Sadiq Khan accused of hypocrisy over TfL Oyster deal with arms firm A Spanish company is set to be handed a London Underground contract months after the mayor criticised a defence fair it attended

A Spanish company is set to be handed a London Underground contract months after the mayor criticised a defence fair it attended

City of London kick out independent Heath cafes – and hand them to Daisy Green chain MP Tulip Siddiq says decision must be reversed as decisions sparks instant backlash

One for North Londoners. The Corporation of London (it's panto season, so boo! hiss!) have decided the lovely, individual and friendly Heath caffs will be better run by a chain. There's a petition: please sign and share it. www.change.org/p/require-th...

Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman facing forwards with.elbow resting on her knee and long striped.skirt, looking directly out towards the viewer

'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling..."

- Leonora Carrington
Surrealist painter

#WomensArt

Why women should be at the heart of building domestic climate resilience In this guest blog, Yasmin Ahammad and Hannah Dillon of Impatience Earth examine how women and marginalised groups in the UK are disproportionately impacted by climate change, and why funders must cen...

In the unprecedented heat of summer 2022, there were almost twice as many so called 'excess' deaths amongst women than men. But this is only one of few data points that highlight how women are more impacted by the climate crisis in the UK.

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Tell that to the Supreme Court! Woman = adult human female in the EA2010 and single sex exceptions in EA2010 are VERY MUCH based on SEX.. therefore as a woman, I enjoy SEX SPECIFIC rights not afforded to anyone who is of the male sex (no matter how they ID!)

If you want an idea of what we socialist feminists think re gender identity ideology then this would be a good place to start. weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1330/...

And it also rocks up on the Thames Foreshore in an area known for Roman finds. It took me years to realise that this little blue thing I thought was *nothing-of-importance* was actually *something-very-much-of-importance* when a fellow mudlarking chum told me what it was #ThamesFoundEgyptianPigment

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover

“In 2003, five protesters known as the the Fairford Five were arrested and charged for disrupting military operations at RAF Fairford. One of the defendants, Josh Richards, was represented by Keir Starmer”

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Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

So many people continue to refuse to acknowledge the reality of what this is.

We are attending the #womensresourcecentre conference Reclaiming Our Power in #Birmingham today. The room is packed! ♀️

🔗 wrc.org.uk/Event/womens-leadership-conference-2025-reclaiming-our-power

#Organise4Change

This clip encapsulates in just 12 seconds why the Government should pull its plan to cut disability benefits before next weeks vote

North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

North Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid chuffed.org/project/help...

Printed recipe. Reads: Millpiedes prarparati. Prepared wood-lice. Wood-lice are prepared in the same manner as bees.

Handy tip from an 18th century medical guidebook – always remember to prepare your medicinal woodlice in the same manner as your bees

Nuke veterans "ghosted" by Keir Starmer as blood scandal grows The Prime Minister has ignored requests to meet victims, even as the scandal is reported to the police

Nuclear veterans have accused the government of “ghosting” them as the Prime Minister continues to ignore requests meet victims

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#OtD 30 May 1937 the steamship Ciudad de Barcelona, carrying 250 international volunteers fighting Spanish fascism was torpedoed, killing 100 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

Print featuring a close up of an older white woman's face and hand in white and black

'I am in the world to change the world'
- Käthe Kollwitz,

Self-Portrait, 1922, woodcut #WomensArt

It's important to differentiate the silent treatment, as a tactic used by #abusers to manipulate you, from the silence of a #victim, who is keeping quiet out of self-protection.

Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap as Treasury told to find money | The Observer Policy change will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty after pressure from cabinet and MPs

From the Observer: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A/HRC/59/47: Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues - Advance unedited version The present report by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls examines the new and evolving forms of violence experienced by women and girls based on their sex, which remain insuffi...

Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues - Advance unedited version by @unsrvaw.bsky.social

Hear Reem Alsalem at #FiLiA2025

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Artwork featuring a young Black woman facing left looking forwards with strong expression, dressed in orange which merges with the floral green background

Sofia Bonati, a self-taught #artist from Argentina, known for her portraits of women against a backdrop of mazes or floral patterns #WomensArt
#Saturday

Now they need to do Stonewall.
The disclosure runs to 105 pages.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/info...

It's #Saturday and time for #FiLiA2025 speaker news!

Caitlin Roper, Australian writer, feminist activist, & campaigner against the sexual exploitation of Women & Girls.

🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

#EndSexualExploitation #Feminist

Email your MP about the Supreme Court judgment - Sex Matters Make your voice heard – let your MP know why the Supreme Court ruling is important to you.

TAKE ACTION: Email your MP!

Calling all sex-realist women and men! Bank holiday weekend action.

Use this tool to write to your MP and tell them how much you appreciate the Supreme Court's clarity and want them to support local organisations to start following it.

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Starmer faces welfare revolt from 150 MPs as frontbenchers ‘poised to quit’ A rebellion on this scale would be a significant knock to the prime minister’s authority and represent wider disquiet about the direction of the government

Keir Starmer is facing the biggest rebellion of his premiership as more than 150 MPs are preparing to vote against his forthcoming welfare cuts

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Almost 50 MPs to rebel over welfare cuts as Labour revolt grows ahead of key vote

The government's own impact assessment on the plans estimates that 250,000 people will be pushed into relative poverty

www.itv.com/news/2025-05...

A riotous, exultant sky strewn with at least two cloud layers and varying fairly ragged shapes, all lit a blazing red or pink by an as-yet invisible sunrise that's hidden by a long, dark bank of cumulus on the low horizon. Below is a wide panorama of dark skyline, still black.

Exultation - Skyline 231

Some sunrises are quiet, and some are not. This one is a shout of joy and delight.

#photography #sunrise #intense #skyline #landscape #skyscape #gift #joy #EastCoastKin

Print of a garden scene with bare trees and a washing line with clothes in different colours hanging on it, in the foreground is a green wheelbarrow and two chickens

'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt

Photo of a white hand with open palm holding a stone painted in the realistic image of a fox curled up

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

Tribunal nurse calls for action after Supreme Court gender ruling Sandie Peggie has urged NHS Fife to stop giving men who identify as women access to female single-sex spaces.

'The Equality and Human Rights Commissioner #EHRC has written to #nhsfife and @scottishgov.bsky.social to remind them about workplace legislation around single-sex spaces - which Ms Peggie has urged them to comply with.'

#SandiePeggie #SupremeCourt

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