1. Every time I express my disgust about the UK's treatment of refugees (not just from Ukraine), people jump up to say: "so you'll be offering your spare room then?" There's a short answer: I don't have a spare room. There's a shorter answer: eff off. And a longer one: Thread/

Nazanin is at the airport in Tehran and on her way home. I came into politics to make a difference, and right now I’m feeling like I have. More details to follow. #FreeNazanin

There’ll be a time to question why on earth this took 6 years to happen - but for now, overwhelming relief. So happy for them all - love and thoughts with Nazanin, Richard & Gabriella #FreeNazanin Free Nazanin independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

The indignities that Child Q was subjected to are not an aberration, they're part of a bigger picture of institutional racism and discrimination within policing. I’m appalled this happened in Hackney and I've written to the Borough Commander demanding an urgent meeting #ChildQ

This guy was in the same unit as Wayne Couzens. The toxic and terrible combination of abuse of power and impunity points very strongly to a deeply dysfunctional culture and institutional misogyny within the Metropolitan Police We need a statutory inquiry NOW. No inquiry. No trust.

Sudden surge of right-wing trolls against her now. Piss-poor little keyword warriors. Full of bravado, but they'd have fallen apart if they'd endured a tenth of what she went through. I wonder what it is about an eloquent, resilient independent-minded woman which so upsets them.

Chill Karen you aren’t going to catch anything by holding a Black woman’s hand. 😬

God help me, but I’ve made a Twitter because I can’t deal with “TERFs” and their ilk for another minute. My daughter has happily lived her life as trans for years. At first I felt so relieved seeing her finally at peace. In the last year, I do not recognise the same person.

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Well worth a listen for anyone interested in a #Radiopharmacy career, including #ClinicalPharmaceuticalScience #STP. Having spent some time on rotation there, I can confirm that Leeds Teaching Hospitals Radiopharmacy is a fantastic place to work!

Channel 4 is publicly owned, not publicly funded. It doesn't cost the tax payer a penny. It also, by charter, commissions content but doesn't make/own its own. It's one of the reasons we have such a thriving indy sector in places like Glasgow. This is the opposite of levelling up

As aching body, feeling tired and having a headache are added to list of Covid symptoms, all people over 35 immediately book a PCR test.

I spent yesterday writing about the technicalities of domicile as they might impact Rishi Sunak’s wife. But that’s because her tax decisions cast doubt on his suitability for office. Another thread, this time in the man himself ….

At least 25 women and girls, as young as 14, were raped by Russians in one basement in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant. Russian soldiers said “they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children."

TW: rape, genocide 30yrs ago this month, Serb paramilitaries turned a hotel called Vilina Vlas into one of the biggest rape camps of the Bosnian war. My friend Nidzara Ahmetasevic took me there in 2016. I wrote this about it. feministgiant.com/p/essay-vilina…

Tories If you're white Ukrainians we'll bring you into our homes & stop buying oil from your persecutors. If you're from Africa/Middle-East we'll send you to concentration camps in Rwanda while selling bombs to the people who blew up your home. But we're definitely not racist.

There's no money for people's energy bills but there's always money for racism

The women of Tallinn outside of the Russian embassy, protesting sexual violence against women in Ukraine. Absolutely everyone should see this.