For me there’s only one contender for Person of the Year.
Gisele Pelicot.
The woman who has recalibrated how we think about rape by refusing to feel shame.
“It’s time we change the way we look at rape”, she said outside the court today.
And…more than anyone I can think of… she’s done that.
“Shame must change sides”, she said, and perhaps – perhaps – that is a little more true today than it’s ever been.
But there’s something else that I want to talk about. Something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisele Pelicot.
51 men.
51 men who are not all men… but who are also quite a lot of men. 51 of them in fact.
And if you read about them… their backgrounds… their jobs… their families or lack of family… they’re all quite different.
A firefighter…a nurse… an unemployed alcoholic.
Some were abused as children. Some had comfortable upbringings with kids of their own.
Six had domestic violence convictions. 45 didn’t.
One was 27. Another was 74.
There’s no pattern here. Nothing we can point to. Other than the fact there is no profile of a rapist. Which is perhaps the most frightening thing of all.
One of the saddest things about the farmers’ IHT debate is that by lying about how many farms will be impacted and banging on about wealthy farmers @RachelReevesMP & @Keir_Starmer have deliberately created devision, why is what I want to know, what was the purpose of this?
What I saw.
A woman getting hit SO hard, in the head, by a man, that she wisely chose to stop it, because she KNEW if she didn’t, she’d be seriously injured or worse.
Blood, sweat, tears, training, dreams…shattered….
The ABSOLUTE STATE of this…@iocmedia
Angela Carini. 💔❤️
#october4good
Gold Medal’s very own @louisaejackson is running the London Marathon next month in memory of her lovely mum who sadly passed away following a battle with cancer. We’d love to help her get to her target 💕
The next award is for Top Homeworking Agency, sponsored by @goldmedalagents.
🥂The 2022 TOP Homeworking Agency is… @designertravel - huge well done to you guys!
Congratulations also go to @TCworldwide who claim their Top 50 place!
#TTGTop50
Had a brilliant – if intense! – day judging the #TTGTop50 homeworking category yesterday, ably aided and abetted by @goldmedalagents's head of commercial relations @Clarry1130 🙌. Here's who we met, and some of the inspiring things we took away from the day 👇
I’ve had a few people tell me Epstein/Maxwell’s victims “knew exactly what they were doing”
I’ve prosecuted 100s of rapes
Let me explain:
They misunderstand “grooming” which is deliberately selecting vulnerable people & giving them what they think they want so you can abuse them
Young Farmer Marshall will be making his TV debut on tonight's @OnTheFarmC5 - please make sure you tune in tonight at 9pm on @channel5_tv and check into our Facebook page after for extras :-)