Anyone in my network that can help a young care leaver based in london to gain experience as a runner to see if they want to pursue a career in film please ?

Really enjoyable day with Peter Apps and Bobbie Hough with the team from Sweet Projects and their partners. A reminder that if you haven’t read ‘show me the bodies’ you need to…followed by Gill Kernick 💚’s ‘catastrophe and systemic change:learning from the Grenfell tower fire…’

My first ever podcast!

Oof - Nick Boles on fire here. 🔥

Best Letter to the Editor I have read in a long time.

Woman of the Day Corrie ten Boom born OTD 1892 in Haarlem, the first woman licensed as a watchmaker in The Netherlands and a member of the Dutch Resistance. She was sent to Ravensbrück for helping Jewish people to escape the Nazis by hiding them behind a false wall in her…

🚨 You only have until midnight on Tuesday (16th April) to register to vote for Local Elections taking place in England & Wales 🚨
gov.uk/register-to-vo…

Alison Inman Indeed. Violence against women seen as isolated due to MH, rather than warrant an analysis of societal and systemic issues that cause such extreme hatred of women.

‘Police believe there was “no ideological motivation” for targeted attacks on women by a man who ignored available male targets to get to women.

They’re not fit for the purpose of public protection, then. This was #femicide - i.e. #SexTerrorism bbc.co.uk/news/world-aus…

Why is it always ‘mental health’ when men kill women?

theguardian.com/australia-news…

The Femicide census had revealed that 21 men released on bail went on to kill women between 2020 and 2022
@femicidecensus independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Mail ‘hatchet job’ now on Rayner.

Woman of the day suffragist and women’s rights advocate Josephine Butler born OTD 1828 in Milfield, Northumberland. She campaigned for women’s suffrage, better education for women, the end of coverture in British law (the legal view that married women were simply chattels - the…

A photograph of Sisters on a cigarette Break. Somewhere in England, in the 1960s

Also, 🔥Liz Truss’s autobiography extracts have just dropped … and it’s clear it’s going to be an absolute banger

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

In this tiny extract the Queen dies - and Truss is moved to ask “Why me?”

They do know they're not supposed to say the evil bit out loud, right?

(Voter ID requirements disenfranchise a vast swathe of the electorate, but the list of acceptable types of IDs strongly favours older voters, who traditionally - though not always, vote Tory more.)

It is Friday and time for our round-up of all things #UKHousing from this week including all the latest policy, news, and events you need to know 🏘️ 📰

Read the round-up here 👇
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#ukhousing #policy #SocialHousing

Continuing our series on Sussex suffragists and suffragettes : Marie Corbett and her daughter Margery: women ahead of their time sussexbylines.co.uk/community/hist…

hey guys remember when I said the Greens had a provlem with Nimby-ism and a load of Greens made sad faces? looking forward to their explanation of why we really need derelict petrol stations!!

“The wilful destruction of Sure Start and the reductions of children’s benefits after 2010 has set back opportunities for millions of children’s futures. That’s why our country desperately needs a new Sure Start.”
theguardian.com/education/2024…