In 2014, I was annoyed standing in front of magazine racks at train stations that there was nothing that appealed to me. The usual ‘women’s magazines’ didn’t speak to me and were too centred on beach bodies, white trousers and which fruit my body resembled. Add to this that I love women. Ever since I worked for WHSmith and then the Jobcentre, I’ve been surrounded with women at work. When I got into comedy, those numbers dropped dramatically (they’re better now hoo-fucking-ray). So I started setting up small work places full of women. My TV series, my new material gig, writers’ rooms, my radio shows. Women, women, women. I decided to do something about the lack of magazines for women like me (whatever that means) and thus create another all-women work space, a healthy, more interesting and feminist alternative to the magazines that were out there. And thus began Standard Issue Magazine, edited by the fantastic Mickey Noonan. We were lucky enough to have some incredible women write wonderful articles for us. And the whole thing was run by 12 awesome women. In 2017, I decided it was time to move with the times and we became a podcast @StandardIssueUK. The team: Mickey Noonan, Hannah Dunleavy and Jen Offord have since created over a thousand brilliant episodes of a podcast that treats women like they have brains, because we do, and are interested in the world. We are for women, by women, about everything. And we shine a light on some incredible sports women, journalists, playwrights, entrepreneurs, heck, all sorts of women from all walks of life who have something to say. Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour. And on this International Women’s Day, I’d love you to give it a listen. Or comment on this post if you have listened. Or share it with your followers. It all helps. We hope you enjoy it. We’re super proud of it. I feel this way about this project every day but today feels like a good day to shout about excellent women and their work.

This is what happens when a bubble freezes nitter.app/AnimalsWorId/status/13…

You see this smile, Betty? It's not really a smile, it's the lid on a scream.

I wrote about "no worries if not" and how irritating it is when people tell women to be more confident newstatesman.com/politics/fe…

Can everybody just Please look at this cat

BREAKING: Met police officer dismissed after using up to 34 baton strikes on Black teenage girl with learning disabilities. Sophie Naftalin & Sohini Mehta at Bhatt Murphy acting for the family.

Katie Price might not see your comments mocking and blaming her for being beaten up by her abusive partner, but every woman on your social media who has been abused or violated by men can see your comments and see you for who you really are.

Here is the real contribution @GMB won’t put out. Here @ayeshahazarika brilliantly spells out reality debunking UKIP lady ludicrous assertion that #cummingsgate is a narrow Brexit issue. Sums it up perfectly. Watch 👇🏼

Are modesty shorts for four-year-olds a good idea? As a precaution to protect girls as young as four, who may bare all mid-cartwheel, some schools have introduced modesty shorts to uniform policy. The #LooseWomen would love to hear your views? 👇

Why does Matt Hancock sit down like Woody in Toy Story when a human enters the room

Emma Thompson tells us the Harvey Weinstein allegations are just the tip of the iceberg of a wider and systemic problem in Hollywood

🗣 Talk to your fucking boys 🗣 nitter.app/BrianaAnda/status/1274…

I will make my way to Parliament and get there by this evening and I will start to table questions on the Domestic Abuse Bill.

Well played

One of the things I wish men understood is that girls have interactions like this EVERY DAY

Children will now be recognised within the statutory definition of Domestic Abuse. Always speak up and keep pushing. We now have one week to make sure all victims regardless of their status are protected. We can do this!

Since last year on this day, these are the women killed in the UK where a man has been convicted or charged as the primary perpetrator in the case.

If anyone needs cheering up, eggs were once known as ‘cacklefarts’, and a hankie was called a ‘snottinger’.