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Sunday Times bestselling writer of saucy, sexy, glamorous thrillers published by Pan Macmillan. Interests: cocktails, pool boys, stilettos.

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@TheLancet @onyi_eke When is it okay to say "women" and when isn't it? Can you let us know?
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@ask_aubry I make cookies for a neighbour who occasionally helps with handyman stuff. As best I can, I make contact through the wife and suggest that one of their kids comes over to pick up the cookies. It’s really not hard to keep boundaries.
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@MarianKeyes Only used for things women and gay men like. Never for watching football or golf on the telly, for instance. Sure as hell not used for men watching porn.
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@sturgios HE DROWNED HIS WIFE, WHO HAD BEEN DISOWNED BY HER FAMILY FOR MARRYING HIM.
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@IjeomaOparaPHD Your church doesn't have a disabled toilet? That's horrific, probably illegal and sounds like something you should be campaigning for, right?
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@KevinRothrock Where's the joke here?
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@DreyfusJames Why are they all anti-semites??
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@glumirror @thepeaklady Well, her ghost did, but that doesn’t invalidate the strong argument.
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@nearlythere2020 @JessicaKPardoe @metpoliceuk 20 years ago I was being followed by a man as I walked home around 3am. I was so thankful to see a @metpoliceuk car! Asked them to drive me a couple of blocks so he couldn't catch up. "We're not a fucking taxi service, love," said one guy as the other one laughed.
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@jordxnbennett That is awful. Awful! What kind of animals don't respect earring pronouns? SMH.
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@solarsystern I was once touching up my lippy on an Italian train, the conductor was passing by and he blew me a kiss and said “Now you are perfect”. Delightful.
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@SholaMos1 @stellduffy I still am shocked that so many British white people said that they had no idea how bad "uppity" was to use for her (or frankly anyone). I mean, if that's not bloody obvious...
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@jackdanger Surely that should be "non-men" and "non-women"?
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@alexsobel @maryBCHR @TracyBrabin You're in interesting company, Alex! Do we need to check your hard drive?
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@Tate Is there a companion film called "What Is A Man?" If not, why not?
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@KingBobIIV Jocasta Wynne-Williams
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@K_IngalaSmith How dare you. We all know that civilians participated in the massacre of October 7th and cheered as dead bodies were paraded through their streets.
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@PennyRed @suzanne_moore Having seen Penny's wide-eyed, "Oh really, is that actually happening?" etc etc many times on here, disingenuous is precisely the word. What on earth do Suzanne's kids have to do with any of this?
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@LADYRAMPANT I had no idea that drag queens or transwomen marched with the suffragettes, got beaten up, imprisoned, force fed and tortured under the Cat and Mouse Act!
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@tomgabion @helenstaniland @SPennman @OwenJones84 Honestly, this is what we needed - I for one thank Tom for this. A clear statement that women and girls will be in more danger, and an equally clear statement that a man thinks he has the right to "accept" a decision to expose us to more physical and emotional harm.
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@TessaThompson_x @sundancefest The film *shows* the hyper-sexualization of preadolescent girls. What kind of consent could they possibly get from child actors to make this okay?
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@CaptSandyYawn @superyachttimes Dreams are dreams until your captain bullies you, micro-manages you, makes you cry, plots against you and sacks you. I don't care if it was the storyline. You did it. Those were your actions. #fixedit #justiceforKiko
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@K_IngalaSmith Erm, I get my toothpaste, cleaning products, candles etc from there. Also my After Eights. Have you ever shopped there? What makes you think they’re poor quality? This sounds really snobbish.
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@IjeomaOparaPHD Which church is it? I'd be really happy to help you publicise this and campaign for disabled people to have their own spaces which they deserve for privacy and dignity.
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Starts off with you thinking: "Aw sweet, kids today being cute and having fun" and then it uh, Takes Quite The Turn.
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@tibby17 @lloyd_rm @jackappleby I've seen this again and again - the men who insist that sex is a binary only respond to men. They certainly can tell the difference between the sexes on Twitter!
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@ElizabethHoyt Also, it's mocking a genre that women enjoy, instead of, say, the ridiculously macho thrillers for men where beautiful prostitutes throw themselves at the hunky hero for free and he survives against impossible odds.
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@ElizabethHoyt See also the term “guilty pleasure”: never used about sport, drinking beer, watching “The Fast And The Furious”.
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@WholeManDispose RESPONDING TO DISPATCH REQUEST
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@mrgayengland @SinclairJM1987 How does one "live one's life as a gay man"? And does that work for race too?
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@benjamincohen @MattHancock If you were straight then one of you would have a womb, eggs etc to erm, allow the NHS to *do* the IVF. This isn't homophobia. Lesbians get IVF, for obvious reasons. You could just have well have written "If we were lesbians..." !
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@robjessel Last year, a Labour MP was convicted of viewing porn involving a raped baby. By some bizarre coincidence, he also was against single-sex services... it's almost like there might be some common goal...
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@jasonintrator Would you desperately mind getting access to abortion and the total banning of FGM sorted out first?
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@Rich_Cooper hah, as if penises and balls improve with age and use!
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@bindelj @lilylwakefield @PinkNews Now the attacker has been charged, I do hope that the writer will apologise for the word "claims" in the headline!
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Seriously, WHY has this not been made into a film?
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The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943. Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil. US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off. A THREAD
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@PennyRed @janeclarejones @millihill @melissawright75 @CF_Farrow @sharrond62 @mara_yamauchi @jk_rowling @bindelj Could you define "fascist" for us? It's a word you use a lot, and it would really help potential buyers of your book to know what you think makes one a fascist.
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@eaadams6 I don't know, Emily. It's almost as if people from any country can access Twitter. But obviously, as a journalist, if that were the case you would know that.
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@bloodygood__ @jk_rowling Cancelled my monthly donation to you; money's going to anti-FGM charity and @SBSisters instead.
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@AndrewAtter @Amina_Lone @bindelj @stellacreasy @justice4women @RosieDuffield1 @UKLabour Billy Bragg got women's rights sorted in the 80s? Mate, I was there and you're talking bollocks.
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@WhitHealth @NoXYinXXprisons Ooh I am ONTO your PALS contact first thing on Monday. Get ready. I'm just down the road and really, really good at raising issues.
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@PennyRed @SinclairJM1987 We read Pippi Longstocking, the Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons, Nancy Drew. We climbed trees and hung off gates upside down, took the "boys'" parts for school theatre and country dancing and none of our parents gave a flying fuck. Many of our teachers were lesbians.
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@rachelholliday @KDenkWrites Why does Medusa have no body hair?
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@stonewalluk How many this morrning? That should be pretty easy to answer.
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@ToniGiugliano @IanGrant_edwest Are you the guy who recently asked women on here what they had been doing to stand up for their rights?
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@babybeginner “Sportsmanship”
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@KarenFindlayMPS @JessicaKPardoe @metpoliceuk 20 years ago I was being followed by a man as I walked home around 3am. I was so thankful to see a @metpoliceuk car! Asked them to drive me a couple of blocks so he couldn't catch up. "We're not a fucking taxi service, love," said one guy as the other one laughed.
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@JustLuai I remember the Jewish actor in “The Bridge” leaving after the first season because he didn’t want to film in Malmo.
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@uberman21 @ripx4nutmeg The @WEP_UK and @GuileneMarco , their candidate, were a laughing stock last time they campaigned in my ward. Parents had realised that they refused to say "no penises in women and girls' changing rooms". The council may be woke but the parents in our ward are extremely articulate.
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@ripx4nutmeg IIRC, Mouncey would have been allowed to go to the Olympics but not shower with her teammates/other female competitors. She was offered her own facilities but refused. I've always found those priorities really telling.
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@PennyRed @SinclairJM1987 There were no sexy padded bikinis for young girls, or high-heeled shoes, or t-shirts with sexy slogans/saying "Be Kind" or any crap about being sweet or loving, or leopard-print leggings. Our parents would have stormed shops that sold them. You are talking utter crap.
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Chap once came round to mine on a date, inspected my bookshelves, turned and said to me: "Would you like to know my analysis of you, based on your books?" Me: "No". Reader, he was *amazed* at my response and shit in bed too.
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thinking about the guy i once found in my bedroom at a house party looking at my bookshelf, who turned to me when i came in and said “an unsurprising selection”. hope he’s dead now x
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@HJoyceGender THIS. THIS. THIS. I told my LibDem and Green and WEP candidates how it would go. They all ran away and refused to engage.
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@MMMMMMeow @JGnuman197 You should have made apple sauce for the whole winter!
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@DreyfusJames It’s an absolute Venn diagram overlap! Queers For Palestine!
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@brianpaddick Sorry, "whose" right to abortion? Surely that's really transphobic?
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@YvetteCooperMP Oh come on, we all know you won’t do this.
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@CaptSandyYawn How are you enjoying these responses, Sandy? No one’s going to eat at a restaurant run by you. No one. Ugh, imagine you coming up to a table!
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@harlequinpub @OwenJHurcum @CubeNightclub Yeppity, seconding this - consider that the last thing owners want to do is damage their own property, so forcing a door is an absolute last resort.
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@gettagripfolks Made any comments on the men's bodies, have you?
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#WIN my new sexy thriller BAD TWINS and a bottle to enjoy it with! Follow me and the lovely @iheartwines and like/RT to win. Good luck! #competition #badtwins #bookrelease #wineoclock
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@Andrew_Adonis I'm watching the Labour Party demonstrate its unwillingness to get elected to power on the grounds that - well, you tell me!
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@SeneddWales Please post their names so I can RT and get them honoured as much as possible!!
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@SadieSouth3 If everyone has the right to self-identify, how can they object to you identifying as someone who objects to being called that term? If she has the right to be called what she wants, then so do you, surely?
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#COMP Win a signed copy of #KillerDiamonds . Follow me & @MrRebeccaChance & RT for a chance to win. Ends the 28 July
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@SianGriffiths6 @SafeSchools_UK @Transgendertrd @thesundaytimes Me explaining this to Teen Nephew, who asked me about the toilet issue (all boys' school so doesn't arise for him): "Girls are holding in their pee because they're scared to pee in unisex loos - boys will mock the noises they make." Him: "Oh. Yeah, that would totally happen."
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@PickliciousF The trick is to fix your humans with a luminous stare while you fish for the discarded tuna can.
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@Ms_White_999 @ajlieshere @january_myth And do google the atrocious euphemism "comfort women" for what the Japanese did to captured Korean and Chinese women during WW2. They still refuse to apologise for enslaving and raping, often to death, between 200-400k women. Wow, you say, they can't estimate nos any better? NO.
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@amnesty @iseult , I assume you've seen this screamingly huge display of irony in action?
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@groundhogsday3 @TonyPhatt @dickydickypand1 @PennyRed Hey all, Laurie is a young and vulnerable woman who cannot possibly as a 35 year-old who went to private school and Oxford be expected to correctly identify dates or do basic research despite working for over a decade as a journalist, OBVIOUSLY. Back off this delicate flower!
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Women aestheticians are being sued for discrimination for refusing to wax testicles/go unaccompanied to the home of a client with male genitalia to wax them. Sounds insane. But it's happening. I hate, btw, that some of them are having to plead religion as an excuse.
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@FondOfBeetles @scrufwiththecat @Joolze_ @DrProudman Madonna cast a black Jesus in a video about racism in America. I don't see Smith campaigning for anything apart from his right to get weed on.
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@K_IngalaSmith How do you know all those people cheering were extremists?
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@Alliewhowrites @BradfemlyWalsh "That's nice, darling" should be the all-purpose response.
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@stellacreasy How is that in any way a pun?
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@fairplaywomen . @Joannechocolat - you said that women were "literally" not being erased as a word a few hours ago. Yet here we are.
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@Siennasaurus1 @KatiePrior2 I was dancing at Koko back in the day: a man came up to me on the dancefloor and grabbed both my boobs. I hit him hard, he reeled back, and then another man came up to me to say that he was 1st guy's carer and I had not been empathetic to his mental disability. I hit him too.
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@K_IngalaSmith I see you’ve ignored the rest of my tweet. You know perfectly well what I’m saying.
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@EdibleTom Also, EEEWWWWW. In the olden days people didn't feel the need to broadcast fetishes, they just got on with them happily. I miss the olden days.
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@AyoCaesar @fharris2011 Is there some reason you've responded to a man on this thread, rather than the women?
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@MeUndies @PortableDan @paigeegiap Which comments are those? Can you post the quotes?
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I mean, we're all non-binary. I've been saying this ever since the term came into vogue. None of us are 100% a 1950s stereotype of Rock Hudson or Doris Day.
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@MarianKeyes See also my chicklit friends when asked what they write at parties, and so often get the contemptuous response: "Oh, I don't read that." NEVER happens to crime writers.
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@GStandingready @KatiePrior2 But you don't. You don't. I've literally had a perv try to steal my flipflop off my foot on the subway and none of the guys did anything. You don't.
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@PennyRed @SinclairJM1987 Absolute rubbish and I'm older than you. Was this your family? Your school? Who was setting these limits?
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@SarahSurviving I am so fucking sorry. Would you like to meet up some time and I can do some “how to say no to men” coaching for you? I’m really good at it and love to pass it on xxxx
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@zoesqwilliams @VictoriaPeckham Have you actually volunteered with asylum seeker women? I doubt it. I did for years with ones who had an above-average knowledge of English and they wouldn't have known the word "cervix" from "plutocracy", say.
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@Join_ZOE @ReSistersU @serialsockthief @FondOfBeetles @fairplaywomen @ClareCAIS Zoe, men and women respond differently to coronavirus because of their sex. How can you track it if you believe midwives and doctors decide a baby's sex at their own random whims?
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@elleandback Hey James @jjswin , there is a really easy solution. Campaign for your fellow males to make people using your loos safe and comfortable, whatever they look like. That would fix every single problem you raise.
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@veefeeley @MarianKeyes I've been writing sexy bonkbusters for years, so am really familiar with the phenomenon! When you point it out to women they always get it instantly. To men I say: "Right, like football isn't one gigantic soap opera." It is my MISSION as a feminist to get this term erased!
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@SimoneHCollins @jennykleeman On the face?? Seriously?
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@AllianceLGB @MrJohnNicolson Isn't he the one who has a photo of (presumably) his mum on his home page but doesn't know what a woman is? Maybe he should ask her!
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@TrinaLeeWood @nicolelampert Well, that too, though the safeguarding of young girls tends to rate a wee bit higher for me.
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@AngelaSterritt But don't we all get to pick our identity nowadays?
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@BBCBristol Which of your presenters was going to take their 5 year-olds to this?
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