Sarah Walker

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Time for my annual tweet about this stunner of a song by Fauré and this exquisite recording by @megamezzo and @pianomalk. Go listen, and get those melancholic autumnal vibes into your veins. It is pure magic. 🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁 open.spotify.com/track/5r7Tcwbu…

I am lost for words, or at least expletives! How dare the PM keep saying that the people of this country want to move on! Many of us want to rid ourselves of this lying, unprincipled person and restore some accountability and dignity to this office.

I have no words that adequately express how misogynistic this is

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As we approach 2nd anniversary of my brothers death, alone, from covid & whose body I helped carry downstairs cos undertaker wouldn’t come into his home & whose funeral I couldn’t attend - because of covid laws, I have not forgotten Boris Johnson & Co were partying #Partygate

A beautiful memorial for Stephen Cleobury on a perfect day.

Little girl singing "Let it go" in a shelter #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack

Catharsis = speaking the names of my enslaved forebears in the church where their enslaver is buried and memorialised. Being related to said enslaver made that call to remembrance all the more visceral. Moving forward in hope with St Martin’s, Epsom. #BrathwaiteMemorial

@PeterBrathwaite We do indeed need to turn this on its head Peter and I wish we could be there to listen to you. Warm wishes as always from us both in deepest Devon!

5 of 5. Margaret’s husband, my gggg grandfather Addo Brathwaite, was the ‘property’ of John Brathwaite. Thank you to St Martin’s for inviting me to share my family’s perspective. Like Joseph Johnson, pictured below, we have to turn this history upon its head.

Tomorrow I’ll be visiting St Martin’s Church, Epsom to give a talk on The Brathwaite Memorial. Created by John Flaxman RA, the memorial commemorates the enslaver John Brathwaite, who was born in Barbados in 1722 and died in Epsom in 1800. Thread 🧵

Thousands of Berlin residents showed up at the central train station with sign boards offering refugees fleeing Ukraine a place to stay

Attention: Ukraine railway official message “All trains from eastern and south UA to western regions are evacuation trains. People can travel for free.” | EMPR #russiaukrainewar #Ukraine #Russia

If the theme song isn’t “I should be so lucky” performed by @megamezzo, @Dawn_French & @ferrifrump, I’ll be very disappointed!! 😂… I, I, I, I, I, iiiii!

I’ve had far fewer trolls since Russia blocked access to Twitter

Why will Lord Lebedev not condemn Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? And if he won’t, why is he remaining as a Boris Johnson appointee in the House of Lords?

⚡️Zelensky asks the EU for membership. “We ask the European Union for Ukraine's immediate accession under a new special procedure,” said Zelensky in video address.

Of course I wish we were in the EU for a huge number of reasons but seeing the EU’s response today - not only the sanctions and bans but the generosity of their support - and not being part of it really hurts. That’s the side I want to be on.