Alice McCool

Journalist + feminist. Investigative reporter @thenerve_news. Bylines inc The Guardian, CNN, Dazed, Byline Times, TIME, Good Law Project, Al Jazeera. They/she.

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

Cute video to go with our news! Congrats to the other new recruits @LuciaOC_ @SangitaMyska and Cory Doctorow 🤩

You can subscribe to (or become a paying member of) @thenerve_news here: https://t.co/OVjLMFYg6H

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

SOME NEWS

The Nerve is six months old - and growing!

Thanks to the incredible support of our growing community of members, we are delighted to announce four major signings as we expand our team of journalists…

Link follows…

[Sally Hayden @sallyhayd]

Human Rights Watch is hiring a media director "based within commuting distance of one of the following HRW offices: New York, Washington DC, or London." https://t.co/7RozuW9AOc

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

🚨 BREAKING: Who is really guarding our human rights?

My latest investigation for @GoodLawProject reveals that the EHRC’s new chair in Scotland, Alasdair Henderson, has ties to global anti-abortion "dark money" networks. Read the full story here: https://t.co/BOn7HW4SXb

[Lucia Osborne-Crowley @LuciaOC_]

My first proper @Substack post is here! This is the first in a series about the Epstein survivors who changed my life.

Id be so grateful if you’d consider subscribing here: https://t.co/pvr5yZLwvE

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

A trans woman has been left in prolonged pain after NHS cancelled her operation, allegedly because she's trans

No patient should be treated like this

Guarantee trans-inclusive care across the NHS

Prosecute doctors who refuse to treat trans patients

https://t.co/wp7tJxFVxm

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

Lois McLatchie Miller on the ballot adds to evidence that global Christian right orgs + ppl linked to them are targeting the UK.

Legal cases funded by such groups have already influenced NHS policy on trans healthcare. Abortion isn't safe either - we don't have full decrim. 5/5

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

🚨 #Voting in Maida Vale today? Pls know 1 of #Reform's candidates is a recent staffer at the intl' arm of the dark money org behind the overturn of US abortion rights.

In Dec anti-abortion/LGBT activist + Spectator contributor Lois McLatchie Miller left ADF after 7 YEARS. 1/5

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

ADF has recently teamed up with Tory peer Sharron Davies to issue an anti-trans legal threat against community sports groups in the UK such as Parkrun.

It has also worked directly with Paul Conrathe, the British Christian right lawyer who represents detransitioner Keira Bell 4/5

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

1/ 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's foreign policy chief hosted a Cambridge meeting where Trump allies defended the tariffs hammering Britain - and circulated a doctrine endorsing US annexation of NATO ally Greenland. Via @BylineTimes🧵
https://t.co/MaO7rFUMw4

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

These deplorable depictions of Zack Polanski in mainstream right wing British newspapers normalise antisemitism.

Where’s the outrage?

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

How does it feel to have far-right racist thug Tommy Robinson amplifying your attack on me, @jk_rowling?

What is it about a brown Muslim socialist woman that you have an issue with?

It’s been nearly a week and you still haven’t answered: why have you not once spoken about the genocide of Palestinians in over two years?

We’re still waiting, Joanne.

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

@NafeezAhmed @thenerve_news @carolecadwalla Thanks so much Nafeez! 💫

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

🚨 I'm joining @thenerve_news! Pretty surreal to be mentioned alongside as such a talented lineup 🙈

Thanks are in order to @carolecadwalla for supporting me always – can't wait to learn more from you and The Nerve's other legendary all women co-founders! https://t.co/cQea4kwojD

[Press Gazette @pressgazette]

The Nerve @thenerve_news, launched six months ago by five ex-Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla, is expanding its team to include:
Investigative journalists Alice McCool @McCoolingtons & Lucia Osborne-Crowley @LuciaOC_
Plus columnists @SangitaMyska & Cory @doctorow

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

I also want to thank @GoodLawProject for giving me the opp to dig into anti-gender networks over the past yr. Their dedication to that cause in the face of so much hate is nothing short of heroic 🙇

+ if you've been following my work in that area, rest assured I'm keeping it up!

[Alice McCool @McCoolingtons]

@SangitaMyska @thenerve_news @carolecadwalla Can't wait to work with you Sangita! I'm going to learn so much from you all 😍🙇

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Fed up of the media lying to you every single day?

Double Down Newswatch will hold them to account.

Never before has aggressive scrutiny and fearless independent journalism been so important, yet never before has the mainstream media been so narrow in its perspectives, so infected in groupthink, and so tied to this failed political class and system.

If you find yourself screaming at the telly at the established pundits and news providers. The Laura Kuenssbergs, the Robert Pestons, the Trevor Phillips, Dana Bash and Bari Weiss, you are not alone. There are millions of people like you and we’re here for you.

This is not a program that will tell you what to think, the aim is to provide you with the information and knowledge you need to be able to make informed decisions in a functioning democracy, something that mainstream media is failing to do.

Like millions of others I’ve watched in horror and astonishment as the Israelis have used Western weapons and diplomatic protection to maim, mutilate and murder tens of thousands of small children and other civilians. There’s no other issue where the divide between the mainstream media and political class, which apparently regards this as tolerable, and the rest of us who’ve reacted like normal human beings, is so profound.

Above all, I feel deep shame and guilt at my own profession which continues to peddle a perverse inverted journalism, where allegations of racism are hurled not at the perpetrators and supporters of ethic cleansing, apartheid and genocide, but at their victims and their supporters, smeared and disempowered as antisemites.

Gaza encapsulates the political and intellectual and moral bankruptcy of those who rule over us and those who are to tell us what to think. Western politics and Western journalism is in desperate need of renewal, we want to be a part of that and we hope you join us.

@PulaRJS

Double Down Newswatch, covering the stories that mainstream media misreports, underreports or simple doesn’t report at all.

Premiers this Wednesday 6 May at 6pm

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

On Novara Live, @DaliaGebrial says that women no longer need men for economic stability.

Women are now primarily looking for emotional intimacy from romantic partners – and that’s the one thing that “men are not taught how to do,” says Dalia.