Lawyer & campaigner
Former Legal Director @GoodLawProject
‘That period woman’ from Free Periods/ Red Box Project
Posting mostly about law, politics, social and climate justice, feminism and sports…
Based in London, from Scotland 🏴
She/her
“The best least-known novel of the twentieth century” says Ali Smith
I think she’s right! Hadn’t heard of it, now can’t stop recommending it. O Caledonia by #ElspethBarker is pretty much perfect. “A surreal, hilarious and dark story of a troubled adolescence deep in the wilds of Scotland” - Maggie O’Farrell
I want to read everything #ClaireKeegan has ever written. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a writer so sparing with her words to such impact. Every single line is measured to perfection. Just glorious.
#TheLastColony by #PhilippeSands is extraordinary. And I find myself wondering (once a legal campaigner, always a legal campaigner) what the plan is to force the next Govt to stop ignoring the rights of the Changossians - it will surely be much harder for Starmer et al to continue to ignore UN rulings to return #TheChagosIslands as May & her successors have done?
I quite enjoyed #WhatAShame by #AbigailBergstrom but didn’t love it. Perhaps I was a bit older than the intended audience. I also felt a bit cheated by the promise of the protagonist using “ever more extreme methods of attempting to move on” - nothing felt *that* extreme to me!
The rank hypocrisy of Ministers - the disdain with which they treat us all - is laid bare in this excoriating piece from @doctoroxford 🔥👏
Not just any jumpsuit either. One with a TIE at the neck. Doing a wee in this would take 5 minutes at least.
This surely wins a prize for the least practical uniform ever designed?!
Because what could be more practical in an aeroplane toilet than a jumpsuit? 🤦♀️
Female cabin crew at British Airways will be allowed to wear jumpsuits in a significant relaxation of its rules after the airline unveiled a new uniform for the first time in almost two decades. Tunic and hijabs are among the other options on offer to staff in a collection that has been designed for
My favourite book of 2023 so far - genuinely extraordinary
“A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl”
#WhatImReading #BookRecommendations #InvisibleChild #AndreaElliott
This is the worst episode of the West Wing I have ever seen
I’VE DONE IT!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Cancelling my Sky contract is, quite genuinely, the biggest achievement of the year so far. (I think I might need to make some plans for more rewarding pursuits)
Thank you for the support! 💪
