Alice Grant

@dobssi @mara_yamauchi @ForWomenScot @BBCRadio4 @sharrond62 Most grassroots sport depends on volunteers to some extent. My guess is that most of those volunteers will expect people simply to be honest about the category they’re eligible for and to compete accordingly. There shouldn’t be any need for ‘policing’.

@mara_yamauchi @ForWomenScot @BBCRadio4 @sharrond62 ‘I’ve tweeted about males in M cat being robbed of age grade rankings positions numerous times. Go & read them.’ I couldn’t care less myself, and I certainly chase age grade rankings. It’s parkrun not the Olympics. You avoided my question on volunteers.

Please listen! 👇 I’ve written to @BBCRadio4’s You & Yours about this.👇Parkrun collects NO sex data so they cannot measure how many women are doing what, and claims like Duggan’s are meaningless. No challenge from presenter Winifred Robinson. #makeparkrunfairforall

@Tim_Burgess Ravishing Beauties supporting Teardrop Explodes, October 1981. Virginia Astley absolutely defined my summer 1983 and for decades following.

OK, let’s have ‘em Who have you seen as a support band that you then went on to love and become a fan of?? Or someone who became HUGE - or both. Answers below please…

I’ll share stage times each day but if you can, please head to the show in time to catch The Cords, we think you’ll love them Nearly every big band you love started out as an opening act - us included. Please support the supports! Tim x

@JamGloom @luthoreads As an ex-librarian it did my head in! 🤪

@alicegrant @luthoreads It was a bit of an Aladdin's Cave experience in my view, it had everything you could want but the most bizarre layout especially before they moved. Not so impressed post pandemic as the stuff I used to go in for well they don't have the choice anymore or stock.

finally went to waterstones piccadilly and i genuinely almost lost it

@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @RestIsPolitics @SarahEMcBride Any mention of WOMEN’S rights there?

For those in the middle of the @jk_rowling conversation I strongly recommend you listen to @RestIsPolitics LEADING interview with @SarahEMcBride - you could not wish to hear a more compelling, passionate and measured advocate of trans rights and human rights. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxQze…

@JamGloom @luthoreads Foyles used to drive me barmy though...

@luthoreads You'd have loved Foyles before they did the Waterstones treatment. You could find rare gems.

‘This is a moment of truth. Requiring women to undress in front of men is not equality - it is a violation of our dignity.’ Bethany Hutchison, Darlington nurse

@AmandaPCraig @LesFugitives I had no idea she was also a cook - wonderful discovery!

What joy to discover that the marvellous novelist & cook Michele Roberts has written a follow-up to her simple but essential French Cooking For One - French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Friendship! Who could resist giving this to a friend? @LesFugitives amzn.eu/d/4nW9erZ

@treesey Ooh that’s a toughie let me go into a darkened room and have a good old think about it…

Fiona Bruce or Lord Winston?

@SexMattersOrg @MForstater Best eye roll I’ve seen all year Maya 🙄 (and my goodness we’ve all been driven to a few!)

@MForstater Watch the full exchange: youtu.be/iFSDwXNP8dw

“Look at the way you’re dressed, your makeup and clothes...” “I put on some makeup ten minutes ago. I was female before!” @MForstater and Peter Tatchell clash over BBC bias on reporting of sex and gender (and Maya’s “gender identity”!)

@_ConnieShaw Go Connie! Some fabulous signage there 🪧👍🤩

Here we go…

@AmandaPCraig @HJoyceGender @BBCWomansHour She was phenomenal; the interviewer was left reeling at the end with that onslaught of clear thinking!

I thought my admiration for @HJoyceGender could not go any higher, but her calm, factual, polite arguments about why transwomen (men) should be kept out of women’s spaces @BBCWomansHour is exemplary. Of course she should have been on four years ago when her book Trans came out.

@cardichough13 @LissaKEvans @FrenchNicci @LJRossAuthor That’s *exactly what I’ve done whilst driving back and forth for my mum over the last year! And before @ljrossauthor I listened my way through the Maeve Kerrigan series by @JaneCaseyAuthor (there’s been a LOT of driving…🫠

@LissaKEvans @FrenchNicci Everything by @LJRossAuthor, I have everything on audiobook because I struggle to concentrate enough to read and having to wait for the audiobook is tortuous. I also listen to them with my Mum on the way to and from her medical appointments.

OK (*makes giant effort to change topic*) - I've been discussing unputdownable books - books that provide wonderful distraction during tough times, well-written but not 'difficult'. Two examples, 'House of Correction' @FrenchNicci, '22/11/63' Stephen King. Any suggestions?

@strictlybiology @suladoyle It is now!

@suladoyle I thought this was a meme. Brilliant!!!!

Kathleen Stock has a letter in The Times today.

@treesey @ForWomenScot @UKSupremeCourt Yes! This exactly! Just like all the 'lefty men' all crawling out of the woodwork for an obvious soft target.

I love that political hacks asked the PM’s spokesperson about Gregg but not about the @ForWomenScot case in @UKSupremeCourt

I see that even No. 10 have figured out what a woman is now that they have a soft target. Perhaps they could pass on that insight to @scotgov #sexmatters bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@glosswitch Superb piece of commentary and analysis.

I wrote about the response of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Nancy Mace, and what it says about the utter flimsiness of your feminist principles if you only see misogyny if it comes from 'the other side' thecritic.co.uk/alexandria-oca…

@MartinKnight_ 1982 but not fair as no shoes ☹️

Which year?

Women—Freedom—Education 🇦🇫 Nooriah women rights activist from Afghanistan shared a heartbroken stories of Afghan girls and women who are arrested and killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. —She says to UN Afghan women need action and justice. Please hear her stories & retweet 🙏

If the BBC are looking for new presenters who won’t bring them into disrepute may I respectfully suggest they employ more women over 50? We’ve spent a lifetime sorting out other people’s messes, can spot trouble a mile off and have no problem calling it out. You’re welcome.

@francesbarber13 I mean, would a gazebo have been too much to ask for, poor soul?

@francesbarber13 What will that rain do to his poor piano? 😬

I mean, Chapeau to that poor bloke on the piano in this relentless rain.