🚨25 women and have already been killed in 2025. 103 women and 16 children were killed in 2024. Men’s violence against women is domestic terrorism.
Women and children‘s safety needs to take centre stage in this election yet neither major party has announced any additional measures.

Its defence by defamation. All defences should be evidence led, not a process of smearing and baiting

I should add that I spent hours and hours in courtrooms as a reporter in London and before that as a member of court staff in Leeds. These aren't rogue examples – this archaic way of treating people who even might be victims of serious offences is the norm.

An accountant hit his wife. Why did their community take his side? A Wiltshire man was found guilty of battery. But the road to justice for his ex-wife was tough — and thousands face the same obstacles

Here's another example from a court report by Saman Javed at Hyphen, where a domestic abuse survivor is told by a barrister: "If he did assault you, you would have contacted the police." Repeating the trauma she'd already experienced. It's garbage.

hyphenonline.com/2024/12/17/h...

Guardian journalist on Noel Clarke investigation: 'I felt that it was a story to be made public' Guardian journalist Sirin Kale gives evidence in the High Court about carrying out an investigation into actor Noel Clarke.

Every time I read a transcript of a cross-examination I'm astonished that bullying and belittling people is still seen as an acceptable or reliable way to elicit information in a courtroom. (short thread 🧵)

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Inside massacre of Gaza aid workers found dead and buried with hands bound Bodies were found a week after Civil Defense and Palestinian Red Crescent crew members went on rescue mission to Rafah

Inside massacre of Gaza aid workers found dead and buried with hands bound

“Nothing compared to this… the numbers of children who were severely injured.”

Irish trauma surgeon Dr Morgan McMonagle tells
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social the number of casualties at Nasser Hospital were “by far the worst” in his medical career.

#Newsnight

Russell Brand charged by the Metropolitan Police Service The CPS has authorised the charges following an investigation by detectives

Contempt rules now apply news.met.police.uk/news/russell...

MP Dan Norris suspended from Labour Party after arrest A spokesperson for Labour says Dan Norris has been suspended from the party after being arrested.

This is horrifying www.bbc.com/news/article...

Point worth remembering is that abusers are charming & manipulative, and that’s how they get access to victims, and that’s how they often get away with it for a long time.

Kyiv after Russian attack 🙏

Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

I thought I'd seen it all from the Home Office.
But denying asylum to women who stand up for their rights from Afghanistan!
'It is considered you do not face a real risk of harm,' officials wrote.
Have they seen what the Taliban does to women who resist??
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

This is really bad - women are not safe in a fundamentalist theocratic regime which denies women the right to education & free movement

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You know what's on my mind today?

Pictures and videos of murdered children, calls for empathy and humane-ness don't work and do not protect other kids - ones who are still alive.

Those who make the decisions don't watch them. They do not react and they use other motives for action.⤵️

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth

Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem.

It must not mean more austerity and benefit cuts.

Must mean direct state investment in infrastructure, not PFI.

Must mean redistribution of wealth to boost spending power of the bottom 50% of the population.

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

Agnes Wanjiru’s family sue MoD over ‘soldier murder cover-up’ Britain has been accused after claiming ‘sovereign immunity’ in the case after wide circulation of the suspect’s name

It’s shameful how Agnes’s family have been treated and how they still don’t have justice

Agnes Wanjiru’s family sue MoD over ‘soldier murder cover-up’

www.thetimes.com/article/eecb...

YouTube video by Des'ree - Topic You Gotta Be

To anyone who needs to hear this today ❤️
@sheraresearch.bsky.social @drproudman.bsky.social @drsayebkarlsson.bsky.social @shadowsofcontrol.bsky.social @oneclickboedice.bsky.social @sarahtaylor82.bsky.social @holistichv.bsky.social @wild-consultancy.bsky.social

music.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf6N...

Williams saying the court and social workers couldnt be expected to be aware of Mr Sharifs long history of violence shows how the courts cover up dom abuse repeatedly and hide it from record by denying ff

The police should be all over expert witness fraud in family court cases. In our experience they are part of the human trafficking ring operating in the family courts.‬

Sharif hearing opens Court of Appeal to decide whether judges can be named

Three appeal judges will begin considering this morning whether reporters can name judges who heard proceedings between 2012 and 2019 involving the family of the murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/sharif-hea...

Labour MPs warn Reeves against spending cuts in response to borrowing costs Stella Creasy and Rachael Maskell warn against making spending cuts to ease budgetary woes, suggesting tax rises would be preferable

UK Ministers in limbo over 'ruthless' spending cuts - as Labour dissent grows.

After 14 yrs of austerity, can't cut your way to growth.

Govt boxed in by silly promises of reducing debt, no increase in most taxes.

Can't rebuild without public investment and eradicating poverty.
archive.ph/2D0Nq

Join us for a vigil in memory of Harshita Brella to honour her life and demand justice for her murder. Friday, 24th January 2025, 3.30pm Brisbane Road, Ilford IG1 4HB

📢 Come in solidarity.

Join us in Ilford at 3.30pm on Friday, 24th January to mourn the tragic loss of Harshita’s life due to domestic abuse and to demand justice for her horrific murder and the statutory failings that contributed to it. 1/3

Sexual violence victims don’t come forward, because coming forward means facing more scrutiny and cruelty than the person who violated you ever will.

Well well well

Because of her appearance on Newsnight last night, Betty Brown was invited to meet the Post Office Minister today

Update tonight 1030pm BBC 2 & BBC News

'How's that on a scale of medieval misogyny?'

Ian Hislop tells Andrew Marr that Elon Musk is 'riddled with contradictions'.

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic People having to pull out their own teeth with pliers is not Victorian - it’s medieval

🚨People suffering excruciating pain forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers

🚨A staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one

IT’S MEDIEVAL. Please join me in backing @thebda.bsky.social in its call for urgent action

youtu.be/UtqAtGAnuC0?...

How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.

UK laws can't prevent billionaires/Musk from funding political parties.

Payments can be routed through UK friends, corporate subsidiaries. Shell companies have been used.

UK profits can be manufactured to make donations.

Total ban is the only effective remedy.
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