News about Emily Davison

Around 70 women gathered in Carlisle Park, Morpeth, Northumberland, this afternoon for a Let Women Speak (LWS) event, spearheaded by women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen , aka Posie Parker. But they were met by counter demonstrators shouting through megaphones, who wore masks, waved flags and held placards which read: 'Transwomen are women'. The organised Let Women Speak events, which take place across the country, see women take to the stage to talk about a variety of issues that affects them. Speakers are known for their gender-critical views and the group campaigns against biological men using female-only spaces. The two groups were separated by a line of more than 20 police officers this afternoon. Organiser of LWS, Posie Parker, took the microphone and said: 'Some women are coming to speak using some words, and some spoiled brats are trying to stop us. 'We just want to speak about our rights. We want to speak about our spaces, our sports, our children, our safety.

Six members of Animal Rising broke into one of the country's biggest horse races two years ago but have just been told they will not face a crown court trial. The charges against them of causing a public nuisance at the track in Epsom, Surrey, have been dropped. They include Rose Patterson, 35, one of Animal Rising's leaders. She said crown lawyers have lost their 'appetite for prosecuting people trying to make the world a better place' after dozens of protesters from Just Stop Oil and other groups have been locked up. She also pointed to the prison overcrowding crisis. The protesters broke onto the track before 4.30pm on June 4, 2022, minutes before the race was due to start.

A group of French eco-activists descended on Paris for a banner referring to British suffragette Emily Davison, who was killed by King George V's horse. Both protesters, along with environmental group Riposte Alimentaire, scaled over barriers at the Saut Hermes 2024 and charged into the ring's center. They hurriedly removed a banner from their backpack and discovered it, which read: "1913 EPSOM – 2024 HERMES: VITAL" before it was snatched away. Emily Davison, an English suffragette who died after running out in front of King George V's horse in 1913, was in honor of him.

TOM UTLEY: Here's something our children will not be taught in school because political correctness has virtually trumped historical fact: there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the Suffragettes' antisocial antics in the early twentieth century actually pushed back the introduction of voting for women for a long time.

DAN WOOTTON: Is it going to take countless deaths on our roads to bring to an end the madness of Just Stop Oil? The deranged criminal eco-terrorist cult halted traffic on the M25 for the fourth day in a row this morning, deadly scaling gantries. Yesterday, the green militias' criminal activity - please note that I refuse to mention what they're doing as demonstrations - apparently caused a police officer to be knocked off his motorcycle and injured as two lorries crashed in the chaos. And that's before you get to the countless missed hospital visits, destroyed company opportunities in a cost of living crisis, widespread anxiety that has cost to hardworking ordinary Brits, and even a grieving man who has been reluctant to be a pallbearer at his own father's funeral. Stop trying to reason with the Just Stop Oil eco-terrorists and accept that they are now criminals with £10,000 fines and lengthy prison sentences.

Emily Maitlis' interview with The News Agents denied fellow BBC journalist Jon Sopel's assertion that Just Stop Oil was 'grandstanding' with 'extreme' demonstrations. "One person's grandstanding is another individual's civil rights lawsuit," she said. Rosa Parks certainly wasn't grandstanding when she refused to sit down on a bus in Alabama, but I don't think she was grandstanding. When she ran in front of a horse, I don't think anyone would call [suffragette] Emily Davison grandstanding. The only thing that made the difference was the time.'