Women in public life, part 74485

Ironic that a man barely ever in his workplace should make such a call.

So Starmer, a man who never met Epstein but made a bad appointment, might resign. But Trump, his closest friend, fellow sex abuser and coverer-upper of his crimes, is going nowhere. That’s how it works, isn’t it?

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Well said by Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

One upside of people rudely asking why you don't want children is that it's a grand opportunity to say something unhinged. The curse dies with me. The prophecy said nothing about heirs. Motherhood isn't for me, in the same way trench warfare isn't. I'm undead. www.stylist.co.uk/motherhood/c...

Just been in a meeting about the ever-increasing levels of harassment faced by council officers, particularly women and ethnic minorities, and someone made the decent point ‘How do we fight against this when it is normalised by the most powerful man in the world day in, day out?’ No answer, really.

OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??

It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Really cool that while we have a national panic about teenagers on phone too much, phone is also causing pensioners to build car bombs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Remember in the olden days when initiatives were tested through small pilot schemes to see if they actually worked before being rolled out to vulnerable citizens…?

Free burglary advice and tips for warming the planet to be offered to every adult in the UK

So all I have to do is wear these and men will leave me alone?

Graham Linehan is a genuinely evil person

Emails about mother's day - white noise, don't notice. Emails asking do you want to opt out of mother's day - hey you? Got a dead parent have you, huh? Don't want to be reminded about your dead parent, huh? Don't want to think about that do you, huh?

"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.

Yeah.

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Or, indeed, at all.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

also, not only the constant scrutiny of what women look like, but also what we eat. "You're fat, eat less, no wait, if you're on the jabs you're not eating enough protein, here's a new range of 'nutrient-dense' meals you should eat". Basically "lose weight, you fat cow, wait, not like that".

Last night I met a guy who said everyone in his office uses ChatGPT "because you just type in two lines and it generates a whole email for you!" And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"

robert jenrick using the phrase "unite the right", is he

I'm so fucking angry. As a cis woman it doesn't "violate my dignity" to share spaces with trans women, but it doesn't matter how many of us say this, the courts are determined to impose bigotry and biological essentialism on me.

Friday.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Politicians are calling for a senior police officer to be sacked BECAUSE WEST MIDLANDS POLICE USED MICROSOFT CO-PILOT, WHICH WE'RE ALL BEING TOLD IS GREAT AND THE FUTURE. The same politicians who are gung-ho and balls deep for piping hot AI. There's your fucking story.

Yeah. They’re brave Iranian freedom fighters until they reach Dover and then they magically turn into sponging asylum seekers.

Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mandelson is no different to Andrew and Fergie. Love the highlife and having access to it via their super rich pal(s).

One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

this guy launched a coup from his country club but you’re not allowed to work from home

men are way too emotional to be president

That would be lovely thanks

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

RIP 2025 2025-2025

One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.

Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.

Just the most perfect metaphor

A new year’s wish that we all start framing paying taxes as positive and patriotic contribution to a better world for all. Thank you Anthony Joshua! I’ve just paid mine too. They were quite a lot less than yours, but for some reason most historians don’t earn £68.5m.