Some family news. My kid sister will be the next Mistress of @GirtonCollege Cambridge. Could not be prouder of you @Dr_E_Kendall!
Lis will follow in the footsteps of such great women as Sarah Emily Davies and Baroness Warnock. No pressure! girton.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-elisab…
Tomorrow is #InternationalWomensDay2022, what a proud moment for our family that our Lissie should be appointed to this position at the first women’s college at @Cambridge_Uni, and the first university college in England to admit women.
Indulge me in this thread about what I've heard someone call "a brilliant week for the EU" (in terms of its policy response, not in a wider sense of course - the past week has been a disaster for all of us, not just #Ukraine).
As someone who has spent my career working in EU foreign policy, I do find it tremendously heartening to see us win praise for getting it largely right, acting quickly and decisively. This is why I joined - to see the EU use its weight to defend our values from bullies.
And from where I sit it is rather stunning to see us deliver a truly punchy sanctions package, and mobilise EU funding to deliver arms - even fighter planes - to our friends to help them defend themselves.
Remember when Julian Clary was cancelled for years because he made a gag about Norman Lamont’s red box? Come on @Channel4@NetflixUK this is way over the line.
So I did verify that he said it. I’m afraid he did. I’m afraid I’m now falling into the trap of helping it go viral which rather seems to have been the point. But it’s Catch-22 - if we say nothing then this will be seen as OK. It isn’t.