Policywonk, in a smart coat, LIVE FROM WESTMINSTER

[policywonk]

Hello and welcome

I've got my dongle working! Woohoo!

Today is a briefing day organised by the G20 Voice peeps.

Am networking like a wild thing. Oh look, there's Michelle O. 'Scuse me.

what is countercyclical financial space?

Just looked for those female education figures PW but can't find them aaanywhere.

I bet StC would know though.

Yes Kay, GWB did a lot of good in Africa. Odd but true.

Bloody hell, pol - you have your own (platonic) Sapphic love thread

whoo hoo! which MN freakoid was it that fancied Sir B.O...b?

Well I started the PW sapphic love on this very thread here.

Are you and MP going to have a duel at dawn, then, Kay?

Women's rights and welfare does seem to be an area where global political institutions have been relatively effective in furthering the cause at the national level. It is a very good area to focus on.

I think that they were effective in crystalising opposition to female genital mutilation.

In Nigeria efforts are hampered by the need to respond to local pressures in the north. At least the 'global constituency' can generate a countermanding pressure.

LOL at Sapphic love thread

it was MP wasn't it, the freakoid Sir Bob fancier?

Is only one round-table discussion being televised or are there different URLs for different tables?

Why do they not have a microphone on each table, it's a bit amateur isn't it passing it around.

Are the same 3 people doing the round tables? I think so, in which case maybe they'll just film a different one each time.

PW's on the table behind with the green-hijab woman. You can see her when they cut to Jamie's POV shot.

PW who are you listening to?

I'm back, but I've got a deadline!

Don't they understand! Why can't they hold this bloody thing on Friday, when i can afford the time to follow it!

Still, at least they're focussing on the roundtable discussions now so I can let it float past me until I hear PW's dulcet tones.

Ah, I see, Habbibu.

Beardy bloke has just picked his nose and eaten it

Am NOT loving Jamie's 'hip to the hop' transatlantic vocab and tone

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Okay now that I can't see pol nodding intelligently I HAVE to do work.

PW if you get to talk to Jamie ask him about maternal health?

How sweet - he's put his free T shirt on!