Louise Wattis

Chuffed to get this through the post today. Mam disappointed it won't be in 'Smith's.

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Wes Streeting took £224,575 in donations from people and companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023-2025. 🚨🚨🚨 I find that unconscionable. RT if you agree! itv.com/news/2025-07-1…

Gutted to hear Cafe Etch in Middlesbrough is closing. @MbroCouncil petty harassment over outside seating can't have helped. Support your independent businesses.

Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts “Many gross inequalities...exist in the arts and it’s about to get much worse. Access to higher education for the working classes in the arts is increasingly becoming an impossibility.” theguardian.com/culture/2025/f…

@JoanneRCoates It's hard to have to keep up that mantra. And as for being assertive ... Take care your work sounds amazing

@utb_smith Heartbreaking xx

@vicderbyshire The Telegraph is obsessed with the BBC. Not a day goes by where I don't get an BBC bashing article in my feed. How many articles can they write about Radio 2 FFS!

In case you’re reading Camilla Tominey in Telegraph abt Kay Burley leaving Sky, there’s at least 1 inaccuracy in the piece She mentions Newsnight & claims it’s ‘haemorrhaging viewers’ Not true The audience figures are up 30% since the new format began last May

This is because we aren't allowed in to write our own stories - we are written by the middle class & this is how they see us because they dont know us independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

@redrumlisa Different worlds, no common experience.

London - Oxford - Cambridge - gets all the money - and then success will 'trickle up the country to the north & to the coastal towns' - just like it always does. Its worked so well everyone outside the golden triangle doesn't even have a bus service.

@JulieGreenhalg6 @redrumlisa It's material and cultural. As well as the economics of it which is massive, WC don't know how to be in these spaces and don't have the connections and cultural capital. You hear awful stories of bullying and exclusion.

@redrumlisa Working class youth and older people have to be assured of a steady income, that’s the reality of living month to month. The arts don’t really provide for that unfortunately. UBI would solve this as then they would have the basic amount to live and could explore and be creative.

The creative industry is full of middle class & upper people who are purposefully spreading their elbows and kicking down believing only they are entitled to interesting work - they aren't ashamed they dont want us there theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Fantastic to hear @EmeraldGlobal author, Louise Wattis, on @BBCRadio4's Thinking Allowed! bbc.in/40Tq3if @lu72 @EmeraldFairSoc #CrimeStories

May we take a moment to appreciate the sheer magnificence of @BBCSteveR Journalist/musician/linguist/ bravest chap in the room

"I'd like to punch him, Andrew Tate. I think he's disgusting." Steve Coogan weighs in on the wave of "toxic" male figures online with @maitlis.

Had a very tough day watching certain Tory MPs up in arms about grooming gangs, when they chose to take no action or even investigate the Tory MP that raped me. They heard my story, my parents' pleas, my medical evidence, and still chose to protect, cover up, & even promote him

Jess Phillips, alongside Carolyn and Tonia (pictured), was one of the few MPs to back the campaign to free my mother in our landmark #coercivecontrol case in 2019. I’ll always remember the female MPs like Jess who stood by my family against the injustice we faced.

I once contacted @jessphillips out of the blue for advice about a woman I was trying to support who had fled domestic violence. I emailed her at 7pm on a Friday night not really expecting a response. 1/2

Abused women and children cannot be used as pawns in power politics kareningalasmith.com/2025/01/08/abu…

Survivors of the Telford abuse scandal have criticised Elon Musk’s attack on Jess Phillips, stating she has “devoted her life to fighting for women and girls.” In a letter shared with the Guardian the seven women, including three survivors of the Telford sexual abuse scandal, came to the Labour MP’s defence and said that there was “no one in public life who has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests”. The other four signatories – Julie Devey, Carole Gould, Emma Ambler and Nour Norris – have lost a female relative to gender-based violence or have suffered domestic abuse. In their response to Musk, coordinated by the campaign group @KilledWomennw, the women said that those who “weaponise our pain for their own ends or political gain” should “hang their heads in shame”. “We write as victims of extreme male violence,” the letter said. “What connects us all beyond our shared trauma is the support and kindness we have received from Jess Phillips over many years, personally and as activists fighting for change. “We know there are those who would weaponise our pain for their own ends or political gain; who speak out with new-found interest, not to tackle the horrendous crimes that stole so much from us, but to further their own agenda. They should hang their heads in shame. “As campaigners and activists, we fight every day to stop what happened to us or our loved ones happening to anyone else. We stand by Jess, knowing she has devoted her life to fighting for women and girls.” ➡️ theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Old but gold. Akala absolutely incinerates Tommy Robinson. He got fully BBQ’D 😭😭