suerubenstein.bsky.social
OD and leadership. Chair Refugee,Asylum, Migration Policy Project. Feminist.Mum.Dog owner. Cook
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And even if resource was available, do you see a political culture that really values & prioritises learning? Seems like learning is seen as a faintly shameful, furtive thing to be done on your own time. Imagine running an organisation on the assumption that all people must turn up fully formed!
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Quite! How on earth are kids meant to know what behaviour is just shitty for others if their parents don’t tell them! Mine are 29 and 31 - they knew what I disapproved of. Yes yes of behaviour not of them as people-jeez I’m not a monster. Anyway they’re fine.
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Sadly Avenio has just been sold but Le Joat is it’s charming recent replacement
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My last tip is to have a look at what’s on at the Avignon Opera - ornate 19 century just had a facelift
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Agree with this not least of all because we part-time live near Place Corps Saints!
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Also, if you’re a cycling person, take a city bike to L’isle de Barthelasse middle of the Rhone. Flat gentle,low traffic rides through orchards and fields. If not a bike person take the little ferry and have a sundown drink looking at Avignon from the island. Gorgeous golden sunset view of the city
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Yes from central station. About half an hour.
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If you’re in Avignon area Fri, Sat, Sunday take the train to L’Isle sur La Sorgue - pretty canals and hundreds of antique/objets shops. Sunday is market day. V busy but nice. Saturday calmer. Lunch at Le Jardin du Quai. Jouvaud for pâtisserie. Villa Datris for modern art/sculpture.
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Avignon places to eat. Pollen for extra special meal. Very good are Fou de Fafa and new arrival Joat. Also L’Agape. Atelier Belinda simple good food. Les Halles the covered market for picnic food (closed Monday) which you should eat at Jardin des Doms above Papal Palace. Great views.
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Do other people wonder what their dog is thinking as we do this? Mine almost certainly thinks ‘Behold I have produced another turd of such incomparable perfection that my human slave must pick it up and keep it’
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Tangentially related - my mum’s worsening dementia made her gas hob unsafe so we replaced it with induction. Could NOT find one with knobs. While she was well enough to for example fry herself an egg, she could not learn to use the touch screen and so another vestige of self sufficiency was lost.
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It’s just magnificent. The world may be on fire but theres also this.
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Baste it - 3 times at least. Sorry missed key instruction
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1 tsp sweet paprika,1 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp Malden salt mixed into 60g melted butter. (Can be scaled) Smother shoulder. Slow roast for 3-3.5 hours @160. Ready when it’s crispy & pulls apart with 2 forks. Citrusy salad, skin on baby potatoes roasted with olive oil fresh rosemary and Malden salt.
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Who was it who said ‘At 50 pain enters your body and after that it just moves around’
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Really agree. Thanks for sharing
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Hence my use of ‘especially but not exclusively’. Still I see my contribution has illuminated a deep well of tall person injustice and ‘feelings are facts’ so I apologise.
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Fair
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Might I gently suggest though that tall people (especially but not exclusively) try and remember to take their backpacks off on the tube. Dodging and weaving to avoid injury is very much a thing for people whose faces are at your shoulder height. Also just makes more space
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So they won’t provide aid to poor countries nor enable them to trade their way out of poverty and they are wilfully blind to the desperation that drives destitute people to move to survive. It’s unfathomable in its stupidity and cruelty.
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It’s not like the chat that is in the public domain is awash with sophisticated argument. Striking feature was how frighteningly fatuous it appeared. Adolescents amping up the nastiness in a bid to curry the most favour with the alpha bully.
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Don’t know you but know how heart shattering it is. So sorry
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Hubris and nemesis. Cold comfort for the people not cushioned from the stupidity of ‘move fast and break things’
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It was everything I hoped it would be. Erudite, human, thoughtful, expansive. Absolutely can’t wait for the next one. Thank you!
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And I wonder whether we are yet doing the necessary rethinking of the model of care. There is work/thinking at the margins but to what extent is it really changing the core response of struggling secondary care services? As in so many areas ‘more of the same’ doesn’t feel equal to the challenge.
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There is so much searing, remarkable current writing on the migrant experience. Admittedly I am mostly thinking about novels - see women’s prize long list for example. Why not put effort into getting those kinds of voices heard on the mainstream London stage?
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Also thought that Alterations was really ‘generously’ reviewed. Don’t doubt that it broke ground when it was written but felt clunky and dated in 2025. Was that what you thought?
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Not sure if you’re an Anne Tyler fan Gemma but I thought Three Days in June was just vintage Tyler. A small perfectly formed portrait of ordinary flawed people trying to navigate the stuff of family life.
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It is consistently an informative, funny, warm, thought provoking experience to be in your virtual company. So looking forward to Podyssey
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Had exactly the same reaction
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And attend to the downstream implications for specialist training opportunities
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Entirely agree. I hope I didn’t sound defensive. I found the article provocative in the best sense of that word. Improvement requires deep - sometimes uncomfortable- reflection.
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It is plainly useful for ‘progressives’ to be challenged to reflect on what we might need to do differently. But what about the role that a fire hose of right wing money plays in driving polarisation and mis/disinformation? As it stands it just reads a bit like ‘you only have yourselves to blame’
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The two best and smartest players were (by a country mile) Minah and Charlotte. Followed closely by Alexander. All beaten by the manifestly less able .. a parable of our time.
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Completely agree. ‘Learn how to think critically’; ‘Learn how to suspend preconceived ideas’; ‘Learn how to collaborate’ ‘Learn how to be a trusted member of a team’ etc seem like the durable qualities
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I so agree with both of these points. The debate is confined by the status quo. So grimly instrumental and institutional in its focus. Understand that the funding model looms large but I really hope Louise Casey also takes the opportunity to open up the conversation about the range of choices.