Kirsty Caulfield

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

@creepydotorg Darren Hayes of Savage Garden was also supposed to be on a plane - United 93, I think

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

Given up on streaming on @StreamOnU keeps showing adverts, get through one set and then it's onto another set after 1 sec of programme, and keeps detecting an ad blocker which i haven't got on. i don't know what's changed recently, but it's unwatchable.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

I have no idea how this has happened

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham arrives at Buckingham Palace to be appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

I never want to see Adam Boulton on my TV again

[Rt Hon Nadine Dorries @NadineDorries]

Your apology is about you - desperate not be cancelled by @SkyNews and @TimesRadio
for your inhumane, insensitive and depraved misogynisric commentary. You fear becoming irrelevant and will say anything in order to stop that happening.
You are a fake and we see you.

You have lowered the standards not only of all broadcasters and journalism everywhere but of what is deemed acceptable narrative in a civil society when someone dies.

No channel should ever use you again. Focusing on her supposed virginity as if that was what defined her? You are a sick man.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

I like that there’s no awful thumping music during the changeovers at #Wimbledon

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

Binge watched #themotherofallcons why was Will so shady? Joanna and Nick were fab; they’re people you’d want in your corner. Felt sorry for Meg’s sister and two friends

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

New Ingham family grooming scandal: Allegations stretch to GRANDMOTHER https://t.co/7UbvTt3Yiq via @DailyMail

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

@BoothsCountry Tennis with a bag of Tyrrell's crisps

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

@MsPocketRocket I can’t believe the war memorial is not real.

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

Really enjoying the Grace & Anna pairing on #MasterChefUK

[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

Ronnie O'Sullivan wiping out playing VR pool when he goes to lean on a table that isn't there 😂

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

@sainsburys @sainsburys you need to do something about the spam accounts pretending to be you

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

@WorldSeniors Great match. Nice to see players chatting between frames. Roger seems like a sound guy 🙂

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

@SkyNews subtitles are so hard to follow. Sometimes only two words on screen, pushed to the left, sometimes miss whole sentences out #accessibility #disabilitydiscrimination

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

How do they count the votes when there are potentially three votes on each ballot? #localelections

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

Alan/Terry - second crew talked over his head, should have communicated more with him #ambulance

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

CCP Matt from Doncaster - legend #ambulance

[Kirsty Caulfield @KristyLou25]

Sad that Caroline has gone. Gareth or Luke to win #mastercheftheprofessionals