Louisa Jones

‘Taxi Tehran’ (#JafarPanahi, 2015) “They make your nearest friends into your worst enemies.” #FreeNasrinSotoudeh

Matt Brittin hasn’t officially been named yet but he will be. He’s got transgender activism - and pronouns - in his history. There are a number of middle-aged men at the BBC who’ve been key in promoting and supporting gender ideology and affirmation. Tim Davie wasn’t one of them, and it was a disaster for this issue that he left. Most of those men are still in role, and in Matt Britton we could get another. It still seems unlikely that the BBC will resume its extreme obsession with self-identification, but it’s full of gender guerillas, and they’ll redouble their efforts. Anyone who can make representations to him, make them early doors. He has to understand there is no going back.

Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder in the puberty blocker debate ‘Infertility is not a risk but an expected outcome..let’s be absolutely clear about what this would mean - the British state sterilising healthy little children - in plain sight, not by accident, but consciously and deliberately. How could we do this to children. It would be the most appalling state scandal you could imagine’

This is incredible. This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic. It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.

A reminder that some original Labour secret terfs, after years of holding those beliefs, relied on nobody finding out, watched what happened to women like me, and had their silence rewarded with Ministerial jobs/salaries. Those are usually the ones most hostile to us in public...

@ripx4nutmeg @mc_simmy NOOOOOO! Not f%*cking pronouns in the bio. NOOOOIO FFS!!!!

The new director general of the BBC is set to be a board member of The Guardian. Matt Brittin previously worked at Trinity Mirror, Google and The Climate Group. He also has pronouns in his bio

No thank you.

Jonathan Edwards' 1995 world record remains unbroken to this day.

@montysbiscuit Here’s a thing, Emma. Your use of the word ‘purge’ means I’ll pass on any of your ideas. And I’ll just drop this here for you 👇🏻so we’re clear how much I loathe your dickpandering nonsense. Extremism of any colour leaves me cold.

@FilmLecturer His first job should be to sack Robbie Gibb & all the Johnson appointments. Then go after McAndrew. Purge our media of the right wing racists, misogynists & Zionists. You dont know what a woman is either if you want the Right Wing in charge, they think you belong in the kitchen.

I wonder if Matt Brittin knows what a Woman is?

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it together while the world loses its collective mind. (link below)

Brilliant dad and brave girl! “A father and his teenage daughter have launched a landmark High Court challenge against a Brighton secondary school for allowing male pupils who identify as female to use the girls’ toilets and changing rooms.” gbnews.com/news/trans-sch…

The golds keep coming! Molly Caudery follows in the footsteps of Georgia Hunter Bell and takes her second world indoor title in the pole vault 🥇 #WorldIndoorChamps

@slyowusu @ZacGoldsmith It is for everyone in the community, you utter bollock.

@ZacGoldsmith If that's the case, why not donate the vehicles to the Ambulance service for us all to get equal access? 🤔 We accuse Muslims of not integrating, but what does this say about the Jewish community?

The stupidity is off the charts It is a charity, Hatzola, which was set up, funded and run by the Jewish community on behalf of the whole community (anyone who needs it, regardless of race or religion). The Jewish community saw a need, and mobilised to fix it.

Sign outside a wine shop on Oxford.

A Polish dance group, Fair Play Crew, drew global attention by recreating on stage the stiff and synchronized movements of 1980s fighting video games, such as the classic International Karate. I've seen this so many times, still cracks me up 😂

"Craig, who suffered from acute endometriosis in her forties, said the appointment of Richards was “absolutely ridiculous”. She added: “It’s as ridiculous as someone purporting to speak for black people when they’re white." @AmandaPCraig 🎯 for @SanMan1978 thetimes.com/article/fc4f93…

Today from 4.30 pm MPs will debate puberty blockers at Westminster Hall. Watch on this link. youtube.com/live/HHa3B2PiX… The transcript will be published here. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-0… This debate is a result of the public petition created by @JamesEsses to ‘Cancel the clinical trial into puberty blockers and safeguard vulnerable children’ which more than 146,000 people signed. The petition is here. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7518… The debate will be opened by MP Jamie Stone, an admitted trans activist, as Chair of the Petitions committee. A government minister will attend and respond. Here’s the gov.uk page committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/…

I've always found this incredible useful. An easy guide to exactly how much sh*t your local water company is in. Southern Water customer, 27% of your bill it doing nothing but paying interest on their stinking pile of debt. Thames Water, 28%, Anglian Water, 24% and on, and on, and on.......... weownit.org.uk/get-involved/p…

How much more are women expected to put up with? Because appointing a man who identifies as a woman to represent people suffering from endometriosis is not inclusion, it is disrespect. At best, it is tone-deaf. In reality, it's outright misogyny dressed up as progress. A man representing women with endometriosis. Think about that for a moment. Women fought for decades to get this disease recognised, treated, researched and taken seriously. Now they are told to step aside and let a man represent them. Call it inclusion if you like. Many women will call it something else. If women can’t even speak for women’s health anymore, what exactly are women allowed to speak for? Endometriosis is not an abstract identity. It is a painful, often debilitating medical condition that affects women because they have female reproductive systems. One in ten women in the UK suffer from it. Many spend years being ignored by doctors, misdiagnosed, or told the pain is “normal”. Women have fought for decades just to have this condition taken seriously. And now, after all that, they are told a man will represent them. You could not design a more insulting situation if you tried. Novelist Amanda Craig, who has personally suffered from acute endometriosis, said the appointment was “absolutely ridiculous” and compared it to a white person claiming to speak for black people. It is a harsh comparison, but you can understand the point she is making: representation should come from lived experience, not political fashion. This is the problem with identity politics when it loses all connection to material reality. Women are told to be quiet, be kind, be inclusive, and accept that even their own medical conditions are no longer theirs to speak about. So again, the question stands: How much more are women expected to put up with? Because when women cannot even speak about women’s health without being told to step aside for a man, that is not equality. That is erasure. And dressing erasure up as progress does not make it progress. It just makes it harder to challenge. #WomenMatter

@RooneyRachel @MissLauraMarcus This is very good indeed.

Dedicated to #WomansHour 's tribute to #JenniMurray