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I keep seeing DEI being called an ideology when it is not, and the white supremacy that is replacing it not being called an ideology, when it really is. That shit goes back centuries.

'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson #womensart

In Israel, dread and rage haunt the streets. Netanyahu is exploiting that | Jonathan Freedland

Assisted Dying: If the aim of the Committee stage is - as has been repeatedly claimed - to ensure that the UK ends up with the safest possible legislation, then how is the bias inherent in this witness list possibly conducive to that end?

#HeathrowExpansion won’t deliver growth. Business demand is falling & more tourists leave than arrive. But it *will* trash climate commitments, drive more extreme weather, noise & air pollution & only benefit frequent flying super-emitters - the 15% who take 75% of flights. Labour should be better

Through the blizzard of orders and edicts, a picture is emerging of what Trump wants - to rule as an autocrat, exercising unchecked power. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Might be one of the most important, urgent things I've ever written: 50% of social care spending is on disabled people, but that part of the mounting care crisis is completely ignored www.theguardian.com/uk/commentis...

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #womensart

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us. Because the shame has to switch sides.

Gisèle Pelicot, post convictions, says she "never regretted" opening up the trial, "so society could see what was happening" adding she has "confidence in our capacity collectively to find a better future where women & men can live together in mutual respect". What a debt of gratitude we owe her.

Remind who Keir Starmer represents in this country 🤔🙄 #WASPI

Labour is a sitting duck for its calculating rivals. The only solution? Build, build, build | John Harris

Anyone who dreads the prospect of Faragist nationalist populism in Britain should want this Labour government to succeed. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I understand the human instinct. I’d want to do the same. But that’s why no individual should be given the power to pardon members of their family.

Latest from me: Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...