Rachel Rooney

I've reluctantly cancelled my website that links to my past poetry projects partly due to expense/returns & but also because it's an easy way for muppets to send abuse into my inbox. If you want to support my work here's a list of my books ( library loans work just as well too!)

Barrister Jane Russell: 'I'm going to get a tattoo of a horse I lost last year.' Iain Dale: 'How can you lose a horse?' Jane Russell: 'Oh, he died.' @IainDale

Perfect response from Crusher Cunningham

Fabulous NC - no

This is a one-woman campaign by a BBC CHILDREN'S PRESENTER to recruit children into trans rights activism, with no concern for the safeguarding issues with encouraging children to escort adults to toilets. I don't say this lightly, but the BBC should sack her.

The Sandie Peggie ET illustrates what happens when a group of people is relentlessly monstered to the point where everyone thinks they're fair game, and further, that it's righteous & satisfying to punish them. It's so distressing to watch it play out in real life. #SandiePeggie

Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train on a xylophone is proof why every school needs a fully funded music program

Too many people think expressing all the right in-crowd beliefs absolves them from the responsibility to act ethically or fairly. They’re so convinced of their own saintliness they believe anyone who disagrees must be innately wicked and deserving of punishment.

I'd say these quotes are unbelievable, but we've been living through the looking glass so long we're starting to get used to it 🧵

In honour of the late Prince of Darkness, here's a fantastic story Rick Wakeman once told about him, on Have I Got News For You. Apologies for the TikTok-esque format, it's the only version I could find online. #OzzyOsbourneRIP

Is 'hindsight' what you can see when your arse gets handed to you on a plate? #SandiePeggie

**Update** The final Terms of Reference for the investigation into prescribing for children by WellBN gender service in Brighton has been agreed. It's estimated that 70 - 139 children have been prescribed blockers and/or hormones at this clinic. sussex.ics.nhs.uk/children-and-y…

How many times have men used the “but we have no Ladies toilet” excuse to keep women out of the workplace? The Carnegie Institution tried this in 1965 with Woman of the Day astronomer Vera Rubin when she applied to observe at the Palomar Observatory. She cut out a little paper…

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Formerly of @BrightonHoveCC's LGBT Safety Forum, Rowland Stuart committed this horrific attack in the heart of our community This domestic abuse murder was not committed by a woman. Reporting it as such distorts & minimises the reality of male violence theargus.co.uk/news/25329510.…