Deputy Director at DEFRA. Fmr Head of Strategy at Amnesty. Geordie, Feminist, Sceptic. All views mine.
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Rachel Irving retweeted
As days and nights go that’s a f——— Belta 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🖤🤍🖤🤍 hangover coming!!! What a performance man. @ChampionsLeague #NEWPSG
Rachel Irving retweeted
📢Historic moment! 🗓️
The path to a "planet free of harm from chemicals and waste" starts in Bonn🇩🇪!
The Global Framework on Chemicals and the Bonn Declaration have been adopted after a long night of negotiations at #ICCM5.
Rachel Irving retweeted
4 years since we released Hypersonic Missiles 🚀🤯 What a journey - thanks for all the love ❤️
As someone who wrote her PhD on north eastern identity in 19th C art, I thought @Alex_Niven ‘s book The North Will Rise Again fascinating. So many parallels between Richard Hamilton and William Bell Scott and Robert Lyon.
Rachel Irving retweeted
It’s St. Cuthbert’s Day tomorrow 20th March. May Northumbria rise and may the Lindisfarne Gospels and The Rocket be repatriated. And Brown Ale …. And Exhibition, and Fed Special…
The most accurate piece on anxiety brought on by work I gave read. The three things you might need medication, exercise and councelling. Thank you @JimDown8
thetimes.co.uk/article/82cd7…
In the last two weeks, #EmmaPattinson was murdered ‘because she earned more than her husband’ and #nicholabulley is missing ‘because she is a menopausal woman who drinks too much’. What fucking year is this? Women deserve more.
I agree @northumbriana The North East is as much English by accident as by destiny. If you see history through the lens of the modern nation state then its “regions” will only ever be thus. Viewed from Newcastle, Sunderland or Durham history is different. Lets shift the lens.
An excellent article
unherd.com/2023/01/the-north…
The funniest and bleakest thing I’ve seen in ages. I want “Inflate the deviant” written on a t-shirt #Avenue5
“They hear an accent and they think you're thick. People's expectations were always very low. I only had to string together three coherent sentences and people looked at me as if I was Stephen Hawking." Exactly @jessphillips bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bi…
Good for #Lidl . Drought or otherwise this a good way to tackle food waste. bbc.co.uk/news/business-6265…
After a run of such distressing news in the world, this makes me so happy. It also makes me so proud of my previous employer @amnesty #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe
Rachel Irving retweeted
Celebrating assertive women on #InternationalWomensDay & every day. 💪
Happy #InternationalWomensDay2022
Image HT @LizPuranam
Rachel Irving retweeted
Acutely intelligent, sensitive to Russia as much as to Ukraine, clear about the horror of war - quietly immensely courageous - @zelenskyyUa is an extraordinary man. This is one of the most remarkable speeches ever made - in dignified contrast to Putin’s hysterical megalomania.
.@ZelenskyyUa's tv address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message.
#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Україна #Russia #Россия
Rachel Irving retweeted
My aunt: It is impossible to imagine that my mother, who lost her parents & became orphaned at 7, fought against Hitler with the Russian people, had to hide in a haystack from Nazi German soldiers, today, at the age of 85, is hiding in the basement in Kyiv from Russian soldiers.
Rachel Irving retweeted
The best thing about the Adele situation is that it shows that all any woman has to do to be called a “terf” is acknowledge her own sex. It exposes how low the bar is & how high the cost is for a woman who speaks the truth without first considering if deranged men are OK with it.