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Historian (19th century gender and crime) teacher (Head of History NPQSL & former SLT T&L) nerd, food & wine lover. Sailer and reader. Lover of all things Italian. Depressing support for teams with bird mascots 🏉🦆 ⚽️🦉🏏🦅. Yorkshire girl now an Essex girl. UK
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My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

submitted 11 hours ago • 92 comments

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Immigration is good. Immigration makes Britain better. Immigration is the lifeblood of any and every successful society. Without Immigration Britain cannot prosper. Without Immigration you cannot have the economy and society you want. That is all.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

If anyone has any doubts over MAGA views on Catholicism one only has to look at KKK views of Catholicism and this source, a coin from the 1920s. The KKKs successor is clearly MAGA. And doesn’t fit with a Pope who says “we do not get to rank our love”.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, is not the first US Pope, he's the first Peruvian Pope. Career in Peru, lifetime in Peru, loyalty to Peru, bishop to Peru, and citizenship to Peru. He had the misfortune of being born in the US but made his nationality and pathway elsewhere.

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

As a Catholic I’ve been a bit distracted today. But it’s such an important anniversary I couldn’t let it pass. Today in 1945 the Mirror led with this cartoon. Nothing is more important.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

How could they be so disrespectful of Queen Victoria?? "No one feels more strongly than I do about India or how much I opposed our taking those countries & I think no more will be taken, for it is very wrong & no advantage to us.“ Queen Victoria, in a letter to her daughter

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

submitted 6 days ago • 439 comments

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

submitted 7 days ago • 154 comments

School shootings aren’t a gun issue; they’re a mental health issue. Here’s why we’re cutting $1 billion in funding for student mental health. by Donald Trump and Elon Musk

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

#Essex businesses—can you step up to support those facing homelessness and hardship? Take part in CEO Sleepout Chelmsford: spend a night outside to make a lasting difference. 🗓️ Thursday 8 May 2025 | ⌚ 8pm–6:30am 📍 County Ground, Chelmsford Learn more: ceosleepout.co.uk/chelmsford/

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

If you're looking for a good reason to celebrate it's the 80th anniversary of the death of the vain, dumb, ignorant, arrogant mass murdering racist Adolf Hitler - who died knowing that everything he had built was crumbling to dust around him.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

So much a part of the future that 1790s UK want their industrial model back.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Il Canada sbatte la porta in faccia a Trump. I risultati delle elezioni: trionfo dei liberali di Carney https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/04/29/news/canada_risultati_elezioni_2025_oggi-424154838/?rss

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Vote Lib Dem on Thursday! 🔶 If you live in Moulsham Lodge, you'll get ONE ballot paper for Essex County Council - vote for David. If you live in Moulsham & Central, you'll get TWO ballot papers; one for Essex and another for Chelmsford City Council - vote for David & also Helen and Seán.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments