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(The Dark Blue Bird by Edward Lear)

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🎼NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK🎼

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Dear Twitter friends, I’ve spent the last seven years with my favourite Austen heroine, Jane Fairfax. Truly a woman for our time, she is brilliant, passionate and highly constrained by poverty. I’d be incredibly grateful for endorsements and retweets xx https://t.co/t9ql3eERWs

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

This is both really useful for those of us outside NI, and an exquisite piece of writing by @SeeRedWoman1
https://t.co/UWIcHtHb9s

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@SimoninSuffolk @fugitiveink @DrFrancisYoung I was just going to suggest ‘No Name’ too. An underrated classic.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

A sublime piece of poetry ✨️

• Siegfried Sassoon •

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@mjp_hall1981 Looks like an absolute delight!

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@mjp_hall1981 @amwilson_opera I STAND CORRECTED😂

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@Sorelle_Arduino @BBCkatyaadler @JuliaGillard @salltweets @HarrietHarman The women cheering 🙄

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

The problem with framing the issue as freedom of speech is the implication of distasteful views we should nevertheless tolerate.

It is in fact simpler: shutting down an analysis some didn’t like. Whatever the subject, every university, academic & student should be outraged.

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@hilary_mckay It’s a thing of beauty!

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@swklibdems @VMMChamberlain The vast majority of people can see through this empty rhetoric. You wish to withdraw single-sex provision from women in all circumstances, including rape crisis centres and prisons, and end freedom of association for women, particularly lesbians. Deeply illiberal policies.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

These last two years I've been all over the UK - seen things that would scald your heart and things that would make it soar. I've got stories. Come and listen here ..

[Annie Bishop @AnnieBishop123]

We’ve come a long way baby or at least we thought we had. I found this letter in the house that I bought

[Outspoken Women @women_outspoken]

1/4 We had a man like this, a vicious, angry AGP, turn up at our Women's Centre demanding his right as a lesbian to join in lesbian events. When we refused he said he'd destroy us. He applied to be on the committee: women fell out, volunteers left, scared: the Centre closed.

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@helenstaniland @jpmorgan Congratulations Helen!

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‘But wherever a woman is, she is less safe when she is defined as ‘member of the half of the human race who isn’t permitted to say “no”.’

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

I wrote about the 'but how are you going to police it?' question regarding women-only spaces. It's not about practicalities - it's about defining women as people who can't say 'no' https://t.co/aMiAQehB2N

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@HarrietHarman @BethRigby @SkyNews How out of touch would someone have to be to feel that the collective opinion of such a tiny demographic tells us anything useful about the country as a whole?

[Shambo of Luxembourg @BradfemlyWalsh]

The safe space for women debate is very simple: if you object to women having safe spaces, you're a danger. If women saying no to men and asserting boundaries makes you angry, you're a danger. If you want to belittle or attack women for saying no, you're a danger. End of story.

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@grahamscheper @janeholland1 What a glorious work of serendipity, and generosity.

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@treesey So much worse than I was expecting, which barely seems possible.