Susan Board, PhD

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Just had to turn off #radio4 - how is it balance to have Jenrick then Farage spout garbage? protecting women FFS! Start looking closer to home ie violence is perpetrated in the home and by thugs outside the hotels

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’, hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

- Plastic production soared more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says expert review in @thelancet.com

#plasticstreaty
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£50 million - or £46million - on unusable PPE. It’s outrageous: so many died and another reason why the UK economy is dire. And they’ve just got away with it..??

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Oh listen - a woman with integrity

Time to get thinking caps on and your pens or keyboards out folks

Deadline August 27th

£1,000 worth of prizes

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Important to note that the UK government's £22bn carbon capture scheme was the outcome of intense lobbying by the fossil fuel industry.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.

In light of Israel starving the population of Gaza

Dr Amir Khan explains what happens when a human being starves

"Right now children in Gaza are feeling this right now. This is not a natural death, it's a man made one. And it's preventable. Let aid in"

Just seen a clip of my MP Peter Kyle talking about his anxiety of what we are viewing from Gaza … So this piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is an antidote to that. And still no action

Tilting at windmills? Trump’s claims about turbines fact-checked The US president has taken a swipe at wind power as the blades visible from his Turnberry golf course turn

Tilting at windmills? Trump’s claims about turbines fact-checked.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When the left riots* the question is "what's wrong with the left?"

When the right riots* the question is "what's wrong with the country?"

*What constitutes a "riot" can also be wildly different. We're moral panicking over sings at left wing protests as right wing thugs fight cops.

‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors

This is grim reading.
Huge housing estates with nothing other than houses and car parking, designed to lock in car dependency.
A complete failure of the planning system.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Using ChatGPT at this intensity seems a lot more work!

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

The Guardian just dropped a bombshell: 4 in 10 UK riot suspects were reported for domestic abuse.
This is what unchecked misogyny looks like.
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This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through June 2025. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 430 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1934 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 339 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA ESRL. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

It's time for your monthly climate change update: 🫣

+ Global temperature: 📈
+ Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈
+ Methane (CH₄): 📈
+ Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈

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Supporting the right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action, says human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.

Read Clive's full op-ed 👇
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Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza UN secretary general warns ‘last lifelines’ may soon collapse after Israeli forces attack WHO facilities in Deir al-Balah

Children are dying of starvation, many are severely malnourished and medical staff becoming too malnourished to work while aid is withheld other than Israel sanctioned sites where people risk being shot. This scale of suffering is utterly inhumane - when will governments act?

Governments must bring whatever maximal pressure is available to them to end this starvation and dehumanisation.

this must go far further than strongly worded statements or hand wringing.

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A screenshot of The Guardian’s homepage. It says: Middle East Crisis Live. There is a photo of a woman holding a severely emaciated child.

In 2025, you can watch a genocide live. It’s entirely right the media should report on Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians but “live feeds” sums up the horror: the world watches fellow human beings starve as those with power do nothing.

UK’s aid cuts ‘will hit children’s education and raise risk of death’ Cutting aid budget to 0.3% of national income will hurt many African countries, says FCDO impact assessment

“We are modernising our approach to international development” claims Govt. No, you’re eviscerating it, with your own impact assessment showing most vulnerable communities hit hardest, increasing suffering & driving global insecurity. Ministers should hang their heads in shame @oxfamgb.bsky.social

Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why.
This week's column:
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This is such an important resource!

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast

If we can't even protect our national parks, what future is there for the UK's desperately impoverished countryside

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Rhetoric from Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Rayner has pitted nature as a blocker to development. But the government’s own impact assessment states there is almost no evidence for this claim.

Rachel Reeves has sold out There was much in Rachel Reeves' Mansion House speech last night that was neoliberal to the core. Except for the fact that Rachel Reeves clearly presented it, anyone might have assumed that George Osb...

Rachel Reeves' Mansion House speech, made last night, made it quite clear that the Labour government is now being run solely in the interests of the City of London. We will all pay a heavy price for that. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...