Wife, mother, grandmother. Retired primary school teacher. Humanist celebrant and campaigner for human rights, assisted dying, and action on climate change

Joined September 2014
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It’s true!
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⚑JUST IN - More than 100 UK lawmakers demand shutdown of secret London expo selling stolen Palestinian land
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He should never be allowed to preside over a trial again.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial. Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
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RT @GyllKing: No spines were shattered at Filton. The officer walked unaided from A&E. Later a small, hairline fracture to the transverse p…
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Evil has many faces. This is one of them. If you know, you know. There is nothing I could say about this matter that would highlight or emphasize the injustice. It speaks for itself. #Filton4
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Pretty full on letter from Quintin Gill There’s a little nuance here as well - the CM is free to lobby the UK against a Tynwald approved Bill as an MHK but to do so from his official Chief Minister email or using the office of the Chief Minister would be wrong
Former MHK accuses chief minister of 'belittling and demeaning Tynwald' over Assisted Dying Bill #iom #news #ManxRadio manxradio.com/news/isle-of-m…
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Replying to @Headteacherchat
20/ There has also been nearly doubling of the risk of diabetes in children after Covid infection nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
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I'd go further and suggest this may indicate corruption and criminality. This judge represents a danger to society and democracy and must be investigated now. The Filton 4 must also be released immediately.
Last year Mr Justice Johnson granted an early release from jail for far-right Zionist extremist, Tommy Robinson. But he's just sentenced 4 Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even tho they weren't prosecuted for terrorism. Conflict of interest? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0g…
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Tomorrow is President Obama appreciation day! Keep the memes and Obama pictures going all day.
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She was 57 years old. White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject. She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments β€” and then went home. The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene. Her name is Mary Beard β€” Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it. The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice β€” anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her. Most people would have gone quiet. Mary Beard went further in. She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation. And she found it had always been there. In Homer's Odyssey β€” one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old β€” there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men. She goes. Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately. Not as ancient history. As a pattern. In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise β€” disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts. In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches. Elizabeth I β€” Queen of England, ruler of a nation β€” had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country. The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life. Mary Beard had found something important. In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto β€” short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening. Her argument was precise and devastating. The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself β€” the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like β€” was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years. The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like. She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television β€” white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it. The threats continued. But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them β€” why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked. They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them. The room had been designed without them in mind. That is not a personal failing. That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision. And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice β€” who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to β€” spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it. Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men. He was wrong then. He is still wrong now. And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it. via The Inspireist #FeministFriday #HERstory
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Paedophiles that West Midlands Police caught under 'Operation Satchel' who they called 'Every Parents Worst Nightmare'. Notice anything about them?
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Fact: 100% of trillionaires are white supremacists
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"London will be less safe', says Sir Mark Rowley, after London mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a contract between Palantir and the Metropolitan police." Sir Mark Rowley is still in his job & seems to think it's working for Palantir Please RT this until he no longer is. Thank you.
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Note to anyone angry that Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center, don't you worry. You can still find his name in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.
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Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
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It's pretty damned obvious that it's not possible for a defendant to mount any form of adequate legal defence against offences they are not charged with. Please RT this until this injustice is corrected. Thank you.
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What is happening in the UK is entirely the result of allowing the Daily Mail, GB News, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and all the others to spew their bile to hundeds of thousands every single day.
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A judge with a 'Zionist Connection' has seen a 'Terrorist Connection" & imposed sentences totally disproportionate with the charges a jury found them guilty on. Please RT this - until this travesty of justice is corrected & can never be repeated. Thank you.
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