After ones on Ireland, Scotland, saints, theatres and fairies - plus a book on Ireland’s abandoned places - my seventh @AmberBooks publication is out on Tuesday. Now the subject is popes, from the first - Jesus’s disciple Saint Peter - to one who’s on @X, @Pontifex… https://t.co/UkQDDHbZHE
‘A civil court restriction for stalking won’t stop you being a school governor…’ My story at @DailyMailUK on Bev Nickson and her campaign to @changethechec, after she found DBS checks cannot prevent harassers such as hers doing whatever they please… https://t.co/lGTjcG90En
‘My stalker became a school governor…’ My @DailyMail story today about Bev Nickson’s campaign to @changethechec, after finding that DBS checks do not automatically flag up civil court restrictions, such as her harasser’s one. With thanks to @CeliaMDuncan and @issyvine1…
@changethechec@DailyMail Thanks for being such a great contributor, Bev. And what we’ve managed to get into the necessary space limits of a newspaper article is really just the tip of the iceberg regarding your case, your campaign and other cases you have discovered…
As the revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continue, a moving plea - in an @IndyVoices piece I commissioned from @nadeneghouri earlier this month - to remember the young, female victims preyed upon by the rich, powerful men in the headlines... https://t.co/MPbtuR80D3
The online version of the @TempoRoy story from a month ago that I brought to the @DailyMail, about a former hunting dog that became a poster boy for his breed in the Italian media after being adopted by a British couple… With thanks to Siobhan McFadyen and Spinone Overseas for Adoption… https://t.co/7GAnqrwvx6
The former hunting dog adopted by a British couple through Spinone Overseas For Adoption that’s now a poster boy for his breed in the Italian media… @TempoRoy’s story that I brought to today’s @DailyMail, with thanks to Siobhan McFadyen…
“Everyone is just trying to have a positive experience - you don’t want something big and bad to override that.” As the new term starts, a testimony gathered by Enough’s Katie White for her piece I took to @IndyVoices on how few students report rape…
"We are a house of five girls and three of us have been raped." One of the testimonies from Bristol students gathered by Katie White of rape-prevention non-profit Enough in her piece that I brought to @IndyVoices on violence against women and girls... https://t.co/EIQWRRnu2l
The piece I ghosted from Tom Allchurch, co-founder of rape deterrence organisation Enough - two pages in today’s @DailyMail - about how his daughter’s rape has made him determined to break the taboo blighting millions of lives… With thanks to @issyvine1 for the introduction…
'My daughter's rape made me determined to break the taboo blighting millions of women's lives.' The piece I brought to @DailyMail and ghosted from Tom Allchurch, co-founder of rape deterrence organisation Enough. Thanks to @issyvine1 for the introduction. https://t.co/Pw3vqbRC7r
From the earliest homesteads to the island of Skellig Michael being used in the Star Wars films... My just-published book from @AmberBooks on the history of Ireland - culture, art, landscape and architecture - with 170 pictures. Available pretty much everywhere online...
Heard the one about the council denying compensation to a pensioner who broke her ankle in a car park with 15 potholes - because she was the first to report them? You have now, and it happened to Penny Gibbons, from my @DailyMail story… https://t.co/etjC1BRHHO
Now you see it… Thanks very much to @EtanSmallman for doing such a great job on - with so much humour - my idea for @Telegraph about what happened to the buildings that disappeared overnight. And to @sharonlougher for suggesting him in the first place… https://t.co/rinx8UMYBf
‘Because of the Post Office, I gave birth wearing an electronic tag…’ It was very moving to work on this piece with @SeemaMisra_OBE about the @PostOffInquiry revelations. Thanks to @paulclements and Victoria Richards for the opportunity…