Ruth Charlotte

Linguist, Franco-Italophile, law student (again). State comp. & Cambridge alumna.

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

@LyonTupman Wishing you every happiness and more ❤️🙏

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

We don’t deserve dogs ❤️

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@LyonTupman Imagine having an adult sized one of those in the garden, just for when you fancy a quick slide.

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@Blazer_Bebe South Staffs

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@TomChivers But what you don’t want is big groups of healthy young people taking the risk of Covid-19 over the risk of a blood clot on the brain. Ban on #AZ for u-40s might work out much better.

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

@sixteenthCgirl I love the modesty cover over the ugly printer

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@giles_fraser @JonTownsend100

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yes yes yes #scrapthetriplelock https://t.co/5m2kojvYW9

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

@LyonTupman Good rescue!

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Any politician of any party who claims that the answer to tackling violence against women is simply a matter of “tougher sentences” is not being honest with the public.

Let me tell you about a case I’m currently prosecuting. [THREAD]

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

@BBCNews “Man assaults teenage girl, girl defends herself”

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

An 11 year-old Princess Elizabeth gave this to her stepmother, Katherine Parr, in 1544.

The future Queen translated a French meditational poem into English prose, and wrote it out in her own fine hand.

It's thought she embroidered the binding too.

#MothersDayGifts #NoPressure

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

@IsabelHardman My answer is give men a curfew and then we can all go to work, socialise, and live our lives in peace.

[Isabel Hardman @IsabelHardman]

Incredible how normal it is for women to be told not to go out alone after dark. Yet how strange and inexplicable this would seem if the same instruction - or even a curfew - were issued to men.

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

Invisible Women is a superb prize-winning book. This captures women’s fear of merely existing alone in urban spaces

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

1st time I was #sexuallyharassed in public by men, I was 13 and walking alone to church. Beeped and harassed walking home in school uniform. Paris: groped on the metro, followed home. London: leered at, honked, insulted. Enough. #endsexualharrassmentnow https://t.co/HVt5MT8K6Q

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

For a year younger people have lost their jobs, livelihoods, relationships and wellbeing evening though the vast majority of them were at very low risk.

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

⁉️Why can't vaccinated people go free early?

💬Young people were always at low risk but are locked down for the sake of older and more vulnerable people. 

😡They would rightly be furious to now be left locked down while those they protected go free

[Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah]

The impact of Covid-19 has been borne by women who have disproportionately lost their jobs, taken on unpaid work, and suffered from rising violence. As we recover, women must be included in decision-making, and barriers to equal leadership must be eliminated. #IWD2021

[Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods]

Hoarse from shouting that the reason I’m Generation Rent and not Generation Buy is that no one will accept I’m capable of monthly mortgage repayments, despite a decade-long history of paying twice that each month in rent, so I’ve had to keep paying twice that each month in rent

[Ruth Charlotte @Ruth_Townsend_]

Make all plastic carrier bags illegal - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/Dajpf4TMm6 via @UKChange