Devastated to hear that The Electric is closing its doors for the foreseeable future, and potentially for good. After the budget cut announcement for our city's arts and culture venues, this comes as a further blow for Brum and our city's indie scene 💔
A Met police officer has been convicted of multiple counts of rape. When he was hired — which was AFTER a serving police officer raped and killed Sarah Everard — he had already faced charges of raping a child. Absolutely fuck this.
🔺EXC: Anorexic woman, 24, who had been "begging" NHS eating disorder units to admit her for weeks & who could die in “days or even hours” can be discharged to "palliative care", a judge has ruled @carolinenokes@danny__kruger@rcpsychEDFac@Capacitylaw
https://t.co/T02OXfI3hU
My absolute favourite part of the new Network North document - which is almost insulting in the way it tries to convince northerners they haven’t been shafted by HS2 cancellation - is the part where they promise…
To fix potholes in the South of England.
@WarrenJWells although it's 50% boy protagonists, the Narnia series has great girl characters. then Matilda, Madeline, The Secret Garden, A little Princess, Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children, A series of unfortunate events, alice in wonderland, Heidi, Ballet shoes
Sexual assault facts: Most victims don’t report. Most delay disclosing or reporting, or never report. 83% of Australian women assaulted didn’t report their most recent incident of SA to police. 4 in 10 didn’t seek advice or help from others.
https://t.co/e9qTvZjWC6 @AICriminology
F* it all the people who are asking why women didn’t come forward sooner. Because girls and women are not believed, called hysterical and because there is so much inherent bias in the way the society ‘judges’ womens’s testimonies about their own bodies.