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The Met police seizing rape alarms from a Night Safety teams is so resoundingly the biggest problem and symptomatic of the force’s wider rot that we can’t even begin to get into the patchy efficacy of rape alarms and the questionable usefulness of men handing them out
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The Met arrested members of the City of Westminster’s Night Safety team. They are volunteers. They were pulled last night at 2am and have been held for 14 hours. One of them came out of the station in tears. Police didn’t apologise.
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Jordan Neely’s mum was strangled to death by his stepdad in 07 which set off his mental health his aunt says. Now weeks before the anniversary of George Floyd, he was killed after being placed in a chokehold by a former Marine who still has not been arrested.
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Spoke to Graham earlier this week. He'd been in extensive meetings with police about the demo, all of which had been respectfully agreed.
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This cross party thirst trapping just wouldn’t have happened if Jacob Rees Mogg was Lord President of the Council
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Got to say it, @PennyMordaunt looks damn fine!
The sword bearer steals the show.
#Coronation
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When does he get lunch 😞
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+ what that wise owl 🦉 / wily fox 🦊 🇦🇺 says. Taking note of his riposte. If committed to monarchy? .. do it right. Do it weird. 💂🏻♀️
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She could turn up in any British designer she so desires but instead does this….it’s the most lesbian thing a straight woman could do on this earth apart from be P!nk
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Princess Anne The Princess Royal looking amazing riding her horse #PrincessAnne #ThePrincessRoyal
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My mum furious we can’t hear the rabbi (who had to walk in) but it turns out he’s not allowed to use a mic on the sabbath! Oy!
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Undemocratic imo!
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The head of the UK’s republican group has already been arrested by police this morning while collecting drinks and placards for demonstrators.
There has been serious debate about the power afforded to police to prevent disruption of today’s coronation. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m
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The best part of any big royal event is the odd couples it conjures up eg Prince of Darkness Nick Cave and Rowan Williams former Archbishop of Canterbury were being so chummy on the way in
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Look at me goes to one Sikh Punjabi wedding and now convinced that every event should be met with 4K calories pp
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All the attendees of the coronation - incl. charity workers, pillars of communities etc - started arriving at Westminster Abbey at 7am and are now seated by 9am. Ceremony begins at 11am. Are the King and Queen going to feed these people while they wait??? I hope so
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Vile - no one looks OVER a cubicle in order to check if someone's there or not, you'd look under the cubicle. He should never have been in the women's toilet to begin with. I hope there's an appeal on its way
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Banker cleared of spying on a woman in a toilet after jury accepts he was ‘just checking to make sure there was no-one in the cubicle' courtnewsuk.co.uk/banker-cleared
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Prince William and Kate meeting Allison Hammond and now Francis Bourgeois is indicative of some serious youth culture clout-chasing - what next, chicken shop date?
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Man charged with murder of Johanita Dogbey.
Mohamed Nur, 33, has also been charged with a further count of possession of an offensive weapon and three counts of causing grievous bodily harm against two women and a man, two days before the alleged murder.
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VICE hasn’t closed, it’s got so many wonderful hardworking journalists there delivering some really decent stories. Those eulogising it already and/or calling for the glory days (esp pre-#MeToo days…) back…are really showing their arses.
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Have YOU stopped using the hormonal pill as birth control lately? I'm writing an article about this and would love it if you contacted me on sophiewilkinsonjournalist@gmail.com to discuss pls!
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Trust them to find the straightest pub in all of Soho
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Kate said of their #Coronation preparations: “Yes, it’s going to be a busy time. We’re getting there. I still feel like we’re trying to get ducks in a row.” Next stop, the Dog and Duck pub for a lunchtime pint or two 
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Have YOU stopped using the hormonal pill as birth control lately? I'm writing an article about this and would love it if you contacted me on sophiewilkinsonjournalist@gmail.com to discuss pls!
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Bold interpretation of ‘disruption’ - when it was the Queen’s funeral, so much of central London was shut off and the majority of officers on hand to offer directions had no idea where they were, let alone knew how to direct people.
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Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.
We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration.
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mercury may be in retrograde but today I lost my phone, spent an hour looking for it, cancelled it, and then....found it? on a bollard in the middle of Bethnal Green????? Either people are good or just no-one wants an iPhone mini
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While reporters are increasingly restricted from naming those arrested/charged with sex crimes, it’s a useful precedent that people can seemingly use social media to name their attackers. A long & stressful way for brave Nina Cresswell to get justice, tho
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I have spent too much time this week thinking about the confected war between oat milk and other milks and Aubrey Plaza is almost entirely to blame
Peculiar man, once told me that really the best way to improve standards of MPs was to ensure that only those who had run businesses could become MPs. Perhaps just try to not be a crank, eh?
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Former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen expelled permanently from party dlvr.it/Sn69my
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Completely agree that boys shouldn’t be marked as naturally deviant/evil, but this argument completely derelict of understanding that boys get information about women not just from parents (who aren’t always perfect!) but from porn and media esp social media. Who is this expert?
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says boys would be taught how to respect women and girls as part of the national curriculum in his plans to prevent misogyny and violence against women.
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Good morning, it’s absolutely possible to be aghast at the racist and misogynistic abuse that is being levelled at Diane Abbott online without condoning her horrific comments that she has apologised for or denying the Corbyn-era existence of antisemitism within the Labour Party
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Long-awaited legislation to toughen up laws on sexual harassment in the workplace looks set to be shelved after a flurry of amendments from Tory peers that has choked its progress through the UK parliament
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IPSO clears The Times over investigations into PR chief Paul Blanchard pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newsp
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The delay as the PM decides on Raab's future is stressful for all of us working to deadlines.
But for no one can it be more stressful than the many complainants, left hanging in real-time, as a political figure makes a political decision on a process they were told to trust.
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