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Given the news about Girl Guiding and the WI (the gender critical have been *very* silent about the Angiani report on the Sarah Everard inquiry, wonder why), this piece by @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social explaining the ADF is essential reading www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams
ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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My poetry brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like, you're a wonderful bard
Damn right, I'm a wonderful bard
I could teach you, as it's not that hard
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Bring back having a sense of shame
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Good news!

Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale

I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Wow...
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Donut and Pancake are the ultimate chaos cats
Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Mango is just happy to be here.
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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very funny to me that both liberal and radical feminist legal policy are complete and utter failures of projects because in response to a situation where "boys" want to play with girls and associate with girls the response by the state is to ban this to ensure it's either become a patriarch or die
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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don't want to think of the cruelty and level of misogyny involved in telling a trans girl she can't make friends or do anything with other girls because she is insufficiently female. just a thing. the level of physical & sexual abuse this entails towards trans girls all the time
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I don’t know how it would be done but I think, very soon, we’re going to need to look at legislation that prevents extremely wealthy individuals from using that wealth to force policy change through repeated funding of ideology-driven law suits
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m sure someone people will say, regarding the news that trans girls will no longer able to join Guides, oh well, they can just go to Scouts. You know what? It’s not the same. I could have gone to Scouts back in the 90s but I didn’t want to. This removes the option. This is discrimination.
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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they've not said explicitly that it is due to this case but yes it's 100% not their choice and is due to not being able to afford to defend infinite appeals against a better-resourced opponent
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I’m guessing this drove the decision:
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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the guides have made it abundantly clear that they do not want to have to do this, won't be excluding trans women from volunteering, etc but that they simply cannot defend themselves in a legal challenge against unlimited resources
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Oh boy…
Wait, does he think the fog of war is literally smoke?
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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We haven't remotely got a grip on the availability of social media or extreme porn. The onus is still on women to pre-emptively defend against being raped, rather than identifying predatory behaviour and curbing it. Instead, headlines and funding and bluster about trans people!
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This whole inquiry is just classic. 22 months on from part 1, and Lady Elish is having to point out that despite all being v approving at the time, police and government just...are not implementing the recommendations with any degree of consistency or urgency. Meanwhile, women continue to be harmed.
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I LOVE mince pies - pleading for recommendations for tasty gluten-free mince pies?? Please??!!
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That’ll do, pig, that’ll do 📚🐷
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the only literary accolade to present its winner with their very own pig. Here's this year’s winner, Rosanna Pike, with her new companion, aptly named after her winning novel: A Little Trickerie .
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM