Mainly about language(s). Idea-hunter, traveller, Francophile, language advocate and educator
Southampton, England
Joined October 2009
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Michael Kelly retweeted
Félicitations au Professor Claire Gorrara @gorrara67 qui a reçu le Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite @FranceintheUK en reconnaissance de son travail de sensibilisation de la langue française et pratique des langues modernes au 🏴 et 🇬🇧
@walesintheworld
Michael Kelly retweeted
We are delighted to welcome @Nina_Bennet, who has kindly stepped to sing with us tonight as @EmmaTring2 is unwell.
Michael Kelly retweeted
What do we have in common with @Mike_Batt @katiemelua and @ollymurs ? The wonderful @DOCKLNDSinfonia who are playing for us @O2GuildhallS on Saturday, get your tickets now.
Michael Kelly retweeted
The last rehearsal before Saturday @TurnerSims tonight. When we’re next together it will be concert day @O2GuildhallS for our @RVWSociety and @Howard_Goodall programme. Tickets still available. #thelarkascending #donanobispacem #eternallight
Michael Kelly retweeted
Umberto Eco’s ‘14 typical features of fascism’. Important note: it only needs one to be present in the public sphere for fascism to coalesce around it. The current Tory government hits at least three: 4, 5, 6 and, particularly 13.
#ToryBritain #NotInMyName #GaryLinekerIsRight
Michael Kelly retweeted
Thank you to everyone who tweeted, shared, and signed our petition to the Home Secretary this week regarding the Kettlethorpe Quran case
The Home Secretary has today issued a fantastic statement and has agreed to take forward all of our recommendations 🙌humanists.uk/2023/03/04/succ…
Michael Kelly retweeted
Instead of throwing more red meat to the foaming mouthed Tory faithful, death penalty advocate 30p Lee Anderson should watch this.
Ian Hislop destroying Priti Patel's support for capital punishment.
"It's not a deterrent if you kill the wrong people."
Michael Kelly retweeted
I'm still staring at this graph showing UK wage collapse since 2010 vs peer nations. It's absolutely staggering.
Michael Kelly retweeted
Chart brings home my time in NHS. I started with long waiting lists in the 1980's - 18 months for hip. Then Thatcher night of the long knives where staff were cut. Then Blair/Brown. Those were amazing years - I did not believe we could get those waiting lists down but we did! 1/3
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Michael Kelly retweeted
115,000 Posties 💌
80,000 Railway workers 🚆
100,000 Nurses 👩⚕️
25,000 Paramedics 🚑
100,000 Civil Servants 💼
This Christmas, workers across different sectors are fighting back not just for better pay and conditions but for better public services.
RT if you're with them 👊
Michael Kelly retweeted
So Argentina's vice president is found guilty of corruption for awarding public works contracts to a friend.
She gets a 6-year jail term.
I'll just leave it there.
#MichelleMone #ToryCorruption
Michael Kelly retweeted
New report published by @BritishAcademy_ & @UCML shows action needed to maintain language provision in all UK regions. @UCML continues to work with @BritishAcademy_ & partners to raise the profile of languages & related disciplines in the UK, including through @Routesintolangs
New report by @BritishAcademy_ & @UCML: 'Language Learning in Higher Education: Granular Trends'.
Building on our 2021 joint report, this new publication provides key insights into the complex picture of language learning & provision in the UK.
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Michael Kelly retweeted
Delighted to publish our new report on granular trends in language learning in the UK, based on UCAS data harvested from the period 2012-21. A collaboration between @BritishAcademy_ and @UCML
New report published by @BritishAcademy_ & @UCML shows action needed to maintain language provision in all UK regions. @UCML continues to work with @BritishAcademy_ & partners to raise the profile of languages & related disciplines in the UK, including through @Routesintolangs
Michael Kelly retweeted
Hells Bells - I am no fan of GB News but "for some reason" this interview with Dave Ward, CWU General Secretary, is dynamite in its content and especially its conclusion.
Watch / listen to this to the very end, you won't be disappointed ...
Michael Kelly retweeted
Great interview with Kevin de Bruyne in the @guardian - this on learning languages resonates. @michaelslav
Michael Kelly retweeted
RT IF YOU ARE A STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKER, POSTIE, TEACHER OR ANYONE ELSE ON THE PICKET LINE TODAY.
ALSO RT IF YOU BACK THEM.
Let’s cut beyond the media and show people they have mass support.
#ucuRISING
#StandByYourPost
Michael Kelly retweeted
There's a word for the "VIP lane" the government opened during the pandemic, enabling friends and political allies to profiteer from a national emergency by supplying substandard equipment at greatly inflated prices.
Corruption.
Michael Kelly retweeted
Invent a slogan, tagline or punchline in French competition! Open to UK learners of French of any level! 👇#languages #french
Michael Kelly retweeted
This is an absolutely first rate piece by @afneil on the collapse of pretty much every Brexit promise…
…the last few of which were just snuffed out by the Sunak-Hunt budget.
Too many great quotes to choose from. So just read the whole thing. 👇 dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
