Stephen O'Donnell

Born nosey parker. Poor drummer (Go figure).

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@TezzaLap @jk_rowling @ibhinnPeadar @RhodesFi32898 He’ll just have to imagine doing the North Coast 500 in the van with Nicky from his jail cell now.

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@garylfrancione @Tara__Hughes It defies all logic, and is profoundly unreasonable.
Who is the leader, and what are their specific legal demands? Make the case and persuade us.

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@Martina Fake but funny

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Very adroitly put!

[🇮🇱 Rabbi Zvi Solomons Am Yisrael Chai💛💙🕎 @RabbiZvi]

A magnificent letter from a magnificent woman.

“ Dear Mr Wright,

It must be terribly difficult having to share your name with the legendary and enormously popular disk jockey. My late husband, Sir Michael Caine, was not the actor, Nonetheless, Hollywood starlets might call saying they were in town.
Awkward all around.

I am a law maker. You would not expect me to pontificate on structural instability, hazardous materials or airborne toxins. I know nothing about accelerants, burn patterns or smoke staining. If I told the people, you represent how to deal with a fire I ought, rightly, be ignored.
What the blazes, then, do you think you are doing when trying to meddle with the adoption of the EHRC's latest Service Code? If no one else has told you already I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you appear to have no idea what you are talking about. Did you think to run your nonsense past a lawyer? (If you did,hesitate to pay.)

The provision of changing and lavatorial facilities by an employer is governed by the Workplace (Health and Safety) Regulations 1992. Employers are required to provide separate facilities for males and females. There is no option to provide only mixed facilities. Mixed facilities are optional but sex-separated facilities are compulsory. That has been the case for 34 years. It has not changed because of a Supreme Court Judgment. You might not have understood it before, but you do not need EHRC Guidance to understand it now. Fire fighters must be provided with biologically separated sanitary and changing facilities. That will remain the case even if the EHRC Guidance is frustrated.

No "hard-won" rights have been rolled back. The rights you imagine (or, more likely, have been briefed about) have never existed. Rights do not accrue and acquire validity thanks to magical thinking or bad advice.

That which you frame as a call for employers and service providers to "go beyond minimum requirements" is, in fact, a demand that they break the law. I assume you had no idea that was the case. I can imagine you being keen to change laws with which you disagree, democratically, but I should be surprised were you to knowingly call for outright anarchy.
The laws governing access to legitimately sex-separated facilities have not changed for employers since 1992, and for service providers since 2010. If you were ignorant of them before you have no excuse now. If you do not like them you may seek, democratically, to change them.

Until then, I strongly encourage you to urge members to obey the law and stop posturing as though the law is something you might like it to be but is not.

Yours sincerely

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
London
SW1A OPW”

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@davewiner @sri9s Writing code is tedious - can we trust ai not to leave big security holes?

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@mrmikeMTL 21

[Phil Rostron ⚽️👍🍻 @bigphil321]

Shank’s pony😂😂😂
We walked, every morning, in all weathers 👊

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@BettsCaro What he means is that the UK is leading Europe on women’s human rights.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

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@peter_daly @boswelltoday It was hilarious

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@angijones @Variety And why do we need to know how anyone identifies? This is unnecessary information.

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@RepJackKimble Showaddywaddy

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@QcWynter He’s a proper caution.

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@luke_chapman94 Because straight guys have a low sales tolerance.

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@RaminNasibov Duke Nuk’em!

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@wil_je_suis It means they couldn’t prove it.

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@joannaccherry @JNHanvey Lavender?
More like the smell of power and opporchancity!

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@peterstopcrime You were totally in the right.

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@StuzMate She was the party leader, and it happened on her watch. Even if she didn’t know, she bears responsibility.