Dawn Furness 💜🤍💚 #WomenLifeFreedom

Political & Environmental Activist
Safeguarding. National Water/Energy. Green New Deal

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

I've been playing with the @HEPI_news data tables, some fascinating differences according to student characteristics.

First up social class. 37% of ABC1s say males should be allowed to use women's changing rooms compared to 28% of C2DEs.

[CountingDeadWomen @CountDeadWomen]

9 June 2026: Barbara McCann, 47, was found dead at her home in Catford, south-east London. Derek Bradshaw, 32, has been charged with her murder.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

A huge thank you to everyone for supporting the publication of The Rape Gang Inquiry Report…

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

The Prime Minister told @GBNEWS that conversations of two-tier policing are “undermining” their work.

I think that sounds a bit like gaslighting when it’s written in black and white in the NPCC code.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

The proofs have arrived in the post! Looking forward to publication of "Sex, Lies and Statistics: Why We Need Evidence- Based Policy on Sex and Gender" with @politybooks later this year 📚

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Lord Macdonald of River Glaven KC has recently completed his review of public order and hate crime legislation, commissioned by the Home Secretary.

The central question of how to tackle extremism while preserving freedom of expression falls squarely within the scope of Lord Macdonald’s review.

Today in the House of Lords, the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, asked Home Office Minister Lord Hanson of Flint what had become of the review and when peers would be able to examine its findings.

The Minister confirmed that the Home Secretary has received the review and is considering Lord Macdonald’s recommendations. He also committed to publishing it before the summer parliamentary recess.

We will hold Home Office Ministers to that commitment.

Watch Lord Young below 👇

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

WARNING:

This is Blue of the Sky.

They are terrifying people over there.

I don’t even know what to say. I honestly don’t. It’s so much worse than you know over there. So much worse.

This is the app they like. The one they want everyone flocking to.

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

Wonderful!
Slowly but surely sports are remembering that equality for women and girls necessitates a female category at all levels.
Thank you @ForWomenScot @EHRC & the Supreme Court.
Plus many many others ...

[LesbianLabour @LesbianLabour]

When anorexia was all the rage was the nhs removing children’s stomachs because they wouldn’t need them? What if we called we called it cosmetic mutilation would anyone care? Affirmation without exception leads to the removal of healthy body parts?

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

🔊Instead of inviting the Taliban to international meetings , Taliban leaders should be questioned and held accountable.
By what right have they deprived millions of Afghan women and girls of education, employment, and their most basic human rights?
Please don't forget afghans women 🙏

[Talk @TalkTV]

🚨"We've all been failed. Many of us still have a criminal record. No political party can tell me they didn't know this."

Sammy Woodhouse says she is frustrated about how the criminalisation of rape gang victims has still not been addressed.

@JuliaHB1 | @officialsammyuk

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Parallel legislation in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons seeks to tackle lawsuits that try to “silence, intimidate or financially exhaust” journalists.

Baroness Stowell of Beeston and Sir John Whittingdale MP are set to introduce so-called anti-SLAPP Bills in Parliament, in what is being seen as “a rare demonstration of cross-chamber solidarity and pressure” to tackle what are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs).

SLAPPs are aggressive legal actions designed to intimidate defendants and significantly increase their costs. They are generally brought by wealthy litigants — often large businesses — to prevent media organisations and authors from publishing damaging revelations.

Campaigners have called SLAPPs “abusive legal threats that are not necessarily intended to win in court, but rather to silence, intimidate or financially exhaust those speaking out in the public interest”.

According to the Anti-SLAPP Coalition, Britain is the leading jurisdiction for the use of these legal actions — more than the EU and the US combined.

Baroness Stowell’s Bill would give judges the ability to swiftly assess these types of cases and “dispose of Slapps at the earliest possible stage in the court proceedings”.

Under the proposed law, judges would have to balance a claimant’s access to justice against the public interest in the claim in question.

Ministers have repeatedly failed to tackle this issue despite committing to do so and failing to bring forward legislation.

SLAPPs — and their zealous use — are a threat to freedom of speech.

Baroness Stowell has argued: “for too long British courts have been used to hush-up unethical behaviour and corporate abuses”.

The Private Member’s Bill sponsored by Sir John Whittingdale in the Commons would include the same proposed changes.

Read more below in @thetimes 👇

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

Ben Cooper is a prince among men. So grateful for his brilliant advocacy work, and proud to know him.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

This man was repeatedly affirmed by the BBC *after* his initial conviction in 2021.

That is, @BBCDevon and @BBCNews *knew* he was a child sex offender, were fully aware of his multiple convictions, and *still* ‘respected’ his pronouns. Still did what he wanted and used the language he fancied.

It was never required by the court, or by a regulatory authority, but the BBC did it anyway.

https://t.co/4IgozFOTQC

[Young Bob @YoungBobRB]

BREAKING: The first arrest has now been made following the shocking events in Manchester.

One of the women who repeatedly threw bottles of water at me during the event and allegedly encouraged others to attack me is now in police custody.
But this is just the beginning.

Police are also pursuing the Stand Up to Racism activists and the group of lads involved in the attack. Officers have told me this is one of the most high-profile cases they have dealt with in recent memory.

Most importantly, they made it clear that the huge online backlash and public pressure forced this case into the spotlight and ensured it could not be ignored.

Justice is finally being delivered. More updates to come.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

Pride in Surrey, the real reason it's been cancelled this year (link to full podcast in reply). Got a comment, @ZoeFranklinLD? After all, you chucked me and my producer out of the event last year because we were asking awkward questions...

[Green Women's Declaration @GWDeclaration]

♀️🌍 Our Green Women's Declaration has been signed by over 1,600 women and men.

📣 Here's what some of those signatories had to say.

✏️ Why don't you join them and sign?
https://t.co/zzhalh6701

#ForWomenAndPlanet

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

I was pleased to speak in Parliament today on the topic of Sharia councils and how they are used to oppress, exploit and abuse Muslim women.

Britain is the "Western capital" of Sharia councils and helps set up councils in other countries.

60%-80% of Muslim marriages in the UK are sharia-only marriages, with no British civil registration (and thus no protection for the wives, who can be quickly divorced and left penniless by the husband, who also has priority over custody of the children).

This is far higher than anywhere in the Western world.

Far too little is known about how some of these completely unregulated councils are led by extremists and Islamists.

Some councils condone wife beating, ignore sexual and honour based violence, and allow forced, child and cousin marriage - and can deny mothers access to their children. And that's just the start!

Sharia law and councils have no place in Britain or any advanced Western nation.

Around 50 in attendance today including MPs, Peers and other notable figures such as Sir William Shawcross who led the critical review into the Government's "Prevent" programme.

Thank you to the Women's Policy Centre & Paola Diana for inviting me and to Sarah Pochin MP for hosting.

Brilliant speeches from Dr. Anna Loutfi, Camilla Tominey and Khadija Khan.

[Dr Pam Gosal MBE @DrPamGosal]

Behind a friendly smile is a hidden disdain for women who dare to speak up for their rights.

Manivannan, who may be forced to leave Scotland before this Parliamentary term ends, is telling women to basically shut up and give up our rights to any male who demands them.

Women can never trust the Scottish Greens.

Great article from @msjlindsay ✍️
https://t.co/niewnRIzoS

[Genspect @genspect]

🇬🇧 Major news for women in the UK & Ireland.
Marks and Spencer have FINALLY acknowledged that a single sex changing room policy is mandatory in their stores

Chairman Archie Norman told stalwart campaigner @Baroness_Nichol
"The womenswear fitting rooms are for women, we do not expect them to be used my male customers"

Sex realist women across the UK & Ireland are now hoping Archie Norman knows what a woman is and that he will let @marksandspencer General Counsel and Company Secretary Nick Folland know
⬇️