Catherine Mayer
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Mayer of London. Author. Co-founder of @WEP_UK , @PrimadonnaFest , @AndyGillMusic 🖤 @mayeroflondon @threads .net
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peddling the line that tax breaks for rich people mean their money will go back into the economy and trickle down to the poorest. I’m on Farringdon Rd shouting “bollocks”
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Yes. Journalism is indebted to
@carolecadwalla
, and that means everyone is. What this piece doesn’t say is that journalism let her down, with little & poor coverage or apparent understanding of what this case meant
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Here's how to respond to Trump. Do something today to fight for the rights & values he opposes. Then do something tomorrow & the next day
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Shocking that it was written, shocking that it was accepted by editors
flicking through The S*n while I was waiting in a caff and read this by clarkson. In what world is something so vicious and unhinged allowed to be printed? completely vindicates everything in
#HarryandMeghanNetflix
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BBC News going straight to Alan Dershowitz to comment on Maxwell verdict without context and allowing him to attack Virginia Giuffre 🤯
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Spoke to young Australian earlier. She said she’d never had any interest in the royals, watched 1st ep of
#HarryAndMeghanNetfix
with low expectations, found herself hooked, finished the whole series, now cares about the couple and actively dislikes the rest of the family. But…
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'HEY CATHERINE. YOU MAY NOT KNOW 8TH MARCH IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. WE'D LIKE YOU TO DO THIS COMPLETELY UNPAID PIECE OF WORK TO PROMOTE OUR BRAND AS A WAY TO CELEBRATE THE DAY. OH AND WE NEED IT TODAY."
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Her main takeaway from
#HarryAndMeghanNetfix
? “The tabloids are the lowest of the low. The British press are shameless”.
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HUGE GASP in room at
@WEP_UK
conference as
@sanditoksvig
reveals she gets just 40% of what Stephen Fry got for hosting
#QI
and only the same as Alan Davies.
#WE2018
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Hard to know which institution looks shiftier for this decision, the Met Police or the monarchy. There were serious questions raised by the Sunday Times and they deserve public answers
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Andy was not a body. The
#coviddead
, the
#lovelydead
, are not bodies. They were and are loved.
@BorisJohnson
#walkthewall
and maybe you’ll begin to understand
#BodiesPiledHigh
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This pain is the price of extraordinary joy, almost three decades with the best man in the world.
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My stepfather always cooked Christmas dinner for my mother & as many family as were around, plus "waifs & strays", friends without plans. This year he was ill, so I volunteered to cook. He died 22 Dec. I am basting, chopping & stirring in his memory & aim to do him proud
#joinin
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In case you wondered, the woman had paid her fare. The police “dearrested” her. Wondering how they plan to detraumatise her and her child
The
@metpoliceuk
is so far from fit for purpose it’s terrifying.
The heavy-handed and totally disproportionate treatment this woman received (in front of her distressed and bewildered young son) was for suspected bus fare evasion, to the tune of £1.75
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I am DANCING AND SINGING. The marvellous
@SamiraAhmedUK
HAS WON HER TRIBUNAL. This is a huge and inspirational victory, not just for Samira but for everyone who is undervalued by and in the media on the grounds of sex or race or both
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Looking through old photos came across this of Paula Yates & Peaches Geldof at Christmas 1996. And I can't stop thinking about Caroline Flack and how we apparently learned nothing from Paula and Peaches and all the other women baited for blood sport, their stories misappropriated
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Unbelievable and all too believable.
@BBCr4today
has given a platform to a criminologist called Prof Marian FitzGerald to tell women not to "pander to stereotypes and get hysterical" about
#SarahEverard
and endemic violence against women. This is extraordinarily irresponsible
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They weren’t just partying while we grieved. They were laughing at us while we grieved.
#partygate
#notmovingon
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Not sure where this comes from, but it is *genius*
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I see Doria is trending. Hearing her viewpoint and story is one of the highlights of
#HarryandMeghanonNetflix
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It's 7 weeks since my love died; today I found this photo on his phone, the last he took, of me at his
@GSTTnhs
ICU bedside. Tonight I will
#ClapforNHS
, for their work to combat
#CoronaCrisis
& everything they did to try to save him
#NHSThankyou
#ClapForOurCarers
#ClapOurCarers
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Good morning
@amolrajan
. When you cover
@MattHancock
’s
#ImACeleb
stint on
@BBCr4today
this morning, please remember that for
@CovidJusticeUK
families this is far from a joke. It’s a punch in the gut
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Why is this a headline? “Man might do a bit of childcare & look after recuperating spouse?”
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Calling all MPs arriving for
#PMQs
. Make time to visit this temporary memorial to the
#Covid
dead opposite Parliament.
@CovidJusticeUK
families are here to see you.
#wearestillhere
. 200,000
#lovelydead
are not
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Keys in hand, umbrella rolled, keeping to main roads, listening for footsteps, avoiding eye contact, trying to appear confident, still nervous. And with good reason. Like so many women, I've been flashed and followed, abused and assaulted. Join
@WEP_UK
in saying
#EnoughIsEnough
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Dear God. What a pusillanimous bunch of cowards. And, ironically, doing the work of the people who want to destroy the BBC.
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As Andy Gill's widow, I've written this open letter to
@Spotify
about its decision to put profit before principle
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The Epstein story is about so much: the abuse of girls & women & the power structures that again & again protect abusers; the corruption & misogyny now enshrined in the highest US offices. And it’s also about the continuing need for independent journalism
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Turning down media invitations to talk about
#DuchessofSussex
in
@TheCut
if discussions are framed as pro- or anti-
#Meghan
rather than examining coverage of her or what her loss/animus means to monarchy. And there’s a larger question too, about women in public eye. Short🧵
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A year ago tonight, my stepfather John died. My stepsister rang from the hospital to ask me to break the news to my mother.
@andygangof4
held me as I wept, then made the call. 41 days later, Andy was dead too. Accept distance this Christmas because some distances are irrevocable
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Kicking myself for a bad decision. I declined invite from
@BBCr4today
to discuss Prince Andrew’s
#Epstein
interview before seeing the interview. But there’s so much to say about the culture of impunity Andrew embodies in this clip alone. A few thoughts...
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83 days ago my stepfather died from respiratory illness; 42 days ago pneumonia killed my husband. I saw the magic critical care teams weave--and I saw its limits. Investment in tech is key but without investment in brilliant doctors & nurses, it is nothing
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Hospital appointment that took 6 months to come through cancelled. No new date. It sucks. But sure as hell not blaming junior doctors whose pay has fallen in 15 years by 26% in real terms while vulture governments greedily watch the NHS dying & anticipate picking the bones clean
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These hearts could yet be mended. It is 2043 days since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran. On this 14th day of her husband Richard's hunger strike outside
@FCDOGovUK
, I joined him to call on
@BorisJohnson
@trussliz
& UK govt to do everything possible to
#freeNazenin
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Bravo brilliant
@maitlis
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Thank you for the messages and tributes to Andy. Too many to answer, but know that I told him again and again during his final days not just how much I loved him but how loved he was.
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A lot of people I know haven’t read the coverage but they’ve *absorbed* it. They exclaim how awful Meghan is without examining where they picked up these opinions or whether she really merits such intense emotions. These aren’t monarchists. They’ve just bought into the hatred
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I don’t mind the
#DerryGirls
spoilers in
@BBCr4today
convo with
@siobhni
. To echo something she said, I mind that she’s the 1st interviewee to articulate the extent of the damage & danger cynical politics is inflicting on N. Ireland, beyond the obvious hits to trade & the economy
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Cross-party praise for David Amess is a reminder that familiarity doesn’t breed contempt, quite the opposite. It’s easier to hate people you don’t know. Up close you see the good in them, the humanity, the humour, and yes, the common ideals and purposes
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Questions about Andy's death,
#COVID19
and the mangled public health response. And why we must do what it takes to stop more tragedy
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Near Oxford Street in a café. It’s full of former steel workers who have come down from Scotland to march today. And they’re looking forward to hearing
@sanditoksvig
at the rally
#PutitothePeople
#PeoplesVote
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It's so obvious that Jeremy Clarkson's diatribe against
#Meghan
was sexist that it's odd IPSO had to investigate to reach that conclusion . The real issue is how such pieces are commissioned & signed off & why journalism is getting shriller & more abusive🧵
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If you wanted to stoke anti-royal feeling, it’s hard to think of a better way to do so than to arrest a protestor for heckling a royal. Except perhaps to arrest a protestor *in Scotland* for heckling *Andrew*.
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As my friend Sara was dying, we discussed her wishes, for the best death possible & a funeral to fully celebrate her life. Here is her coffin, beautiful as she was. If you haven't made end of life plans or a Will, this
#DyingMatters
awareness week is a good time to start
#DMAW21
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Short thread on
#Meghan
’s new podcast
#Archetypes
. Sure waspish columnists are at work & there’s plenty of soft underbelly to attack. BUT there’s genuine news value to her interview with
@serenawilliams
not least that
#Harry
& SW conferred on leaving the only lives they knew 1/?
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Anyone who doubts the toxicity of the coverage of Meghan from the moment of her appearance as Harry‘s girlfriend to today hasn’t read that coverage. And I don’t blame you because it’s a broth of misogynoir. I analysed it in a new chapter of my biography of Prince Charles.
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I don’t know why I find this headline entirely hilarious, but I do
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Feargal's in his pomp and all is right(er) with the world. Anyone who witnessed his campaigning for the music industry won't be surprised. Go
@Feargal_Sharkey
“It’s doesn’t even come remotely close”
On
#BBCBreakfast
musician and campaigner Feargal Sharkey responds to the government’s partial U-turn on dumping sewage in waterways.
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As co-founder of
@WEP_UK
, you might expect me to celebrate the UK getting its third female Prime Minister. I don't. Liz Truss is not a symbol of equality but a proponent of worsening inequality & her expected victory is a sign not of progress but regressive populism. Short 🧵
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@BBCr4today
Andrew says he "let the side down". It's a revealing phrase. He cares about the reputational damage to the monarchy, to himself. What sign is there of any contrition or even recognition of the damage wrought by Epstein and his circle of participants and enablers of sexual abuse?
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The backlash was not only predictable but predicted and still Prince Charles went ahead with it. This is why I say the royals haven’t yet grasped the extent of the damage from
#Meghan
&
#Harry
’s departure or how this twines with other narratives
Exclusive: ‘Royals must apologise for slavery’ says The Voice newspaper amid widespread backlash over Prince Charles' guest-edit.
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Since I wrote about Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein & the culture of impunity in 2019, there have been changes at the top of the monarchy & politics, but the culture ensures a horrible continuity, protecting the powerful, silencing or demonising victims
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Journalist
@carolecadwalla
, working with
@peterjukes
, scores a first, exclusives in both the Observer *and* the Sunday Times, uncovering Russian meddling in
#Brexit
referendum. Or perhaps you believe
@IsabelOakeshott
's account of why she sat on evidence of interference until now
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It’s as if UK journalism, stung by
#PrinceHarry
’s criticisms, went down the pub, chugged 17 pints of lager top, and came out swinging, staggering and shouting “you think *that* was bad!? Just you watch!”
#Spare
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And for me a key question is how otherwise thoughtful people, people who might even describe themselves as feminists or feminist allies, get drawn into hating a woman in the public eye. It’s Meghan today, but it happens again and again. And it’s not accidental. It’s orchestrated
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Wonderful
@jessphillips
"It is an abomination... you have sat by silently while your colleagues have been marched out" - Jess Phillips.
21 Tories were sacked for defying Johnson over Brexit, including Winston Churchill's grandson and the current longest-serving MP.
Follow live:
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That was Tom
#Bower
in his biography of Meghan, and apparently something of an obsession for him, 20 mentions of her ambition in the book, all negative. So, yeah, a good subject for the opening episode of the podcast and a good guest.
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@JDaviesPhD
Newly widowed, in the first & hardest Covid lockdown, when we were allowed only one exercise period outside, I used this map and went further every day until I had visited every Great Tree of London reachable within a walk totalling maximum six hours
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Cry me a river
@MattHancock
. A “massive betrayal” is treating care home residents as expendable, presiding over unnecessary deaths & corrupt procurement, breaking rules you set, then cashing in on reality TV & with a self-serving memoir
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Poor
@ianpaisleymp
. For somebody who spends his life arguing, he’s struggling to argue. Then again, there are no coherent arguments in favour of N Ireland’s abortion ban.
#RepealedThe8th
now
#togetherForNI
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Dear
@O2
. You have someone working in your claims department called Helen M. She has spent more than an hour trying to help me in difficult circumstances. I just wanted you to know she's an asset to your company
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We met this morning to walk with
@SamiraAhmedUK
to the tribunal. Many others joined us and many more messages of support our flowing in
#equalpay
#walkwithSamira
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Pure poison. How was this written by a psychologist?
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People complaining that Littlejohn and the Mail are being silenced. Nope. Advertisers are simply flexing their own freedom of expression. And good on them
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Puzzled by Tom Bower writing that
@VanityFair
fact checkers “adamantly decided that her story [about Proctor & Gamble] was possibly false“ and that Thomas Markle invented the campaign. Leaving aside adamantly/possibly, how does this video fit in
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Just had to turn off
@bbcnickrobinson
@bbcr4today
as the BBC continues its relentless bloviating about a hard right populist on a rival broadcaster’s jungle show. As if journalism hasn’t already done enough damage by popularising populists
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The Russell Brand allegations are horrible, but what's also horrible is how long rumours have circulated, how much has been ignored or treated as a lark. These things are never just about the person accused of abuse but all the people who enable them
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"The woman who knew her best" should be Josephine Fairley,
#PaulaYates
's closest friend who just posted this Insta story. Here's why Jo & I haven't participated in the documentary & why serial misrepresentation of Paula matters
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Controversial opinion (not least because sections of the media have ensured it to be so) but I'm looking forward to reading
#PrinceHarry
's memoir
#Spare
& to his interview with
@itvnews
's most excellent and deeply informed
@tombradby
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At 87, my mother becomes a first-time published author tomorrow. She’s already done her first book signing. And today she does her first live radio, at 345 with me on
@ShelaghFogarty
’s
@LBC
show, talking
#GoodGrief
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Every so often I return to this to check it's for real. The most Daily Mail headline ever
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If I accepted these media invitations to discuss Meghan, it would play into this phenomenon rather than deconstructing it. so, no. I do have a book to promote but not at this price
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Listen to Caroline Flack’s mother. Share her words. Push journalists & editors to do better. Apologies mean nothing without change
‘We shouldn’t just be able to say awful things.’
Caroline Flack's mother shares an emotional warning about the harmful impacts of ‘untrue’ press coverage on people who may be ‘fragile’ after Jeremy Clarkson’s column about Meghan Markle.
@ShelaghFogarty
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As someone who believes in good journalism & accountability & whose friends & family were targeted by news organisations, I salute an unlikely champion in Prince Harry and applaud the others who brought this case
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For the record, I think SPARE is an excellent title with multiple meanings & resonances. And the outrage against
#PrinceHarry
’s book, much of it confected & commercially driven, is the best marketing tool publishers & author(s) could hope for. But it’s also damaging. Mini 🧵
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Useful visual explainer on
#COVID19
transmission, why even small gatherings carry significant risk and how to mitigate those risks. h/t
@janesasseen
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The Mail has given trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell a platform to present herself as victim, "the wicked witch in the Epstein story", & to attack paedophile Epstein's true victims. She also praises "dear friend" Prince Andrew &Trump. By the company they (all) keep shall you know them
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@BBCr4today
Andrew couldn't have led the life he's led, made the choices he's made, without people enabling him every step of the way, without institutions covering for him whenever needed. This is the culture of impunity. A culture that reflexively protects its own & hang the rest
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“The happiest day of your life”…a good slogan for upselling fancy wedding merchandise, but was this our happiest day? Probably not—because so many days were happy. This was just a wonderfully happy day. Happy anniversary, my darling love.
#lovelydead
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👏👏👏 Another vital voice returned to Parliament. And what a campaign
@stellacreasy
fought, delivering her daughter and hope in the teeth of some of the nastiest attacks ever seen
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Please, though, let’s not watch America with a warm sense of “it couldn’t happen here”. The breaching & bending of law, the hollowing out of institutions, the demonising of judiciary & media, the emboldening of the far right: these things are already happening
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This assessment is all the more devastating for the calm with which it is delivered. 100,000 deaths. 100,000 tragedies. And such a significant proportion avoidable.
#Shame
on this venal, complacent, reckless government. Shame on
@BorisJohnson
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I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate criticisms. I’m not making an argument on behalf of Meghan. I’m arguing for thinking about how the coverage has obscured real issues such as how hers & Harry’s departure has cost the monarchy whole demographics of potential supporters
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URGENT: Charing Cross Met officers described messages they swapped about abuse & assault as “banter” so
@WEP_UK
put up these demands for an inquiry into
@metpoliceuk
misogyny.
Join the action TODAY from 11am. Details here
#EnoughIsEnough
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