Lois Loan

Woman, feminist, grammarian. 🦕 We women will not be erased. #NoThankYou #WomenWontWheesht

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

It's getting worse. Petition signed. https://t.co/56paeXnipC

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

On the 28th May 2026, Bharti Fulmali appeared for India in their T20 win over England in Chelmsford.

In women’s cricket.

We need cheap, easily-available sex screening, pronto.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Peter Murrell was not a criminal mastermind he just took advantage of a system devoid of adequate checks & balances and a culture where scrutiny and questioning were demonised. That culture has infected the Scottish government, our Parliament & our civic life. It needs to change.

[Jenny Reilly @crit_gen]

Vulnerable women need single sex care.

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

Absolutely nobody wants mixed changing rooms but transvestites and predators

[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.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

I’m making a show about buildings.

The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world.

But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it.

So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k likes, and 23k comments.

People are interested, and now it’s time to make the full show.

Six episodes, filming in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the USA, and releasing on a streaming service like HBO, Netflix, or Prime.

Why does this show matter?

First: we’re surrounded by buildings all the time. Look around yourself, right now… what do you see? Buildings are the logical conclusion of everything a society believes in. That’s the real focus of this show: not the buildings themselves, but what they say about us.

Second: there’s global dissatisfaction with modern architecture. This feeling gets written about online, but nobody’s given a voice to it on film or TV. That’s what this show will be. But this isn’t just about criticising modernity. That’s easy. This is about learning from the past in order to understand and improve the present, for everybody.

Third: there’s a drought of high-quality culture shows. When I spoke to film executives they said that only documentaries about sports, music, or true crime get funded. That’s a colossal missed opportunity. Galleries are always full, content about architecture goes viral online all the time, and people spend their precious holidays visiting beautiful cities.

Why no shows about architecture, then?

Tourists flock in their millions to see (for example) the buildings of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. But, if you asked those same people if they’re interested in “architecture”, they’d probably say no.

To put that another way: not many people want to watch “a show about architecture”, but lots of people want to watch a show that illuminates the real world they’re living in, each and every day.

What will the show be like?

Six episodes, going chronologically through history and arriving at the present, each focussing on the architecture and design of a specific period:

1. Middle Ages
2. Renaissance
3. Enlightenment
4. The Nineteenth Century
5. Art Nouveau & Art Deco
6. Present Day

But, in each case, the point isn’t just to learn about that era; the point is to learn about our modern world through those eras and what they’ve left behind. If you watch the pilot episode (included below) you’ll see what I mean.

So the show’s not really “about” the past; it’s about the twenty-first century.

That’s why it’s called The Modern World.

When you think of a typical history show there are loads of interviews, stock footage, archive photos, historical recreations, and graphics. We’re doing none of that. Everything will be filmed on location, because we’re telling our story only through the real world that exists right now. And, rather than going to the most obvious places, we’ll focus on buildings that aren’t well-known but should be more famous.

But that’s all big picture; what will it be like on screen?

Buildings used to look different in every country, and now they look the same. Why? Because the weather is different everywhere, and buildings were always a way of dealing with that weather, using local materials. Now we have air conditioning and we ship concrete around the world, so we don’t need to design our buildings with regard to local weather or rely on local materials.

Look at really old clocks and you’ll notice something: they don’t have a second hand… because it was only invented 300 years ago! Then you look at the present and you realise we’re surrounded by timers, by seconds ticking down and ticking up relentlessly. If we’re looking for a cause of our anxiety-inducing culture, that might be it.

When you spend time with the sun-softened bricks and time-warped timbers of old cities you notice that synthetic materials like plastic have taken over. When we’re surrounded by things that feel temporary, how do you think it makes us feel?

It’s only by seeing 19th century train stations, designed like cathedrals, that you realise tradition and technology aren’t enemies. New things don’t have to look boring: if the Victorians had designed AI data centres, they’d look like Medieval castles.

In the 1920s, at the zenith of Art Deco, people believed technology would uplift humanity. That’s why they decorated their buildings with statues inspired by electricity. Only by seeing their enthusiasm can we realise our own cynicism, and perhaps begin to fix it.

All of that… and much, much more.

But, above all else, this show is about a way of seeing. If you want to understand any society then you need to look at what it creates, not what it says about itself.

There’s a worldview in every single object; our skyscrapers are designed the same way as our phones. Learn to look at this world, to notice its details, and everything else starts to make sense.

What now?

I’ve been quiet online recently because I’ve been researching and working on scripts for six full-length episodes. Production begins when we’ve raised the funding.

The Modern World is coming.

[Cee🫧 @WanderedOut]

Hi! Meet Cameron “Natalie” Pershall. Cameron changed his name to Natalie, started female hormones and got his sex changed on legal documents. “Natalie” did not get any genital surgery though. “Natalie” used his new identity to take photos of hundreds of women in restrooms. He got away with it until a female co-worker caught him taking her photo while she was urinating.

“Natalie” denied it and said he just dropped his phone. He went home and wiped his phone and hard drive on his computer. The co-worker pressed charges and investigators were able to recover the data he deleted and found hundreds of photos of women on toilets. Apparently, “Natalie” has a pee fetish. Unfortunately, most of the women found on his phone were not able to be identified. So they have no idea this even happened to them.

Keep in mind, “Natalie” was able to get away with this for a long time until he got caught. How many “Natalies” are out there getting away with it every day? How many women are being recorded without their knowledge or consent? We have no idea because most video voyeurs are never caught. But we do know that 95-99% of those who are caught are male.

Women are not collateral damage for men with fetishes. Stop spreading this false idea that we aren’t more at risk when males are allowed in our private spaces.

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

@ducksandchucks @topgirls Someone on Mumsnet nails it

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Why doesn’t this BBC story examine why there’s a market for fathers selling their young daughters to other men in the first place? What a strange omission - it’s like the reality that these girls are being sold as child brides to be raped by adult men is invisible or something.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

@UN_Women Who gets silenced?
Women.

Who gets pushed out of public life?
Women.

Who gets protected?
Predatory men.

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

The person who made this would be happy to see it shared as widely as possible.

The world can now see the truth of “trans inclusion.”

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

Fix the Act or get the Sack.🇦🇺

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

The Modernistic Renovation of London Liverpool Street Station 🏙

The time us upon us that Liverpool Street Station is about to become a place we won't recognise. This place has always meant a great deal to me and many others who travel to or from Essex and Hertfordshire.

People have gone to great efforts to try and stop it, and I certainly hope they succeed. But, if not, then say goodbye to this iconic and recognisable view.

[NotThatSuzanne 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 ♀️ @NotthatSuzanne]

Bolton's newly elected Green Party Councillor proving the party is still all about the environment

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

This is Mohammad Baghdadi "Baggy" Khan reporting to duty as a newly elected Councillor in the Halliwell ward, Bolton. He looks composed in his Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, worth £100,000-£200,000, it does 19-23 mpg.

He is a member of @TheGreenParty.

[Lost London @Lost___London]

The uneccessery and disturbing architectural terrorism being committed on our beloved London Liverpool street station.

Share and make others aware. 🥀

[esskayultra @esskayultra]

@DanniBrener It's a phenomenon know as "Schrodinger's Trans" in which women's spaces, sports, language, etc is so irrelevant and unimportant that women shouldn't mind giving them up while simultaneously being so consequential and necessary that men will die if they can't have them.