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Barbara Speed

@bspeed8

Barbara Speed is a journalist who specialises in cities, feminism and wasting time on social media

As of 2009, only around 11 per cent of British schoolchildren attended them
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We wouldn't segregate workplaces by gender - so why schools?

"If this app were a prank, it would be a clever one: it sends us up for our apparent terror of publicity and judgement as we happily spread our lives across the web, and judge others in the process"
Voices

The 'outrageous' concept behind the Peeple app is already everywhere

Labour candidate Naz Shah makes her victory speech after defeating George Galloway
Comment

Greater diversity is the only victory progressives can celebrate today

Labour candidate Naz Shah makes her victory speech after defeating George Galloway
Comment

Greater diversity is the only victory progressives can celebrate today

A two-month-old baby receives a vaccination
Comment

'Can you write that it’s really hard, trying to do the right

An example of manspreading on the London Underground
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'I need to sit that way because of my balls' — and 5 other misguided

Macaulay Culkin is lead singer of Pizza Underground
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Macaulay Culkin death hoax: Now social media is a news source, it’s

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