Katy Cosh

Strategist and workshop leader. Serious wanderlust currently curbed by 3 kids. Escaping with ideas and stories instead.

[The King of Blackadder 👑🇬🇧 @pitchblacksteed]

To many of us, #Blackadder is part of every day parlance. Which phrases from the show do you use yourself and when you do you use them? Example: When someone offers me a cup of tea, I say: "Yes, immediately!" You get the idea. Will RT the best ones.

[Jonathan Rugman @jrug]

My @Channel4News report on Israel’s relentless pounding of northern Gaza. It took a remarkably brave and persistent cameraman to get these pictures out to us. The world cannot say that it didn’t see. Or know. https://t.co/6NY4bDjw8l

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

Am I the only one stunned that UK media has dared to make an equivalence between a few Taylor Swift tickets and 14 years of corruption in which our NHS and public services have been deliberately crippled and untold billions of our money stolen and given to crooked Tory donors?

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

Exactly 12 years ago today, a Taliban gunman pointed his gun at my head and shot me for daring to speak up for girls’ right to go to school.

I want to thank every person for your solidarity and support, from praying for my recovery to helping me in my work for girls’ access to education, both in my home country of Pakistan and around the world.

Most years, I spend October 9th like any other day, with gratitude for having lived another year. But today, I am in New York to address the American Society of International Law (ASIL), a prestigious group of legal experts who have chosen to honour @MalalaFund and its work alongside Afghan activists fighting to protect the right to education for girls in Afghanistan. These women worked tirelessly before the fall of Kabul in 2021, and fearlessly since, to keep girls learning under the most impossible circumstances. It is humbling to stand alongside them and gratifying to see them receive the recognition they deserve.

The Taliban continue to point literal and metaphoric weapons at girls and women in Afghanistan every day, from public beatings to ruthless edicts that ban them from learning, working and living freely. The brutality of the Taliban’s oppressive system against women is so extreme that Afghan activists and human rights defenders are calling it gender apartheid.

Right now, Afghan women and girls need more than words of sympathy. I call on governments and influential institutions to leverage their power, and through international law, hold the Taliban accountable. I especially call on Muslim leaders and institutions to play a leading role in challenging the Taliban’s misuse of religion and culture.

Just as people stood with me and my friends more than a decade ago, I hope people will stand in solidarity with Afghan girls and women now.

❤️ @Hmosadiq @zarqayaftali @deemahiram @metra_mehran @RahelaHSidiqi @SHalaimzai

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Humanitarian organisations have projected “SUSPEND ALL ARMS TO ISRAEL” onto iconic buildings and mobile vans across Liverpool as thousands gather in the city for the annual Labour Party Conference.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Starmer’s savage attack on recent Tory governments: ���Why must we release prisoners early? Because the Tories served themselves.
Why are our public services on their knees? Because the Tories served themselves.
Why is crime routinely unpunished?
Our rivers polluted.
Borders insecure.
School roofs - crumbling.
Child poverty rampant.
Nothing seems to work.
And our public finances broken?
Because for fourteen years the Tories performed the politics of easy answers rather than the use the power of government to serve our country.” #LabourConference2024

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

illegal transgender alien

[Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mckenzie @JacquiMckenzie6]

Izaan, 12, is the winner of the Royal Academy of Arts Young Artists’ Summer Show People’s Choice Award, 2024, with "In Memory of Zephaniah"

Izaan said, "I have created this piece in the memory of Benjamin Zephaniah as we have been learning about him in school. I am inspired by his poem The British as there is a lot of diversity in Britain and everybody should be respected."

Incredible & haunting portrait.
With @olive_lewin

[Bletchley Park @bletchleypark]

❤️ Yesterday, we welcomed 18 wonderful Veterans who worked at Bletchley Park during WW2 to return to the once top-secret site for the Annual Veterans’ Reunion.

Aged between 97 to (almost) 102, Veterans enjoyed an afternoon tea in the Mansion, spending time together, with family and friends and reminiscing on their wartime experiences.

Hazel Halter, who worked in the Naval Section during WW2, is now 99 years old and attended the reunion for the first time. She said: "I am so glad I came here to my first reunion. I have had a most enjoyable time. I was so happy during my time working at Bletchley Park, with wonderful friends. It has brought back so many lovely memories."

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

as kids we were taught that taking anything from the mini bar would bring financial ruin upon our family

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

Women in Afghanistan are being obliterated—no voice, no face, no existence. The Taliban’s latest decrees are nothing short of barbaric: women banned from singing, reciting poetry, or even speaking aloud in public. Their faces and bodies must hidden from the world.

This isn’t just an Afghanistan tragedy; it is a stain on the global conscience, brought about by our failure to act.

[John McNamara @zyohnnymac]

I do think we should get more credit for hosting France’s annual riots while they have the Olympics. Proper Entente cordiale

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Seriously @BBCNews ?!

'pro and anti-immigration demonstrations' ?!

Are you for real?!

One is a group of organised far-right racists intent on causing harm to innocent people

The other is citizens standing up for the vulnerable in their community who are literally under attack

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

A riot is not a protest.

A racist is not an activist.

A thug is not a patriot.

Far right extremism is precisely that.

Words matter.

Why are some in the media refusing to use them accurately?

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

We need @BBCNews, @SkyNews and @itvnews to stop calling violent, organised, extremist rioters 'protestors'.

Stop legitimising hate crime.

RT if you agree.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

The BBC says: “Protesters target mosque”. Can you imagine saying “Protesters target synagogue? These are criminals. By platforming Farage, Oakeshott, Tice, Goodwin etc, the BBC normalised the far right. Now it legitimises them as so called “protesters” https://t.co/yofMbolcM5

[Katy Cosh @KatyCosh]

Please just stop misnaming these racist riots as protests ⁦@BBCNews⁩ #thugs https://t.co/wf5pH35DNS

[Modhabobo @Modhabobo]

Lets talk about eloquence, and how people think it's using big words, when actually it's about clarity of expression. Russell Brand uses lots of words (incorrectly, like pyrrhic) to create a word salad, while Rob uses language to eloquently state his exact point in 7 words

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Wow, Republicans are running a 78-year-old convicted felon for president. Yikes!