GosiaK

Very well deserved! An amazing school👏🎉

I entered the UK with no school certificate but an immigration stamp... More than 20 years ago, I arrived in the UK as a teenager with no family support, not much formal education, and only $100. I started studying English and then A-levels at Colleges. When I asked a tutor to help me with Cambridge University interview, he said: "You are an Afghan refugee, not white, and not privately educated to go to Cambridge." A few years later... Studying at Cambridge and Harvard, I achieved my dream of becoming an NHS doctor and founder of a global humanitarian non-profit Teleheal, and also an innovative mental health service Arian Wellbeing to help everyone in need including hard to reach populations. It's a lifetime of hardships and rejections that have taught me most in life. Many young people's dreams have been ended by their school grades today. My message to them or anyone else is - don't let grades or other people's opinions define who you are. Always believe in yourself and your dreams. Please consider sharing this message with anyone who might need to hear this today.

@DrWaheedArian I’ve cried so many times reading your book and loved your #FullDisclosure with @mrjamesob, Waheed. You truly are inspirational and thank you for everything you have done and still do. Never giving up.

@mrjamesob That was torture @mrjamesob !

What fresh hell is this?

Thanks @garyseconomics for your loud and clear voice on the matter of inequality. Just having my morning coffee reading this so please don’t stop! theguardian.com/society/articl…

@RishiSunak Absolutely disgusting. You fell so low already and this is just vile.

I will never stop fighting for this country.

@limpwhim @implausibleblog @UKandEU @mrjamesob describes these attitudes well: „There is a great Brexit but it goes to a different school”… they’re pathetic.

Victoria Derbyshire, "Voters are now more likely to say they would vote to rejoin the European Union than to stay out" Isabel Oakeshott, "Is it a pro EU organisation @UKandEU that did the research? They're pretty favourable towards remain" Nicholas Watt, "There is a YouGuv tracker which asks the question has Brexit worked.. Rejoin the EU is going up" Isabel Oakeshott, "I'm not going to sit here as a staunch Brexiter and say this thus far has been a fabulous success; it hasn't been done properly" Victoria Derbyshire, "Are you surprised the LibDems aren't making much more of this?" Jo Swinson, "It's a very different election campaign.. We gave people a choice in 2019.. People made their choice.. Since we have had the pandemic.. War in Ukraine.. There is much more favourable opinion on the EU.. But there isn't the appetite yet for another referendum" Strange how people acknowledge the will of the British people is to rejoin the EU but then come up with excuses for why we aren't following the will of the British people 🤷‍♂️

@BerkoLibrary @berkhamstedsch @BerkhamstedBoys @BerkhamstedGirl Can sense Miss Bosch’s fingers all over! You’re so influential when it comes to spreading #Eurovision love 😂❤️🥰 Great idea! As usual, hasten to add! 👏👏

@garyseconomics Could feel it so much. Your storytelling is so compelling. It feels as if the reader is literally walking with you, reaching up to this moment. Hence such impact. Thanks for sharing this with us.

@Gosia_Kelly Glad you enjoyed that bit, that was a very emotional moment for me

My new (first!) book The Trading Game is out NOW! And is available wherever you buy your books, link HERE: bit.ly/tradinggamebook XXXX

@garyseconomics You’re in my ears since last night! Got the audiobook as it’s even more awesome listening to you storytelling. Knew it after your Full Disclosure with @mrjamesob (BTW, a proper bromance there 😂)! This morning’s chapter 2 was super emotional.

To the Geordie who collared me last night, outside the station, on the way back from his second job, saying he was waiting for the paperback coz he can't afford the hardback (or anyone who knows him): I've got a spare one, get in touch and it's yours. xx

@pearceyp78 @garyseconomics @mrjamesob Hear hear!

Just spent the last hour glued to @garyseconomics #FullDisclosure @mrjamesob Transfixed. Brilliant interview. Deep & insightful. What a journey. What a brain & what a loada sh*t our economic model is.. when it could, so simply, not be?! Ps,I’d have listened for 2hrs 😉 #LBC

@BerkoLibrary @berkhamstedsch @BerkhamstedBoys Brings back lovely memories… 🥰Go Y9s!

I’m on winning streak @mrjamesob 💪🎉 Also, just recommended your book to my fellow players 😉

@LBC Definitely number 3 !

@ParmitersSchool @asklauraknight @berkhamstedsch How lovely to see my former work colleague @asklauraknight at my daughter’s school delivering such an inspiring session to staff! Fabulous! 👏👍

Thank you to Laura Knight @asklauraknight from @berkhamstedsch for coming to speak at our Curriculum Middle Leader’s Conference today about AI in education. Her session was truly inspiring & has left our staff with a lot to think about in the world of AI in T&L at Parmiter’s.

Left: Conservative Party Home Secretary Suella Braverman, "These are hate marches" Right: Former Co-Chair of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi, "Israel is not Netanyahu, the Palestinian people are not Hamas, and the protestors on the streets of London are neither protesting for Hamas, nor are they hate marches" "Protests planned for weeks. They were in discussions with the Met police for weeks. The route was well away from the Cenotaph for weeks. And yet last week the Home Secteray decided to embolden and make this a political issue knowing full well what the route of the march was going to be" "That's the way she operates, she fights culture wars. She doesn't fix things, she breaks things" "I think Suella Braverman is dangerous and divisive. If you look at her rhetoric, it's always about pitching A against B" "Some of my Conservative colleagues in government project as patriots but they are indeed arsonists. They’ve set this country alight. They pit community against community. They create these fires. That is not the job of a government. The job of a government is to keep us all safe. You do that by creating a sense of ease, not by fighting culture wars"

@mrjamesob I’m on chapter 8 and thoroughly enjoying it! Bloody hell, I knew they’d broken it but seriously… it’s dismantled 🥲On the Christmas list for many from my family cohort! Request for translation into Polish and Spanish please! 🤞 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me 👏

Ah. The one star reviews from people who’ve never read a book, let alone this one, have finally appeared. I was getting worried! amazon.co.uk/dp/0753560348?…

That first moment you realise you're homeless and no-one is coming to your rescue is a memory deep within your brain, it doesn't go away. Looking through windows wishing that was you sat in a warm house with love. Embarrassed to ask people for spare change just to get a hot drink or a sausage roll. Desperately searching for shelter. Scared beyond your worst nightmares. Thinking about the best way to end it all. I can personally say that was not a choice! And it isn't a lifestyle choice for hundreds of young people facing that reality every single day. Shame on this government and all the others who think that kind of language is OK.

Huge thanks @mrjamesob for today’s show on Poland’s election and its historical important. There’s so much more to say! Have part 2 Please! 😂I’ve queued to contribute but an hour wasn’t enough! 😉