Cicely Marston

Oxfordshire Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers 2025 We're back for a third year to create a magical Christmas for our Care-Experienced Community. Let's make this day one of warmth, community, and peace.

Christmas for care leavers - please support
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Some people get prison time and others get a delightful home on the family estate

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Which reminds me, it's that time of year again for National Trust members to vote. The easiest way is to use the 'quick vote' to keep out the traditionalist 'Restore Trust' candidates. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Looking forward to teaching on this course

It might be that like me you decide yes it’s a lab just to stop the RG requests. This process may also explain the proliferation of non-lab labs

I gave up and gained a lab at some point 😂 i think someone else had listed themselves in my “lab” and it all seemed too complicated to resist!

Content warning: piers Morgan being awful. It is so refreshing seeing someone actually standing up to this gotcha drivel and insisting on nuance (even if Morgan talks over it).

I thought it was a banana, but same question

Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

Will California ban non-stick pans? Chefs are divided on whether protecting human health or frying an egg without butter is more important. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

I’ve had many very frustrating conversations about this too Eg trying to explain why it’s problematic for mature students to be treated as a dating pool for staff 🤢

Thousands of students report sexual violence at university Women and LGBT students were more likely to report incidents than their male and heterosexual counterparts.

Over 25 years ago I started lobbying, with colleagues, to get unis to take sexual violence seriously. Repeatedly institutions and research councils ignored, downplayed, or argued it 'wasn't a priority'. It always has been. The latest data shows action is STILL needed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I don’t want passive viewing”: how The Shadow Scholars goes inside the academic cheating industry Eloise King’s debut documentary explores the hidden world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ – ghostwriters powering a global academic industry. Ahead of screenings in cinemas and on Channel 4, she joined u...

I saw this in the cinema recently and it’s brilliant. About Kenyan ghostwriters and the epidemic of cheating among students in rich countries. Nuanced, thoughtful and enraging. You can catch it on uk tv tonight 10pm, channel 4
#academicsky
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/e...

Photo of 2 men with white bold letters that say “men who abuse their power are the real threat to women, not trans people”

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety.

Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.

Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

I know when we talk of university safety and mental health most people sigh while imagining compulsory wellbeing webinars.

In reality there are very real risks posed to some staff we currently are failing to address. This is one of them.

Thanks, I’d forgotten to delete mine but now have done

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

Extreme content warning here re IDF violence against children in Gaza.

The draft is cruel; there is no evidence it will better protect women, cis or trans; it breaches Labour's manifesto commitment to trans people; it is unenforceable; encourages vigilanteism; and it is clearly inconsistent with the UK's obligations under the ECHR. We will challenge it in court. 2/2

We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2

YouTube video by Farm to Taber "Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

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This is the popular paper, btw bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/8/...

I just found out one of my papers from 2014 has been downloaded 80k times this year! Why???! Hope everyone’s enjoying it!

The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas

"Your Party" Wales Update from Beth Winter and Mark Serwotka It is clear that support for "Your Party" has been overwhelming, with 23,000 plus signed up in Wales alone, and over 800,000 across the UK. This is a different kind of politics - outward facing, community orientated and rooted in grassroots movements - and we are pleased to say that this is exactly what is happening here in Wales. We are keen to move things forward in Wales and have just completed the initial mapping exercise looking at engagement with "Your Party" at a local level. The results are very encouraging and show that people are getting together and meeting across Wales, from Ynys Môn to Cardiff; from Ceredigion to Clwyd, and from Rhondda Cynon Taff to Swansea - to name some of the 12 groups we have so far identified. We are now beginning to work to coordinate the existing groups and develop new ones. We are conscious of the need to keep those who have expressed an interest in our new party as well informed as possible. In the coming weeks, we will do our utmost to attend as many local group meetings as we can to keep people informed - if not in person, then Zoom/video calls are always an option. We remain committed to ensuring we have the kind of autonomy and self-determination that reflects our needs and demands here in Wales. We are also conscious of the upcoming Senedd elections next year which will require decisions by all of us. To that end, please mark October 25 2025 in your diaries for the first all-Wales meeting to discuss the way forward for us here in Wales. Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have been invited to attend. The venue details will follow in the near future. We thank you for your patience as we continue to pull together, gather and share information in order to find and agree the best ways forward for us here in Wales. In the meantime, please continue with your local organising and activities, being active in our communities, working at a grassroots level alongside local peo…

Features / 20 February 2020 The drive to expel feminists from Labour is creating a hostile environment for women Leaders, and prospective leaders, must take a firm stand in support of open and respectful discussion regarding sex and gender, writes MARK SERWOTKA

More transphobes involved with the Corbyn/Sultana ‘Your Party’ 😣

Mark Serwotka is husband to Ruth Serwotka - a founder of, now defunct, anti-trans lobby group ‘Woman’s Place UK’ - and has previously stated support for his wife’s transphobic campaign group.

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