Stephanie Cole

Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 6.5% of the true number of cases

The role male violence plays in women's suicides and mental health is so overlooked. Really important reporting by @hannahalothman.bsky.social and Geraldine McElvie www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

There will be a public meeting for the Double Injustice campaign on 13 March, follow us for further updates.
And go here for more details:
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Today, we launch a new campaign: Double Injustice.
Naomi Hunte and Fiona Holm were killed by the same violent partner. On both occasions, the police knew about risks to their lives but did not take any effective action, and both times the result was the woman’s death.

Both deaths were preventable.

'The Local Power Plan is launching an ownership revolution' - LabourList The Local Power Plan is the biggest expansion of community-owned energy in our country’s history, empowering communities to shape their own futures.

When we published our Feminist Green New Deal in 2022, we made a clear call: democratise ownership of our energy system.

Since then, the cost-of-living crisis has deepened, with soaring energy bills at its heart.

The Local Power Plan is a major step forward toward fairer, community-owned energy.

Sexual violence can affect anyone.

You can use the Support Line if you don't have leave to remain in the UK, or your immigration status is insecure.

You can ask to speak to us in another language, and we'll try to find you an interpreter. Call 0808 500 2222 or visit 247sexualabusesupport.org.uk

BBC Sounds page for Woman’s Hour radio programme, episode first broadcast 16 Feb 2026.

🚨 New research exposes the scale of underreported abuse-related suicides.

Dr Hannana Siddiqui of SBS spoke to BBC Woman's Hour on the urgent need for action to prevent abuse-related suicides & hold perpetrators accountable.

📻 Listen to the interview (19:11-31:44) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 1/4

Transform Resources into Power – Community Organising Foundations Power is fundamental to take action. Learn to identify your resources, understand where power lies, and build strategy to win.

Learn how to turn the resources your community already has into the power you need to win in our forthcoming workshop on 17th March 💪

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#Power #CommunityOrganiser #Campaigner #Campaigns #Activist

A coaching approach (March 2026) — Yes We Can A coaching approach aims to give you the skills, tools, mindset and confidence to adopt a coaching approach and create a coaching culture. It is a practical and participative programme of two half-da...

A coaching approach is a short programme we at @ywccommunity.bsky.social are running in March. You’ll learn five building blocks of a great conversation, coaching conversations and models, benefits of a coaching approach and when it might not help www.yeswecan.community/events/coach...

How anti-migrant groups are hijacking women’s rights to promote their agenda Experts and women’s rights groups warn sexual violence and child safety narratives are being ‘weaponised to promote anti-migrant agendas’

“Violence against women & girls is perpetrated by men of all backgrounds- the vast majority of rapes are perpetrated by someone known to the victim."

Co opting inaccurate & racist anti-migration rhetoric hurts all women, especially Black & brown women.

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Sorry, just spotted this. I'll do my best to add it somewhere...!

Oh! That’s a different story altogether. Have a good trip!!

The ferry is off! I spotted a Chronicle headline earlier … there was damage to ten north ferry landing in last week’s storm. Nightmare.

The homepage of Barking and Dagenham Star, with headlines about council finances, beavers and wild storks rewilding Dagenham, boosts for the boroughs shopping areas

Excited to announce today the launch of our new news website @banddstar.bsky.social!

You can find it here: barkingstar.co.uk

It joins @walthamforestecho.bsky.social, @enfielddispatch.bsky.social, @barnetpost.bsky.social, @haringeycp.bsky.social, @newhamvoices.bsky.social and @ec1echo.bsky.social

Women were engineered out of the workforce. It wasn't an accident. The myth of the housewife as some natural and eternal state of being is one that drives me up the wall every time.
Full episode out soon, sign up at broadhistory.com.

'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
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Still, handy to know that a vote for @greenparty.org.uk is a vote for the gambling industry lobby, which makes a profit £14b a year. Ladbrokes do things like paying £1m to the victims of a thief who had a gambling addiction in return for not being reported to the gambling commission. Cool, cool.

Does @greenparty.org.uk have even the faintest idea how much hardship is caused by and how many suicides are linked to gambling? Extraordinarily irresponsible

Right 👍

What if we enlarged the human element in 2026, refusing to subordinate it to process and protocol?

relationshipsproject.org/make-yoursel...

#relational
#relationships

How to activate citizen agency If communities have half the answer, what is the other half?

📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣

A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n

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Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses

"In the latest move in Labour’s drive to inject AI into Britain’s bloodstream, the government has announced three US tech companies ... have agreed to help as the council pushes to apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses in Barnsley" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I read a dystopian novel a year or so ago that was all about sponsorship of towns and villages by corporates…frightening

Change doesn’t start with systems. It starts with relationships.

We've assembled 10 funders who are getting into the possibilities of relational funding over a year-long programme – testing approaches and working through challenges together. On Friday, the cohort came together for the 1st time.

Nice. And useful. Can we use in one of our leadership frameworks? I think maybe Best Self 🤔

Sweeping statement/generalisation warning 🚨

It is unbelievable to me we - women and men alike - allow men to hold any positions of power or leadership. We know men are too emotional, untrustworthy, unsafe, reckless, immature, incompetent, incapable for the job. A danger to themselves and others.

Thanks for this thread. It’s one of the few articulations of how fucking furious I am about all this absolute bullshit. What a total shit show.

At what point are we allowed to say that this is not the Epstein rot, or the Saville rot, or the Weinstein rot, or the Cosby rot, or the Worboys rot, or the Pelicot rot, or the Nassar rot, or the Sandusky rot, or the Watkins rot, or the Raniere rot, or the Jeffs rot, or th

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When I say "feminism is the radical notion that women are people" most people laugh, because they utterly fail to understand just how radical a notion that is.

Jesus fucking Christ. Will men not give up even the tiniest bit of gratification or prestige when women are being locked up & left to die?

The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter Letter: Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an article on the Taliban’s birth control ban

Gender genocide in Afghanistan: "after the demise of the present generation of female doctors, midwives, surgeons and nurses who are still permitted to work, women will receive no medical aid whatsoever."