Living in Cambridge ,no longer cycling as in student days.Active in campaigning for inclusion of people with complex learning disabilities.
Joined January 2009
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5 Oct 2024
Pressure and Persuasion … a gem of a new EP from Frankie Archer.
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2 Jul 2024
MLMC Campaigner Ady has arrived in Manchester for the @GMCDP's National Disability Hustings. He will be asking politicians: 2000 people with a learning disability are still in long stay hospital - if you are the next government how will you get them home? #DontLockUsAway
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21 Mar 2024
Raana has fragile x syndrome, but the principles are the same.
I'm aware a lot of what I cover is the positive side - people's ability to do great stuff, which relies on the right support. But I also look at support inadequacies and failures.
We have to hold both those thoughts.
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13 Nov 2023
When a Labour MP celebrates blocking five homes for people with learning disabilities on the basis they would undermine community cohesion, what hope is there of ever seeing such citizens embraced in the heart of our society? My @theipaper column inews.co.uk/opinion/mp-celeb…
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14 Oct 2023
We agree with every word of this.
Please RT if you do too.
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2 Oct 2023
Listen to Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz discussing their new album on the latest Bluegrass Jam Along podcast, where they talk about how the songs made their way to Appalachia, why this record is so important to both Martin and Thomm, and more.
Listen here: bluegrassjamalong.com/martin…
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21 Sep 2023
Cancel Culture
The first time I was cancelled I was six years old. I was holding my father’s hand. We were in Ladbroke Grove, London. I looked to the building on my left and saw, in the lower left corner of the front room window, a postcard. It read:
“Room To Let
No blacks
No Irish
No dogs”
Age six I knew I was first on the list of what years later would be known as “Cancel Culture”;
Though few think
(that far).
#CancelCulture
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21 Sep 2023
Such a kind review of my Nick Drake track. Bedankt 🙏
"Katherine Priddy likes to color outside the lines and adds outside influences to her music based on English folk music. Also in her fantastic cover of the Nick Drake composition 'I Think They're Leaving Me Behind'."
21 Sep 2023
Katherine Priddy kleurt graag buiten de lijntjes en voegt invloeden van buiten toe aan haar op Engelse folkmuziek gebaseerde muziek. Ook in haar fantastische cover van de Nick Drake compositie ‘I Think They're Leaving Me Behind’.
ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/…
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21 Jul 2023
This is so beautiful…
20 Jul 2023
‘To see a world in a grain of sand’ — William Blake. This is a microscope’s view of a pinch of the stuff on every beach.
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26 Jul 2023
Sinéad O’Connor was braver than brave. May she rest in peace.
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26 Jul 2023
Sinead: and she was the first to talk about abuse in the Catholic church - tearing up the picture of the Pope on TV - but 99% of the music industry hung her out to dry. She was decades before her time, and fearless. Rest in power, queen.
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18 Jul 2023
So excited about this new podcast from @boden_jon & @elizacarthy !
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2 Jul 2023
Hearing Amanda Pritchard use the “I am a patient too so I understand” line. It’s true that we are all patients but this line is too often used in the NHS to play down the need for coproduction. It’s a misunderstanding of issues of power & the importance of codesign
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23 May 2023
London wisteria is getting past its best now, but I was in Oxford last night and saw this 💜
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24 May 2023
Sunday 25th June, Acoustic Stage!!!! OMG!!!! @glastonbury ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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28 Mar 2023
The lovely team from @SeeAbility, one of today's sponsors, set up and ready for the conference #GoodLives
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