Earlier this morning Janey passed away in her sleep. Her family were with her.
The love and support from all her friends and fans during this cancer journey brought her enormous joy. It has also been a huge comfort to us, her family and close friends, thank you.
While some chose to throw bricks, others build with them. However troubling a situation, look for the people who are helping; you'll always find them x
As a child bereaved by fatal domestic abuse, headlines calling a man who killed three women a “nice guy” and “normal person” have felt personally traumatic.
The media called my father a “gentle man” and “nice chap”, which misrepresented the controlling reality that myself and my family experienced for years. It compounded our trauma.
Reporting like this causes so much damage – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of coercive control. It has to stop. Now.
We need every single newsroom trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules. The press has the power to prevent further deaths and save women’s lives.
Please support this crowdfunder I’ve started to support @we_level_up’s crucial work to train journalists in their Dignity For Dead Women guidelines.
This takes all of us ➡️ https://t.co/iPJGFUs7Qn
I'm always powerless to resist the pull of what's around the next corner. But in rushing to the destination we often miss the joy of the journey. Here, cheered on by waving foxgloves and singing blackbirds, every step towards the wonky gate is as beautiful as the view beyond.
@KateBurkeNHS I’m sure Sharron would have been more successful at the Olympics if Team UK had got rid of all those coaches, physios, dieticians etc … and just had swimmers.
Fifteen years. Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, eight foreign secretaries, twelve culture secretaries and sixteen housing ministers.
A thread, for #RantyTuesday.
I’ll admit that I gave a little involuntary squeak as I saw this scene. A field of dandelion seed heads, lit by the setting sun, transformed into a mass of caught gold, each one a perfect ball of light. Nature gives us so many moments of incredible beauty if we stop to notice.
Iran continues to be a Black Mirror episode in a dystopian fiction where hashtags online are the only means we have to save people from being lynched. It’s not a fiction, though. For Iranians, it’s reality. Please use the hashtags: #freetomaj#toomajsalehi#stopexecutionsiniran