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"Women can not keep picking up the pieces"
Baroness Casey reads the names of women killed by men as a result of violence over the past year, as she gives her maiden speech in the Lords
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Alex Towers retweeted
Every big business needs its own Chief Political Officer.
Why? As @LTGHRMcMaster once said, geopolitics is back with a vengeance. Governments are more interventionist.
Foreign policy can’t just be left to the generals
@FT on.ft.com/3CboqPE
The Online Safety Bill contains no mention at all of women and girls. Help #MakeItSafer for women and girls by supporting changes to the bill. @GlitchUK_ eehopeunited.co.uk/#online-s…
Join @GlitchUK_ and #EEHopeUnited's movement to amend the Online Safety Bill and create a safer online space for women and girls. Together, we can #MakeItSafer and protect everyone from online harms. 👉 Learn more here: ee.co.uk/hopeunited
ALT A yellow background with black writing that reads 262 Pages. Zero mention of women and girls. The Online Safety Bill must change.
The Bill is back in the House of Lords tomorrow. Read more here on how it can be improved, to make protecting women and girls from online hate and misogyny a priority: newsroom.bt.com/the-online-s…
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From @FT on the huge voter suppression implications of the rushed and expensive voter-ID requirement.
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Join the movement to amend the Online Safety Bill and create a safer online space for women and girls. Together, we can #MakeItSafer and protect everyone from online harms. 👉 Learn more here: ee.co.uk/hopeunited
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If you agree honesty shouldn't be optional in our democracy, join more than 40,000 others and sign our petition 👇 buff.ly/3m5QyiN
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‘We’ve made Britain poorer than Slovenia, is that an election winning slogan?’
@AFNeil challenges Business Secretary @GrantShapps on the Conservatives’ record after 13 years in power.
#AndrewNeilShow
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We're then talking about 'Bridging digital divides: how can Labour ensure online life is open to all?' with @Steph_Peacock @helenmilner @sasjkia @TowersAlex and Kate Harrison
Going ahead at 12.00pm-1.15pm in the Theatre, in partnership with @BT
Government says the Online Safety Bill needs 'tweaking'. It actually needs strengthening to make sure it tackles sexist abuse
newsroom.ee.co.uk/sports-sta…
Great to see my @EE colleagues at the House of Lords to raise awareness of the need for tougher rules on sexist abuse online – hosted by Baroness @BertinGabby at the beginning of September.
As tech and innovation leaders, we have a responsibility to encourage positive change.
ALT Fara Williams, Rio Ferdinand, Gabby Bertin and EE colleagues – six in Hope United shirts – attend an event at the House of Lords to raise awareness of the need for tougher rules for online sexist abuse.
BT’s Home Essentials is a social tariff available to anyone on UC. Other providers and Government now need to step up and do more: newsroom.bt.com/all-telcos-h…
BT is very pleased to have supported this work on digital inequality from the Fabians:
Good broadband can be a route to improve lives and widen opportunities, but not if the costs are prohibitive for millions of people.
For more insight on the state of digital inequality post-pandemic, and what the government should do to 'bridge the divide', read the full report here.
fabians.org.uk/publication/b…
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This is your invitation to join us at Spotlight Debates: Will the Online Safety Bill Make the Internet Safer
🗓️ Wednesday, 30 March, 6:00 pm GMT
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Get your tickets now ➡️ buff.ly/3LCEJIN
#NSSpotlightDebates #DebateClub #OnlineSafetyBill
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My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger.
I walked among their old haunts.
the home ground where they bled;
And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter
Till its oak would sprout in Derry
where the thirteen men lay dead.
#BloodySunday50
Alex Towers retweeted
🌍 The latest findings from @Tortoise's Climate 100 Index are now live.
The Climate 100 Index ranks the UK’s biggest listed companies according to their environmental impacts and actions.
Read the full report into the findings: torto.se/2ZsIxsE
Alex Towers retweeted
What will digital public services look like in 5-10 years, and how is BT supporting its public sector customers through their digital transformation journeys? I joined the #GovTechSummit this morning to discuss the future of Digital Government. Really engaging conversation!
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Great to launch today’s EV Fleet Accelerator report with @bt_uk @DirectLine @RoyalMail @ScottishPower @stwater and @Tesco to drive adoption of electrified commercial vehicles. It’s a green plan for the white van. ⚡🚐
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We're ready to accelerate the electrification of transport in the UK.⚡
With supportive Government policy, we can deliver on our commitment to go electric & buy 70,000 British-made electric vans by 2030 or sooner. 🔋
#WeAreOpenreach @10DowningStreet
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We're coming together with several major British companies to help accelerate the mass adoption of electric vehicles (#EV's). Working as a collective, we have a real opportunity to create a low carbon society as we build back from the pandemic. openreach.com/news/major-bri…
