Nicky Clark

Freelance journalist, screen writer equality campaigner. creator of viral #SheCantBeAutistic to challenge sexist exclusion

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Nine years ago Emma Thompson spoke to @maitlis for #Newsnight on the predator de jour Weinstein. Me Too was supposed to be the watershed.
We know how that turned out.
This week female execs have gone from Warner Bros, Netflix & Paramount.
It wasn’t just Weinstein, it wasn’t just Brand, it isn’t just Gisele Pelicot.
It’s systemic misogyny.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

“Why don’t women report it?”
We don’t always report it because we fear we won’t be believed but we know will be blamed.
Brand has begun a prison sentence & social media is already holding his former wives, girlfriends & female co-workers to account.
For every convicted man, society still finds several women to blame for his choices.
Misogyny is systemic & never accountable.

(Photo credit - James Manning)

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

I’ve written about the Russell Brand sentencing and fallout - and, sadly, what it does and doesn’t say about progress for women

https://t.co/6QjBwgZ6Cf

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Judge rightly making the point Brand needlessly made his victims go through one further ordeal of cross-examination.

[Sophie Wilkinson @sophwilkinson]

'Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no' - Judge Bennathan

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Fortunately prison is a construct. One made with locked doors and high walls.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years 6 months. At his trial his lawyer invited the judge to conclude the offences were 'the consequence of that level of fame.' No. They were the consequence of him being a rapist who thought fame meant he could do it and get away with it.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

What on earth is this @ZackPolanski Aren’t you supposed to be making a difference in the lives of vulnerable people? This is the most vulnerable demographic in society.

[Kate B @hangbitch]

Protest today at Hackney town hall 3:30pm at council plans to force a disabled boy out of his council home and into temporary housing. The ruling @TheGreenParty says it is powerless to stop its own housing officers doing this. Unreal. @ZackPolanski

https://t.co/LOPiwpMG7c

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

I’ve interviewed many victims of stalking over the decades. So I decided to write in the @thetimes today about my own experience of being stalked in the hopes of shining a light on the obstacles to justice faced by so many.

https://t.co/T2Ehm9HARb

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Fuck off Graham actual defenders of women & girls don’t make shitty jokes like this just to try and score stupid points against trans people.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

How beautiful!! Fascinating rescue. This man is the very best of humanity.

I just sent the Waterfowl Sanctuary a donation, it made my day 🦢

The art of short simple videos showing what a charity does best… I hope they get many more donations from this🤞

[Joe O'Brien @thisisjoeob]

This is precisely the reason I called @KasiaMadera as the story broke and asked her to work on a day off. Producer @KamilaKoronska too, who booked this interview. Kudos.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

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[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Today, we remember all who served and sacrificed.🌹

Among them were thousands of men and women from the Caribbean and Africa who served as pilots, navigators, engineers, nurses, clerks and infantry.

Their stories are a critical part of Black British history.

Today we honour them all 🌹 #remembrancesunday

[Rosamund Urwin @RosamundUrwin]

He’s not the Messiah…

My long read on a now seven year investigation into Russell Brand. Please share!

https://t.co/jnDeoF3Qld

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Whilst some celebrities further enrich themselves by making shows featuring & promoting slurs demeaning learning disabled people, Brendan Fraser takes the time to see a person who needs some time and patience and offers him support.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Every year since 2011 I’ve posted this blog for remembrance of my Grandad Daniel and in recognition of all our veterans living and lost. #RemembranceSunday2026

For Danny who everyone loved.

Daniel George Hill, Lance Corporal in the Argyll and Southern Highlanders was taking a break from his duties manning the machine gun, and enjoying a peaceful cigarette. 

It was a calm moment, a rare event during the first battle of the Somme.

Then a mortar bomb landed feet from him and the huge explosion threw him into the supporting wall of the trench shattering his right arm.

Danny was incapacitated briefly. Then he got very annoyed. With his right arm broken, he stood and taking a hand grenade from his pocket with his left hand he drew the pin with his teeth.

He stood on the trench step and threw the grenade, at which point a bullet passed through his out-stretched left hand.

Danny’s battle wasn’t over. The bullet ensured he lost the use of two of his fingers and the battle medical team, being what it was, he had his broken arm amputated.

Danny was sent home to Northern Ireland on 100% disability pension and like many disabled veterans struggled to find work.

He was eventually successful, however the sad fact was that his employers rewarded his bravery by deducting his disability pension from his pay.

Danny was a great man and struggled and won many battles in his life brought on by the most horrific battle of them all.

His integrity had meant that many years later, when his wife urged him to stay at home because he wasn’t feeling well, he refused.
As a wages clerk he wanted to make sure the men all got paid for Christmas.

As he walked home he collapsed from a heart attack and died.

I never met my Grandad, he died before I was born but the stories of him lived on and I'm retelling one of them here with grateful thanks, to him and to all those who died and all who survived.

Lest we forget.

(Photo below from the (Dame) Agnes Hunt and (Sir) Robert Jones orthopaedic hospital, centre of excellence and Veterans Orthopaedic Service )

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Pope Leo is so lovely ❤️

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

On the papal plane, I asked Pope Leo what is his advice for people facing their own cancer diagnosis.

Pope Leo responded “not to be afraid.”

“Early detection is obviously the best way to go, and so regular check-ups are a blessing. And, take care of yourselves,” he added.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

He’s never been in my house.

He’ll never be in my house.

Thank you for your attention to the matter of my house.

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Awful statement.

[Bear Grylls OBE @BearGrylls]

Brand’s faith seemed genuine to me at the time when I was a guest at his private baptism.
I have attended a few now. Even visiting in prisons with people who have committed terrible crimes. It's part of our calling as men and women of faith, to love and serve anyone. It is the sick that need healing. Judgement is for the courts and God… I wouldn’t want to ever discourage someone’s coming to faith.
It is right that justice has now been served.
I can’t imagine how hard this time has been for the victims, the heroes of the day.

[Bentley Hudgins @bentleyforus]

This is why Republicans lost every statewide office and the State House in Georgia. I’m trying to lower your bills and you guys are asking me where I’m going to pee.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Childminder who left more than 20 children alone in her home jailed https://t.co/A6t28tulDl