Join award-winning children's author Sita Brahmachari in conversation with Michael Rosen about her new book 'Phoenix Brothers'! Coming in June to KS3 Super-Readable Rollercoasters.
📆When: June 6th, 6-8pm
🏫Where: Goldsmiths University
🎟️Book your place: https://t.co/My4XWGFwL7
Today marks the start of National Stalking Awareness week. This year’s focus is the health response to stalking victims, and a call on @NHSuk to develop guidance and training, to ensure they are responding appropriately to stalking victims ⬇️ #NSAW2025
@Irish_Ferries travelling from Dublin to London in club class. Supposed to be free light snacks sandwiches canapés. No labels to say what they are. No sense of dietary requirements. And lack of clarity about veggie food. If it is there not labelled and with meat/fish. Not good
I’ve just recorded my last contribution for the BBC after 39 years. It’ll be on the next edition of From Our Own Correspondent on @BBCRadio4 and @bbcworldservice
Now onward to new adventures… As my hero Marcelo Bielsa might say, ‘Vamos Carajo!’
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Since posting a photo of me and my girlfriend, we’ve been subject to some pretty nasty homophobia and comments about our appearances…
But instead of deleting the pic, I figured I’d share another photo of us to show we’re proud of who we are 😊🏳️🌈
Hope this bullying bastard isn’t married. If he’ll do this in public, imagine what he’ll do behind closed doors. And however together his victim seemed, I guarantee she’ll think twice before standing up for herself again. He made her world smaller.
On this International Women's Day I am thinking about the millions of Afghan women and girls who continue to have their basic human rights denied.
Today it is 1267 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from going to school.
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
The most deserved of all. She will forever be known in history as the woman who changed public perception of rape and put the power back in the hands of the survivors ❤️
Gisèle Pelicot named The Independent’s most influential woman of 2025 https://t.co/rXslGx5kuP
New research from @CSACentre reveals a worrying decline in the identification of child sexual abuse.
In 2023/24, just 2,160 child protection plans were made—the lowest in 30 years—despite an estimated 500,000 children experiencing sexual abuse.
Read more https://t.co/IPlWWaDTAx
"Fathers who fight for custody typically get it. Even 30 years ago, 94% of fathers who sought custody got sole or joint custody. Abusive fathers are especially successful. Seventy-two percent win their custody cases. In one study where both parents fought hard for custody, mothers were awarded custody just 7% of the time. Only in a patriarchal society does a 93% win rate somehow equate to male victimhood." Family Courts and Child Custody Are Biased Against Women, Not Men
Went to see Birdsong the ply https://t.co/rLqqUzhfUw @Yourallypally last night. Was absolutely fantastic. Finishing at Ally Pally but look out for it. And the theatre @Yourallypally worth a visit alone