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Helen Nettleship

@Nettleshippy

Barrister, parent, cyclist and lapsed artist.

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High-risk offenders included in early release scheme, prisons inspector says | Prisons and probation | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/articl…

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The families of the Nottingham attack victims have criticised the “utterly flawed and under-resourced criminal justice system”

-…And have wasted the resources of the criminal justice system on this nonsense theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

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“Something needs to come from the government.'

Britain's strictest headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh urges the government to ban parents from giving children under sixteen access to smartphones and social media.

📻 shorturl.at/sLPTX

Aasmah Mir

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A 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele is at the center of a restitution case that will soon head to court in New York. artnews.com/art-news/news/…

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Jeremy Vine On 5 Marvyn Harrison Emily Sheffield Jeremy Vine But you’re all OK with the stuff Lucy Clark has been posting for the past few years about JKR & other women with GC views?

Allison won her case against Garden Court Chambers - LGBA won their case against Mermaids BTW.

Bailey V Stonewall takes place this week.

@JeremyVineOn5 @Marvyn_Harrison @emilysheffield @theJeremyVine But you’re all OK with the stuff Lucy Clark has been posting for the past few years about JKR & other women with GC views? Allison won her case against Garden Court Chambers - LGBA won their case against Mermaids BTW. Bailey V Stonewall takes place this week.
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Two blokes say a lady should be kind and watch her tone.
That Marvyn chap, whoever he is, doesn’t understand that ridicule is part of campaigning. It was the press, who were being ridiculous by calling a man a ‘she’,

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Thank you Brendan O’Neill in The Spectator in response to J.K. Rowling and you know who:

“Listen, if you are more outraged by a woman’s tone of voice as she criticises society’s betrayal of women than you are by the betrayal of women itself, then the problem isn’t Rowling: it’s…

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Those chiding Fox for getting his terminology not in the current politically correct form illustrate everything that is wrong with contemporary political debate. Style over substance.

BTW I think he is wrong about this & I don’t support the amendment proposal. It’s idealistic

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‘He says that most of his contemporaries from Devon who have moved to London now identify as “gender-queer or gender-fluid” and speculates that the special status this used to confer must be in danger of going into reverse.’

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When someone is described as non-binary, everyone’s first thought is are they man nb or woman nb.

Likewise if someone is described as “queer” are they “gay queer” or “heterosexual queer”

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Surely if she identified as between the ages of 3 and 7 , then she is below the age of criminal responsibility?

People are who they say they are.

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Nothing to see here. Just a religious movement (Quakers in Britain) glorifying the irreversible surgery performed on healthy breasts of women for a mental health condition.

Nothing to see here. Just a religious movement (@BritishQuakers) glorifying the irreversible surgery performed on healthy breasts of women for a mental health condition.
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If a woman is being chided for saying a man is a man, that is evidence enough that it remains necessary to say that a man is a man.

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While I hesitate to comment, many people are missing the key point in that J.K. Rowling post. She was, among other things, pointing out the *lack of sex diversity in football management.*
This is, ofc, an important point, notable for any self-styled fans of diversity in sport...

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