Anna Moss

Personal account so all views expressed are my own. Interested in sharing ideas on trauma informed practice, social justice and saving the planet.

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

French Police baton charging peaceful protest against Climate Change in France today.

Big Business and Big Oil have bought control of our Governments, Police and Justice Systems.

[Shelley Shaw @shellbrown1980]

I was privileged to speak at the @CFPlym event today about the Network & growth from 5 to 1000+ members; we are a ground up movement, learning, being curious & courageous - reconnect with us & shape the next chapter

[David Challen @David_Challen]

Women's prisons could be shut and converted to house male inmates to ease overcrowding, reports the Mirror.

This is a vital moment for this Labour govt to seize a step-change in our response to female offenders. Prison has proven time and again to NOT be a safe place for women, nor tackle the root causes of their offending.

Now is the time to act and close them for good:

🔺 Self-harm for women in prison was at the highest rate ever recorded in 2023, an increase of 63% and eleven times higher than in the male estate.

🔺 76% of women in prison report having a mental health problem.

🔺 53% of women in prison have experienced abuse as children.

🔺 72% of women leaving one prison faced homelessness or unsafe accommodation.

🔺 Pregnant women are 7x more likely than those outside prison to suffer a stillbirth.

Women are disproportionately imprisoned through a failure to tackle the root causes of crime. Austerity has not only dealt us a prison overcrowding crisis, it has in tandem with a cost of living crisis exacerbated offending, further increasing the needs of women and families.

Women are most likely to be primary carers for children and other adults around them, as well as to be susceptible to sexualised exploitation for fear of escalating violence, homelessness, threat or material need, found @RevDoors.

For the more than 70% of female offenders who have experienced domestic abuse, and whose offending is rooted in their abuse, this compounds the outcome. Leaving women destitute, homeless. With no holistic response to address their harm, they are spat out of the system, often back in the control of their abuser.

Pregnant women and mothers? One in three are held in prison pre-trial. Two babies have died in England’s prisons in recent years. Inquests into newborn babies dying in prison have found huge failings for what is in real terms a dark ages Dickensian practice that should be abolished.

The answer? Investing in the community solutions, like Women Centre's. The case is clear, and has been for years. WC’s have a proven track record of delivering results that stems from providing a holistic specialist approach to tackling how and why women offend. Giving women empowerment and support they need to avoid re-offending whilst addressing harms.

Against a spend of £1.7bn on issues linked to female offending, a place at a Woman’s Centre ranges from £1,223 to £4,125 per woman depending on needs, whilst a place in prison costs £52,121.

This makes sense. This needs to happen.

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

It seems to me that the portrayal of the Labour win as shallow because of the vote share is misleading. This was a ‘get the tories out’ election. For different people that generally meant voting Labour, Lib Dem, Green or Reform. But in doing so they all knew they’d get a Labour government and did it deliberately. In reality even Reform voters actually voted for Keir Starmer to be PM.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Can we all make sure the fact that the Greens did EXACTLY as well as Reform with a *fraction* of Reform’s money and airtime does not go unnoticed, even if the news media furiously ignores it?

[Sian Harries @sianharries_]

Fucking cheek of it. Young have had so much taken away from them - can’t go find work in Europe, can’t afford a house, can’t afford education, no public spaces to hang out, kids growing up in poverty. The people who need to ‘give back to the communities’ is your thieving lot

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

All hail @coldwarsteve, ladies and gentlemen, all hail @coldwarsteve

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

Homelessness as national policy! Read @jburnmurdoch sensible piece in the @FT

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Latest @TheNewsAgents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children

Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
https://t.co/p6RCi62MYv

[Top News 🇺🇦 @TopNewsWorks]

“The right is now running Britain, and it’s a terrifying sight”

The Conservatives?
“It’s time for them to go”

EU & US “…look at us with complete disbelief. What has this country done to itself over the last fifteen years?”

Max Hastings speaks out.

[leanahosea @leanahosea]

Lower River Tamar, part of the Tamar Estuaries Special Protected Area. So beautiful, so contaminated. EA figures show banned PFOS, mercury & PBDEs in the river. Plus, the EA permits for the release of low level radioactive substances from the dockyard.1/2
https://t.co/H5FqIVWuy3

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

England's water companies were sold for £6.1bn (net) in 1989 with no debt.

Since then nearly £75bn extracted in dividends. Water bills up by 40% in real terms.

Privatisation has been licence to print money.
https://t.co/PDwrhobYfd

[Anna Moss @monkeymansions]

@mrjamesob Extraordinary would be seeing anyone in this Government act with competence or integrity. This is just more of the same. Worth commenting on but let’s not pretend this isn’t our new normal.

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

Please share this information because it is not being made clear...

1. The collapse of the Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC) will be the most devastating event in the last 10,000 years of human history.
2. It will happen overnight with sudden effects.
3. It will be irreversible and continue for 1000s of years.
4. It will destroy human civilisation because it will be impossible to grow food in northern Europe - temperatures would drop by 3.4°C. Enough to half the amount of land where you can grow wheat.
5. 100s of millions of Europeans will have to move or starve to death. Those that move will be subject to holocaust events created by warlords and/or fascistic regimes.
6. Coastal cities will have to be evacuated
7. Monsoons in the tropics will collapse, resulting in 100s of millions more refugees.

This is just the beginning - the collapse also will feed into other disastrous climate tipping points like the collapse of the Amazon rainforest. We are looking at billions of deaths and possible effective extinction this century - that now has to be the main concern.

Last but not least, the above scenario is a conservative prediction because it doesn't take into account the non-linear effects of other systems on the AMOC collapse date (e.g the collapse of ice cover in the Arctic, methane release, and mega forest fires).

Why is no one talking about this?
Why aren't there emergency conferences of Europe's farmers?
Why aren't the media going on strike till the government acts?
Why aren't there mass sit-downs in cities for weeks on end?

Because repressed scientists just say that it's "kind of scary" - like saying Auschwitz was "kinda of unpleasant".

The situation is totally fucked.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Ah yeah I thought it was a good idea to save the planet and the billions of people on it from the disastrous effects of climate breakdown. But Westminster groupthink has decided it’s “out of fashion” so it’s probably fine to forget it!

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

You can sign the petition here

https://t.co/YDz5Qyrtyq

[Anna Moss @monkeymansions]

It’s so rare to hear anyone articulate the depth of crisis faced by local government and communities outside of London that feel this definitely deserves a share!

[The Poke @ThePoke]

Armando Iannucci on the state we’re in now is magnificently, devastatingly done
https://t.co/DwSkcr7Nhk

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

A petition has been launched asking for jurors in rape trials to complete mandatory training on rape myths as research shows that many jurors accept widely held false beliefs about rape, rapists and victims. More info here 👇🏾https://t.co/VOjlsID7QX