chatty

lover of chat and wine

[CourtNewsUK @CourtNewsUK]

"Fundamental failures" at Vision Express led to it employing staff without checking their qualifications, a panel hears.

[Laura Brough @LauraBrough]

goes in to Vision Express with broken glasses. Comes out of Vision Express with broken glasses. Vision Express are a waste of space.

[CourtNewsUK @CourtNewsUK]

Given that Vision Express used untrained staff, would it be short-sighted to buy spectacles from them in future?

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

@VisionExpress I am shocked by lack of service the rudeness and sexiest attitude of your male staff and untruths at oxford street shop. After 25 years of loyal service I would advise anyone to give you a wide berth

[Wendy Oldershaw @WendtheWalker]

Can we all just take a moment to acknowledge & appreciate the wonderfully talented @jk_rowling 👏🏻

She deserves a massive thank you from every real woman in the world! 🙏🏻 🌍

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

For dim witted journalists & handmaidens… wada is the world anti doping agency, used to stop athletes getting the smallest unfair advantage, as an athlete you have to agree to multiple tests, every year. They watch you pee. A once in a lifetime sex test takes 10 seconds.. it’s a cotton bud to the inside of your cheek. 80% of female Olympians polled in 1998 wished it to continue the ioc ignored them. After over 60 males have stolen medals & places from females since 2000, today that percentage would be very much higher.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

To all media… we are watching you closely. Misinformation, deliberate gaslighting, and ambiguous language is not excusable, you have been told relentlessly and very clearly by the IOC; the policy applies to males not being allowed in the female category, for integrity, safety, fairness and equality of opportunity of females in their category. It’s that’s simple. Feelings and personal identities have no place in sport, just biological reality.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear Phoebe,

I read your Observer piece this morning on the reported “exodus” from Girlguiding - and I was genuinely shocked.

Not because you presented a different perspective to my recent Telegraph reporting on the problems within Girlguiding. That’s part of journalism.

But because you chose to include the case of a six-year-old little boy who reportedly tried to cut off his own penis - after being told he couldn't be part of Rainbows (the section of Girlguiding for 5–7 year olds). Presenting it as evidence of a problem with Girlguiding’s admissions policy.

It is not.

It is a deeply distressing account involving a very young child - and, on any view, a serious welfare concern. Framing it otherwise is a profound failure of editorial judgement.

You also refer to this male child throughout using female pronouns, including the phrase “her penis”.

I appreciate this may reflect current editorial conventions. But it sits uneasily with the basic duty of a journalist to report clearly and accurately on material facts.

I was already aware of this case through my own reporting for the Sunday Telegraph. I made a conscious decision not to include it at this stage - both because a minor is involved and because of the ethical considerations that arise when reporting on such sensitive situations.

Those considerations are not optional.

You will know, as I do, that journalism is not simply about presenting competing narratives. It is about establishing facts clearly, handling vulnerable subjects with care and exercising judgement about what should - and should not - be used to advance an argument.

I trained as a journalist in the early 2000s - a good 20 years earlier than you did - but to my knowledge nothing has changed.

Good journalism should bring clarity. It should not muddy the facts - in order to promote an ideological position.

In this context, that means being clear about sex - a material fact that is both legally and practically relevant.

I appreciate you may be under pressure from colleagues or editors to frame stories in a particular way - or to use she/her pronouns, or the phrase “her penis”.

But that doesn’t make it right.

Earlier this week, the Manchester Evening News reported a violent murder as being committed by a woman - one of many examples of inaccurate reporting around sex and gender.

In this case, even the Crown Prosecution Service - the public body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in England and Wales - also reported the crime inaccurately.

So that’s two professions we should be able to trust to tell the truth - providing inaccurate information.

Crime statistics matter. Without accurate data on who is committing serious violence, we cannot properly understand it - let alone prevent it.

I considered raising this privately, or writing to your editor. But this issue is too important to be brushed aside with a “thank you for your feedback”.

I’m happy to discuss it with you privately, or to support a conversation with your editor if that would be helpful. But I hope this gives you - and your colleagues - serious pause for thought.

Because it is very much needed.

Janet

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

Has anyone noticed the reduced service on the train be. Northern line is absolutely chocca in the morning. No seats from zone 4. Costs more. Has @TfL ever thought about the end user. @MayorofLondon you want to encourage back to work but the service from tfl is diabolical

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

Embankment tube. Asked the guard on the station where this train was going and she screamed don’t speak to me don’t touch me. Thank you @TfL for employing such caring and helpful staff who don’t want to communicate or understand customer service. &yet you increase the fares

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

Embankment tube. Asked the guard on the station where this train was going and she screamed don’t speak to me don’t touch me. Thank you @TfL for employing such caring and helpful staff who don’t want to communicate or understand customer service. &yet you increase the fares

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

@VictimsComm Fabulous advocate for victims. Crossed party lines. Sending love to her loved ones. More sadness in their lives

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

Would you rather date:

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

@SkySportsGolf could he be any less enthused- don’t play if you don’t want the Claret Jug

[chatty @Lady_Chitchat]

@LibDemWomen But happy for biological women to be stripped searched by trans women police

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Share if you agree. 💯

[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

“Trials that are delayed also have major knock-on effects across the courts.”
@Telegraph @TeleBusiness
In one recent case relating to the death of a child, delays in bringing the defendant from a prison in the north of England to a court in the Midlands led to significant delays at three entirely separate trials.
A separate rape trial at Guildford Crown Court lost six hours of court time in a single week, with the defendant appearing at least an hour late each day from HMP Wandsworth.

https://t.co/vB7rr0gm4Z

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

There is no provision for exceptions in the 1992 Workplace Regulations, @michaelpforan keeps pointing out. The people briefing the FM are stuck on the Equality Act, which is not the whole story in workplaces./

[Dr Pam Gosal MBE @DrPamGosal]

The SNP’s push for more gender-neutral toilets in schools threatens the safety of young girls.

We won’t stand for it.

Join our campaign to protect our daughters 👉https://t.co/ZQRUSWvhxM

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

The judge called this child rapist Mr Wilson.
So when the BBC - or any other outlet - tell you that the reason they call child rapists ‘she’ ‘her’ or ‘Miss’ is because they are following ‘the language used in court’. Well, they’re lying.