Let’s hear it for the girly swots!

Go, girl, Baroness Hale! I am liking this woman more and more.
As seen in today’s paper

BARONESS HALE was last night criticised by Cabinet ministers for “exercising poor judgment” after she opened a speech with the words “Let’s hear it for the girly swots”, standing in front of a presentation entitled “Spider woman takes down Hulk: Viewers transfixed by judge’s brooch as ruling crushed PM
The Supreme Court president, who last month declared the Prime Minister’s prorogation of Parliament “unlawful” while wearing a spider brooch, was speaking at the Association of State Girls’ Schools (ASGS) conference in Westminster yesterday.
She said her number one piece of advice to young women is: “Don’t let the bastards get you down!” The “girly swots” phrase was an apparent reference to an insult Boris Johnson used about former prime minister David Cameron in a leaked Cabinet paper.