The Backlash is back! With reads on progressive women, Louis Theroux (kind of), the media’s blind eye, women voters in India & UK maternal deaths. And links to great stuff by @emilylawford.bsky.social @natashawalter.bsky.social @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social thebacklash.substack.com/p/understand...
1st class episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw — examining the turbulence of the current era & identifying both the destructive & the dynamic in patterns of global change. @tds153.bsky.social talks to @johnkampfner.bsky.social, Nicolas Niarchos, @natashawalter.bsky.social.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Can radical change solve some of today’s most intractable problems?
V good ep of Start the Week yesterday featuring Nerve contributing writer @natashawalter.bsky.social
talking about her new book ‘Feminism for a World on Fire’
Host @tds153.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My new book, Feminism
For a World on Fire, is out 7 May and I was on Start the Week this morning with a preview of some key arguments.
Environmentalism without feminism is the patriarchy in a forest.
But feminism without environmentalism is a women’s centre on a dead planet.
Just received my first printed copy!
As I was writing I sometimes wondered if looking so deeply into the threats facing women was making me overly apprehensive.
But we can all see now - the world is burning, and women are bearing the brunt.
How do we resist?
#FeminismforaWorldonFire Out 7 May
The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.
The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.
Words aren't enough - it's time for action.
Arrests happening at main gates of RAF Lakenheath used exclusively by USAF and sending fighter jets to Iran.
Peace protestors have shut down the main gates since 6am.
A second gate was shut down for hours from 6-10am.
lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk
@cnduk.bsky.social @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
Today I’m sitting in a studio recording the audio book of my new book, Feminism for a World on Fire.
When I chose the title it sounded like a metaphor.
📰 Two demonstrators arrested outside RAF base during peace protest
Over a hundred people joined a peace encampment to create a blockade outside the main gate of Lakenheath airbase.
https://viewlinemedia.com/article/33069
#ViewlineNews #UKNews #UK
Want to see more use of AI in journalism?
Take a look at this Telegraph obituary of Charlotte Raven in 2025, clearly written by ChatGPT, which attributes my book, Living Dolls, to Raven as co-author and misrepresents its thesis. ☹️ www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
Absolutely insane that 42% of Americans still approve of Trump.
How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…
What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”
We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴☠️
Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city.
Antisemitism is vile and has no place here.
Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.
Remembering Yanar Mohammed asassinated in Baghdad on March 2.
Join us in remembrance
📅 Sunday, 29 March 2026
🕒 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Greenwich Borough Hall
Royal Hill, London SE8 10RE
Organised by:
Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq & Communist Alternative in Iraq
What can one say? It’s impossible to read this and not to be filled with horror and sorrow. What Israel is doing in the West Bank is unspeakable.
The tributes to Jenni Murray are focusing on her interviews with powerful and privileged women. Here at Project Resist we would like to pay tribute to the fact that she always made sure the voices of the most marginalised and vulnerable women were heard. 1/2
At a time when women are so divided and solidarity is so elusive, Jenni Murray understood why refugee women’s rights are part of the wider struggle for equality.
Thank you Jenni for the support and the solidarity.
went on to support @4refugeewomen.bsky.social - as the organisation became - over the years to come. She invited us several times on to Woman’s Hour to discuss our campaigns.
Here is one instance www.bbc.co.uk/food/program...
Back in 2006, I & some friends wanted to start a new initiative for women crossing borders.
We began with a single event, at which refugee women’s stories were told and connections made.
We invited all the women we knew who we thought might listen! Jenni Murray sat in the front row and
So sorry to hear that Jenni Murray has died. Such a warm and empathetic radio presence, and just as great in person. I was lucky to be interviewed by her more than once. Much missed.
Am glad to say I have a very vocal one in my overgrown back garden. Don’t know what spring would be without their voices.
As someone who has lived in the same flat for more than 25 years, I can tell you it's even weirder realising that what you still think deep down is your cute new sofa/wallpaint/coffee table is actually very old and worn and... what does that say about you...
I so remember my first long journey in a car. I went through the map first and wrote out all the key junctions and road numbers and key towns in big letters, and propped that on the dashboard for reference. It was terrifying!
Reservations by letter! That’s right, I remember doing that 😀
I find it funny he says this, as it shows how we are simply losing the memory of pre digital life. We think we must have spent days on the phone then scrabbling for information because we can’t imagine how we lived without google. It’s already so hard to remember that foreign country, the past.
You went to the local high street travel agent to book the flight. You bought the guide book or read the adverts in the back of a newspaper and phoned one hotel or just turned up and trusted to luck. Days on the phone!? That’s something that only started with smartphones and unlimited calls.
