We’re in the final week before our Hot Ticket conference on Sunday. We have a few tickets left. If you haven’t yet booked there’s still time and here’s a reminder of our fabulous line-up of speakers…
Tickets are available via the link on our pinned post. See you there!
💪🇺🇦Ukraine is reclaiming every piece of its land — step by step, meter by meter.
And where the occupier’s flag once stood, the Ukrainian will rises again.
This is not just about territory — it is about people, about home, about the right to be free on one’s own land.
Ukraine will not surrender to aggression. Ukraine is taking back what is hers — and will not stop until every last piece is free.
📲 If you support Ukraine, share this video.
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'This is going to be terrifying for parents!'
Barrister Dennis Kavanagh warns that Labour's Conversion Practices Bill could see parents, teachers, and doctors jailed for up to five years if they do not use pronouns or or new names for LGBT people.
Remembering Corporal Terry Webster, 1st Battalion (Cheshire) The Mercian Regiment, fatally wounded following an exchange of fire with insurgent forces in the Nahr-E Saraj area, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 4th June 2010 aged 24. Terry was born in Chester. #Afghanistan
Welsh schools should take immediate note of this 👇 decision on single-sex school toilets, and the finding of indirect discrimination against girls, as should the Wales Education Minister @annagrangetown.
“The court was very clear that women and girls have different needs to boys and men and that women and girls will experience particular vulnerability when using a mixed-sex area such as a changing room or toilet.
https://t.co/xFRM29rpne
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All schools must immediately review their provision. After all, this issue has been pointed out to them time and again.
Our sisters at @MerchedCymru even produced a report about it.
https://t.co/NXB1Lwxmeh
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The photograph of Bożena Grabowska “Magda”, taken in North Downtown Warsaw during the 1944 Uprising, captures a moment of composure and purpose amid the destruction that defined the city’s struggle. Standing before the tenement at 7 Moniuszki Street, she represents the indispensable network of liaison officers who maintained communication between dispersed Home Army units. These couriers—often young women—moved through streets under fire, across rubble‑choked courtyards, and through improvised passages to deliver orders, reports, and intelligence essential to sustaining the uprising’s fragile command structure.
The posters visible behind her—“Our Road to Freedom 1939–1944,” “We Fight for Whole, Freedom, Independence,” and “Every Missile, One German”—reflect the propaganda and morale‑building efforts of the insurgents. Produced quickly in underground printshops, such posters reinforced the political meaning of the uprising: a national struggle for sovereignty after five years of occupation. Their presence on the walls of Moniuszki Street illustrates how the insurgents sought to reclaim public space, even temporarily, through symbols of resistance and unity.
Grabowska’s calm stance contrasts with the chaos surrounding her. By early August, North Downtown had become a contested zone, with insurgent barricades, sniper fire, and constant shelling shaping daily life. Liaison officers like her faced extreme danger; their work required speed, discretion, and an intimate knowledge of the city’s shifting front lines. Many were killed performing their duties, making her survival notable within the broader context of the uprising’s heavy losses.
Her later life—surviving the war and living until 2013—adds a poignant dimension to the image. She stands not only as a participant in one of the most intense urban insurrections of the Second World War but also as a witness to the long aftermath of the struggle. The photograph preserves a moment when determination, youth, and national purpose converged in the ruins of occupied Warsaw.
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On 5th July 2026, we are holding our very first WRN national conference in Central London.
'What's the point of feminism'?
Join us for illuminating discussions with great speakers, in areas such as: law, class, culture and sport.
Tickets here 👇
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We've had over a year of "waiting for the EHRC Guidance" excuses for failure to give women back their rightful single-sex services.
Now @Plaid_Cymru seem determined that Guidance should never come out.
Looks like the women of Wales may have to get their suing boots on!
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Congratulations James Murray, who has discovered (after a little thought) that sex isn't complicated after all.
Now over to you @mabonapgwynfor, Welsh Health Minister.
@Plaid_Cymru
Noor Inayat Khan, the British Indian SOE agent and the first female wireless operator sent into Nazi-occupied France, was betrayed, tortured for months, and executed at Dachau in 1944.
She gave away no secrets despite brutal interrogation and was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her outstanding courage.
THE POLICE WOULD RATHER BREAK THE LAW THAN OFFEND STAFF TRANS ACTIVIST NETWORKS
@gwentpolice consider themselves above the law.
So we’ve served a Letter Before Action on them.
Story by Rebecca Camber at @Mailonline.
More details below 👇
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https://t.co/TlA3w2rHrZ
🇺🇦 In memory of heroine Olha Semydianova — a combat medic and mother of twelve children who saved her brothers-in-arms until her very last breath.
Her name was Olha. She was born in Zaporizhzhia, and at just 19 years old, young and in love, she started a family to which she would later devote herself completely.
She became the mother of not one, not two, but twelve children: six of her own — four daughters and two sons — and later six adopted boys.
Children many considered “difficult,” because each carried deep emotional scars in their small hearts.
But Olha was never afraid. She simply embraced them, creating a family-style children’s home filled not with cold institutional discipline, but with genuine warmth and endless love.
Then came the war.
First, her husband volunteered for Right Sector. And in 2016, Olha followed him to the front together with one of their daughters.
She became a combat medic in the 24th Separate Assault Battalion Aidar, even though officially she could have been listed as a seamstress.
Her callsign was “Samara.”
But most people simply called her “Mom.”
Because at the front she did the same thing she had done at home: she saved lives.
Only instead of wiping children’s tears, she stopped the bleeding of wounded soldiers under enemy fire.
For two years she trained to become a qualified paramedic, but in truth, compassion and courage had always lived in her hands — gentle, yet incredibly strong.
Her daughter Anna later recalled that in 2019, on Olha’s birthday, enemy shelling destroyed their positions. Everything burned — documents, belongings, even her daughter’s laptop.
But Olha called not to complain, only to ask her daughter not to be angry.
And her daughter replied: “Mom, human lives are more valuable.”
Because that was exactly what Olha had taught them.
March 3, 2022.
The border between the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Olha knew where she was going.
A few hours before the battle, she handed someone a backpack with her belongings and sent a message to her children:
“I love you all very much. I’m heading to a hot zone.”
She never contacted them again.
The retreat began.
The commander ordered the women to move to the rear.
But Olha refused.
Wearing body armor, a helmet, and carrying her medical kit, she stayed where the fighting was fiercest.
Enemy tanks were firing. Infantry attacks continued.
And until her final moments, she tried to save the boys she called her own.
She was killed by small arms fire. A severe wound to the abdomen.
She did not die instantly. She was losing blood, perhaps spending her final minutes thinking of her children — every one of the twelve.
Those waiting at home.
And those now fighting on the front lines themselves.
“She lived an extraordinary life,” her daughter Oleksandra said. “And her real adventures began with her first child. Every year she became more beautiful and stronger. And after raising other people’s children as her own, she simply could not stand aside when the country needed protection.”
Olha Semydianova.
A Hero Mother.
A woman with the callsign “Samara,” awarded the Order of Honor and Glory and many other distinctions.
But her greatest award is the twelve hearts now beating in her memory — and every soldier alive today because she stood beside them on that battlefield.
Rest in peace, Olha.
You gave the most precious thing of all — a life filled with love.
And even death could not take away the most important thing you left behind:
the light that still shines through the tears of twelve children and all of Ukraine.
Eternal memory and glory to the Heroine.
Do not put up with this… say no loudly & openly. Protect the next generation, if we don’t it will continue to get worse for our girls. Gents too. These are your daughters being ignored. The law is on our side. Made very clear last year & last week. Males out of female spaces.
“These universities are prioritising the feelings of young men who say they are women…. The message to women and girls is that they are second-class citizens.”
@DerryBanShee in @ScotExpress on Scottish universities ignoring the law on single-sex spaces
https://t.co/nmjbhyPzeM
Someone needs to tell this man the law as a service provider! So many @marksandspencer have turned the WOMENs into an ‘anyones’ free for all, but kept the men’s ! Not ok
Why did Western Bay Adoption Service decide to interview leather men, latex fetishists, furries, drag queens and policemen at Swansea Pride? With lots of little children running about btw.
We're not sure of the relevance, or appropriateness of any of this 👇
Did they think it would be a great recruiting ground?
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Full video clip here 👇
WBAS are supported by @SwanseaCouncil@NPTCouncil and @BridgendCBC.
We leave it to you to decide if this is actually 'family friendly' as one interviewee claims. Perhaps the police officers there might think about that too.
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