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@UniNhantsGlobal Could you provide a bit more info about the mandatory modules on white privilege students have to take before moving into halls? @RupertLowe10

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@TheFeralWitchy I cringed watching this - you and your husband are awful.

[Nicole Jones @satiricole]

A bit silly, but edited this meme years ago for Magdalen’s channel. @bindelj defending Jenni Murray during a cancellation campaign. RIP to an OG

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@LIZstenICYUNVme @PNWindependant @MrAndyNgo @UCSF @bourne_beth2345 Helen Joyce - she is amazing

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@intheWildHills @bourne_beth2345 Yes, very clear discomfort with being confronted with what is happening and the necessary cognitive dissonance to continue to hold onto her beliefs.

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@sappholives83 @Glinner It reminds me of that man ice skating in some sort of opening ceremony - the women all significantly more talented but he, of course, took center stage.

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Wild London David Attenborough
I'm getting so many posts from lovely people absolutely outraged at the misinformation regarding hedgehogs and slugs presented on this show yesterday, so I'll just address it here.
David Attenbourough is a really lovely man, and has done an immense amount of good for us, our wildlife, and our planet.
But he, like any other TV presenter, relies on programme researchers for script content.
The researchers, in turn, rely on who they *perceive to be* experts in the field.
Unfortunately, they were taken in by some clever branding and chose the wrong people:
A self-proclaimed 'hedgehog expert', often funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (see their most recent dangerous misinformation, and my response, published here:https://t.co/YWqTd4PIkv)
And the London Wildlife Trust.
Recently the London Wildlife Trust engaged me as an expert consultant on a 4 page spread article about hedgehog myths.
Many of you have seen my interview, and the draft of the subsequent article.
I was sent this draft (see 1st image below) for approval, to which I agreed.
However, before going to print, an executive at London Wildlife trust decided to do some editing of his own.
It's shocking, I know, and would be unbelievable, if not here in actual print.
I've included two versions of the full article below:
the first draft approved by me and the team at LWT, and the second actual printed version, after executive 'editing'.
It was this same London Wildlife Trust who co-produced the Wild London documentary and "provided expert help and advice".
So now you know.
We're all shocked.
But of course, as usual, it's the poor hedgehogs who will suffer.
People won't provide food for our critically endangered hedgehogs, or bother keeping their garden natural and wild, now they've been told that hedgehogs eat slugs.
After all, there's plenty of them to go round.
Rescues all around the country, who are treating hedgehogs dying of lungworm from being forced through starvation into eating slugs, will feel so demoralised and invalidated.
Like you, I'm furious, frustrated, and bone-wearily saddened.

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@Rainmaker1973 Hope

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@RupertLowe10 It goes beyond taxes and right across every interaction between people and the state. The social contract is broken - which might be problematic as the legitimacy of our democracy is depends upon it.

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@Cobeekat @FarmGirlCarrie Completely agree - she looks absolutely terrified.

[💙Fiona Macdonald @Fiona44444]

I am suing PCS Union for discriminating against me on the basis of my legally protected gender critical beliefs. Today I'm launching my crowdfunder in order to take my case forward https://t.co/6tWcRAFZK5

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@HaydenHewitt https://t.co/2zLy27tIe8

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@TheJoeySwoll Left!!

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@fesshole I read this while on holiday with my dad - without knowing about periods.

I asked my dad, whilst sat in the back of our Volvo hatchback (too young to sit in the front), and all I can remember is him beginning with...."there comes a time in a women's life...." 🤣🤣

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@tracey_crosbie @ddhitchens So the concerns raised by numerous professional bodies is simply misinformation?

[Helen Saxby @helensaxby11]

Dear Shon Faye

Enjoy your erasure

[Winnie M Li @winniemli]

My annual walk 🌟17 yrs ago, I was violently raped by a stranger while hiking. Every year I go on a solo walk to to remind myself how far I’ve come & re-discover the beauty in the natural world. 2025’s walk took me up Battlesbury Hill, Wiltshire, site of an Iron Age hill fort…

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Thread. Do you all know the story of Jason Tickle? He demanded access to a place he was not wanted: an all female app. The women on that app wanted an all female app. I know. They joined an all female app. They did that to be on an app with only other females. 1/

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

This editorial is such a powerful vindication of the foresight of the many women who worked out, many many ago, the havoc that the ideological subjugation of sex to gender identity would wreak.

It is painful that their warnings were not heeded, that it took such a long and costly battle, and that so many people were harmed along the way.

It is painful to me also that because our public institutions and the institutional left were so obdurate in their refusal to listen, the bullying and silencing so intense, and so many people so cowardly, this fight went on so long, so unecessarily, that it provided a massive open goal that has been expertly exploited by the forces of reaction. Forces whose concerns with these issues have never been about women's liberation, or protecting young children from the harm of gendered social strictures, or about defending the sexual self-determination of gay men and lesbians.

Nonetheless, this is a substantive victory about the stuff that matters, and I feel incredible relief reading it. We were right in our concerns, we were right to fight, and everyone who contributed to making it possible should feel proud. Especially the women that did the hard work raising the census issue, including @Womans_Place_UK, @fairplaywomen, @mbmpolicy, and of course, @ProfAliceS for her exemplary and rigorous report.

https://t.co/6e0SlI3bkr.