Meg Peppin 💙

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Was told outright in a BBC training session that Jenni Murray ‘had been silenced’. A travesty. She was terrific.

Impossible to overstate the importance of Jenni Murray to the movement of women that changed our politics, economy & our society; that changed our lives. She was the broadcasting wing of the women’s movement. We all owe her. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I just read a blog piece 'As a gynaecologist, does it bother you if a patient hasn't shaved her pubic hair?' and now I want to just blow shit up. Have we not learnt anything from the Epstein Files. I tell you what should be bothersome, any gyno who even mentions pubic hair.

Dr Amir Khan on Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 👇

I’ve recently returned to journalism after being cancelled for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people” - which decimated my business. I also had breast cancer last year. And cancer has a way of clarifying what matters. So I went back to journalism. Pitching comment pieces. Finding stories. Rebuilding relationships with editors - knowing that would take time. What I wasn’t prepared for was this: You can no longer make a living solely from freelance journalism. Rates don’t seem to have increased since it was my full-time job pre-Covid. In some cases, they’ve gone down. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a proper investigation again - the kind of story that takes time, persistence and careful evidence gathering. I loved it. A national newspaper said yes immediately when I pitched it. But when the rate came through, even the editor sounded apologetic. Because this is exactly the kind of journalism we’re told is vital. And yet - it’s no longer financially viable. It’s not just the money. The conditions have shifted too. There was a time when if you were asked to go on TV or radio - especially late at night - a car would be sent. Or a taxi home booked. Now you’re expected to get yourself there and back. So you can spend an evening discussing violence against women - then find yourself making your own way home alone in the dark. A decade ago, I treated journalism as a “loss leader” - funding bigger investigations through media training, speaking, copywriting. I even wrote a book on how to get press coverage, which became a gateway to that work. Back then, it supplemented my income. Now, it feels essential. So I’m not just rebuilding my journalism career - I’m rebuilding the income streams that make it possible. And there’s another layer. Alongside stagnant rates, I’m also navigating the fallout of “cancellation”. I used to teach journalism at university level - something I loved. I can’t see that being an option now. Can you imagine a university taking on the perceived risk of having a “TERF” in their journalism faculty? And I’d be naive not to wonder whether some editors look me up, see that I’m gender critical, and quietly pass. So this is the reality: Trying to do meaningful journalism - in an industry that no longer pays for it, while navigating the risk of being excluded from it. And yet, the work still matters. Perhaps more than ever.

What a wonderful interview! I love listening to Rosie talk about the arts and its relationship to politics; what good art can do; what has been lost; and her determination to work through - and make sense - of this strange time we're in. She's so generous in all that she does.❤️‍🔥

Restrictions on divorce and college admissions. The war on women is ramping up.

Friends and family, it is getting warmer and you may be tempted to go walking in the beautiful Welsh countryside. So, please be careful where you put your feet because these little fellows have now hatched and may be hiding in the grass and you really do not want to upset their mum or dad.

Whoever wants to eat non-halal Indian food, please DM me for bookings or just walk in. The restaurant is not busy, as bulk fake bookings are made online to sabotage my business. Looking forward to see you

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Meningitis IS contagious Yours sincerely An Infectious Diseases specialist

BREAKING: The Iranian women’s national soccer team has returned to Iran. They are now all veiled and look terrified. UN Women did not once say a word about them.

There is interesting variation in what happened to youth well-being. The drop is biggest in the Anglo countries. Many developing countries rising. I learned a lot from engaging with the other authors of the World Happiness Report 2026. See whole report here. My chapter is #3 worldhappiness.report

Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

I'm going to call this right now. We are going to have a large population with absolutely no critical thinking skills if they blindly trust AI for everything. We have all already seen it. They don't validate outputs. They don't really understand anything. They just ask questions, it looks good, and they go with it. There are going to be huge issues in every company as this continues over the years. The amount of technical debt and knowledge gaps are going to be insane. So much opportunity if you actually know what you're doing.

A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

@SharonGChiara @tomfgoodwin Ah!

@OD_optimist @tomfgoodwin It's great although time consuming when you have lots of followers or connections, which is Tom's problem

What’s the very fastest way to remove Linkedin connections?

@SharonGChiara @tomfgoodwin Yup, just checked, that's super quick.

@SharonGChiara @tomfgoodwin I seem to recall if you access your list of connections and hover you can remove...

@CoppaFeelPeople @Jemboots123 "Men have breast tissue around the nipple area and can develop breast cancer, but this is rare. There are around 390 men diagnosed each year in the UK compared to around 56,400 women."

Thanks for your message ❤️ We use the word 'chest' as although everyone has breast tissue, not everyone identifies with the term 'breast'. We want our message to be inclusive and accessible to everyone, so we often use the word chest as a less gendered expression of breasts/boobs/pecs. For reference, chest still refers to the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; including your armpits and up to your collarbone. Hope this answers your question x

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