karen fox 💙

woke feminist who’s not moving on #fbpe #fbnhs take back Britain

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

Fierce, timely piece about the crisis in foster care ...

A 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother are taken into police protection after a domestic violence incident. No emergency foster place can be found. So they spend the night in police cells.

https://t.co/iKjGy82w4c

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Long before Michelangelo, long before Rembrandt, long before Picasso.....women were quietly and collaboratively creating their own masterpieces in Western art history....
#BayeuxTapestry

[karen fox 💙 @Karen2Fox]

That is absolute bollocks

[George Valentine @Judrestore]

I do not believe what I have seen today! Somebody has shown me vouchers for Asda where immigrants get 4 packs of steak for 55 pence and 1kg of chicken breasts for 40p! This country is making me feel sick! I have seen this with my own eyes today and also they have been privately tested so they are genuine. I am. furious! I will be sharing this with the correct person in our party to reveal to the public! @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain

[💗 @ma1ybe]

This man murdered Chloe Devey Waterhouse by stabbing her. Headline glorifies him as a maths graduate while reducing her to the ‘sweetheart’ of a violent man who didn’t love her. Chloe held a first-class maths degree and a Master’s in statistics.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Quite possibly the worst edition of BBC Newsnight ever

As Reform UK's Laila Cunningham reveals herself to be an absolute disgrace, shouting and speaking over other guests

What a sad day for the BBC and the country at large

[karen fox 💙 @Karen2Fox]

@frankcottrell_b You’ve been wonderful. Thank you.

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Did you know that if someone takes a knife to somewhere – a park for eg – and murders someone, the starting point for their jail sentence is 25 years. But if someone kills in the home with a knife already at the scene, like in the kitchen drawer, the starting point for their jail sentence is 10 years less 

Why? It doesn’t make sense 

Well now after incredibly determined campaigning by the mums of 3 young women – women who were killed in the home by their boyfriend or ex – the law is being changed

Carole Gould, Julie Devey and Elaine Newborough, from the charity Killed Women have been fighting for SEVEN years for the minimum sentence for domestic murder to be increased

Now it’s happening. The gov says it intends to close the 10 yr gap so domestic killers face higher sentences

The photos below show Julie & Carole, Carole with her daughter Ellie, Julie with her daughter Poppy, and finally Megan

Ellie was 17 when she was murdered
Poppy was 24
Megan was 23
❤️

[Sara Nathan @SCNathan]

@ZoeJardiniere Would be so much cheaper/better/fairer to #LiftTheBan
on asylum-seekers working.But that doesn’t have the performative cruelty to which @ukhomeoffice is addicted.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Extorting £10,000 from refugees is a perfect illustration of what this immigration bill is:

Pure performative cruelty.

All it will do is price out recognised refugees - who will live here for the longterm regardless - from becoming citizens & feeling that security & belonging.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Last year I committed Labour to scrapping a cruel and outdated law that criminalised people for sleeping rough.

I’m proud that commitment is being delivered. The Vagrancy Act is repealed today, drawing a line under two centuries of injustice.
https://t.co/SuwLiqveeh

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.

Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.

A missed opportunity?

https://t.co/7WTmw8RXCV

[MattStaniek @MattStaniek]

Parents are being warned not to let their children play in Mill Beck in Windermere.

Following regular testing undertaken by Windermere Town Council, results have once again demonstrated sewage contamination entering the small beck that runs through Windermere village.

For more than a decade, the Environment Agency has known about this sewage pollution. It has even narrowed the source down to a small number of locations along the beck, yet they have still failed to bring the problem to an end. The pollution has been attributed to misconnections, but no action has been taken to ensure the issue is resolved.

United Utilities states on its website that, once an issue like this is reported, its operational teams will investigate the problem, write to local residents explaining how they will resolve the pollution and protect the local environment, and trace the source back to the property where the wastewater pipes are misconnected using techniques such as dye tracing and closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveys. If a misconnection is identified, the company says it will provide advice on the corrective work needed to fix the issue.

So why haven’t the Environment Agency and United Utilities carried out this work and brought an end to a problem they have known about for more than ten years?

Yes, it is ultimately the responsibility of the property owner to rectify a misconnection. But it is the responsibility of the Environment Agency to regulate pollution and of United Utilities to investigate and help identify the source.

Neither should be acting as though this pollution is not happening in a river that is home to rare and protected species.

This has been a known source of sewage pollution for more than a decade. There is no justification for allowing it to continue unresolved.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

[Jo Moriarty @Aspirantdiva]

I am so sad that The World Tonight is being axed from @BBCRadio4. I fully understand the BBC's financial difficulties but I have listened to the programme for most of my adult life. It is by far the best of the daily news programmes on the radio and I will miss it

[Robin Lustig @robinlustig]

I’ve written a piece for the I paper about the axing of The World Tonight. https://t.co/fspXUasUyN

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

In a time such conflict & uncertainty, we need to hold on to every bit of good news - & this is truly magnificent story. Thanks to the wonders of medical vaccination, women who receive an HPV vaccine in early adolescence now have virtually zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30. A safe, simple jab has almost eradicated one of the cruellest cancers women ever experience.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women (about 3300 new cases are diagnosed in England every year) & human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause 99% of cases. We already knew that the HPV vaccine prevented about 90% of cervical cancers, but this new study used official cancer mortality & vaccination data to assess the vaccine’s impact on survival. That impact is so great that the authors estimate the likelihood of girls who are vaccinated at age 12 or 13 dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30 is almost zero.

But there’s a sting in the tail.

Vaccine hesitancy means take up of the vaccine is falling. Only 75% of girls who could receive the vaccine are doing so, no doubt in part because of the tsunami of anti-vaxx disinformation & scaremongering out there online. Some of these girls are destined, one day, to develop an avoidable cervical cancer that will claim their life, and that is a tragedy.

Please know the safety data for the HPV vaccine is robust and clear - it’s incredibly safe and it could save a teenager's life. The NHS has excellent info on vaccines - please read up on vaccines from reliable sources. Or talk to a doctor - we want to help & are only too happy to discuss your concerns. Thank you.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

The cuts just announced at the BBC are, as expected, a decimation of its journalistic output. That's what happens when government refuses to allow it to be funded in order to preserve programmes and talented and experienced staff. Great news though for liars and propaganda channels

[Simon Bristow @SimonBristow8]

This is dreadful. Amid the proliferation of unregulated, divisive and harmful nonsense on social media and elsewhere we have never needed serious BBC news programmes more. Bad for democracy, bad for our future. #BBC

https://t.co/2aPtPRduAq

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

Yes, the BBC has to live within its means but if being a public service broadcaster is central to its mission The World Tonight is not the programme to cut. It takes a world view & intelligently & has been a nightly briefing for people like me since I discovered it at university.

[Robin Lustig @robinlustig]

Very sad to learn that Radio 4's The World Tonight is to be killed off in the latest round of BBC cuts. It has a long and honourable history as one of the more thoughtful BBC news programmes and I am proud to have been associated with it for more than twenty years.