Former Councillor & Cabinet Member for Housing, RMBC. Civil Engineering R&D @ University of Leeds. Mother. Inactive account.
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Amy Brookes retweeted
Seriously, you need to listen to Baroque music.
It is the pinnacle of music achievement.
Start with Telemann.
Then Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, and Purcell.
Then Monteverdi to understand the transition from Renaissance to Baroque.
Then Hadyn to understand the transition from Baroque to Classical.
Veracini to add some spontaneity.
Pachelbell to add some serenity.
This will undoubtedly improve the quality of your life in every way imaginable.
In 3 years, come back and thank me for improving your life by imparting this wisdom to you.
You’re welcome in advance. ❤️
Amy Brookes retweeted
I went to my grandson’s 7th birthday party today with his 4 siblings and 5 of his cousins and it was worth 100 childless trips to some foreign shore where no one loved me.
Amy Brookes retweeted
This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....
Amy Brookes retweeted
Small children benefit immensely from their mothers' presence before starting school, which provides them with the best foundation for life. It is concerning to see infants and young toddlers pushed into crowded nurseries simply because it is the only way parents can afford to maintain a roof over their heads. This situation is a significant factor contributing to the record-low birth rate in the UK. Mothers who want to stay at home with their babies in those crucial early years need to be respected and supported.
Amy Brookes retweeted
"Just make things look beautiful" is a surprisingly good answer to many things
A remarkable survey by @DeltapollUK finds that the British public may sometimes tolerate - indeed, support - huge increases in urban density, if the increase yields an aesthetic improvement.
I'm glad the NEC now agrees though I wish they'd listened 7 years ago when in 2018, with Rother Valley CLP, I brought this motion to Labour conference. It wasn’t easy, but I stood firm and would again and again.
Women’s rights matter and the Supreme Court has now confirmed it.
I’ll always be grateful for the solidarity of @LabWomenDec of which I’m proud to be a founding signatory. The support of principled, courageous women made it possible to take that stand in 2018. We spoke up because we had to and we were right to do so!
Amy Brookes retweeted
We have shared an interim update on the practical implications of the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers: orlo.uk/72TYX
ALT Supreme Court ruling: Interim update
"Ed tech, is only for the techno-bamboozled chumps who can’t see the problem with dropping their darlings off for a full-day of screen-based zombification followed by an hour or two of app quizzes, homework tapping and message frenzies before bedtime." tinyurl.com/2hs2j7c7
"On top of getting smartphones out of schools, the campaign group SafeScreens is now demanding “a statutory right for parents to opt out of digital homework and digital-first learning”. @safe_screens Sign me the fuck up please. My son is 4 and they're already rotting his brain
Amy Brookes retweeted
Look at these ladies. Learn their names. They are going to go down in history.
For now; on behalf of every single one of us women and those who have always believed that women & little girls deserve safe spaces:
THANK YOU🙏🏻
Amy Brookes retweeted
Nationalise it. Invest in it. Protect it. Introduce trade barriers to defend it and mandate all public procurement to use it.
Owned by the UK, employing British workers, rebuilding Britain.
UK 'seriously considering' nationalising British Steel in wake of Donald Trump's tariffs
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/u…
Thank you Sonia for exoressing this. "Male demand for prostitution is not innate. Governments shape it through legislation."
Women being killed is a feature, not a bug, of prostitution. If Labour is serious about its target to halve male violence against women & girls it must criminalise buying sex and the pimps & websites that profit from prostituting women.
Today's column.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Amy Brookes retweeted
#OTD 1969. Open University receives Royal Charter.
Jennie Lee’s White Paper on the “University of the Air” was initially dismissed as “Wilson’s Pipe Dream” by the press.
It would enable millions of people access to higher education. Thread 👇🏼
Pov: lying on the wet grass shortly before midnight in the company of frogs, tawny owls and oak trees. #northernlights
