Angela Murphy
@angelamurphy99
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London-Irish writer and comms professional. Bit of a bibliophile + current affairs obsessive. All views my own. I am a human being, not a brand. No lists thanks
Joined January 2010
The village of Cuetzalan, Mexico, is famous for its voladores, the “flying” dancers who spin around a tall pole in an ancient and spectacular ceremony created 450 years ago to appease the gods and bring back the rains after a long drought. https://t.co/PSOxIV4Y36
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Infantilising ... Trigger warning slapped on Harry Potter for ‘outdated attitudes’ Students at the University of Glasgow are also being warned about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit https://t.co/wnHjR5Im0O
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Students at the University of Glasgow are also being warned about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
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What benefit to women joining a union? UK unions think women can have a penis and prioritise the feelings of men over the rights of women. https://t.co/LvMuGkgsDw
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Bosses will be legally obliged to let workers know they have the right to join a union to stop hostile employers discouraging membership
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This case has taken so much from my mum, more than anyone will ever know. But she never stopped moving forward. Her strength means everything. Today is only a step, and there’s so much more to come for her. Love you mum🩷
NHS board harassed nurse who complained about trans doctor in female changing room https://t.co/RTt2UiDUBW
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The winter solstice, on Dec 21st, marks the shortest day & the longest night of the year. Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old passage tomb, is aligned with the rising sun on the mornings of the winter solstice. It was built by Stone Age farmers who prospered in the region's rich lands
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"This is how institutional harassment works in practice. You raise a legitimate concern about women’s spaces. Your employer responds not by addressing the concern, but by putting you under investigation ..." @Labourheartland
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Employment Judge Sandy Kemp's tribunal delivered a damning assessment of NHS Fife's treatment of Sandie Peggie, a nurse with three decades of service. The
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Here's an interesting little snippet for you. Chairman of @sewateruk, non provider of drinking water to the good people of Tunbridge Wells, is also chairman of Sellafield the UK's leaky nuclear reactor or what is regarded as "Britain's most hazardous building". Good to know
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A Swedish man was sentenced to life in prison last year after he filmed himself suffocating a 94 year old woman to death by wrapping saran wrap around her head and face. Christopher Johansson, a 49 yr old home care worker, murdered the victim during a home visit in November of
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Christopher Johansson filmed himself killing a 'defenseless' elderly woman by wrapping a cling film around her head and then sent the video to a woman he was trying to impress
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I give you @David_Cameron The man that put PARTY ABOVE COUNTRY to simply resolve an argument with the eurosceptic ranks of the Tories and therefore gave rise to the shit we are now in. A weak man, and a fool. #BrexitBrokeBritain
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We now know that the Drinking Water Inspectorate had warned @sewateruk about their Pembury water treatment works as far back as Sep 2024 telling the company there was "a significant risk of supplying water", "that could constitute a potential danger to human health". Did SEW's
'We've had the outages to protect [public] health.' South East Water's Supply Director has spoken to our Environment Correspondent, Fiona Irving, over failures at the Pembury water treatment works. More here: https://t.co/P7daOZUAsn
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The world is finally catching up. A major surrogacy group has just been suspended by Facebook… for human exploitation. They call it a “misunderstanding”. We call it reality. The surrogacy industry IS exploitation. And platforms are starting to see it.
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The man who persecuted me to the point I had to be granted international protection was elected woman of the year. ok
A trans-identified male politician known for having a women's rights advocate criminally charged for "misgendering" him has been named one of Brazil's "women of the year." https://t.co/v914mVqvkK
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Spot on. Such people double down because doubting themselves means admitting the possibility that they've been cheering on the surgical maiming and chemical sterilisation of minors, all in service of a trendy, unfalsifiable, quasi-religious ideology.
The problem with persuading Democrats to make a U-turn on pediatric gender transition is that they can’t bear to consider for a second that they are complicit in a huge medical scandal. It’s too awful. The enormity of what they’ve done - what they are still doing - to children is
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What an evening. Thank you to everyone who came to the premiere of my new choral piece. I’m still taking it all in. Thank you to the CBSO, the CBSO Chorus, the soloists, and our wonderful conductor for bringing my music to life with such heart. Hearing my score performed at this
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FIFTEEN organisations, including Mind and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, have written to Bridget Phillipson to let her know the object to women having rights because they are completely captured by a cult belief system.
Where were these MH charities when rules were written to allow men free access to women's spaces, services and sports, with devastating impact on many women's MH? Oh of course, what women need and want doesn't matter.
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This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians
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"‘Systemic failure’: fury as tap water in Tunbridge Wells runs dry after outage." The minister for water @emmahardymp recently told parliament that she could only revoke a water company's licence if the taps ran dry, that isn't true by the way but either way here's an example.
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South East Water faces mounting criticism over latest supply failure
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Wear 'feminine' clothes, have 'feminine' make-up, have long hair, present in a 'feminine' style and have a 'female' tone of voice. The social conservatism is off the scale.
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