Boni Sones OBE

Independent broadcaster podcaster. All subjects.
A Fellow Commoner @LucyCavColl & Researcher @CambridgeCBR. Now at

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Thanks @ChuArchives Thanks @LucyCavColl Big Thanks @JackieAshley. Great weekend viewing #film #women #Parliament #Groundbreakers "they did it"! @pollytoynbee @Baronessjenkin @CherishWatton @HarrietHarman https://t.co/c8qoRIG8In

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

And 3/ @ayeshahazarika our #Groundbreakers audio podcast with @HarrietHarman
& #MargaretBeckett two of Labour's great parliamentarans with careers stretching back 50 years. They should have been Labour Leaders! Thanks @JackieAshley https://t.co/CmMKRkoWdB

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

And 2/ @ayeshahazarika here's the link to the 2 hour doc. Including their many achievements (min wage flexible working Equality act DV legislation Gangmasters Act) as well as the barriers these 13 Groundbreaking women faced. Enjoy. Thanks @JackieAshley https://t.co/SekvBTq3IC

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

So @ayeshahazarika in reply to your "Will Labour ever select a woman leader"! We spent 2 years making our 2 hour Groundbreakers documentary film about women breaking barriers in Westminster from the1970s. You'll know these women well. @JackieAshley chairing our discos. Do watch.

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Do join uFriday 22nd May at 4.30 pm to 6pm for another showing of our Groundbreakers Breaking Barriers film showing at St Edmunds College #Cambridge. Thanks @StEdmundsCam @ChuArchives @CambridgeCBR @LucyCavColl Panel disco Chaired by @Barker4Kate with @CSBarnard24 #DrLynnMorgan

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Boni Sones OBE https://t.co/CTfObQtn3T

[Ayesha Hazarika @ayeshahazarika]

As we enter the Tony Blair phase of the leadership chat, I’ve been pondering why leading the Labour Party is still a bit like a Yorkie Bar - not for girls.
Where are the women?
Will the Labour Party ever elect a woman as leader?

https://t.co/NG1msUOnDt

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

As if we needed reminding after the last week - Europe is heating up nearly twice as fast as the world as a whole. It’s the fastest warming continent.

https://t.co/yBypoAYVmb

[Lucy Cavendish College @LucyCavColl]

Research led by College Fellow and DoS Dr Deborah Talmi. Also featured in The Times.

Read it below ⬇️

@supergrrl007

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

British pollinators. What a workforce ! Without this amazing team there would be no gardens or food for that matter. We must do our best to look after them, teach our kids they are friends and build habitats to show them how loved they really are.

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

It's today! @StEdmundsCam 4.30 pm Garden Room. Thanks @CambridgeCBR @CSBarnard24 @JackieAshley #DameKateBarker #DrLynnMorgan

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Do join uFriday 22nd May at 4.30 pm to 6pm for another showing of our Groundbreakers Breaking Barriers film showing at St Edmunds College #Cambridge. Thanks @StEdmundsCam @ChuArchives @CambridgeCBR @LucyCavColl Panel disco Chaired by @Barker4Kate with @CSBarnard24 #DrLynnMorgan

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Do join uFriday 22nd May at 4.30 pm to 6pm for another showing of our Groundbreakers Breaking Barriers film showing at St Edmunds College #Cambridge. Thanks @StEdmundsCam @ChuArchives @CambridgeCBR @LucyCavColl Panel disco Chaired by @Barker4Kate with @CSBarnard24 #DrLynnMorgan

[Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson]

‘Although the science park is better placed than some local research campuses to cope with inadequacies in Cambridge’s transport infrastructure, it shares the regional concern about water scarcity holding back development.’

https://t.co/mHuxh8FIcK

[Phil Rodgers @PhilRodgers]

It was the Lib Dems, however, who benefitted massively from the wildly disproportional result in South Cambridgeshire, winning 96% of the seats on just 43% of the vote.

[Phil Rodgers @PhilRodgers]

Here's how votes compared to seats in Thursday's election. In Cambridge, First Past the Post worked to the advantage of the Greens, who won nearly half the seats on a third of the vote.

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

But you do a great job @PhilRodgers at keeping us all up to the minute. Thank you.

[Phil Rodgers @PhilRodgers]

A relatively bad year for my election predictions, with just 10 of the 15 seats correct. The Green tide rose a bit higher than I was expecting, and Labour managed to hold off the Lib Dem challenge in the notoriously unpredictable Chesterton wards.

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

GO @PhilRodgers GO!

[Phil Rodgers @PhilRodgers]

I'm up in the media balcony - I'll be popping up on @CambridgeRadio during the day - so sadly I can't go and chat to the activists on the count floor below

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

RT @TonyJuniper: Happy birthday Sir David. What a contribution! First TV show before I was born, & my granddaughters are inspired by his wo…

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Big thanks again, #Giorgiocaselli @CambridgeCBR for the new showing of our #Groundbreakers film @StEdmundsCam Friday May 22nd 4.30pm with chair @Barker4Kate and @CSBarnard24. All welcome. #womeninparliament @ChuArchives @LucyCavColl

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Big thanks @TheHouseMag & @politicshome for your article about our new #Groundbreakers film released on @LucyCavColl YouTube channel. These 13 interviews with these pioneering Westminster women will be kept @ChuArchives. Thanks @JackieAshley @CherishWatton
https://t.co/zgJiKZAyzk

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

A new showing of our #Groundbreakers film on Friday 22nd May @StEdmundsCam college Cambridge at 4.30pm. All welcome @Barker4Kate @CSBarnard24 & @drLynnMorgan on panel. Big thanks @JackieAshley @LucyCavColl @ChuArchives @Baronessjenkin

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

Thanks to all our interviewees MPs & Baronesses & collaborators in making this #Groundbreakers video documentary possible. Women in #Parliament in the early years. Some great stories @JackieAshley @DeborahMcGurran @LucyCavColl @ChuArchives
https://t.co/rBR09ouqAs

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

And watch here our short #Groundbreakers film trail. 13 of #Westminsters most prominent women politicians from across parties tell their stories of #BreakingBarriers over 50 years. Thanks @ChuArchives https://t.co/wRbz7yDWPI

[Boni Sones OBE @bonisones2]

So nice to hear the intelligent @BBCkatyaadler present @BBCr4today. She lifts it all to a higher level. More please.