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[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

There have been at least two major rape stories in London in the last 24 hours.

Neither of these were mentioned on BBC London's lunchtime news, which devoted almost half of the entire bulletin to an item that revealed a drag queen is performing in a stage show.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Women have fought (and are still fighting) the single biggest land grab on their rights in my lifetime. Some have sacrificed their livelihoods and safety to combat a pernicious ideology that has infiltrated elite institutions, including government.

Women have been persecuted, harassed, smeared, roughed up and forced to take employers to court for discrimination. They've suffered severe detriments purely for believing what the Supreme Court has ruled to be reasonable and correct: that women are a definable biological class that has specific rights under the law to which males, however they identify, are not entitled.

Do these politicians have any shame? They sided with the persecutors, the issuers of death and rape threats, the violent men demanding access to women's and girls' protected spaces, including domestic abuse shelters, rape crisis centres and prison cells. Will any of them issue an apology or admit that they made a serious error in siding with well-funded activist groups lying about what the law actually said, and which had measurable, severe impact on some of society's most vulnerable women?

As another public wave of death threats is issued against women because of the Supreme Court ruling, their silence has become deafening. I'm just one of millions of women disgusted by the lack of accountability or remorse. We will not forget.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn���t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[GMB Union @GMB_union]

14 years of Tory rule failed "bin men", teaching assistants and so many more.

Now they're plotting to scrap the Equality Act and stop women from getting their stolen wages back.

Disgraceful.

[City Hall Conservatives @CityHallTories]

The Deputy Mayor for Culture didn't seem to like it when @Councillorsuzie listed all of the freebies the Deputy Mayor has enjoyed in the role...

[Rubert @Rubertathome]

@angerolt @ClaireCoutinho Then you probably know that school support staff (like myself) are paid for term time only plus get statutory holiday pay. Therefore we are paid for 39 weeks a year which is spread out so we get paid every month. TAs are not paid for school holidays.

[Rubert @Rubertathome]

@angerolt @ClaireCoutinho The holidays are unpaid for school staff.

[Laura Jackson 🍅🍉 @laura_jackson79]

@ClaireCoutinho They're equal value. I'm not sure why you're arguing this. You can't just get paid more for being physically stronger. What about emotional strength? Versatility? Responsibilities? You don't get to pick a single strength and decide that's the one that matters.

[Zoe Kennedy @zoekennedy]

@ClaireCoutinho This is someone who doesn’t know the value of either bin workers or teaching assistants. All council staff should be paid fairly, and that includes not having repeated below inflation pay rises.

[GMB Campaigns North East, Yorkshire & Humber @GMBCampaigns]

Claire, we represent bin workers. They work hard and do a difficult job. They keep our cities clean.

We also represent school support staff. They work hard and do a difficult job. They help educate our kids.

Here at GMB we simply think that bin workers and school support staff deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Simple.

And we aren’t daft enough to fall for you trying to set one group against another. They live in the same communities and are in the same union. Sometimes in the same house.

Perhaps your real worry is that if we ever compared what you do to what bin workers and school support staff did you would get a massive pay cut? We are happy to talk about job evaluation whenever you want.

Oh and don't worry about the lawyers. Your governments made it far easier for lawyers to make more money out of these things, but here at GMB we do it for free.

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

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

UPDATE: you are amazing.

At lunchtime today I posted that the Hereford screening of 5 SOLDIERS had sold zero tickets after being on sale since 7 May.

That post has now had 37,000 views, 543 likes and 525 reposts.

And in just a few hours, thanks to you, we have gone from zero tickets to 40.

That is extraordinary.

But we are not safe yet.

Please keep sharing, tagging people in Hereford, veterans, military families, cadets, serving personnel, military history groups, dance, film and culture networks.

A film about soldiers’ bodies, service, injury, courage, trauma and recovery deserves an audience.

Let’s fill the room!

Hereford Military Festival
The Courtyard
Sunday 27 September, 2.30pm
Book here:
https://t.co/Le2BUp5O4J

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Today you will read many sympathetic media stories about B.P.J., the male athlete who challenged WV’s law and lost at SCOTUS.

I’m guessing none will mention that B.P.J. defeated 470+ girls 1,400+ times (including a state title) and sexually harassed our client Adaleia (pictured) in the girls’ locker room. Sadly, Adaleia stopped playing the school sports she loved due to B.P.J.’s ongoing presence in girls’ sports and spaces.

But we’ll probably be lucky if those girls get even a passing mention—let alone a front-page photo.

This has been the pattern on this issue from far too many institutions of power. Boys’ feelings are the focus. Girls’ safety, fairness, and opportunity take a back seat.


I’m so thankful today that the Supreme Court reversed that pattern, acknowledged the reality of biological sex, and remembered the girls.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

… sorry but it’s idiotic & childish

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

A reminder that the PM/these Ministers have never met directly with women's rights activists. Some GC MPs have secret quiet little meetings on big issues, and may manage to negotiate abstaining from voting...

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Last night, Keir Starmer held a ‘Pride Reception’ at Downing Street.

So far, so normal.

However, trans activists in attendance reported that Starmer assured them that he is looking at a Motion which “disapproves” of the recent Code of Practice to preserve same-sex spaces.

Activists in attendance also had direct access to Ministers, in order to demand removing protections for medical professionals under the proposed conversion practices ban, insisting ‘trans history’ is taught in schools, and handing out Trans badges which were “proudly” warn by Ministers in attendance.

Labour cannot be trusted by anyone who cares about the safeguarding of women and children.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Meet Tlaleng Mofokeng, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on health. She praised Hamas, promoted prostitution in Teen Vogue, and called British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “filthy.” After tyrants and NGOs like Amnesty International lined up to praise her, Hillel Neuer took the floor:

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

EXCLUSIVE:The hospital trust was defeated in a case that sparked nationwide anger - and now taxpayers will have to foot a hefty bill of 1.5 million… & still other trusts continue to break the law! Sack people who deliberately waste tax payers money https://t.co/kMxz0doEj6

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

This has to change!

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

Trevor Phillips just tore apart Keir Starmer’s disastrous time in office.

“How did a man who won a landslide victory in 2024 become so disliked by so many people so quickly, that even his own party’s candidate in Makerfield promised to get rid of him?”

Phillips begins by noting that Starmer “lacks the common touch” and “he obviously made mistakes. The winter fuel debacle for example”.

In a scathing verdict, he went on to explain:

“I think what did for Starmer is he promised to put country before party and on every occasion he had the chance to keep his word, he broke it.”

“The country wanted the two child cap on benefits, the party hated it. The country said it was time to cut welfare and boost defence, the party said that was unconscionable. The country cheered when the Pakistani-heritage Home Secretary said she’d demand more from migrants before they’d be allowed to settle permanently. Party activists called her un-British and racist.”

“In each case the prime minister chose the party, blamed someone else for his change of heart, ministers, advisers, civil servants, and threw them under the nearest bus.”

A brutal but accurate takedown of a prime minister who betrayed the country he was elected to serve. Spot on, @TrevorPTweets 👏