The arrival of #MeghanMarkle - a woman directly descended from slavery - offers an opportunity to openly discuss bigger issues of race, class & gender. Her arrival opens a window on deep-seated racial & class prejudices that run deep within society #Oprah
newsweek.com/dont-let-gover…
“Did you make Kate cry?” - #Oprah

“The opposite happened” #MeghanMarkle

...also Meghan admitted she & Harry got secretly married 3 day before the wedding #MeghanAndHarry #Oprah
#OprahMeghanHarry #OprahHarryMeghan #HarryandMeghanonOprah ImageImageImageImage
“The island was an absolute cesspool, just ask #PrinceAndrew about it.”

#Trump tells reporters to ask the Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein's island in 2015 video. #OprahMeghanHarry #OprahHarryMeghan #Oprah

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9 Mar
1/. Ten years ago, when William got engaged to Kate - a Commoner - I wrote this piece about how wall-to-wall fawning media coverage of this so-called ‘Cinderella Story’ exposed the fact that Britain remained a deeply class-ridden & deeply sexist society.
newstatesman.com/blogs/the-stag…
2/ Like Cinderella, this modern romance was also rife with negative gender stereotyping & ugly class prejudice

Britons it seem, aspire to upward mobility but despise themselves & are despised for it

@AJEnglish saw the article & signed me up as their Royal Wedding correspondent Image
3/. The arrival of #MeghanMarkle exposed further deep-seated class & racial prejudices that run deep within our society

So deep that it’s far easier - & more fun - to kick against a scapegoat rather than acknowledge the prejudices & start unpacking them.
google.co.uk/amp/s/www.news…
Read 5 tweets
5 Mar
1/. One year ago, the BBC reported that a 70 year-old woman in Reading had became the first Briton to die of #COVID19

A year on, it is time for the UK to take a moment to grieve

Today we mark #CovidMemorialDay

Join our 7pm candle-lit minute's silence.
covidmemorialday.org.uk
2/. Shakespeare warns that if we fail to "give sorrow words the grief will o-er wrought heart and bid it break".

#CovidMemorialDay is a day to give our sorrow words

Take a moment to reflect on those lost, individually or collectively, over the last year covidmemorialday.org.uk/2021/03/04/pre…
3/. The importance of grieving & the power of collective grief shouldn’t be underestimated

Unless we process our grief, it can easily turn into anger or depression - & there is a great deal of that swilling about

Grief is healthy. Necessary

It is the collateral damage of love
Read 20 tweets
4 Mar
1/. #OneYearAgoToday a 70 year-old woman in the Royal Berkshire hospital became the first Briton to die of #COVID19

Tmw, exactly a year after her death was reported, we will mark #CovidMemorialDay

Share your memory

Join 7pm candle-lit minute's silence
covidmemorialday.org.uk
2/. Shakespeare warns that if we fail to "give sorrow words the grief will o-er wrought heart and bid it break".

#CovidMemorialDay is a day to give our sorrow words

Take a moment to reflect on those lost, individually or collectively, over the last year
3/. On 5 March, it was reported that a 70-year-old woman in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, had become the 1st Briton to die of #COVID

On Friday - exactly one year on -
we will take a moment to remember: a moment to grieve

Light a candle
A minute’s silence 7pm
#CovidMemorialDay ImageImageImageImage
Read 4 tweets
3 Mar
1/. #OneYearAgoToday Italy & Spain had locked down

@BorisJohnson said:

“I was at a hospital the other night where I think a few there were #coronavirus patients & I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know, & I continue to shake hands."
2/. “And I continue to shake hands and, I think it is very important that we...people can make up their own minds”

A month before, the PM had made the #GreenwichSpeech, where the blueprint for their deadly #HerdImmunity strategy (& the #PalantirPlan!) was laid out.
3/. On 5 March, two days after boasting about shaking hands with COVID patients, @BorisJohnson was asked why UK was delaying lockdown

He replied saying: “One of the theories is that we could take it on the chin”

On 12 March, @Peston confirmed
#HerdImmunity was govt ‘strategy’
Read 7 tweets
1 Mar
On 5 March, it was reported that a 70-year-old woman in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, had become the first Briton to die of #COVID19

This Friday - exactly one year on -
we will take a moment to remember: a moment to grieve.

Light a candle
A minute silence 7pm
#CovidMemorialDay
Shakespeare says we must "give sorrow words" & he warns that "the grief that does not speak whispers o’er-fraught heart & bids it break”

#COVIDMemorialDay on 5th March, is a day to put words to our sorrow

It is a moment to remember: a moment to grieve
covidmemorialday.org.uk
The importance of grieving & the power of collective grief should not be underestimated

One doesn’t recover from grief. If you are lucky, you heal from grief. But never completely

Unless we process our grief, it can easily turn into anger or depression. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Read 11 tweets
23 Feb
Great spot from @ElspethElspeth

Overnight “the photo of @MattHancock mate's pub, the Cock Inn, has been taken off the wall behind him”

The publican, Alex Bourne’s contract to produce millions of vials for NHS Covid tests now under investigation by the UK’s medical regulator. ImageImage
Another great spot, this time by @CarryOnPress

@MattHancock seems to have replaced the framed photo of The Cock Inn with his cycling proficiency certificate.” 😂🤣😂 Image
The Mirror also picked up @ElspethElspeth’s ‘spot’ that @MattHancock had removed the picture of The Cock Inn.

Exclusive by @mikeysmith the @DailyMirror’s political correspondent.
Read 4 tweets

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