I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Good. BBC News - Homelessness Minister Rushanari Ali quits bbc.com/news/articles/…

Monika Kinner-Whalen, contemporary Canadian textile artist known for her thread paintings #WomensArt #Summer

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.

5 journalists among 20 killed by Israel in strike on hospital -Gaza officials say. They were documenting the suffering, the bombings, the starvation until their last breaths. Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri was operating a live camera at the time of the strike ( one of two).

So you're saying if we'd sprayed stuff white and then put a red cross on it the media would have supported us? You live and learn I guess.

No surprise the replies are turned off, ya bunch of bootlickers.

You're not the wrong kind of woman, Chris. You're not any kind of woman.

A reminder that amongst all of the exceptional Lib Dem women, in local parties, regions, and nationally, the Lib Dems decided that the woman most deserving of this award was a man.

You did it, Rory. #TeamEurope | #OurTimeOurPlace

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Watching two incredible actresses, Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough, star in Mary Page Marlow. What a wonderful treat. Thanks The Old Vic #PWCPreviews

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Woman of the Day nurse Edith Cavell of Norfolk, a pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium and a member of La Dame Blanche, an underground intelligence network operating in Occupied Belgium during WW1, was executed by a German firing squad OTD in 1915. Born in 1865, Edith was

education affords human flourishing and vital social progress -it’s a right & shouldn’t be reserved for the privileged. Yet 130million girls are denied access to it due to gender-based discrimination, conflict & poverty. Girls in Afghanistan particularly in our thoughts tonight x

First mince pie of the year at the last #PwCPreviews What a fantastic initiative it has been. #OVChristmasCarol as brilliant as ever. Well done Paul Hilton for making the role your own.

Answer: it helps girls. It tells girls they have the right to things of their own. It tells girls they have the right to say 'no'. It reminds girls that the desires of boys do not supersede their feelings, their rights, their discomfort or their safety.

It will never make sense!

Damn right!