Sarah Brodie

Airline Captain. Travel and Aviation Writer, Weather Forecaster, Climate Modeller ReadingUni and KCL and very proud Mum. 🌱

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

Paris by night #pilotsview

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Absolutely fantastic idea.

I will stand in silence to honour Henry ❤️

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

POV: You're flying by the Moon.

This visualization is designed to show you what exactly the Artemis II astronauts will see outside their window during their lunar flyby.

Here, the seven-hour visualization is compressed into 28 seconds. ⬇ (1/4)

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@KensingtonRoyal Beautiful @KensingtonRoyal

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A short story about decisions

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@KemiBadenoch keep calling this out!

[Grok @grok]

No, ignorance of the law is not a legitimate excuse in the UK, where the principle "ignorantia juris non excusat" generally applies to criminal and regulatory offenses. Exceptions exist only in rare cases, such as certain tax matters requiring a "reasonable excuse," but not typically for landlord licensing failures. Penalties for breaching selective licensing include civil fines up to £30,000 or unlimited fines upon prosecution in magistrates' court.

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@SamanthaTaghoy succinct words and summary of abhorrent patriarchal societal stealth abuse. What a lonely and terrifying place you and others have been in.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Dear Lucy Powell MP,

You think Pakistani rape gangs are a “dog whistle”?

Well, I was sexually abused from 5 years old.

And it’s politicians like you that are the reason little girls like me are still being raped, exploited and murdered across the country.

In my hometown, those in power dismissed victims as troublemakers, paki shaggers and white slags.

They shamed and intimidated little girls like me into silence. They accused us of lying, or putting ourselves in risky situations, or even wanting to be raped.

They stood by and did nothing while young girls were being brutally abused.

And, as many other girls systematically groomed in Telford have testified, I was made to feel as though I was to blame. The system criminalised the victims, rather than going after the perpetrators.

I remember being asked by a detective whether I “consented” at any point to sexual activity, and told by a social worker that “my actions had led me to where I was today”.

All the while the Labour-led council tried to block an independent inquiry into CSE for years and their Council Leader (now the MP for Telford), along with 10 other powerful local men, even wrote a letter to the Home Secretary saying they felt an inquiry would unnecessary.

In Rotherham, Rochdale and elsewhere, victims were continually swept aside by those in positions of power, as if they chose this lifestyle. The attitudes that social workers, local services, authorities had towards children was so skewed, and so deeply unprofessional.

It broke me.

And I spent years in silence because I thought I would somehow be judged or penalised for the abuse I had suffered. Because I had been conditioned to feel like I was somehow responsible for my own victimisation.

The Telford scandal made headlines when it broke in 2015, then again when the Crowther Report was released in 2022. Yet, The news cycle moved on far too quickly.

This isn’t a 60-second-and-then-done issue. For change to occur, there needs to be constant attention brought to this issue because, otherwise, silence and ignorance only serves to support the predators and the paedophiles.

This is a crime that thrives on misinformation, on fears of “racism” and a lack of awareness, and on being swept under the rug.

They rely on girls not being taken seriously, the media not caring and the police not taking any action to investigate.

These are not crimes of the past. Kids are still being exploited, groomed, raped and even murdered in council estates like mine. It isn’t enough to have empty words and hollow promises.

CSE is not a “dog whistle”.
It is a national epidemic.

But those in power like Lucy Powell refuse to address that fact for fear of being forced to confront their decades-long failure to protect young girls from abuse.

It’s easier to ignore victims, especially when they come from communities, social classes or demographics that are already disenfranchised in Britain. And for those who do speak out, it feels like you are screaming at a brick wall that would rather label you as the problem than take you seriously.

Our trauma isn’t a “dog-whistle” or a “trumpet” to blow against the Labour Party.

It is the harrowing reality of the institutional blindness and contempt that allowed little girls to be sacrificed at the altar of political correctness, while politicians sneered and branded us troublemakers and attention-seekers for daring to want justice.

Shame on Lucy Powell.
Shame on Labour.
Shame on all of them.

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@BBCRadioFive did the chancellor just do the whole interview with you using an impression or Kier Starmer’s voice?

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

Great!

[BBC Press Office @bbcpress]

The BBC and the @metoffice are forming an exciting new partnership to deliver the most trusted and accurate weather service to everyone in the UK

Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/vJnPq6kLLF

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@RobertPickstone I got there at 6 and stood at the back but you’d be able to move forwards .. don’t stress it doesn’t matter where you stand as long as you are inside the stadium you’ve got it made

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@British_Airways I think it was yesterday’s BA212

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

⁦@British_Airways⁩ out of Boston ❤️

[Brady Africk @bradyafr]

This time-lapse of air traffic over the Middle East shows how civilian airspace cleared after Israel’s operation against Iran began.

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@NicolaWainwri14 @RangeukHub @TheRangeUK I believe you! Awful

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@TheRangeUK you did not resolve the issue. So disappointing for such a simple request - just because you can’t replace a packet of missing screws?! Or compensate a small cost for me doing that myself. Instead you’ve sent couriers saying you’ve processed a refund when you haven’t

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@TheRangeUK I am so disappointed by my experience of buying garden furniture online. Your customer service is abhorrent. For the sake of a few missing screws you have not responded or made small contribution to me replacing the screws instead paying an unnecessary courier Awful

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@TChathub20727 I will but you’ve already got it all - I’ve been through this before

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@_TheRange_UK_ So I’ve DM’d you, your customer service arranged couriers to come to my house trying to say they had actioned a refund - I did not want that, then I had a lorry on my driveway and men knocking at my door - all uninvited. You’ve said a Mr James is dealing with this but hasn’t.

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@TheRangeUK I am so disappointed by my experience of buying garden furniture online. Your customer service is abhorrent. For the sake of a few missing screws you have not responded or made small contribution to me replacing the screws instead paying an unnecessary courier Awful

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@TheRangeUK Awful customer service, how could I trust you to buy this from you?

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@louistheroux can we have a follow up interview with Germaine Greer please?

[Louis Theroux @louistheroux]

Buckle in - because we have the always challenging, frequently outrageous Germaine Greer in the house. The author of the seminal feminist text The Female Eunuch, Germaine is now 85, and she joined #TheLouisTherouxPodcast via Zoom from the care home where she resides in Australia. She has lost none of her power to amuse and to offend: sex, Andrew Tate, WAP, the aging process, and George Best were all discussed.

https://t.co/ikxcnvCPFi

[Sarah Brodie @BrodieSarah]

@LadyMontyA350 @Lord_Sugar Take it as a compliment he’s not replied, he’s probably lost for words ☺️