🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population. Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵

MeCCSA 2025 has come and gone but we still have plenty of updates to share about the conference and our network members! Stay tuned for more 👀 #MeCCSA2025

Teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, and a worker for an NFL team have all been fired this week for speaking critically about Charlie Kirk, a man who criticized others for a living.

The silence from those who claim to be fighting and campaigning to protect women & children is now deafening. It was never truly about safeguarding them - it is about immigration and racism, and certainly not about the safety of Black and Brown women and children. uk.news.yahoo.com/british-born...

UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers. Women penalised for becoming mothers. Position becomes even worse when women become unpaid carers. 74,000 women a year forced to leave jobs for getting pregnant. Takes toll: low pensions, poverty insecurity.

We also have a website for blogs, advice, reading recommendations and much more: meccsa-womens-network.org.uk

An interesting framework for the context of #onlinehate: "similar to the 'there is no alternative' to neoliberalism argument...the gendered construction of cyberlibertarianism presents online freedom as the only game in town, at least when it comes to online hate." academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Black Country people: fash are trying to mobilise people in Dudley this Sunday, hot off back of former Tory MP & multiple property owner Marco Longhi’s campaign to remove leisure discount for asylum-seekers. Please join the counter demo 11am at the Fountain if you can.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Well this is all suddenly starting to make a lot more sense… Women abused as children by Rotherham gangs say police also sexually assaulted them www.bbc.com/news/article...

📢 Behold, The Master Race 🔽 🙄. Currently, if not in jail, to be found harassing terrified asylum seekers trapped in their temporary hotel accommodation up and down the country. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is

If Zoe had added Munich, everybody would now talk about Pop Music....

3.7 billion people live below the poverty line. In the UK, unnecessary cuts are hitting the most marginalised. All whilst billionaire wealth is surging - per new @oxfaminternational.bsky.social report. UK must tax extreme wealth & support the UN Tax Convention. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

💷 £2 Billion of Fraudulent Covid Loans Remains At Large Five years after launch, £1.9 billion of Bounce Back Loans is still missing — only £130 million recovered bylinetimes.com/2025/06/25/2...

On balance, I was more comfortable with Fox employees lying about wars than running them.

Today, Women’s Aid’s heartbreaking report finds that 19 more children have been killed since 2015 by a known domestically abusive parent during unsafe contact arrangements. This is a 50% increase in the number of families impacted compared to the last decade. www.womensaid.org.uk/nineteen-mor...

In use at many UK universities right now

#OtD 22 Jun 1948 the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks bringing the first group of 492 Jamaicans to the UK. They had answered an appeal for workers from the UK which needed to rebuild following World War II, amidst an acute labour shortage shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Under neoliberal fire, the right to strike is waning, globally, after years of premeditated attacks to limit it [ITUC] www.ituc-csi.org/under-neolib...

They're just arresting organizers now.

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

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📢 This ⏬ is what happened to UK #inequality since 1961. It soared in the 1980s under Thatcher and no UK govt has seriously tried to reverse it since - so, the centre cannot hold and things fall apart... ifs.org.uk/living-stand...

British women are being jailed and shamed under archaic abortion laws. After more than a century and a half, this week, MPs could vote to change that. My col. on decriminalising abortion - and giving tens of millions of women a genuine right to choose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🐧📉 Emperor penguin decline worse than predicted A new study finds a 22% drop in emperor penguins (2020–2023) in part of Antarctica – far steeper than climate models expected. This highlights urgent risks from sea ice loss 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #SciComm #ClimateChange #Penguins 🧪

Best image of the day:

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

Eugenics is back: short video and blogpost about the 21st century resurgence of the discredited ideology of eugenics www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/the...

Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised in England and Wales after 200 years. Labour will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 to ensure rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence. It comes alongside an extra £233 million in funding for homeless services, taking the total this year to nearly £1 billion.

🧬MedSky🧬 Existing drug class may help patients with skin cancer that resists standard treatments, a new study shows. #Cancer #Melanoma

You can explore the data here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r... and my colleagues have written here for @wonkhe.bsky.social on what the data tells us wonkhe.com/blogs/what-s...

Our new @britishacademy.bsky.social infographic on key facts about social science, humanities & arts (SHAPE) graduate employment www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/57...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Really great that @economist.com used their cover story this week to revisit their 2010 cover story on ‘gendercide’. The practice of aborting girls for just being girls is not over, but has reduced significantly economist.com/leaders/2025...

#OtD 7 Jun 2020 the brother of a Seattle police officer drove his car at high speed into a Black Lives Matter protest in the city, then shot a Black protester, Dan Gregory, who tried to protect the crowd. The driver avoided jail, getting only probation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1256...

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

As usual, the cruelty is the point. Missouri has lived under the boot of a GOP supermajority for 22 years and they have consistently defunded schools. And now they are planning to close schools for the severely disabled.

Wait... is this the best meme ever made?

This isn’t just about one racist woman in Minnesota. It’s about a pattern that’s played out repeatedly in recent years—a sort of patronage system for bigotry that’s become embedded in conservative fundraising culture.

This is what #Farage & #Reform want for the UK

Councillor says some children in care are 'evil' #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

The dictator of one of the United States' enemies is using the President of the United States to announce military attacks on a United States ally.

“Struggle is rebranded as resilience. Burnout becomes a badge of honour. Emotional labour becomes content.” Great article @livvygibbs.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com My book The Return of the Housewife echoes this - especially the relentless digital glamorisation of women’s unpaid labour.