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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not a parent (not by choice) so feel free to disregard, but gentle parenting seems a recipe for disaster. Just been smacked several times by a four-year-old with a plastic sword in my local bakery queue. The kid wasn’t told off by his parent. The dog in the queue he also hit was less patient.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 8d

I saw One Battle After Another this week and enjoyed it quite a bit, but the first third was… not good? The mother character was a Manic Pixie Dream Freedom Fighter and her story made no sense.

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 9d

Manchán Magan 1970 - 2025 💔

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 13d

I’m standing in the conference pass pickup queue. You made the right call.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14d

Terrific piece this - will tell you more about why the government is unpopular than anything you’ll read about politics this week:

Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 14d

Restaurants are increasingly relying on loyalty apps. As one diner told me, “you’d be insane to eat at Pizza Express without the app”
My long read on £100 ‘bill shock’ at high street restaurants. For @telegraphnews.bsky.social:

www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri...

Middle-class families are choking on the £100 ‘casual meal out’

A table for four hitting triple digits is triggering ‘bill shock’, to the detriment of Britain’s best-known restaurants

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve just heard my first Christmas song of the year. It’s September 27th.

Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 15d

This is horrifying. Nobody chooses to take this risk for themselves and their children unless there is no better option. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Two women die trying to cross Channel from France

French authorities say about 100 people were attempting to reach the UK on a makeshift boat

www.theguardian.com

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 16d

Also, I was amazed when I was in India in August at how normal and well-used their digital ID system is. In a country of 1.4bn people, everyone has their own physical and digital ID card.

Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 16d

As a non-UK-national living here, having an ID card would be brilliant. I had to apply for a provisional driving license (in itself a massive faff) mostly because I didn't want to carry my passport everywhere and lots of places didn't recognise my Irish passport card as valid ID.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 11

Very concerning altogether. Glad that nobody was hurt, but thinking of @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social and her staff.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 11

Labour MP Sharon Hodgson’s office targeted in suspected arson attack

Police investigate after images show the office burned out and roof destroyed in Washington, Tyne and Wear Police are investigating a suspected arson attack on the office of the Labour MP Sharon Hodgson. Images show her constituency office in Washington, Tyne and Wear burnt out and the roof destroyed. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 11

This has blown my mind. It all makes sense now.

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · Sep 10

This.

Political violence is always bad, and that really isn’t complicated.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 10

A thing social media has enabled is that you can respond to an unimaginable horror about which you feel powerless (the continuing spread of political violence) with something manageable (smearing everyone on a small social site that you dislike).

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · Sep 10

they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sorry to see this - you were the potential candidate I was most excited about! But as you say, you've already got a big role as chair of Women and Equalities, which is more important than ever right now.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 5

You're absolutely right, apologies! Clearly too much reshuffle excitement...

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hate to be the rulebook person, but iirc the deputy leader has to be an elected member of the Commons. So rules out anyone in the upper house, and also the metro mayors, a couple of whom might command a bit of support!

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I hope so! I think she's a fantastic asset for Labour - part of the reason why she's been so consistently targeted by right-wing news outlets.

Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m sorry - is UK political discourse now about putting people in camps? Relatively recent European history suggests that the people who put people in camps tend to be the bad people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’

Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform’s immigration plans as too weak

www.theguardian.com

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 3

So I took a different route home, going out of my way and changing my plans, to make sure I was safe. I am so unbelievably fed up of this being the daily reality for women and girls. It’s not ok.

Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Either stopped to intervene or asked me if I was ok. Not one person of the twenty or so people who could clearly see what was happening at a busy crossroads.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 3

I keep my head down, and say “sorry, no” a few times, and don’t react to the abuse until he lets me walk away. And I think what annoys me most is not his utter conviction that he has a right to my time (or whatever it was he wanted), it was that nobody, on a busy street in the evening…

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 3

If a man wants a woman’s attention, he must receive it. So he starts shouting. And moving back and forth in front of me to block my path. I’d like to shout at him, to tell him to get out of my way, that he has no right to demand anything from me, a stranger. But I don’t.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Walking home from the station at about 8:15 this evening. It’s cold and wet and I’m carrying several bags. I am tired and I look it. So when a large man who looked drunk / stoned tried to stop me to talk to him, I shook my head and tried to walk on. But of course…

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Aug 30

If my divorce causes me to hang a St George’s flag off a flagpole anywhere, this should be significant cause for concern.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Aug 28

The text alignment is giving me Stanley Donwood / Radiohead album cover vibes.

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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Just a thought, but the British soldiers who served in WWII fought against the powers who put people in camps. It’s still at the edge of living memory - horrifying how quickly the rhetoric has moved.

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