Deborah Venables

@coffeehound66 @DerryBanShee @CattyArt1 @UniofOxford and especially women!

@DerryBanShee @CattyArt1 @UniofOxford This is beyond repulsive. It’s an absolute affront to any sane person.

How did we reach the point where a male lecturer at @UniofOxford can wear gigantic fake breasts, with cleavage, and everyone else is expected to ignore it?

@QcWynter Class!

A number of readers have alerted me to the fact that reference should have been to herbicide and not to insecticide. Let me be clear. No one told me. When first told, I was furious. A minion has been fired. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans. 'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex. If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services. Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men. Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.

@gosporttomarlow A tune a day!

Funny things you suddenly remember, many moons ago I stood in my kitchen sharing tea & biscuits with Bert Weedon, who remembers him?

@AllisonPearson They are also proud to fly their own flag everywhere. It's lovely!

Well done, Greece!

@1pcornwell You should go there, it's a wonderful place!

I’m totally smitten.❤️

@claire_adams694 Very happy to have grown up in a council house, surrounded by supportive "aunties" and respectful (mostly) neighbours, where everyone looked out for each other.

Spent the day out canvassing for Reform and somehow clocked 25,403 steps. Even ended up putting a letter through my childhood council house. That brought back some memories. It felt massive when I was a kid, now it’s tiny. Just shows… where you start doesn’t determine where you end up. 🩵🇬🇧🫡

@gosporttomarlow I'd be watching you if you were wearing a burka!

One for the road although feeling apprehensive as there seems to be a lot of people watching me wearing a Burka

They put scars on women’s faces for a job interview experiment… then secretly removed them. The women went in believing they had visible disfigurements — and came out reporting massive discrimination, with interviewers supposedly referencing their “scars.” Konstantin Kisin used this study to make a powerful point: constantly telling people they’re oppressed or disadvantaged primes them to see discrimination everywhere, even when it isn’t there. It’s the same psychological effect as buying a new car and suddenly noticing that model on every street. The ideology of victimhood doesn’t just describe reality — it actively shapes it. We should be teaching young people they’re strong and capable of overcoming adversity, not training them to see themselves as permanent victims. What’s one way you’ve seen this “victimhood mindset” play out in real life?

@BeefyJackMcBeef @bagshaw2112 Oh no, they were an abomination🤮

@bagshaw2112 Aztec bars 😊

Why oh why did these disappear? What other chocolate bars / Sweets should we bring back … ??

@malprin @jonoread Woomerang, Boomerang!

Which CITV era were you?

@gosporttomarlow My sentiments encapsulated succinctly!

Don’t use a big word, when a simple miniscule semantic expression will adequately achieve the requirement.

@gosporttomarlow Morning!

@debbiephant 😂😂👍Morning Deborah

@bagshaw2112 Faggots and paes, good Black Country food!

Today’s food question! Who likes these tasty morsels !! Personally I Love them ❤️❤️ #faggots are they just a #british hearty meal ? #friday

@gosporttomarlow Correct!

What starts with a W and ends with a T

@GadSaad Forgiven!

Married professor caught in an illicit affair with a Belgian Queen.

@bagshaw2112 Oh yes, my dad used to make them!

Tonight we had ‘Pickled Eggs’ as part of the food buffet , absolutely delicious. Anyone else like these ?? #pickledeggs

@SaintsRugby Rugby is so wholesome!

Boots for Mini Eggs 🤝 We’d say Tom Litchfield got the better end of this deal!

@SeasonDeeper Blue Peter!

Who used to make rocket ships from empty bottles of this?