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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Peace conference? Donald Trump Sycophant conference would be more accurate

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer looks like he’s trying to figure out if this is a trip

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

This is the weirdest press conference I’ve ever seen

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Chag sameach 🥳

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Trump’s world and we’re all just living in it

What a time to be alive

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Trump can say this is the beginning of a lasting peace all he wants, but the reality is:

The Occupation continues, settlers continue to terrorise Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza is a ruin and could collapse into civil war, and the Israeli government still does not want a Palestinian state

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised the twins Ziv and Gali that I wrote about in January last year (their big brother Liran told me they did absolutely everything together, and that them being held hostage separately made it even more painful) have finally been reunited 🥰CHAG SAMEACH! www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Israeli Hostage Families Want UK Government To Up Pressure On Qatar To Secure Releases

Families of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the horrific 7 October attacks have issued a call to the UK government to urgently put pressure ...

www.politicshome.com

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched an Israeli woman on the news say Shehecheyanu the moment she saw her son for the first time in two years after being held hostage by Hamas and it really ooft'd me

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 1d

Simchat Torah is gonna hit differently in Israel this week, the hostages are home 🥰

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

Someone had a hair cut today and is feeling a bit fresh post trim 😂

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

Live on Times Radio now reviewing tomorrow’s papers 🗞️

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 2d

I introduced my 9 year old brother and sister to School of Rock and suddenly they’re more interested in the guitars I bought them for Christmas

I love the impact a good movie can have on kids!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

Paula Barker, MP for Liverpool Wavertree member of the Labour Friends of Palestine group, told me she was "cautiously optimistic" about the ceasefire

Latest w/ @tomscotson.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour MPs Are Relieved And Cautiously Optimistic After Gaza Ceasefire

Labour MPs say they are cautiously optimistic about the Gaza ceasefire but want the government to play a leading role in making sure it leads to la...

www.politicshome.com

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

שבת שלום ☮️

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 4d

I just keep thinking how very Big Bang Theory this is 😂

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

6/6 With the right support we can excel in our given fields, or we can crash and burn if our needs are ignored and we are demonised and portrayed as a drain on society

I say this because the narrative around work and mental health in the media sphere is so broken, it really is

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

5/6 I realised with the right support and adjustments I can do my job, and do it well

However, if I’d not got the qualifications I did or I’d be forced into an unsuitable job I dread to think how unwell I’d be

Disabled people aren’t just economic units pay tax, we’re people with so much potential

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

4/6 … to get better, then went to Cambridge

The idea of working after that experience terrified me, because my first attempt at a job had gone so badly - I felt like a failure

Then I became a journalist and (with certain adjustments) realised it’s a job I can do (and do well, I think)

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

3/6 The constant socialisation, crowds, noise, lights - all of it just sent me into a meltdown

I tried to drop out of sixth form but they thankfully said they’d let me teach myself my final year and stay enrolled

I went on to get A*A*A in my A2 levels self-taught (somehow) took a year out…

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

2/6 I hadn’t been well and was antidepressants - and I didn’t know I had ASD and autism at the time

But my EMA had been cut and I needed extra income

Within 3 months, after driving to Morrisons to cry in the car before work for weeks prior, I had a nervous breakdown - I was worse than before

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

1/6 There’s so much talk about getting disabled people with mental health conditions or neurodiversity into work, but not enough about making sure jobs that are suitable for them and don’t make them more unwell

Take me, for example

At 18 I tried to work in Morrisons on the checkouts

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

+/ I am a prime example of somebody with quite significant mental health/neurodiversity issues who can work with certain adjustments, the right medication and medical support

And I’m sick to the back teeth of seeing people mock others like me because they don’t have a voice or are easy targets

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

+/ Would you know that by looking at me? No

I went to Cambridge, appear on tv on radio, I’m an actor and appear on stage

But the day to day stuff sometimes is absolutely paralysing and I’m not ashamed to admit it - I’m ashamed that colleagues in the media think it’s ok to mock people like me

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

2/2 I once got so overwhelmed on a train that a family member had to chase the train and coach me to get off the train because I was paralysed with fear and kept missing my stops

Having a car is freedom for me, taking them away for people with neurodiversity of anxiety benefits no one

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

1/2 I don’t know why the right of British commentariat thinks it’s funny to attack motability for mental health or neurodiversity

I have autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and quite bad social anxiety

Public transport is often overwhelming for me, my car is a lifeline

I can afford one, many can’t

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