Lydia Maher

Feminist, ex social worker & social researcher, Labour

[Mary Creagh MP @MaryCreagh_]

Still one of my proudest moments as Nature Minister!

And there will be more to come!

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

@JournalistJill @JoeBryce15 Exactly. And the functional stupidity of so many clever, well-informed and well-meaning experts in the face of this crazy ideology is despair-inducing.

[Tides of History @labour_history]

In the early 90s, Penelope Keith took on a different comedy role to ones in the Good Life and To the Manor Born.

She starred as Jean Price - a new Labour MP navigating the male dominated world of Westminster - in No Job for a Lady 👑

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

I don’t want to spend every day being incandescent so I will just leave this with you and go and sing some Bach to calm down.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

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@politybooks #Gender #PublicPolicy #Statistics #Data #Sociology

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

ANALYSIS: The man who would be PM in three weeks, this our first taster of this plans. No general election, leadership race, Qs in parliament or on his speech today. On the substance of plans, clear parallels with Starmer promises. Can Burnham really be the change?

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

This THIS from @lib_thinks

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

This is brazen lying. David Miliband signed off on the transfer of the Foreign Office historical library collection in permanent loan to Kings College to make it accessible to scholars. This priceless collection was never “chucked.” Anyone who knows the Foreign Office knows that is the law library and to this day full of legal tomes.

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

In actual print!!!
Life goals…

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@richardparke15 @SVPhillimore Anyway, your comparison isn't apt. Gay marriage doesn't affect anybody else's rights. Men in women's single-sex services affects women. We can only have single-sex services for a good reason - usually safety/dignity/privacy. If you let a man in, that reason is undermined.>

[Stefan Rousseau @StefanRousseau]

Photo du Jour: Chancellor of the Exchequer @RachelReevesMP plays chess with members of the public in Taras Shevchenko Park in Kyiv, Ukraine. By Stefan Rousseau/PA

[teresa smith @treesey]

‘It is galling that 3 of these MPs are from the Labour Party whose 2024 election manifesto stated, ‘Labour is proud of our Equality Act and the rights and protections it affords women; we will continue to support the implementation of its single-sex exemptions’”
@WomensRightsNet

[Jonathan Brown @Broonjunior]

This bill is concerned with philosophical concepts which are hotly contested. In the case of non-binary identities the UKSC has recently confirmed that the law does not currently recognise them. The bill presupposes the validity of these contested concepts.

[teresa smith @treesey]

The LGBTFoundation is a powerful political voice in Manchester.
It not only organises the Mayor’s LGBTQ+Equality Panel, it also co-runs the Indigo Gender Clinic for the NHS. After they severed relations with the EHRC in Jan 2022 @ManCityCouncil produced its infamous TWAW motion

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

There are a number of prolific rapists who develop an affliction for dressing in women's clothes and who claim to be women. It's at best incredibly naive to argue any subcategory of men needs to be (unlawfully) placed on the female prison estate for their own protection 👇

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Senior Lab source messages urging govt ministers to think about what they say and who it impacts. Says lack of unity from some is staggering. Says obvious there were and have been problems but focus should be on governing. In local govt points out it’s Lab having to pick up the pieces with Reform and Green councils. Not Minsters or MPs. “Time some grew up,” they add.

[Peter MacDonald @BlackIslePMD]

I'm a current subscriber to the Courier, but I'll be thinking very carefully about that over the weekend, along with drafting some polite but firm correspondence to the editor. The shift from reporting to outright activism is blatant.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

I just supported this case! https://t.co/9FvnyR56Fz via @CrowdJustice

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

I'm sorry to say this latest craze is harmful.
Please DO provide clean water.
But please DON'T fill the dish with stones.
And certainly not marbles - glass will reach fatal temperatures within minutes of being in the sun, and will kill any insect landing on them.
Water needs to be fresh and clean *every day*.
If you put a lot of stones in it, they can harbour all sorts of dangerous water-borne pathogens and bacteria build up.
It will also make the water a mosquito breeding ground and the stones will harbour deadly parasites, like fluke.
Plus bees can get trapped and drown between the stones.
So please just provide a clean dish of tap water, with *one* easy to clean half submerged stone for the insects, or a few floating leaves, or a half submerged stick which can be replaced daily.🥰

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

Unbelievable nonsense. The military is a public service and protects our whole country, including our civilian public sector, from existential threats.