It’s clear that Travelodge failed to protect a woman who deserved much more than an apology and an insulting £30 voucher as compensation for her ordeal.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
This International Women’s Day @laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social and I have written for @politicshome.bsky.social on how women’s bodies are a front in the fight for the future.
We must give voice to what is taking place.
We must take it on.
And we must win.
#IWD
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
“Age-play”? You mean porn performers dressed like kids? That is the “unsavoury” element - why would anyone want to emulate sex with children? Stopping people watching this protects kids by stopping the idea that sex with kids is somehow okay. It’s just grim.
George Cottrell is a convicted fraudster and should be nowhere near British politics.
Reform need to explain why they’re happy to have him as one of Farage’s key lieutenants.
Barely legal porn is “a fig leaf for the sexualisation of minors”.
Great piece here by Baroness Gabby Bertin who is tabling amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill this week which echo those I tabled earlier in its journey.
www.thetimes.com/article/d595...
93 MPs have signed the #RepairReuseDeclaration 🎉
Our latest support comes from Brian Leishman, Martin Rhodes, @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social @alexsobel.co.uk @jessasatomp.bsky.social @chriscoghlanmp.bsky.social @mp4stratford.bsky.social and @joshuareynoldssl6.bsky.social 🔧
Don’t look back in anger… on Friday. Only Labour can beat Reform. 👇🏻
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
We want better, earlier support for our children — when they need it, where they need it.
And we’re investing to make that happen.
Excellent from Labour’s MP candidate in Gorton and Denton, Angeliki Stogia 👇🏻
This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.
Labour believes every child must have the chance to achieve and thrive.
We are determined to break the link between background and success.
That’s why we’re investing in better, earlier support for our children at school and reforming the SEND system for good.
The change we’re bringing for children with SEND is to get them better, earlier support — where they need it and when they need it.
My column in today’s Sunday Mirror - a call to Mancs (and others!) 👇🏻 @politics.mirror.co.uk
Please buy a copy of the paper too.
For too long too many children haven’t had the support they need to succeed.
That must change.
Labour will transform our schools system so every child can achieve and thrive.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Action to better regulate social media is urgently needed.
As this article says “contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Childhood is so precious, it’s time to stop our children being harmed to boost the profits of big tech.
news.sky.com/story/govern...
Some really welcome news from the Government today!
✅ Powers to speed up implementation of children’s wellbeing consultation outcome
✅ Preserving online data in tragic events of children’s deaths
✅ Powers to close loopholes to keep AI chatbots safe from illegal content
I wrote with MPs to Ofcom and the ICO on Monday. Nothing has been done. The hate and abuse of this girl and her mother continues on this disgusting website, even after her death. The owner must be held accountable.
Why hasn’t Ofcom taken this down? They met with victims of Tattle Life in September and were warned then about the horrendous illegal content on this website in front of MPs. I was there. Now a young girl has taken her own life.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Lowestoft is entering the UK Town of Culture competition and local organisers want to hear from you:
📆 Mon 23 Feb, 2pm
📍 Battery of Ideas, London Rd North
📆 Wed 25 Feb, 6pm
📍 The Seagull Theatre, Morton Rd
Or share your views here:
👉 www.theseagull.co.uk/culture-questionnaire/
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🎉 I’m excited to back Lowestoft’s bid to be UK Town of Culture 2028.
This is a chance to celebrate local creativity and culture, led by The Seagull Theatre with partners across the town, and shaped by the people who live and work here.
Details on how to get involved 👇
#WeLoveLowestoft
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Some thoughts on events in recent days:
medium.com/@Alison_McGo...
This is a make or break moment and the public will not forgive us if we make the wrong choice and turn in on ourselves.
Instead, we need to continue our focus on turning around 14 years of chaos and austerity.
Photo of Ellen Miller
Photo of Jo Todd
There was also a fascinating expert panel in discussion with @commissionerda.bsky.social; with contributions from @jessasatomp.bsky.social, Chair of the APPG on Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse; April Dawn Ventour, Director at Creating Equalz 2;
Good to see the ICO opening an investigation into X to understand whether personal data has been processed lawfully and whether appropriate safeguards were built into Grok to prevent the generation of harmful manipulated images using personal data.
ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...
As the Association of Forensic Science Providers says, ‘the pitfalls of these self-swabbing kits far outweigh any benefits … we would not recommend [them] as a method to recover forensic evidence in cases of sexual assault and rape.’
I am extremely concerned by the proliferation of dangerous ‘rape kits’.
Victims of sexual assault and rape should get help directly from professionals: www.nhs.uk/live-well/se...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-an...
How is it that a church warden behind an interior design firm originally incorporated in the BVIs & tied to a Kazakh billionaire can make a £200,000 donation to Reform UK?
Source of funds not disclosed.
Farage has questions to answer.
The Electoral Commission must investigate.
"Shining a spotlight on the predicament facing mothers after incarceration, Daisy-May Hudson has made a heartbreaking yet hopeful film"
🎬 @jessasatomp.bsky.social reviews 'LOLLIPOP' | #lollipop #bafta
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