Miss CD

[jude martin @judecambridge]

Private Eye:

[WheeshtCraft @Dis_Critic]

As someone who grew up in a housing scheme in Glasgow, I find it obscene that rich men get to invent their oppression- a glamorous oppression- the lanyard classes can 'address' rather than addressing real poverty, desperation and inequality. Shame on the complicit.

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

Marginalised identity? He’s a hugely privileged young man who has post grad degrees from two leading universities (Trinity College Dublin and St Andrews) and is now a parliamentarian in a country where he is not (yet) a permanent resident. How many working class women are hidden in the “quiet corners” with no voice?

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

My charity raises funds for girls' toilets to be built in developing countries so girls can go to school for 4 weeks of the month instead of 3. This isn't rocket science. Why are girls in the UK not allowed as much dignity and privacy?

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

Perhaps they could be identified by being made to wear - and I don't know, I'm just spitballing here - a yellow Star of David?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Fantastic read from @PaulKnaggs
"the political damage...is measured in every working-class woman who watches Labour MPs sign a motion against the legal clarity she has waited years for, and draws the obvious conclusion. It is measured in every constituency where the word ‘Labour’ no longer carries the meaning it was intended to carry. The party that was built to represent the interests of those with the least power in society has, on this question, positioned itself against the sex-based protections of half the population."
https://t.co/iE0WyJcxBU via @Labourheartland

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@owenjonesjourno @EHRC Owen, men’s incessant, ubiquitous violence against women & girls results in 3 murders a week in the UK alone.

So no, we won’t share our few places of refuge -which allow us to take part in public life – with trans-ID men, which means any man who’ll say the words “I’m a woman”…

[Victoria Freeman @v_j_freeman]

This is such an important point. If women talk about their personal experiences of male violence they are, at best, forever cast in the victim mould in eyes of many. Weak, emotional, unpredictable, vengeful, obsessive. Not powerful & resilient. Little wonder so few of us do it

[Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi]

Won’t someone think of the poor men who sell their daughters to be raped so that their sons get enough food. This is repulsive, even by BBC standards.

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

Why is the BBC painting him as the victim? There is nothing that makes this remotely acceptable. No crisis should drive a father to sell his child. The real victims are the girls. These men are sick, and we as a society have failed to protect countless generations of Afghan women and girls.

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

Yesterday, Taylor Harwood-Bellis mocked Luke Ayling for his stammer.

Here’s a video of Ayling discussing what it’s like to live with a stammer and his journey.

Anyone who mocks him after watching a video like this should hang their head in shame.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

I am sure the looked-after children and local disabled people will appreciate the immediate priorities of the Mayor

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

First time I interviewed the hideous Barry Drewitt-Barlow, in 2010, he told me he commands the "surrogates" having "his" children to have C-sections, because he found it "repulsive" to think of the babies coming out of a vagina.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Hey
@zarahsultana

Do you remember that time you cheered on a man as he punched women in the face and stole their hopes and dreams? Sure you do, you even called him Queen.

How does it feel to have supported male violence against women?

What is it about brown Muslim men that makes you support them punching women in the face?

Its been nearly 2 years and you still haven't answered.

Why have you not once spoken about this tweet?

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

A man murdered his ex-partner with a grenade which also killed him
Domestic Abuse was called a “National Emergency” 18 months ago
1 in 4 women suffer it
1 in 5 sexually assaulted
2 killed every week by (ex) partners
Where are the Cobra meetings?
Where are the press conferences?

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

The best thing is, they'll never forget it 👍

[Alice Salisbury @alicesalisburyj]

@kitmalthouse “these people”

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

This is the basic reason why the AS bill failed. One impartial expert organisation after another looked at the detail and concluded that it was a nightmare in the making: