"Am I not a Man? And a Brother?" 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The most famous image of the fight against slavery was made in a Staffordshire pottery. Josiah Wedgwood was the most famous potter in England. Born in Burslem in 1730, he turned pottery into an industry: division of labour, costed processes, and a heat gauge for his kilns so good the Royal Society made him a Fellow in 1783. Then he used all of it for something that mattered. In 1787 he joined the new Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and commissioned a small jasperware medallion: a kneeling African man in chains, hands raised, and 5 words around the rim. "Am I not a man and a brother?" He paid for them himself. He never sold one. He gave away thousands, and shipped a batch across the Atlantic to Benjamin Franklin. People wore them as brooches, hairpins, and snuff boxes. To wear it was to say, without a word, where you stood. It became the badge of the whole movement. Arguably the first political logo in history. And every ribbon, wristband and awareness pin since traces back to a potter in Staffordshire who decided to use his kiln for something more than dinner plates. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He could have stuck to selling china to the rich. He chose to hand a movement its face instead. This is the revival of British culture. Be part of it. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

A man pretending to be a woman, suspected of murdering a little boy, publicly assaulted female journalists. Naturally Australian media referred to him as "she".

Another one to remember. Jean O’Leary calling out the misogyny of drag, addressing Rivera directly at NYC Gay Pride 1973. Have a listen. Lesbians were already fighting against the misogyny inherent in drag culture back then. Same old misogyny today. Even worse as men skin walk us

IDENTIFIED Maud Dromgoole, a playwright and theatre producer, served as a juror in the high-profile criminal damage trial involving activists from the now proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action. Here, she spoke in their defence outside Woolwich Crown Court before sentencing yesterday. We believe this conduct is illegal and constitutes contempt of court.

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131 MPs have now signed my motion to stand up for trans people and stop the EHRC's Draft Code of Practice coming into force. For it to succeed, the motion needs to be debated and voted on, so I asked the government if it will allocate time. Unfortunately the Leader of the House did not make that commitment. We will continue to press for a debate and a vote. Please encourage your MP to sign EDM 240.

Keir Starmer: "We don't have £4.5 billion for defence." Keir Starmer the next day: "I’m announcing £4.5 billion for more cycle lanes and zebra crossings." He’s just reached the point where he’s just laughing at us all now. You really couldn't make it up.