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So proud to have worked on this 🥰✨

[UK Tech-Fest @UKTechFest]

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Payment Plan 👉 https://t.co/4QHZ8uGwEi

[UK Tech-Fest @UKTechFest]

So if you buy your tickets that little bit earlier, you'd really help the festival out and give us that warm fuzzy feeling inside🙂

Ticket link: https://t.co/SK74QEJJwZ
Payment Plan: https://t.co/4QHZ8uGwEi

[UK Tech-Fest @UKTechFest]

Some of you may not be aware, but as announced in the 2021 budget, the current reduced rate of VAT for festival tickets stands at 12.5%. The normal standard rate of 20% will return on 1st April 2022.

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@SiGlacken @redsorrowrocks @NMCLtd Wait a second, the maths don't add up.. how can it be 25 years when she looks 28?! I can't explain this.

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Yes Lib Dems! Push out those Tories 🥳

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

(Chesham & Amersham) result:

LDEM: 56.7% (+30.4)
CON: 35.5% (-19.9)
GRN: 3.9% (-1.6)
LAB: 1.6% (-11.2)
REFUK: 1.1% (+1.1)
BP: 0.5% (+0.5)
FA: 0.4% (+0.4)
REU: 0.3% (+0.3)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

A government who doesn't like it when people say institutional racism exists appointed a panel of people who don't believe institutional racism exists, and they've produced a report which argues that institutional racism doesn't exist.

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@redsorrowrocks Oh no! Don't tell me you ate it raw?!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Let's be real, nothing would be happening in Bristol were it not for police attacking the vigil for Sarah Everard last weekend, or the government trying to push through a bill which restricts civil liberties.

You don't keep the peace by clamping down on peaceful protest.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

If the government attempts to criminalise peaceful protest, and police are set on women at a vigil, the scenes tonight in Bristol become an inevitability.

"No justice, no peace" isn't best understood as a threat, but as a statement of the glaringly obvious.

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Unbelievable scenes at Bristol #KillTheBill protest tonight

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We are tired, we are angry but we will not be silenced.

Thank you @UncutLeeds for organising tonight's incredibly moving protest in Leeds to remember every woman killed by male violence.

#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #SarahEverard #KillTheBill #ReclaimTheseStreets

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Flowers, placards and flowers in Leeds
@UncutLeeds
#ReclaimTheseStreets #KillTheBill

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Women being snatched by police at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Shameful, shameful scenes.

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Shipley's memorial for #SarahEverard and all women who suffer harassment, abuse and violence at the hands of men. #ReclaimTheseStreets #ReclaimTheNight

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Please donate to #ReclaimTheStreets crowdfunder. They're raising £320k for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled.
#SarahEverard

Link in tweet below ⤵️

[Reclaim These Streets @ReclaimTS]

Update: We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here.

Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled. https://t.co/ohTXXZONeH

[Reclaim These Streets @ReclaimTS]

We aren’t just lighting a candle for the women we’ve lost: we have been inspired by the women who have reached out and hope this is just the start of a movement that will light a fire for change. #ReclaimTheseStreets

[Reclaim These Streets @ReclaimTS]

This evening at 9:30pm we will be joining people around the country in a doorstep vigil, standing on our doorsteps and shining a light – a candle, a torch, a phone – to remember Sarah Everard and all women affected by and lost to violence. #ReclaimTheseStreets

[lucy 🇵🇸🍉 @xlucymoorex]

every woman knows it’s not all men. but we don’t know WHICH men. so we stay wary of ALL men. it’s not rocket science

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This list takes @jessphillips 5 mins to read. I tallied 118 women and 4 children.

According to @FemicideCensus, on average a woman is killed by a man every 3 days.

It could have been and could be any of our names on that list and it needs to stop. #SarahEverard

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

Since last year on this day, these are the women killed in the UK where a man has been convicted or charged as the primary perpetrator in the case.