I’ve just listened to my son’s year at school play ‘I like to move it, move it’ and the Macarena on the steel pans. My life is now complete.

On #AcademicFreedomDay , remembering French secondary school teacher Samuel Paty, brutally murdered in 2020 by Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov for using the Charlie Hebdo cartoons to teach about freedom of expression.

Adulthood mainly involves suggesting dates in WhatsApp groups until someone can't do that date, and then you return to the start of the process

As Chief Executive of a charity, part of your job is to set the tone.
Me on Mridul Wadhwa and ERCC kareningalasmith.com/2024/05/20/as-…

quite glad that the world is catching up with the claims of join_zoe (see me and Deborah Cohen last year unherd.com/2023/10/we-nee…). There is a whole other story about whose voices get heard by editors /commissioners, and whose don't.

To mark our charity's 40th birthday we compared coverage of women's sport through the years

In the Guardian on May 18th 1984:
😥 1 out of 14 sports stories were focussed solely on women

In 5 papers on May 17th, 2024:
😡 Of 102 sport stories, only 9 covered women's sport

Coming 15th August 2024!!

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I have just finished listening to #ProfileK , and while I am not sure I will ever sleep again, it is an utterly incredible read. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Finished copies of THE PALEO LIFE: STONE AGE WISDOM FOR MODERN TIMES by Clare Foges are in and ✨beautiful✨ It’s all about living a bit more how humans are meant to live, a tonic for our screen-laden fast-paced world. Out from Piatkus Books on 6th June!

126 years ago today the most stylish painter in history was born.

She was called Tamara de Lempicka and everything about her life and art embodied the spirit of the 1920s.

If you like Art Deco, you'll love Tamara de Lempicka...

Wrote about how the modern Left is weirdly resistant to protecting young kids from adult ideas (and how the standard defence of getting ahead of the internet is a cop out).

Sex education is TMI @UnHerd unherd.com/2024/05/sex-ed…

Among women's superpowers is the ability to be totally invisible to one of the country's highest paid political commentators

Many people have chosen not to see it (or to reject & denounce it) but the women's movement has revived in an extraordinary way!
This book looks brilliant - Scottish activists in their own words, feminist history in the making 👏

I am delighted to have contributed an essay to this exciting new publication out on 30th May. Other contributors include J.K. Rowling Ash Regan MSP & Rhona Hotchkiss. More details in the thread below. #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht

Pretty bloomin' thrilled to receive an endorsement from the brilliant tess gerritsen! 🌟 Huge fan of her work, so this means a lot. We chatted at one of her UK signings while I was deep in the writing process—she was incredibly supportive. Love seeing authors lift each other up!

📚 Do YOU love a one-sitting read? Come join me Robert Rutherford Greg Mosse and Ruth Mancini at Capital Crime as we talk about our latest books and how to make them unputdownable…
🚐 Either that or I’ll talk about van life and that time we got rammed by a bull in Albania 🐮

Important report out today from the parliamentary Birth Trauma Inquiry, led by Rosie Duffield MP & Theo Clarke MP. I wrote this last year on the terrible fact that maternity services are the most unsafe part of the NHS.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If the internet says then it must be true 🤩 Caroline Hardman Hannah Ferguson

Victoria’s next book is as incisive, trenchant, witty, subversive and revolutionary as #Hags . I am sad I won’t be at Fleet to publish it, but it is going to cement her reputation as one of the most dazzling and original feminist writers at work today.

Judith Butler is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions, writes Umut Özkırımlı thecritic.co.uk/the-shameless-…