroke - childcare, eldercare, loneliness and its attendant health disasters, etc etc - plus add to social glue. And anyway Simon I'm sorry I snapped at you!

My parents did downsize which is handy as all the £ was then needed for Dad's at home dementia care, now we've downsized mum again, we're doing our bit but the end result is no spare rooms anywhere either for us to live as a family or have a carer - and frankly the whole thing is killing me