Helen

For goodness sake, how historically illiterate can you get? The suffragettes were campaigning against male oppression, and FILIA is a women’s conference that does the same. People who attack a conference venue because women are meeting are just like the violent men who fought the suffragettes.

Exactly!

I was just thinking that this morning.

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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They are an absolute nightmare. Haven’t used them for 4 years since I moved - had them for cable where I lived before, but it isn’t an option now - and I’m very glad that source of stress is gone.

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

“Me, me, me, me, me.” Not one mention of wanting to love and fulfil someone else - he freely says he wants a relationship that’s just about taking. What a monstrous ego.

It’s odd here on UK BlueSky. We get a few precious hours doing a bit of fun whimsy in the morning despite knowing how shit everything is.

And then the US logs on and ruins everything with their obviously approaching guerrilla civil war, weirdly based on the movie Civil War directed by Alex Garland

Thank you!

Where can I find this?

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the things i hear 60+ grandmas say when i'm out tabling are insane. your local knitting club wants blood in the streets

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

I think many don’t agree with you.

Is it their responsibility, though? An ordinary Jewish person whose family have lived in the UK for decades, or even 100+ years, shouldn’t have to feel obliged to talk publicly about Netanyahu and Gaza. Some figures with big followings do eg Michael Rosen, which has a big reach and impact.

Usual suspects.

My calls and emails to family in Afghanistan go unanswered. The Taliban’s internet shutdown has left us all helpless | Shadi Khan Saif From the safety of Australia, I watch in despair as my loved ones in Kabul navigate this digital darkness – a calculated effort to silence dissent

My calls and emails to family in Afghanistan go unanswered. The Taliban’s internet shutdown has left us all helpless | Shadi Khan Saif

Do you think long hair, plucked eyebrows, earrings and a blouse make a man into a woman?

Reposting this for those at the back.

Once when I was 9 mths pregnant and visibly the size of a whale, I was slowly traversing a pedestrian crossing with my toddler son. The lights started flashing amber, at which a thug started madly revving his car at me. So I stood and glared for around 20 seconds. He was pathetically livid. V funny.

1. Pledge Library in every primary school 2. Cutting-edge rail ticket technology trials launch in the North 3. Over £4 million government backing for next-gen aviation technology projects 4. Government backs Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5 billion loan guarantee 5. Plan to build 12 new towns in England 6. Green Freeport boost for Highlands 7. West Midlands Trains, Govia Thameslink Railway, Chiltern Railways and Great Western Railways set to integrate into Great British Railways. 8. Free breakfast clubs for half a million extra children next year 9. Great British Energy solar panels cut bills for NHS and schools 10. New Commission to help accelerate NHS use of AI  11. New Commissioner to champion tenant farmers across England  

Another busy week with Labour stepping in to save JLR jobs/supply chain, announcing 12 English new towns and more trains going back under national ownership. All info Google-able for detail.

My eldest son had to do recorded interviews back in 2016/17, for big company graduate engineering jobs. Usually as stage 2 out of a 4-stage recruitment process.

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

If you see this, post a bridge.

I’m so sorry Milly has had to go through this. She and all of your children sound wonderful. Thank you for writing about Lyme.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation