"Whilst recognising and celebrating progress, it is impossible to ignore the myriad challenges facing women in NI."
Following International Women's Day, Dervilia Kernaghan from @womensplatformni.bsky.social writes for our guest blog series.
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From the people who gave you Inside Out
Counter-demonstrators need to print pictures of Ibrahim Ali, Brahim Bouraam, and Federico Martín Aramburú, all killed by the far right in France
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
Watching Channel 4 news to catch up with the Andrew MW news. Husband and I are puzzled as to why they keep interviewing Americans. Who cares what they think? Who have Americans arrested as a result of the Epstein files?
So I guess we've been reminded why we've stopped watching C4 news ages ago
I guess it's a victory for gender equality that biathlete Julia Simon was given some grace by the French federation after being found guilty of stealing from one of her teammates because she's a bloody good athlete. Today she became the first French woman to win 3 gold medals in the same Olympics
Look, if this phrasing keeps manosphere idiots away from podcasts, it will be a public service
A shocking indictment of the intimidation and danger MPs now routinely experience.
The hostility routinely whipped up against "Westminster" and "politicians" has a real human cost.
That's appalling behaviour
The sequel to Adolescence should be about older men getting radicalised online
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NEW Pivotal tracker report reviews two years of the restored Northern Ireland Executive
Read the report here
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This by Badenoch looks to me like Eric Ciotti saying that the main difference between Les Républicains and the National Rally was their ability to govern. Ciotti, of course, is the guy who tried to take LR in a coalition with the far right and was kicked out of LR for doing so
"For too long our homelessness response has been focused almost entirely downstream, rescuing people once they are already in crisis." A new guest article for Pivotal Platform, by Cathy Brolly from the Simon Community. www.pivotalpolicy.org/our-work/piv...
Just for context when I complained to hotel chocolate that one of their shops wasn’t wheelchair accessible because they didn’t have a ramp, which fails to comply with the Equality Act I got a £100 voucher and no write up in the times for my suffering
Years ago I did a liberation of Auschwitz thread on the other platform. Time to redo
Jan. 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. What happened? How? The Western Front is studied minute by minute, the East a black hole. The strange thing, though is that many documents are declassified and online
En France, tenir ses promesses électorales ne rapporte rien
Avec @egrossman.bsky.social, on revient pour @france.theconversation.com sur ce résultat contre-intuitif et ce qu’il dit de la représentation & de la responsabilité des gouvernants de la Ve République 👇
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I’d say this is a generous response. The extent of his use of ChatGPT is really concerning in terms of academic integrity
Shame on all those university administrators, particularly at the most privileged institutions, who barely needed any pressure to shut down their (already weak) DEI measures.
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
The Frenchisation of Portuguese politics?
Me, an idiot: I'm worried about these parties that seem really hostile to darker-skinned people.
James Orr, an actual associate professor at actual Cambridge University: It is impossible for populists to be undemocratic, because of the Greek origins of the word "democracy".
‘Do better to improve students outcomes’, ‘get professional teaching degrees’, ‘focus more on teaching’, says regulator. ‘Oh no, students have better grades!’, complains same regulator
Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
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Cardoon gratin is a Christmas staple at my parents in the south of France. It’s delicious
Not sure we French people are well placed give dog-training lessons: I can hear barking dogs all the time when I go back to my parents. My father raves about how well-behaved British/Irish dogs are every time we walk in my local Belfast park
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“In the 1990s, after withdrawing from film sets, the star adopted those views and married Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right Front National (FN), the precursor to today’s Rassemblement National.”
(Only if there’s no stop in between)
Edinburgh-London in just over 3 hours. Imagine!
