Who should be invited to a Mumsnet webchat?

[Freespeecher]

As a spinoff from the long JBP discussion I thought I'd start a thread to put that debate to one side (so don't mention him in this thread, pretty please with sugar on top) and see instead who people would like to be invited to take part in such a chat.

As I see it there are three main categories of invitee:

• people you already know and like and would like to hear more from
• people you already know and don't like who are due a rhetorical hauling over the coals
• people you've heard about but want to find out more about.

Any takers?

NSPCC to come back and provide proper answers

MN: What is your position on the...

NSPCC: You’ve read it.

Fin.

Yes Jessica Eaton would be great

Jane Clare Jones

Yes! Although she was on a thread with me a while back and I was too shy to do much more than shuffle IREALLYLIKEYOU

Also agree:
Gina Rippon!
Germane Greer!
Karen Ingala smith!
Harriet Wistrich - particularly as she's done so much recently on John Warboys case and for Sally Challen
Caroline CP

Tbh anyone in blocks b and c are probably available on twitter

Jonny Best
Angela Davis
Helena Kennedy

Sarah Champion - MP for Rotherham and a key figure in the investigation into the systematic abuse of young girls in South and West Yorkshire and beyond. Recently appointed to the Women's and Equality Parliamentary Select Committee.

Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke, Cheshire Police.
Lead spokesperson for LGBT matters in the police service
Recently received a Stonewall award (April 2019) for her work on LGBT and hosted parties and a training conference for Mermaids

Nspcc
Ruth Hunt
Lucy Bannerman
Jo Swinson
Sarah Lasoye

Theresa May.

Jessica Eaton

Gina Rippon so much

JCJ is amazeballs

Any trans rights activist. I have yet to hear any of them define the word 'woman' in a non-circular way. I want to know why.

ooooh!

How about Joan Smith?

Author of Misogynies, and I've just seen she has an upcoming book on terrorists and their inevitable background of domestic violence

Could Layla Moran come and tell us about how she sees into people's souls?

David Isaac, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

The NSPCC

Pat Craven.

I would like to ask if she has any advice about spotting coercive control in online communities and what is the best way for administrators to combat it.

Germaine Greer

Jessica Eaton

Yy

Pat Craven

Pat Craven! Very very much so.

*David Isaac, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

The NSPCC*

Also Damion Hinds, Secretary of State for Department of Education

Lucy Masoud. Firefighter.

Heidi Allen

Pat Craven.

I would like to ask if she has any advice about spotting coercive control in online communities and what is the best way for administrators to combat it.

That would be brilliant.

Betty Boothroyd.

She is my role model now for how I'd like to approach my older years. (The awesome peer is 89.)

So many older women are written off as having no agency or value. Boothroyd is there fighting for the young people of the UK.

And she'd give proper answers.

Masih Alinejad, the creator of my stealthy freedom

it would be really interesting to talk to her about the hijab, a subject that often comes up here

and yes yes to Germaine Greer of course

Masih Alinejad, the creator of my stealthy freedom

Ooh, yes! I loved hearing her story in The Wind in My Hair on R4 Book of the Week.

I would love to question Jacob Rees Mogg about his family's connections to the dreadful Waldorf schools

I would also like to have David and Samantha Cameron on here so I can quiz them about Kid's Company and another dubious charity of interest that they have supported.

Camila Batmanghelidjh - I have a load of questions for her.

Valerie Sinason and Rachel C Thomas of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies - I would love to take the opportunity to quiz them about their appalling abuses against vulnerable people

Also I would love to interview Prince Charles about his support for cults and quackery