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To state the obvious: It is hard to conduct effective foreign policy when being seen as too aligned with you represents a potential 25+ point electoral liability for prospective partners.

"[Women's oppression] is, like the exploitation of labour itself, a social structure which roots itself in and distorts a naturally given human capacity. It is not reducible to biology, but neither is it separable from biology." www.counterfire.org/article/marx...

Excellent post here from Suzi unpicking just how flimsy all the stuff about "UPFs" really is

"On the doorstep people don’t make a distinction between graduate visas & small boats" This is: a) objectively wrong (plenty of polling evidence) b) suggests utter contempt for electorate's thought processes c) is a dreadful way to make policy Otherwise fine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@kareningalasmith.bsky.social and I wrote an open letter to umbrella bodies in the MVAWG sector. "the gift of clarity has been given to us and the response for all victims should be straightforward - in fact it always was…" shonaghdillon.substack.com/p/supreme-co...

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I think most people probably believe that abortion is legal in the UK; in fact it's only partially decriminalised, & British women have some of the most restricted abortion access in Europe. We need abortion fully legalised & access to it made a right, not a lottery.

I checked to see if it was less darkly comedic than a Super Hornet sliding right off the deck because the carrier did a hard turn but that's literally what happened

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"People asked me if I thought Giuffre ‘was in fact a fantasist’. Someone who’d made her story up. All that changed this weekend. A dead victim was somehow a believable victim. And it made me feel 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺." ✍️ @maitlis.bsky.social articles.globalplayer.com/7giK6UH1ESfe...

Fantastic article by Victoria Smith thecritic.co.uk/gender-criti...

Ghana: "Meta is displaying .. a complete disregard for the humanity of its key safety workers.. content moderators. They are treated as objects who can be used up, burned out & replaced with no care.. for the permanent damage to their mental & physical wellbeing.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

On Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and espionage. From my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Written in 2019, published in 2020.

Read this again & again “A U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified IN ADVANCE of the child’s urgent medical needs.” Depravity