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[Maxine💫 LiveInTheMoment🔔 @MaxChoud]

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[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Put a wing on a men’s prison for non conforming or vulnerable male prisoners. They are not females, they do not belong in the female estate.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

November 1971. Chiswick, West London.
Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor.
She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house.
Then the door opened.
A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking.
She didn't want tea.
She needed somewhere to hide.
Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police.
Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter.
When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one."
Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed.
Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority.
She didn't stop.
By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere.
In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief.
Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords.
She kept the doors open the entire time.
That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York.
The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world.
MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical."
She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million.
Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86.
She never stopped.
It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no.
Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go.
She made room.

Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world.

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[Maxine💫 LiveInTheMoment🔔 @MaxChoud]

Great read for any ⚒️ #Hammers fans
#WestHamUnited #WestHam #ForEverBlowingBubbles

[HarriG @Harri_Grekela]

West Ham and Kretinsky 1/2

Analyzing Daniel Křetínský’s broader corporate portfolio provides a clear indicator of how the current West Ham boardroom transition will likely be managed. David Sullivan’s resignation from executive duties and the club's recent relegation to the EFL Championship have established a specific operational timeline for the minority shareholder. Here are the core financial and regulatory facts. 👇
The immediate factor driving this timeline is the June 30th financial deadline. Championship relegation has created a £90M cash flow deficit for the club. To comply with EFL Financial Sustainability rules and avoid administrative penalties, point deductions, or transfer embargoes, this capital must be injected this month. Křetínský possesses the liquidity required to fund this deficit directly. The capital injection will be executed through a standard corporate rights issue. If Křetínský funds the entire £90M and the Sullivan family elects not to participate proportionally, the family's remaining 38.8% shareholding will automatically dilute. Given David Sullivan’s public step-down to focus on personal legal matters, his estate is unlikely to match the funding. Funding the rights issue, combined with ongoing negotiations to buy out Sullivan’s remaining stock at an adjusted Championship valuation, will position Křetínský to cross the 50.1% majority ownership threshold. Once absolute voting control is established, standard UK corporate law permits a majority shareholder to restructure the board of directors and replace interim family management with institutional executives. #WHUFC #WestHam #Kretinsky #FootballFinance #EFL #Championship #COYI

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Mr. Davies,

For a brief, fleeting 10-15 years, WE ALMOST HAD IT. The years between 1998-2012, roughly, we were very close, when no one really gave a damn either way. I remember it distinctly. An enormous shift in attitude’s & acceptance had occurred, after the horrors of being gay in the 80’s to the early-mid 90’s.

I was NOT alone in feeling this, even amongst the upper echelons of the ‘Gay Mafia’ I used to hang around with said the same.

The original aim was EQUALITY & we were, more or less, there.

Then along came identity politics, gender ideology & Que*r Theory, which screwed everything up.

Stonewall’s CEO, Ruth Hunt, said in 2014/15, & I quote, that their shift in focus was “known to be controversial, that it would be difficult, that people would LOSE by that & that herself & the staff thought THAT WAS A PRICE WORTH PAYING.” In other words, they KNEW this would receive pushback, yet were unwilling to listen or engage with those of us who had serious concerns.

A subsequent Stonewall CEO, Nancy Kelley, called lesbians “sexual racists” for not including men in their dating pool.

Michael Cashman called for those who had questions, predominantly women, about this shift to be “defecated upon” & there was “no debate” to be had.

And NOW look where we are.

Look around at the utter mess we’re in.

If you’re going to “look at yourself as an idiot”, at least be aware of WHY you might feel that way & what part you, yourself, played in it.

You cannot cheerlead & encourage an ideology that has caused so much destruction & damage, & then pretend to be flummoxed as to the reasons WHY everything has got so much worse.

Just so we’re clear…

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

This is a matter for the Vice chancellor of @UniofOxford Prof Irene Tracey, but also for the Chancellor @WilliamJHague. You were elected on an academic freedom platform: let's see some action, Lord Hague.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

When I talk about fear culture at our universities, this is what I mean. A few young minds that have closed themselves off to anything they disagree with are ruining it for the majority of us students who know that such exposure is the most important of all.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Any woman that supports the destruction of privacy & dignity in changing rooms & bathrooms, or the ruin of women’s sport by males who have an unfair advantage, or the safety of women in prisons by insisting male rapists are imprisoned with them…is categorically no feminist.

[Maxine💫 LiveInTheMoment🔔 @MaxChoud]

@sharrond62 In my humble eyes You have certainly won your ‘crackerjack’ pencil Sharron.
Thank you for continuing to speak out loudly & clearly with such common sense.
Have a lovely weekend you wonderful Woman
💜💚🤍 #WomensRightsMatter

[Maxine💫 LiveInTheMoment🔔 @MaxChoud]

@sharrond62 In my humble eyes You have certainly won your ‘crackerjack’ pencil Sharron.
Thank you for continuing to speak out loudly & clearly with such common sense.
Have a lovely weekend you wonderful Woman
💜💚🤍 #WomensRightsMatter

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Today I have met Lucy, Mark and Katie, Henry Nowak’s mother, father and stepmother. Their courage is extraordinary.

They have endured the most appalling loss, it is a life sentence for them.

They have also faced the agonising decision to release the harrowing body-worn camera footage, knowing how painful it would be and how strongly people would react. They did so because they want truth, accountability and change.

They have asked that we work across political parties and religions to rebuild trust in the police. That trust has been broken because of what happened, and I agree with them on that.

We must also be prepared to examine, carefully and seriously, religious practices or exemptions that permit the carrying of dangerous weapons in public, and other activities that are not conducive to the public good. We also need to examine where the law needs to change.

Henry’s family do not want anger to tear communities apart. They are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. His family want his memory to help bring our society together.

Everyone knows I have strong views about how we should deal with equality under the law. What the family agreed with me on is that we need to bring common sense back, and that is what we should all be fighting for.

I promised the family that we will work to ensure there is a positive legacy for Henry out of this tragedy.

That is my focus now.

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

A big Trades Union seems ignorant on Employment Law

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

A mob of trans-activists waving death threats at women isn't protest—it's criminal incitement. If the law isn’t enforced, we don’t have equality, we have two-tier justice.

It’s time for Labour to stop being on the side of these extremists and start defending women.

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

Excellent news — even if it's a solemn measure of how bad things had got, that we rejoice that the Health Minister knows the difference between men and women, and that the subcategory of men referred to by some as "trans women" are not, in fact, women.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I am beyond disgusted & disappointed in people who run sport who don’t think women & girls deserve an equal chance of success & opportunity

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

1/3

via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

I think it would be a great idea if all women stopped paying into @unisontheunion and joined @SpeechUnion instead. They actually care about women's rights! #XX

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Barrister to sue trans activist Jolyon Maugham for libel. Sarah helped the WSU to write our legal letters. Good luck Sarah, this man is very happy to insult women just asking for the law to be applied. Will attach link to crowdfunder underneath this tweet. https://t.co/IWCiH8MCau

[West Ham United @WestHam]

A message to West Ham United supporters from the Board of Directors