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4 days ago | 
contractorumbrella.com | Sophie Lewis
Many UK businesses remain concerned about government support following the recent Spring Statement. While the government has pledged stability and growth, employers continue to feel anxious about rising employment taxes, increased minimum wage rates and reduced flexibility under the proposed Employment Rights Bill. A recent REC and Whitestone Insight survey revealed much of employers’ forecasts for the rest of 2025 were worse after the Chancellor’s Spring Statement 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
contractorumbrella.com | Sophie Lewis
According to a new report, taking part in volunteer work is helpful for easing the transition from employment to retirement. Findings show that volunteering offers so much more than just social interaction; it gives people a sense of purpose too. Carried out by researchers Paula Steinhoff, Lea Ellwardt and Maya Wermeyer from the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) at the University of Cologne, the study looked into the effects of volunteering on a person’s wellbeing.
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2 weeks ago | 
radicalphilosophy.com | Sophie Lewis
RP 2.18 (Spring 2025) ~ Article Sophie Lewis is the author of Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (2025), Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022) and Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (2019). Sophie Lewis, 'Temporary autonomous friend', Radical Philosophy 218, Spring 2025, pp. 35–40. (pdf)
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3 weeks ago | 
thenation.com | Sophie Lewis
Society / April 23, 2025 The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All WomenEven the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court’s attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price. Edit Ad Policy Trans rights supporters march in London after the UK Supreme Court’s anti-trans ruling.
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3 weeks ago | 
contractorumbrella.com | Sophie Lewis
New research has revealed that the majority of HR leaders are choosing not to hire recent graduates. According to the survey of 800 HR leaders and 800 recent graduates, traditional degree programmes are not preparing undergraduates enough for the world of work, which is therefore increasing costs for employers.
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3 weeks ago | 
sussexexpress.co.uk | Sophie Lewis
A murder investigation has been launched and a man has been arrested following the discovery of a woman’s body in Havant. The police were called at 9.42am to a report that a man was walking alone along the M40, close to junction 3 yesterday (April 17). Officers attended and the man reported the death of a woman known to him at an address on Timsbury Crescent in Havant, police said. After receiving this information police attended the address and located the body of a woman in her 40s, police said.
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1 month ago | 
contractorumbrella.com | Sophie Lewis
A new survey has found that 36% of UK jobseekers admit to using AI to write their CV or covering letter. This trend seems to be most prevalent within younger generations and those in urban centres. The TonerGiant survey also found that 24% of respondents said they wouldn’t even correct errors if AI-generated inaccuracies appeared on their CV or covering letter. Interestingly, people are also using AI for emotionally charged workplace communication.
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1 month ago | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Sonali Chakravarti |Sophie Lewis |Natasha Lennard
On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Tessie Prevost woke up and put on one of her prettiest dresses. Like Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Ruby Bridges, Tessie was a very special little girl. Along with hundreds of other Black children, the New Orleans Four, as they would forever be known, had taken a test. The test was devised by the Louisiana Pupil Placement Board after Brown v. Board of Education had declared separate but equal schools unconstitutional.
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1 month ago | 
publicseminar.org | Sophie Lewis
Cover of Enemy Feminisms by Haymarket Books (2025)Let’s be brave and swallow our bitter medicine. Feminists across the political spectrum have taken pains to define their troops as chaste and untainted by lust (especially interracial lust); not to mention maternal, i.e., pure, straight, removed from the realm of productive work; and “natural,” that is, not artificial, not “femme,” neither surgically nor chemically enhanced.
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1 month ago | 
publicseminar.org | Natasha Lennard |Sophie Lewis
Sub-commandant Mary Allen (center), one of the earliest members of the Women’s Police Service, with four members of her force (1916) | Christina Broom / © National Portrait Gallery, LondonSophie Lewis, feminist scholar and author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso, 2022), reckons with Western feminism’s problematic history in her new book Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2025).
