CWS

Ex-lawyer, secret Times columnist/blogger (anonymous assistant) writer and illustrator of funny fiction, @cwipprize shortlister.

[CWS @AnonAssist]

How to run a British political party:
1. Hold a popularity contest: make that person Prime Minister.
2. Get into a bit of trouble with the public; oust the Prime Minister.
3. Hold a new popularity contest; make that person Prime Minster.

How long will this one last?

[FTND @FightTheNewDrug]

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[#MenAtWork @MenAtWork_MC]

20 signatures needed on @OurLineHQ petition to get to 5000 saying ‘NoSafeWayToStrangle’ - and shame on @Eurovision @BBC plus a whole pointless circus of UK politicians who have let it pass

https://t.co/zWoyFtOWDd

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

@elegantferal61 Nope

[Male Allies Challenging Sexism (MACS) @MenVSexism]

The inclusion of 'Choke Me' @Eurovision is particularly dangerous because it normalises strangulation to an audience that often consists of children and young people (60.4% of Grand Final viewers in 2025 were 15–24 years old)!

What is the @BBC doing about the complaints & the petition that has been signed by almost 5000 people?

How does this fit with the BBC's editorial standards that "protect audiences from offensive and harmful material"?

What is @Ofcom doing to protect the public and children from the scheduled @bbceurovision programmes?

With strangulation on the rise, why is there so little pressure being applied on Eurovision / the BBC?

@CommonsCMS @HannahAlOthman @lisanandy @ionagyoung @RobynVinter

[#MenAtWork @MenAtWork_MC]

The Romanian @Eurovision entry is called ‘Choke Me’

Please read, sign & share this petition, if you think the publicly-funded @BBC, with its mandate to ‘act in the public interest’, should not air it & that Culture Secretary @lisanandy should intervene

https://t.co/U5nfICPgQc

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

Afghanistan’s new school year has begun. Boys have returned to classrooms, but girls beyond grade six remain barred for a fifth year. It has been 1646 days since the Taliban imposed a nationwide ban on girls’ education.

[Boudica’s Daughters @boudicasarmy]

“More than 6500 rapes and sexual assaults - some against children under 13 - have been committed in hospitals in England and Wales over nearly four years

Only 265 people (4.1 per cent) are known to have been charged for these offences. 

Despite the fact that hospitals are closely monitored by CCTV and wards often have secure entry systems, only 4.1 per cent are known to have resulted in a charge or summons.

Five forces – City of London, Durham, Devon and Cornwall, Northamptonshire and North Yorkshire – did not issue a single summons or charge a single suspect for any of the 334 sexual assaults in their areas.”

https://t.co/QZhD5ut8ob

[National Secular Society @NatSecSoc]

Thank you very much @SamCarlingMP for raising our Mission and Misogyny report in Parliament yesterday. We agree - the fact that religious charities can promote misogyny with impunity shows the charity system is in need of repair.

[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

Gisele Pelicot and Joanne Young are not anomalies. Undercover journalists in Quebec posted a fake advertisement, posing as a husband offering to drug his wife so men could r*pe her with him. 105 MEN RESPONDED IN 48 HOURS.

This is a much bigger problem than we realize.

Now contemplate this: The world’s most popular p*rn site, garnering 62 billion visits in 2020 alone, was infested with videos of real sexual crime including women being drugged unconscious and brutally raped. The crime scene videos had millions of monetized views. These were real victims. It was not pretend.

So what responsibility do they have for helping to feed the appetites of these monsters in society?

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

One of the women I teach in Afghanistan made this with her daughter. It’s very moving.

[FTND @FightTheNewDrug]

Trigger Warning: The CEO of OnlyFans assures the public that "nobody under 18 is on the platform." However, investigators have found hundreds of explicit, abusive videos of children on the platform.

No platform can guarantee every user is an adult. And claims like this only create space for people to knowingly or unknowingly view child abuse content.

Stop watching porn and stop the demand for child sexual abuse content!

👉Get more info on this story here: https://t.co/vdaeLUR63F

[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

“For 8 years, I was raped and beaten and videotaped by hundreds of men, women and even married couples. I never thought I would live to be 18…”

Below is the story of a child victim exploited for profit on P*rnhub, told in her own words & shared with permission. She pleads with us to take action — Below are two ways we can take action.

**Warning: Disturbing Content**

“At the age of 9, my biological mother sold me to johns (people who buy sex) in exchange for drugs and for money. This happened until I was rescued at the age of 17 and placed into a safe house, where I was able to escape my bio mom and the people she worked with.

For 8 years, I was raped and beaten and video taped by hundreds of men, women and even married couples. I never thought I would live to be 18 years old. I was hospitalized dozens of times, and one time I was forced to drink ammonia until I passed out and was raped for hours after that even though my mouth and throat were burning so bad. I have seen many other children raped in front of me even a 3 year old boy being raped by a man that was in his 40s. I was forced to have sex with other children, especially young girls. I still have nightmares and extreme PTSD from this.

I am thankful that I have a family now who helps me through my flashbacks and my panics. But it’s not fair that my life is so hard now because I was forced into a life of sex and p*rnography as a child. I have had to get police involved on multiple occasions to try and get Redtube & P*rnhub to remove videos of me being raped AS A MINOR.

I don’t understand why it’s so difficult.

Please, stop allowing people to make money off of the torture and coercion of children. It’s not fair.”

How can we stop predatory corporations from immortalizing, commercializing and globally distributing the worst moments of victim’s lives?

1. Severe civil and criminal penalties for individual abusers and the corporations profiting from distributing these crimes. There must be serious financial, criminal, and reputational consequences until the risk of continued exploitation outweighs any benefit these abusers get by maintaining the status quo.

2. Mandatory, third-party, age and consent verification for every individual in every explicit video and image on every website that per terms of service distributes user-generated p*rn.

[FTND @FightTheNewDrug]

This week on Consider Before Consuming, we talk with Heidi Olson—a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and founder and president of Paradigm Shift Training and Consulting. Drawing from years of frontline medical experience, Heidi explains why exploitation and trafficking often go unnoticed, how early exposure to porn shapes ideas about sex and consent, and why child-on-child sexual harm is becoming more common.

Listen to Heidi's full interview on Consider Before Consuming here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/KDUW6NzJ2L

[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

It’s a dangerous digital world for children. Consider these numbers:

1 in 5 minors view sharing nudes as normal (Thorn, 2024).

1 in 4 children (ages 9–12) reported having an online sexual interaction with someone they believed to be an adult (Thorn, 2024).

[FTND @FightTheNewDrug]

A new study has found that teens not only see OnlyFans as an appealing job option, but are being targeted at young ages to be both performers and consumers on the platform.

This next generation deserves better.

Learn more about the dangers of OnlyFans and what parents need to know here: https://t.co/ILwuXIXlkI

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Again I can only talk from personal experience but when I spoke up at the UN last year for fair women’s sport the following day the Taliban were invited for talks, they asked for women to be removed, the UN complied. Women’s voices & rights are being erased under our very noses!

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

This report makes horrific reading.

This is the same hospital where vulnerable stroke patient Valerie Kneale was raped, leading to her death. The perpetrator has never been identified, let alone brought to justice.

Our report ‘When We Are At Our Most Vulnerable’ 👇highlighted the scale of assaults in hospital settings.

https://t.co/jO91rxFIqu

Urgent action is needed @wesstreeting

https://t.co/f3un2IxfTU

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

Every repost will boost Afghan women’s voices and undermine the Taliban’s misogynistic aim of silencing women and girls

It’s the very least you could do @UN @UN_Women

[Jo Lyons💖📚🍹 @J0Lyons]

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