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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
16 days
I have lodged a claim at the employment tribunal against my former employer, Hachette, on the grounds of sex and belief discrimination - full story below. I need to raise money towards legal fees. If you can share and/or donate, that would be brilliant💜
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
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I no longer have a job because I couldn’t take the abuse and gaslighting I got for expressing my view that men are not and can never be women, that sex is real and matters, and for publishing books which share that perspective.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
Sounds as though Garden Court should sue Stonewall for giving them incorrect legal advice.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
4 years
The dissonance of today between treacly VE Day sentiment and actual veterans dying in care homes is already doing my head in at 9.03am.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
Never forget the academic philosophers who signed an open letter accusing Kathleen Stock of ‘transphobic scare-mongering’ when she talked about the risks to women in prison posed by self-ID.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
15 days
It took less than a day to raise enough money to carry on with the case. I am so grateful to everyone who reposted, pledged, made good jokes, admired my dog, gave me brilliant advice, and has been standing alongside me for years. We are many, they are few. 💚🤍💜
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
21 days
I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs for expressing their (lawful) views. But I do want employers to start explaining to staff how the Equality Act works. Which could be a problem when many HR depts don’t seem to understand it themselves.
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Ursula Doyle
3 years
This week, sales of #MaterialGirls by Kathleen Stock have broken 20k in the home market across all editions (hb, ebook, audio). Heartening that people want to read for themselves what she has to say.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
2 years
My brilliant friend @rowancope just renamed Wagatha Christie ‘The Scousetrap’, so please adjust your records accordingly.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
2 years
Owen? Jolyon? Emma? Anyone? Even Starbucks or Wagamama ffs? National Lottery? Surely you need to speak out re the hateful attacks on the charity you have repeatedly told us is saving young people’s lives?
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
3 years
Just cancelled my 'premium tier' subscription to @guardian . I probably should have done it ages ago, but today is the absolute end. I won't be trolled by this joke of a paper any more.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
21 days
For that I was called a bigot, a transphobe, a nazi, a racist, an ableist, a fascist, cruel, unkind, ignorant, prejudiced and - well you can imagine.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
4 years
The Women’s Prize wasn’t set up ‘to bring marginalised writers to readers’ attention’, as stated on the Faber blogpost. It was set up to address the massive imbalance between men and women on literary prize shortlists, in particular, the Booker.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
A man who says he is a doctor mocking a woman who has campaigned for lesbian rights for decades and nearly broke down at a tribunal yesterday as the Mermaids counsel tried to bully and humiliate her (unsuccessfully). Is this ok with you, @gmcuk ?
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
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I am amazed and grateful at the response to the crowdfunder. Going to walk the dog now, and bask in how brilliant people can be. Back later. Thank you.
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Ursula Doyle
8 years
Opposition currently led by Gary Lineker and Lego.
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Ursula Doyle
28 days
I’m genuinely shocked to see a writer who has sold millions of books and is good friends with some powerful politicians tweet approvingly about the practice of blacklisting people for their lawful views. Does she think these people will never come for her?
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Ursula Doyle
4 months
👀 #Hags
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
The people in and around publishing who blocked me/slagged me off/called the manager because I published a book about feminism and reality and argued that biology matters have nothing to say about Adam Graham. Like, nothing. Weird.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
Cheers to the scammers who persuaded my 91-year-old mother to get a cab 5 miles to her bank yesterday. It didn’t go far enough for her to lose any of her money, thank god, but I am *raging*. She knows to be very careful, and still they got her.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
I was @Kings_College in the late 80s, and there was an active women's group. One of the events we held was to celebrate 15 years of women having been admitted (in 1972). FIFTEEN YEARS. Five years after I was born. It felt as though barriers had fallen for ever. So...
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
Today is thank you @bindelj day - and thank you to all of the women who have spent decades campaigning for some of the most vulnerable and marginalised people in society - women in prison.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
7 years
Oh god.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
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That @JohnBoyneBooks has been a stalwart, along with so many others.
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John Boyne
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That @SulaDoyle , a publisher of 30+ years, reached her £30,000 Crowdjustice target within 12 hours of the page going online says a lot.🍾 Publishing must defend employees & authors targetted by thugs & trolls. If there's no free speech in publishing, then where do we find it?
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
I have published *one* book about women’s rights, trans rights & reconciling the two, Material Girls by Kathleen Stock. It came out in 2021. It contains no hate. This person thinks that makes the imprint I set up in 2016 ‘a TERF imprint’ and me & my employers ‘hate-mongers’.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
Prof Stock actively pulling women out from under the bus this morning - this is a terrific article @LittleHardman @Docstockk
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
15 days
This woman is a hero. And helped me grow a spine.
@Gillian_Philip
Gill, womb haulier and gorgon 🇮🇱🐍
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This woman. An absolute hero. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 May Hachette live to rue the day.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@Kings_College So, it's no longer a women's dinner. @Kings_College was founded in 1441. Some 530 years later, women were admitted, and allowed to organize on their own account. That was permitted to continue for about 45 years, and has now come to an end.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
I know she looks cool, and she IS cool, but that’s not why she is wearing the hat and shades. Thanks, Prof Stock, for persisting.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
15 days
Days I’ll remember all my life 🎶 Thank you to everyone for today.
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Ursula Doyle
14 days
Crikey. Thank you thank you thank you to pledgers/legends. I am overwhelmed and wish I could communicate my gratitude in a more original way 💜
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
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@sanityexxs Better shot.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
5 years
But I’ve never been to me.
@Jeremy_Hunt
Jeremy Hunt
5 years
I’ve had fish and chips on a Scottish trawler, a balti in Birmingham and a cream tea in Devon. Most of all I have enjoyed talking and debating with members of the public about the changes I want to make if I become Prime Minister. #HastobeHunt
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Ursula Doyle
3 years
Is this ok with you, ⁦ @SussexUni ⁩ ⁦ @sussexucu ⁩?
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This account will be naming a woman murdered by a man in the last year every five minutes, starting at 8am. It will take until after 4pm to memorialise each one.
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CountingDeadWomen
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25 November 2021: Malak Adabzadeh, also known as Katy, 47, was beaten to death with an unidentified weapon at her home in Liverpool. Her husband, Mohammad Ureza Azizi, 57, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 16 years #IDEVAW #CountingDeadWomen
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Ursula Doyle
2 months
I’ll tell you who’s exhausted @keirstarmer - women who have been working and organising for *years* to protect our rights from people and politicians who treat them as contingent on their approval and as chips in some kind of rights poker.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@Kings_College Women are now grouped with 'gender minorities' (no definition given) and nonbinary people (no definition given) for a dinner to mark #IWD . Attendees literally do not have even to 'identify' as women in order to attend. The category is now meaningless.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
14 days
Yup. Hounded out is presented as my hysterical interpretation of events; alleged transphobia is a neutral description of the accusation against me. The Bookseller is making my case for me about institutional bias in publishing.
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Joan Smith
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Not exactly even-handed approach to this story by The Bookseller. Ursula Doyle was 'hounded out' in inverted commas but allegations that her views were transphobic apparently don't require them. @suladoyle @JournalismSEEN
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@Kings_College ...you need to look at what you are teaching people at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, and if nothing else, consider how it might affect your alumni donations. You can cross me off your Xmas call list, for a start.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
This is the kind of intellectual colossus Prof Stock is supposed to take seriously in order not to be called a fascist, etc.
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Ursula Doyle
3 years
If you are looking for a literary agent who is brave, outspoken, feminist and a nonsubscriber to groupthink, I would go for @littlehardman .
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@Kings_College ...put in and the sacrifices made by generations of women who fought for the right to equal education. It's a massive, unforgivable insult. Shame on you, @Kings_College , and before you bleat about its being organized by students and the 'Gender Equality Officers' of the union...
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
2 years
Imagine if misogynistic white men didn’t make a massive show of themselves every single day on here.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
This book, Hags, is about the vilification of middle-aged women across centuries. I don’t know how this man is connecting it to ‘a moral panic harming the Trans, NB & LGBTQ+’, nor to a tragic murder, but he is helpfully illustrating the thesis 👍
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
2 years
What was your first Virago? Mine was Frost in May, which coincidentally I think was the first in the Modern Classics series.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@Kings_College I would be v interested to know how @Kings_College treat the category of 'woman' for the purposes of data collection. Among other things. But aside from the administrative nightmare this bogus recategorisation creates, this travesty is actively undoing that work...
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
So sad to hear about the death of Carmen Callil. What a life; what a woman. Virago changed everything for publishing, for writers, and for editors. And she was fearless.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@Kings_College ...imagine my surprise and dismay to receive an invitation to this year's women's dinner, to celebrate International Women's Day, 'open to all self-defining women and non-binary King's Members', pre-dinner entertainment provided by the Women and Gender Minorities Choir.
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Ursula Doyle
5 years
@robdelaney Did you see this? #waistcoat
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Ursula Doyle
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@janeclarejones Thank you v v much. That means a lot.
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Ursula Doyle
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@BlueSkye2009 That is so kind of you. I resigned - I wasn’t sacked - but it didn’t seem like much of a choice.
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Ursula Doyle
7 years
OMG have just found incredible stash of pictures taken by my great-uncle when he was fighting in France & Belgium during WWI. Ypres:
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
@runthinkwrite @UKLabour @BenPBradshaw @lloyd_rm @Keir_Starmer Just awful. I've left the Labour Party because of people like this.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
The usual silence today from people in and around publishing who have slagged off, blocked and misrepresented their colleagues and the authors who hold different views from theirs on women’s rights.
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Ursula Doyle
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1) it’s not an address, it is an interview, as she said this a.m. 2) she doesn’t claim she has a special right to ‘upset’ people; she thinks arguments stand or fall on their merits, irrespective of who is ‘upset’.
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@suladoyle
Ursula Doyle
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I will always remember that some ‘progressive’ men seized the first available opportunity to undermine women’s rights and protections. Our rights are conditional on their consent, and that makes me feel ill.
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Ursula Doyle
7 years
Thinking of how many lives that policeman probably saved today. Thank you, @metpoliceuk , and deepest condolences on your loss.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
@iznel7 Yes, sadly.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
The guy who marked up Hadley Freeman’s S Times article 😂
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Ursula Doyle
8 years
@SouthernRailUK @RMTunion I support the RMT. You, on the other hand, are a disgrace - see the excuses you have tweeted out this morning.
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Ursula Doyle
15 days
My schnauzer and a visiting wowser (westie-schnauzer cross), for those who enjoy 🐶 content. Thank you to everyone who helped to get the crowdfunder to its initial target. I am eternally grateful💜
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
Several of these fearless warriors and defenders of free speech blocked me, of course, because I published her book.
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Ursula Doyle
5 years
Corbyn, McDonnell, Milne, Momentum - you have ensured that the poorest people in the UK will endure at least 5 more years of misery. Congratulations.
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Ursula Doyle
3 years
Five years. FIVE YEARS.
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Ursula Doyle
8 months
So happy about this! I’m proud to publish the mighty Victoria Smith. Congratulations to her, and all the shortlisted authors @glosswitch @LittleHardman #NeroBookAwards
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Congratulations to @glosswitch who has been shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023 in the Non Fiction category for HAGS. Category award winners announced 16th January.
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Ursula Doyle
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It’s going well.
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Ursula Doyle
3 years
The provisional wing of the Be Kind brigade is out in force today, taking part in a really not-very-kind, defamatory pile-on.
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Ursula Doyle
4 years
Lockdown rose. A lot less effort than sourdough. Am so proud of it!
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Ursula Doyle
5 years
Dear @BBCPolitics , why are you asking us if we have suggestions for naming the PM's dog at the beginning of a week which could define the country's fate for the next few decades? Have you lost it completely? Did Dom ask you to do it? I am at a complete loss.
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Ursula Doyle
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That would be…can’t think of a word for it 💜
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Jane, Empress of the Known Universe (not GP)🏳️‍🌈
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Let's get her to target within the day. Only c. 4k to go.
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Ursula Doyle
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I found an actual dance card among my Great-Auntie May’s stuff. It’s from 4 January 1901, so I guess it was her mother’s.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
Simon Pegg talking about Tom Cruise in today’s Times. I can’t decide what is more terrifying - that TC behaves like this (predictable I suppose), or that SP finds it admirable.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
@GuardianBooks @guardian @gabyhinsliff hi, I am Kathleen Stock’s publisher at Fleet, an imprint of L,B, a division of Hachette. Please can you correct this in the article, which states that Material Girls was published by Oneworld. How did this happen? @Docstockk @LittleHardman
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Ursula Doyle
6 years
I might rejoin the Labour Party so I can leave again in protest at Corbyn's response to the nerve gas attack in Salisbury.
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Ursula Doyle
4 years
I have gone quite Tier 4 on the cake’s ass this pm #lockdownmadness
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Ursula Doyle
6 years
Our darling Ed, my nephew, much missed. He died on 3 March 2010 aged 11 of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. He was brave and hilarious, and would have been a brilliant chef/cricketer/comedian. Boxing Day cricket on the beach ❤️❤️❤️
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Ursula Doyle
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I’ve found a single-sex space that isn’t routinely surrounded by men screaming abuse at its members, covered in graffiti and subjected to harassment through the courts.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
For the first time since its inception, I haven’t been invited to the #womensprize party. I guess either I am either too womanly, or too old.
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Ursula Doyle
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My mum and one of her sisters. ‘That was *my* bike,’ says Mum, 91, crossly.
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Ursula Doyle
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HF writes about the peaks and troughs since Cass, brilliantly describing Anneliese Dodds as ‘reliably ill-advised’. And describes my case against Hachette. I am still raising money to take it forward - thanks to all the generous donors so far.
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@HadleyFreeman
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Today’s @thetimes column: it’s been 100 days since the Cass Report was published. The events of the past week confirm two things: the gender ideologues are getting more desperate, but children will now be safer
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Ursula Doyle
4 years
Jeez, the S Times report. Where to start. Perhaps with the complete absence of women. Then you remember the most senior woman in cabinet is Priti Patel. And they have managed to come up with a macho term for risking lives: ‘running hot’. Unbearable.
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Ursula Doyle
7 years
I get the focus on Parliament & Hollywood & publishing & whatever - but isn't it the way the freaking *world* is set up that is the problem?
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Ursula Doyle
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I am very lucky to have connections. Here is someone whose case is 🔥
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Jane, Empress of the Known Universe (not GP)🏳️‍🌈
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Please contribute to Lizzy's Crowdfunder. Her case begins in 2 weeks & she is just 10K short of her target. If you can't speak out about the current discrimination against women, donating to Lizzy is a way of giving anonymous support. See link for details:
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Ursula Doyle
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I love this picture. Their coats alone could make you cry. 1987 was a long time ago, apparently.
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Ursula Doyle
1 year
God grant me the serene arrogance of Leo Varadkar and Humza Yousaf, the first of whom is unbothered by his ignorance of a notorious case in Ireland, the latter managing to admit the legislation he supported was wrong, while massively patronising those who pointed it out.
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I am beyond delighted that the legendary writer Jayne Anne Phillips has won a Pulitzer for her latest novel, #NightWatch , which I acquired and published @fleetreads . Becoming her UK publisher was a dream come true, and this win is fantastic news. Congratulations @jayneanneonly !
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Telling women to shut up is progressive.
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During his speech at the British LGBT Awards, David Tennant told Tory politician Kemi Badenoch to 'shut up' 'Until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore… I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up'
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These people have been after me since I acquired Kathleen Stock’s book. They naturally never mention any of the other great books on the list, brilliant work by brilliant writers. Because books aren’t what they are interested in.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
Have read this sentence about 20 times now, cannot believe this is where we are.
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Ursula Doyle
6 years
Anna Soubry on Brexit puts the Labour Party to shame, with a few honourable exceptions.
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Ursula Doyle
2 years
#Hags by @glosswitch , out next March, looks at why middle-aged women are constantly told to shut up - many examples in the last few days, although I find this one quite special @LittleHardman
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@jonsopel @BBCr4today I disagree. The point of the proposed legislation is to clarify the language of the EA2010. Service providers can set their own parameters, but those who want to provide a single-sex service can lawfully do so. MH went straight to the ‘paperwork’ red herring, a Stonewall tactic.
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‘whether Trumpist or traditionalist, fringe left activist or academic ideologue, misogynists from both extremes of the political spectrum relish equally the power to shut women up’
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Ursula Doyle
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Really interested to hear more about the ‘middle ground’ the reviewer admonishes the author for neglecting here. Do tell us what the middle ground is between those who believe sex is real and matters, and those who don’t?
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