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Author The Mother’s Story, ex barrister, Irish. Poetry Pharm worker https://irishtimes.com/opinion/my-mother-was-pregnant-from-ireland-1.4488804 https://m.independent.ie/news/severing-of-ties-with-birth-family-leads-to-a-lifetime-of-questions/40864778.html
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Thank you Michel Rosen for showing yet again the huge value immigrants bring to the UK. And condemning, gently, the inanity of Starmer’s speech last week. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In case you missed it ... Here's the Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo destroying the claim that foreign workers reduce domestic wages. In fact, they actually help UK workers by adding to the talent base and allowing the economy to grow. Getting rid of them just leads to more automation. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Let’s change the rhetoric: I live in a nation of endless freedom of choice. In my family we celebrate Christmas, Eid, St Patrick’s day. My village supports the family of a village member who are refugees in Africa. They are putting the children through school by jumble sales etc 1/

@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social So-called foreign care workers were the only ones who tended to my mother in law as if she was family. They are who we WANT to have working here bcs they are the ones from diverse cultures where old people are revered. Your policy is a disgrace and will be disastrous.

Labour voters didn’t vote for them to have them promptly become something else.

There is no better scent on earth than Bucknell woods today… the scent of bluebells and pine trees together

The best carers bar none in my mother in laws care home in Watford were Philippino and Malaysian. The English carers lacked their genuine warmth towards the old. ‘Care worker recruitment from abroad to end, Cooper says’

Big shout out to the amazing surgeons nurses and dieticians at Gloucester Hospital Upper GI surgery department. Such a quality service and staffed by wonderful people

Liz Meriweather and Kim Rosenstock and Shannon Murphy and Chris Teague and Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate and all the team who created Dying for Sex. Best. Series. Ever. Created. Extraordinary work! Thank you.

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Kindness is a muscle. It needs to be worked.

Such a good piece. Very timely. jeniharveymindthegap.substack.com/p/antifemini...

Hesr hear, well said Polly Hudson @theguardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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