Rachel

Are we really expected to say this is a woman and “she” is welcome in women’s spaces? @EHRC @bphillipsonMP

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🗣️ As the Shadow Secretary of State for Women I spoke yesterday on violence against women and girls #VAWG 🤔 The Minister’s response was not only incoherent, but also aggressive, which is not the appropriate tone at all & not what victims want to hear ❌ 90% of grooming offenders and 60% of rapists sent to prison will get prison times cut. This is wholly unacceptable. 👇 My full statement on the Sentencing Bill is here: mimsdavies.org.uk/news/mims-davi…

@MissLauraMarcus I can only speak for myself but I'm horrified. I stand with our fellow Jewish citizens and send my love to them all.

I wonder how most Brits feel when they hear Jews say they no longer feel safe in the UK?

Afghanistan to start stoning women to death for ‘adultery.’ The Supreme Leader of the Afghan Taliban Hibatullah Akhundzada says Afghanistan will begin stoning women to death for adultery in accordance with Sharia law. If any woman is suspected of having relations with a man before marriage they will be taken to holes in the desert and crowds will throw stones at them until they die.

many girls in Afghanistan were secretly learning online. Now, the Taliban cut the internet, and I can no longer teach them.These girls bravely strived for knowledge,but their right to education has been taken.When girls are denied learning, society’s future is at risk.

"By blocking women from becoming doctors and banning them from seeing male doctors, the Taliban are basically telling Afghan women to suffer and die without healthcare." Afghan women are enslaved. Treated worse than animals. No society can function like this. @UN_Women speak up!

@AllisonPearson @wesstreeting x.com/bindelj/status…

Absolutely disgusting from Wes Streeting if true. 👇 Cass report proved puberty blockers were dangerous for children and Wes accepted her findings. Two-faced toad @wesstreeting

@Councillorsuzie x.com/alisonwallis60…

You have always been of the view that those you don’t agree with are far right. Well they/we are not. There are many worried Londoners and your constantly referring to others as far right is divisive in itself. You should show proper leadership but you are incapable of that.

@Councillorsuzie x.com/alisonwallis60…

I’m genuinely sorry they felt that way but I do understand because very many of my Jewish friends and colleagues have been feeling that way for the last couple of years with the constant demonstrations for Palestine and the repeated chant of ‘from the river to the sea’ many of you have ‘looked the other way’

@AllisonPearson x.com/alisonwallis60…

Sorry, Wes, Jews are afraid to go into London every weekend. Don’t see Labour stopping the hate marches. Unlike pro-Hamas protests, there were no anti-immigrant chants, no toxic placards at the Unite the Kingdom march. It was friendly, welcoming and almost entirely peaceful.

Wanna know why national-populism is growing and spreading across Britain? I'll tell you: • Long-term economic stagnation • Too much immigration - and too quickly • Asymmetric multiculturalism • Ideological capture of public, cultural and corporate institutions • Failing public services • Crumbling infrastructure It really isn't because millions of people have fallen for the rhetoric of Tommy Robinson and have become 'far right' overnight. If you think it is, you don't understand your own country.

@joshxhowie This is one for @rickygervais !

Essays will one day be written about this clip.

Oh congratulations! The most important jobs in the world: mummy and daddy. I hope you enjoy every minute, but please know that if you don’t, if you find it hard and don’t have all those maternal feelings that we assume we’ll have, that that’s normal too. Lots of us about and able to hold your hand a bit if you need it! Sending much love to you all xxx

About a week ago an incredible blessing made his early debut into the world and for my husband and I the world shifted on its axis. We are so in love with Baby Dr Em.

Charlie Kirk held traditional views. I didn’t agree with all of them. I’m pro-choice, pro-gun laws, not a Christian, and I don’t support everything in the Bible. But my goodness, did I respect Charlie! You don’t have to agree with someone on everything to admire them. What an extraordinary man — always on the road, putting himself in danger, trying to undo the damage done by American schools and universities. He was always respectful. On the rare occasions he wasn’t, he’d catch himself and rephrase. He gave advice to young people who had lost their way. Charlie was one of the few who truly understood how desperately we need to change our EDUCATION CULTURE, both in schools and universities. Most people don’t see what Charlie saw: educational institutions are the heart of society. They shape the future. The Western world has lost a serious general in the fight for our survival. Charlie was the best of us. May he rest in peace. Fathers and their children. ❤️👇

We are surprised that @Morrisons feel it’s appropriate to use the homophobic slur “queer” in what appears to be official company comms. Photo from Leeds Pride today @AllianceLGB

Interesting article. The @scotgov are the only government who have paid for advertising for egg donation without having research on the harms to young women.

16 years olds don’t need the vote. They need adults to act in their best interests — not put ballot papers in their hands and tell them they’re “bright enough” to do it themselves. Why? I know first-hand the damage caused by treating a child like an adult before their time. At 16, I was legally homeless and under social services. I worked three jobs to survive, sofa-surfed through my A-Levels, showered at school, and survived off the kindness of friends and teachers. When Votes at 16 activists talk about the teenagers to whom ‘adult responsibilities’ apply and should be given a vote, they are describing my life. But where they believe lowering the voting age gives ‘a seat at the table’, all I see is a mechanism by which adults and services will be able to shirk their protective duties to vulnerable kids. I remember being told so often by my social workers that I was “smart enough” to do things on my own. The fact that I was “bright” and “mature” was weaponised against me to force me to take on burdens that I neither wanted nor was ready for. I will never forget sitting in ‘Multi Agency Meetings’ sobbing for someone to help me. I will never forget being told that it was “my actions that led me to where I was”. I will never forget my local council, social workers, and other professionals using legal loopholes to shirk their duties towards that vulnerable 16 year old child. 16 and 17 year olds like me – the ones that campaigners point to as the ‘model example’ of young people who should be allowed to vote – don’t need a vote to be “empowered”. It isn’t empowering to expect children to act like adults, and it does far more damage than good to force teenagers further into a legal grey area. Despite what Starmer wants you believe, 16 year olds do not (and should not) bear the same responsibilities as adults: No matter how smart or mature a 16 year old may seem, they are still a child, and it is a failure of our protective duty to burden them with adult responsibilities. Parliamentary decisions do affect young people. However, it is the job of the legislature to make decisions for the people, and it is the duty of adults to make decisions in the best interests of children. It is a failure of our protective duty to burden children with adult duties because they’re “smart enough to handle it”. If the only way you can win the next election is by putting ballot papers in the hands of babes, then you shouldn’t be in government.