Fiona Phillips

Newspaper editor and mum of a would-be author. Likes travel, films, theatre, books, wine, dogs, cooking, McFly and more.

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@celtic_jaime It didn't matter what you chose, it all tasted like Bovril.

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@AisLPhillips

[ira @iraseorita]

Two stupid little best friends spotted

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

I just love this.

I love the professionalism & commitment of the dancers.

I love their determination to carry on through the most tragic moment of the dance.

But we all know everyone is watching the cat…🤣🤣🤣

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

Dear @audibleuk - why have you censored my audiobook by @simon_mccleave? I don't need to be protected from bad language. I'm an adult. It's particularly strange that you bleep out swear words, while graphic descriptions of violence and sex remain intact. #censorship

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Burros jóvenes llegan a una granja y refugio en el Reino Unido, y son recibidos con alegría por los demás burros rescatados…

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),

As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.

I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.

Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.

They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.

Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.

Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.

If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.

I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.

What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.

I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:

Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.

Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.

For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.

Yours sincerely,

Janet Murray

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@AisLPhillips

[JP @Juampachabal03]

Amigos, no me lo van a creer…

[Santiago Arau @Santiago_Arau]

El Pato “Merlín”.
⚽️🦆🇲🇽

[Santy Así Mero! @SantyRuize]

El famoso y hermoso patito mexicano mundialista se llama Merlín, tiene 2 años y siempre acompaña a su dueña Carla Gómez, quien sale a vender aguas desde la colonia Doctores hasta la Alameda Central de la #Cdmx
Que orgullo ser mexicano!
🎉🇲🇽🎉
#VivaMexico
#mundialdefútbol
#SomosMéxico
#Mexico
#FIFAWorldCup2026
#SeleccionMexicana

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@AisLPhillips

[JP @Juampachabal03]

Hasta el momento, este es el mejor aficionado de la Copa del Mundo 2026

[JP @Juampachabal03]

Hasta el momento, este es el mejor aficionado de la Copa del Mundo 2026

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

A duck wearing a Mexico kit.

I’m moving to Mexico immediately 😂🇲🇽

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@AisLPhillips

[Aisling Phillips @AisLPhillips]

@WhatsOnStage Break a leg tonight to the cast of Pride as they make their West End debut! Their original run in Cardiff was wonderful! 🤞🍀🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@AisLPhillips

[ROBERT @roberticu]

NAP TIME ...

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@AisLPhillips @Oliviaiie Snowy/Milou.

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@jardelito Putty?

[Fiona Phillips @FionaPhillips]

@jenny2x4 That's not adopting - that's purchasing. And regardless of the cost... the end result is the Christians didn't adopt the babies.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

In the UK, 11 trans people have been murdered since 2000.

In the same country, from 2009 - 2021, 16 women were murdered by serving or retired police officers. Not killed by officers in the line of duty — flat out murdered.

In 2022 alone, 11 British women were killed by male strangers. 12 were murdered by their own sons; 150 British women have been murdered by their own sons since 2012.

On average, a woman is murdered by a man in the UK once every 72 hours.

Where is the Day of Remembrance for the women murdered by their own sons? By their husbands, their fathers, their brothers? By serving police officers?

In the last 25 years, there have been nearly twice as many trans-identifying murderers than there have been murder victims - 20 murderers, versus 11 victims — and yet we’re told to believe that this is a genocide, while our own dead go ignored and unnamed.

These people are, per capita, the safest demographic in the UK, with a homicide rate of 0.38 per 100k (for women, it’s 0.50 per 100k, and for normal men, it’s 1.23.) but we’re supposed to believe that they’re being physically exterminated? Or is genocide another one of those words that has deliberately been stripped of its meaning, like “woman” and “female”?

Who gains when people are conditioned to roll their eyes at the word “genocide”? When “woman” has no meaning in law or policy? What is the end game here?