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If a novel or play is put on the GCSE English syllabus but still in copyright then the government should buy the rights to it and put it in the public domain. Art that's important enough to be taught to teenagers should be freely available to everyone.

@gibbsmello @chef_john1 Yes! Green Cabin is an institution. And their pineapple gateau is still worth going back for more. Love the 'cheese cake' too.

@chef_john1 Hotel De Buhari for their Egg biriyani and masala chicken, Hotel Nippon for the mutton rolls, Green Cabin for the Pineapple Gateau and “Cheese cake”

What do you think are old food institutions in Sri Lanka and are still worth visiting?

@chef_john1 Raheema's (near Flower Road) for devilled fried chicken. Still the same after 30 years.

@chef_john1 Bombay Sweet House for meat samosas. They've moved from colpetty to Wellawatte(?), but still the same taste as 20 years ago.

I have seen a lot of posts and videos in relation to the new MAFS BBC Panorama documentary, essentially asking why, if women were being mistreated on the show by their partners, they didn’t just leave. I was a police officer for many years, specialising in cases of domestic abuse and abusive patterns of behaviour. I thought we had got past victim blaming in relation to domestic abuse? People don’t leave abusive relationships, even short-term ones, for a variety of reasons. The person is not abusive 100% of the time. When they are kind and compassionate, it can become intoxicating, especially in contrast to when they are awful. This makes victims crave the good parts, and they are conditioned to believe that the bad parts are their fault. This makes them want to “try harder” and “be better” for their abuser, because the good times become the reward. There is also the fact that abusers can be scary, and they can play serious mental games with a victim. The victim literally may not understand that they are being abused. The victim may fear that they will not be believed, or that the abuser will create a smear campaign against them, making them out to be the bad one, and trying to ruin their life and/or reputation. Abusers deny that they have done anything wrong when called out, and are masters at turning the tables on their victims, convincing them that they are the abusers, not them. This is called DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Throw in a reality TV show with cameras, the promise of fame, and the impact of leaving a show and the reputational costs this can have depending on what is aired in your absence, and it creates the perfect scenario for abuse to breed, go unchallenged, and for victims to feel trapped with someone who is hurting them. Instead of asking ‘why don’t they leave?’ we need to ask ‘why does the abuser act like this?’ @Rachel_SUTDA

@seyeabimbola Same with decolonisation discourse in museums.Would be amusing to listen to the E Africa curator at British Museum drone on about her work on co-curation if not for fact she didn't get the irony of her continued extractive behaviour/ total objectification of those she worked with

There is a class of “global health” people who warmed to (even sought to lead) discussions on “decolonisation” when it began to catch fire in the field, but who has over time come to see that they are the people, their interests are the interests, and their practices are the practices, from which the field would need to be, is being called to be decolonised. It’s been fascinating to watch their retreat, even antagonism.

I & @alva_uk are really clear on this: charging overseas visitors - or indeed anyone - to experience our national free collections doesn’t make economic sense, is logistically costly & problematic, & morally wrong. ft.com/content/eaeb9b…

Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing. I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean. orange-anselma-35.tiiny.site Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵

We are halfway there! Thank you to everyone who has contributed or shared. This is the fundraiser to send Edna back home to Kenya, please keep sharing, just another £2.5K to go. Tell everyone!

@PriyamvadaGopal Visit a museum diversity & inclusion network catch up. You can't say what you thought it's obvious to say. And obviously, no way are you ever supposed to say network meetings aren't actually solving anything, but instead making things much more EXclusive. Don't ever say that.

You've heard of networks & networking. Have you heard of anti-networks? It's where people are quietly punished for being traitors to the network, e.g. by speaking up on sexual harassment or criticizing an institution's obvious failures. I happened upon one this week.

@HughesHaili @TeamEnglishNC I'm interested. If it is relevant to SEND teaching of the text.

Ridiculous of the British Museum to remove the word 'Palestine" from its displays, when it has a greater antiquity than the word "British". The first reference to Palestine is on the Egyptian monument of Medinet Habu in 1186BCE. The first reference to Britain is the 4th century BC when it appears in the work of the Greek traveler Pytheas of Massalia.

Dear publishers, please take note. I’m yet to come across a na like this in the wild… 📖 🗺️

If someone's interested in this bundle but the shipping's too steep, I'll cover up to €25 for one person via Yarnia gift card.

So it turns out the perverts are in private jets after all… Everyone got a bit distracted looking in the dinghies there didn’t they?

@amwilson_opera @Stephen74977713 @NoisyMV Sorry. I realise too late, that it is impossible to explain in a tweet. But the fact that the majority demographic in any UK classical music event is not inclusive says it all. That also boils down to how and where these events are promoted and how they are perceived.

Think opera is elitist? You need to read this book. Opera-lover with friends who think opera is elitist? Here's your ammunition. waterstones.com/book/someone-e…

@Stephen74977713 @NoisyMV @amwilson_opera It's different in Europe. In the UK, there is a wish to keep it exclusive.

@NoisyMV @amwilson_opera Just back from Berlin where the opera is def not elitist. The three companies there put London to shame. Packed houses for unknown works and lots of young people.

@PluckyDad @TheNorfolkLion And yet,for example in Thailand, a very obviously Buddhist country known for its gorgeous temples, there are also countless active churches of all denominations - even including Russian + French services, kovils, mosques, gurdwaras, synagogues and more. It's not soul- destroying.

@TheNorfolkLion So soul-destroying.

WHY HAVE WE GOT ISLAMIC COLLEGES IN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY?!

@NoisyMV Congratulations and wow! Interesting change. I hope you will continue to question the status quo in a positive way.

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The Dark Side of NGOs: In Africa some of its workers live in bubbles of privilege, isolated from locals. Poverty is often managed, not solved, to protect funding—perpetuating "white saviourism" & undermining local agency. moz24h.co.mz/15470-2/?utm_s…