Happy international Women’s day to all the big companies and brands who used to treat this day as a pinnacle of their calendar but are too scared to tweet now in case we see your gender pay gap. We can see you gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk #IWD

If you want to know what systemic racism & misogyny looks like, it’s having a debate about whether a political donor saying he wants to shoot a black MP is a bad thing and not allowing that MP to talk on her own behalf while she’s stood in the same room asking to speak. #PMQs

I was sat next to Diane in Prime Minister's Questions. She wanted to have her voice heard, not just be spoken for by others. I find it astonishing – and deeply disappointing – she wasn't given that opportunity.

This is awful to watch. Diane Abbott is not even allowed a voice to respond to the racist hate-filled language that has been directed at her. Yet, of course a load of men get to stand up and have their voices heard talk about it.

I've unashamedly pilfered this fantastic photo off Misan Harriman of Diane Abbott . I spent 4 long and fun evenings in Diane Abbot's company filming Celebrity Come Dine With Me and found her to be well read, extremely intelligent, humble, caring about society and community,

Individual racism = What Frank Hester said. Systemic racism = Diane having to sit silently while others discussed her life. Camouflaged racism = Garnering money and support from her pain while continuing to marginalise her.

“The way a government treats its refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.” - Tony Benn #Rwanda #RwandaBill

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Last month my complaint against my rapist’s defence lawyer was upheld and he’d been found to have “abused his position”. Today, I learned of the penalty. He will be fined, ordered to pay me compensation, and issued with a “severe written censure”. Misogyny has consequences.

Good to know that Graham King, whose company is paid £3.5m of our money every day to house asylum seekers, has made it onto the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time theguardian.com/business/artic…. Meanwhile we delay their applications deliberately. This is simply money-laundering

Students (present and past) and their supporters protested the planned closure of their junior department at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a play-in this afternoon.

ok so that’s sorted. night x

Sending huge congratulations to John Rutter on receiving his knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours List 🎶 Our singers, who are rehearsing John Rutter’s Requiem today for their concert in L’Abbaye-aux-Hommes in Caen on Monday, have recorded this message! 🇫🇷

Unfortunately, it's trash. Worse than trash actually bc it's actively destroying our planet and eroding our communities. Not only that, but capitalists who have no connection to the arts or their own humanity are actively seeking to replace all of human creation with AI.

Sierra Leone is home to 800,000 child brides, half of whom were married before the age of 15, according to a 2019 UNICEF report. The passing of this law is great news.👏🏿

Unbelievable to see UN contravening its own principles and appeasing the Taliban by excluding women from the main part of their upcoming meeting in Doha on Afghanistan. Very much with Malala Yousafzai on this

I don't get to vote in this election, but I do have to live with whoever you elect. No pressure. #GeneralElection24

These ‘he was a nice/normal guy’ quotes are not just on the interviewees, this is on media who search for them after murders. They hunt for these quotes, salaciously. They want to paint femicide as irregular. It IS regular. Multiple women are murdered by men every damn week!