@fionasheil.bsky.social
Feminist researcher and strategist. Andean cyclist. Environmental activist. Founding an inclusive system change think tank to end violence against women and girls. Because it’s long past time we did.
Absolutely!
I absolutely agree with Esther Rantzen’s point that MPs aren’t being honest about how religion shapes their opposition to assisted dying. This is dishonest, especially when hidden under other supposed concerns. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Wow, what an incredible archival resource. Huge thanks to @inquest-org.bsky.social for compiling and making it publicly available.
Bid writing is TERRIBLE and STUPID in its level of waste and irrelevance. And I say this as someone who writes for a living.
Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher.
Regulate vehicle size now.
does CPS really have nothing better to do than prosecuting a woman for 'illegally taking abortion pills' during the lockdown /// despite the fact that the crown's own estimate is that the foetus was around 22 weeks and termination is legal up to the 23rd week www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Starmer takes a lot of flak for lacking a clear animating purpose ... But on clean energy & climate action he has been ...much more ambitious than he is given credit for".
Interesting & encouraging piece by @james-bg.bsky.social of @businessgreen.bsky.social.
www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...
Today, on #LesbianVisibilityDay, join us to celebrate the strength, courage and resilience of our Rainbow Sisters. 🏳️🌈
Rainbow Sisters is our vibrant, supportive community for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary individuals who are seeking safety in the UK.
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The energy at the edges - a new post with some thoughts on the vitality at the edges of the system.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
We must challenge the growing power of the super rich over our politics and stop them blocking the changes we need for a just, sustainable future.
Donate today to our #ExtremeWealthLine campaign and your donation will be doubled thanks to the Big Give. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
What a brave, brave, brave woman. She deserved peace. She deserved so much better. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“In adult prisons, Pava spray is deployed disproportionately — particularly against Black and Muslim men.” —Meka Beresford, ARE Head of Policy
Due to a surge in violence in #YouthOffender Institutions, the gov’t will now trial PAVA spray on children as young as 14.
On Tuesday we will be holding a session looking into misogyny in young men and boys.
Witnesses include executive producers of @netflix.com show Adolescence Jack Thorne and Emily Feller, as well as experts working in education and on gender equality.
Full details below 👇
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Isn’t it time that illegal behaviour was treated as, well, illegal?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📢FOI in the News!
Thousands of trafficking victims reject government support for fear of deportation according to new FOI data obtained by the Observer and anti-slavery charity After Exploitation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
#Refugees #HomeOffice #joinCFOI #accountability
My plans for some of our key missions and goals in the next years of @giwlkings.bsky.social
I think the funniest thing that happened after the Drump Tariff stupidity is how chinese factories are now unveiling how the American middle men have been taking a huge cut on your goods and persuading Americans to buy directly from China. I am not even sure what to call this...
Ever thus
UK regulator to investigate Ernst & Young 2015-18 audits of the Post Office.
Despite public evidence of failures, it did nothing. Now responding to pressure in parliament.
Why only 2015-18? Flawed accounting system resulted in false accounts & postmaster prosecutions years before.
Token inquiry?
UK median wage, £29,628. Net pay, £24,852; barely enough to survive.
Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Bottom 50% less than 5%.
Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%.
Workers need higher share of GDP. Progressive taxation.
My co-written book with @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social will be launched on 3rd July in Central London. To book your place, go to bit.ly/PlanetPatria...
£5bn disability benefit cuts will push 250,000 into poverty. Women—especially Disabled women and unpaid carers—will be hardest hit. Why target the most vulnerable?
WBG Director @maryannstephenson.bsky.social sets out the case for fairer choices: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
And here is the @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk guide to using the @transportforlondon.bsky.social cycle shuttle bus. #Disability #Cycling #Silvertown wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/silvertown-t...
NEW: The Equality and Human Right Commission is investigating Labour’s benefits cuts for potentially breaching the Equality Act. Spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.
This feels like a good analogy for VAWG public policy. Supposedly it wants to keep women and girls safe, but drives roughshod over their choices and realities to get there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stop focusing on masculinity & start focusing on human rights www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolesc...
Beautifully written!
On Wednesday I urged the Government to support my amendment to the ER Bill to extend the ban on NDAs in cases of harassment to the entire workforce.
This could be the Government that ends these abuses of NDAs for good. Victims continue to be hurt day after day. Now is the time to sort this out.
