I’m 20 now, and I first started wearing the niqab when I was 10. Why? Because in my family, getting your period basically meant you were no longer a child. You were suddenly a “grown woman” who had to cover up. When I was nine, I was just a kid. I could run around, play, sing, be loud, do whatever kids do. Then I turned ten, got my period, and suddenly everything changed. I was expected to be quiet, stop running around, avoid anything too physically active, and always be mindful of the fact that I was now wearing a niqab. It’s honestly strange how overnight I went from being treated like a child to being expected to behave like a woman. Now I take off the niqab behind my family’s back. I basically live a double life: I wear it in front of them, and take it off when I’m away from them. Legally, I’m not required to wear the niqab, or even the abaya. The problem is what happens inside families. I genuinely believe there should be laws that protect women from being forced into clothing they don’t choose, and that penalize anyone who tries to take away a woman’s right to make decisions about her own clothes and body whether that person is her father, husband, or brother.

He should be knighted

This is my Dad. He's 100 next Saturday. As a present the government are sending a lady next week to arrange the sale of his bungalow to fund his care. He farmed for 60 years to feed us If @andyburnham wants to fund something closer to home perhaps properly fund elderly care?

This is Barnaby Webber He was Murdered on a street in Nottingham three years ago NEVER FORGET HIM!!

Andy Burnham's wife has quit her job to follow him around in what's being called an "unofficial First Lady" role, despite Britain having no such position and nobody having voted for her to hold one. If that means she's now travelling the country and the world alongside the Prime Minister at public expense, that's a permanent paid holiday funded by taxpayers who never agreed to give her a job in the first place. She isn't in government and holds no public role whatsoever. There is no First Lady in this country. Get back to work like everyone else has to.

People forget our forces represent the UK. Please remember this young man as a brave soldier. A British soldier

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Boss of SNP backed wind farm firm named in bribery scandal. This has a familiar smell to Sturgeon signing £10bn MoU with Chinese rail company CR3, blacklisted by Norway for risk of gross corruption and human rights abuses. Incompetent bungling. theferret.scot/boss-of-snp-b…

We laid flowers and paid respects at the final resting places in Cardonald Cemetery, Glasgow, of 4 sailors from the Merchant Navy, who were killed when a U-Boat struck the S.S Ashantian, on 26th September, 1940 Lest we Forget these brave men 🇦🇺 🇳🇬 🇸🇱 🇿🇦

⚖️ MIDWIFE WINS EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL AGAINST EAST SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST **CASE LAW** 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Another midwife. Another Employment Tribunal. And once again, the same deeply concerning themes emerge. Charlotte represented herself. And she won. Charlotte was an experienced midwife when she suffered something no mother should ever have to endure — the death of her young son. 💔 Following his death, Charlotte wrote a deeply personal post about her son on her private Facebook account, which she says had only a small number of friends. According to Charlotte’s case, a member of management obtained that post and circulated it by email to more than 200 members of staff. Charlotte herself was excluded from that email. So was a close colleague and friend. Then came the managers’ WhatsApp group.🚨 Charlotte’s Tribunal documents describe her case that managers used the group to mock staff members, laugh about and discuss grievances that had been submitted in confidence, discuss the death of Charlotte’s son and discuss Charlotte’s ability to work. Someone refused to stay silent. A screenshot of those messages were printed off and alerted Charlotte and management to what was happening. Those messages became evidence in Charlotte’s Employment Tribunal proceedings. Think about that. Had one person not had the courage to preserve what they had seen, Charlotte may never have known what was being discussed. And throughout all of this, Charlotte was trying to grieve the death of her child. Instead of being given the space, dignity and compassion to grieve, Charlotte says this entire experience engulfed her life and intruded into a period of unimaginable loss. Her energy was consumed by what was happening at work, grievances, management conduct and ultimately an Employment Tribunal when she should have been able to focus on herself, her child, her grief and her family. There is something particularly difficult to comprehend about this happening within midwifery. Midwives are supposed to be at the forefront of protecting women’s physical, mental and psychological wellbeing and safety. Yet who was protecting the midwife when she was the grieving woman who needed compassion? Ultimately, Charlotte could no longer remain in her role. The Tribunal found that she had been constructively unfairly dismissed — meaning that although Charlotte resigned, the circumstances amounted to a fundamental breach of the employment relationship that entitled her to leave. A grieving mother. A midwife. A career lost. And then an Employment Tribunal that she had to fight herself. Charlotte represented herself. And she won. And once again I find myself looking at the themes emerging from the experiences midwives are bringing forward: Bullying. Harassment. Confidentiality and data concerns. Grievances. Management WhatsApp groups. Isolation. Fear of speaking up. Employment Tribunals. Midwives fighting their employers, sometimes without legal representation. Different midwives. Different hospitals. Different NHS Trusts. Yet remarkably similar experiences. Charlotte’s case also demonstrates why we desperately need colleagues who witness unacceptable behaviour to feel safe enough to speak up. One colleague took screenshots. One colleague preserved the evidence. One colleague refused to look the other way. That mattered. Charlotte’s experience should not simply disappear into an Employment Tribunal judgment somewhere on the internet. We need to start looking at these cases collectively and asking why these themes keep appearing within the profession. And most importantly, we need to listen to the midwives themselves. Well done, Charlotte. Love to you, your son & family. And thank you to the person who had the courage to preserve the evidence and speak up. Midwives are speaking. Their stories deserve to be heard. @KenZeroHarm @ArturNadol7566

Horrific mutilation that leaves you a permanent patient. And it's all for pretend.

🕯️🕯️🕯️ Some posts don't need an argument under them. Just their names, said out loud. Shiri. Ariel. Kfir. Reply with a 🕯️ if you'll never forget their names. 🕯️🕯️🕯️

26th September 1818: THE DAY ONE HUMAN GAVE BLOOD TO ANOTHER ❤️ More than 200 years ago today, an extraordinary experiment in London helped begin a branch of medicine that would eventually save millions of lives. On 26th September 1818, British obstetrician Dr James Blundell carried out one of the great landmarks in medical history: an early documented human-to-human blood transfusion. The reason Blundell had become interested in transfusion was particularly poignant. As an obstetrician, he had watched women die from catastrophic postpartum haemorrhage after childbirth. At a time when doctors had very little they could do to replace massive blood loss, he began experimenting with the possibility of replacing the blood that had been lost. Earlier attempts at transfusion had even involved transferring animal blood into humans, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Blundell's experiments led him towards a crucial principle:🩸 Human beings needed human blood. On this day in 1818, Blundell and his colleagues transfused blood donated by several people into a gravely ill man named Brazier. The patient temporarily improved, although sadly he died around 56 hours later from his underlying illness. Nevertheless, the experiment demonstrated that human blood could be transferred from one person to another and helped open the way towards clinical transfusion medicine. Blundell continued his work. Over the following years, transfusion began to be used particularly in desperate cases of haemorrhage; including women bleeding after childbirth. Blundell also developed equipment specifically designed to make transfusion possible....and just think what they didn't know. There was no knowledge of the ABO blood groups. No modern cross-matching. No refrigerated blood banks. No disposable sterile blood bags. No modern understanding of transfusion reactions. All of that would come later. But Blundell and the other pioneers had begun something extraordinary. This one is personal for me. I have von Willebrand disease, a bleeding disorder, and have needed blood transfusions... So when I write about the history of blood transfusion, this isn't simply an interesting medical anniversary to me. Someone I will probably never meet gave their blood and that blood helped save my life. They didn't know who would receive it. They didn't know my name. They simply rolled up their sleeve and donated. More than two centuries after James Blundell experimented with transferring one person's blood into another, people still quietly walk into blood-donation centres every day and do something quite remarkable. They give a little bit of themselves so that a complete stranger might live. NHS Blood and Transplant says around 825,000 people volunteer to give blood each year, with donations saving and improving thousands of lives. So on this particular On This Day, I'd simply like to say: 🩸 Thank you to James Blundell and all those who pioneered transfusion medicine. 🩸 Thank you to the scientists, doctors, nurses and healthcare staff who turned those early experiments into modern medicine. But most of all... ❤️ Thank you to every person who gives blood. You may never know whose life your donation changes.... But people like me do.... and sometimes, quite literally, we wouldn't be here without you.🩸❤️

🕯️🕯️🕯️ Kfir was 9 months old. Ariel was 4 years old. Taken from their home on October 7. They never came back. Remember their names. 🧡

Remember when Drakeford said 20mph “won’t cost Labour votes”? Reality: ❌ 3 First Ministers ❌ End of 27-year dominance ❌ Tiny minority ❌ Wales done with Labour Ignore ½ million petitioners at your peril 🫵 nation.cymru/news/drakeford-…

Which bastard thinks it appropriate to sit with a murderer. Yes Ed, you fucking Jew hater, it’s you! Shame on you!

🇬🇧🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIR BARNES WALLIS 🎂🇬🇧 Born 26th September 1887. A posthumous happy birthday today to one of Britain's great engineers and inventors; Sir Barnes Neville Wallis. Most of us know his name because of one extraordinary invention: the “bouncing bomb”. During the Second World War, Wallis faced what seemed an almost impossible engineering problem. Germany's strategically important dams were immense structures, protected against conventional attack and underwater torpedoes. Wallis developed Upkeep; technically a mine rather than an ordinary bomb, designed to be dropped from a Lancaster at extremely low altitude with backspin. It would skip across the water, pass over defensive nets, strike the dam and sink down its face before exploding underwater. And the idea wasn't born from some enormous computer simulation. Wallis experimented with objects skipping across water, including trials with marbles in a garden water tank, gradually working out the physics that would ultimately be translated into a full-sized weapon. ✈️ Then came the Dambusters On the night of 16–17 May 1943, the specially formed RAF 617 Squadron, commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, flew Operation Chastise against the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams. Nineteen Lancasters took part. 🇬🇧 And there's a little piece of that history in Derbyshire… The crews practised their extraordinary low-level flying and bomb-aiming techniques at Derwent Dam, chosen because of its resemblance to the German dams. Today a memorial there commemorates 617 Squadron and Barnes Wallis's invention, with the rather wonderful inscription: “THEY PAID FOR OUR FREEDOM.” Wallis was awarded £10,000 for his war work from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. His grief at the loss of so many airmen in the dams raid was such that Wallis donated the entire sum to his alma mater Christ's Hospital School in 1951 to allow them to set up the RAF Foundationers' Trust, assisting the children of RAF personnel killed or injured in action to attend the school. And Wallis's story didn't end with the Dambusters. He was an aircraft designer, structural engineer and aviation pioneer whose work stretched from airships and the Wellington bomber to Tallboy, Grand Slam and later ideas for advanced aircraft and high-speed flight. 🇬🇧 And here's a less well-known part of his story… Long before the Dambusters, Barnes Wallis himself wore uniform during the First World War. In 1915, after briefly serving with the Artists Rifles, his engineering expertise saw him brought back to Britain's developing military airship programme. He received a temporary commission as a Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR, serving with the Royal Naval Air Service. His name even appears in the London Gazette of 14 September 1915 among the newly appointed Sub-Lieutenants. Rather wonderfully, the young naval officer photographed in uniform in 1915 would, nearly three decades later, become one of the engineers most closely associated with the RAF's most famous wartime operations. He died in 1979, aged 92. So today, 139 years after his birth, a posthumous happy birthday to…🎂 Sir Barnes Wallis. Engineer. Inventor. Problem-solver. And the man who looked at a stone skipping across water and helped turn the principle behind it into one of the most remarkable engineering stories of the Second World War. 🇬🇧✈️

Another lie that was debunked Clearly all these stories are re emerging because there’s an election in Israel and Bibi will win it

Jews lived in Judea for 3,000 years, before Islam even existed. Calling Jews “colonizers” in their ancestral homeland is absurd.

I keep seeing posts about increasing gas and electricity bills. Just stop paying by DD. Pay weekly. Use the app to send your readings. Just pay as you use. No smart meter.