Geraldine Cooke

This is such a great book Graeme. I hope many people will have a listen one way or another. His Bloody Project opened up a world that I know is the unspoken, indeed, unknown, world of my own forebears.

Thrilled to have just been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by St.Andrews University

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/brin… via @38degrees

🚨 The Employment Rights Bill could finally tip the balance back to workers – but it’s under threat in the Lords. End fire-and-rehire. Scrap zero-hours. Strengthen union rights. Add your name 👇 megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pass… via @megaphoneuk

So do we

And so does everyone @HarrowScottish

𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 🏆 Congratulations to @RedRosesRugby Captain, Zoe Aldcroft 🤩 #PWR #PoweredDifferently @ThePWR

The failure of our planning system for rivers, in one photo. The River Roding through Ilford is in the worst state of anywhere on the river: canalised in concrete, covered in rubbish, polluted with sewage & road runoff & forgotten about. So when a developer was given permission to build flats worth 10’s of millions of pounds right next to it, did @RedbridgeLive ask them to do anything at all to help restore the river? Nope, they just let them build the flats & leave the river to die quietly beside them. The crucial thing they should have asked for here is for the concrete river edge to be set back & naturalised. Had the voice & interests of the River Roding been represented in the planning process, this naturalisation could have been done whilst providing the same amount of housing & would have even made the development more attractive by actually letting people see the river. It is completely possible to protect & restore nature & build more homes, but we need a more imaginative process than whatever allowed this development to be built.

big thanks to ⁦@WaterstonesTRU⁩ for their passionate support with Trelawny’s Cornwall. Out now in paperback ⁦@Waterstones⁩ ⁦@wnbooks⁩

Remembering my friend and colleague, the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead three years ago in Jenin in the West Bank. Israel has acknowledged that she was ‘probably’ shot by one of its soldiers, but no one has been prosecuted for her killing.

📢 Being an MP is a full time job. I just signed the petition calling on the Government to ban second jobs for MPs. Will you sign too? 38d.gs/tcqb

Check out "Fleet Street Quarter's Festival of Words" eventbrite.com/cc/fleet-stree… @eventbritehelp

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/zcpv

Saw the Spitfire come roaring over! So exciting. I've been waiting for it all week! I knew it would come! And saw it return. Officially thrilled! @HarrowScottish

Great FREE panel event coming up 6 May for #VE80 - a reflective discussion with: - Lucy Noakes on her new book 'The People's Victory' - @BBCJLandale chairing - Sir Malcolm Rifkind - Dean of the Chapel Royal of Scotland Prof David Fergusson tinyurl.com/2fk8rhn9

Sounds most interesting! @HarrowScottish

In 1931, a 24-year-old Oxford graduate walked into MI5 & quietly became one of Britain’s most formidable experts on Soviet espionage. She would later warn MI5 about the traitor Kim Philby & impress the director of the American FBI. This is the story of Millicent Bagot: (🧵)

Chester Cathedral, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Happy Friday to everybody but ESPECIALLY to Adriana who has made us this BEAUTIFUL flower card! 🌼 She's only little but she already knows that 'the libri is the best.' ❤️ #LoveLibraries @SLIC1991