msherrington.bsky.social
Charity consultant/coach (strategy, comms & leadership stuff). People Power, Quirks, Wows & Bitter Irony. It's all personal.
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I can’t listen and do at the same time, except driving, even the radio these days! It’s a quieter life!
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Thanks for the tips. Might try a couple, tho I haven’t really got on with podcasts.
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If only. That obnoxious Matthew Goodwin popped up on Any Questions yesterday and I had to switch off.
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Brilliant book on how the history of slavery has been told, and literally whitewashed; and the axiom that history is told by victors. In this case, white supremacy.
”Just because someone tells you a story doesn’t make that story true.” As we should know from what now spews from the White House.
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Quite. Since the world has changed, so should choices around tax as well as spend, with the axe falling on benefits too. Unconscionable it’s the poorest people in the UK and around the world paying the price.
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It’s a great book, I’ve learnt a lot. I find the layers of story-telling, historical and personal, what’s real, what’s not, fascinating. (I’ve been to Gorée so looking forward to that chapter). I’m two-thirds through my pile, Warmth of Other Suns and Color of Law to come. ✊
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A breathtaking book, lyrical and mystical yet grounded in the raw pain and violence of enslavement, as Annis repeatedly loses those close to her yet fights to be herself.
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You lot haven’t changed! Xx
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A conman who knows how gullible his marks are.
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Feeling the same, on this and other points of principle, like child poverty, nonsense about benefit idlers, failure to engage in EU question. If we had PR, I’d be looking elsewhere. Never thought I’d say that.
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Henrietta Wood, freed by her enslaver in Ohio, then kidnapped and sold down the river to work a Mississippi plantation for 15 years.
Freed again by the Civil War, she fought for ten years for damages from her abductor. And won. White supremacists fight long and dirty. Powerful and profound.
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That’s polite.
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Isn’t it lovely how the station staff greet the train as it arrives?
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And I wish I’d understood that more as a history student; gosh I had a couple of imperial supremacist tutors looking back.
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Best eye-opening module I ever did was one called “Why Economists Disagree”, the whole premise being all approaches are built around different philosophical foundations, values and perspectives. ‘What’s their angle?’ help with reading anything, really!