Sarah Woolley

Pretty sure she wouldn’t call a tomahawk missile blowing up a school in HER neighbourhood “realities of war”

The discovery of the man, who was wearing nothing but a £200 XXL wetsuit, sparked extensive police searches and international appeals, but no loved ones have ever come forward.

"The wetsuit that he was wearing was classed as an XXL size which gave us a weight range of approximately 200 to 220 pounds," Ponting said.

In today's episode of 'BBC journalists misunderstanding stuff': at the start of this article I wondered what the price of the wetsuit had to do with it, then towards the end all became clear.

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Princess Kate celebrates 'quiet strength' in heartfelt International Women’s Day message The Princess of Wales took to Instagram on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day and honour the "quiet strength" of women who make up our families and communities

“Quiet strength” has convinced me she’s using Chat GPT to string a sentence together.
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I saw Stuart Lee live the other day and he mentioned Bowie being a dirty old man with underage girls. Refreshing tbh.

David Bowie's daughter Lexi reveals father 'forcibly' sent her to treatment cent 'When the party ended for everyone else, I kept going.’

Wasn’t exactly known for treating 14 year old girls well was he metro.co.uk/2026/02/23/d...

My tweets read: “Giles Coren picked a fight with a dead woman and lost.” And “Ultimately, this was never about civility online.This was the establishment's afterbirth trying to put a brilliant working-class woman in her place.He failed.” #DawnFosterForever

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It really bothered me at the time but we were up to our eyes arranging Dawn’s funeral. Still, I think it’s important to remember what pushes that sad little man’s buttons….

Dawn Foster tweet from 2020 read “I see the "If I've heard of your da, I don't need to hear from you" rule* is pertinent again. *Handful of exceptions including Jesus and the Foot family”

A handful of big names -who didn’t know Dawn well -were sharing the dad tweet & that became the story.

The Mail then said she claimed Coren only got a job bc his dad was famous (not what she tweeted)

I contacted IPSO & they said it was fine to lie about it bc other papers made that bit up too 👍

The only direct interaction that Dawn ever had with Coren was about Rupert Myers harassing women….When he celebrated her death people focused on a different tweet about his dad being famous (one that didn’t even @ him) but that’s not the one that got under his skin….

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the fact that someone went onto God's Own Internet and wrote the words "Tourette's booth" and thought they were doing Good Thinking

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

we've ended up with an entire government that has no vision beyond crushing anyone and anything vaguely associated with the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 and is therefore delighted to appoint people like Peter Mandelson and Josh Simons to high office

BBC correspondents discussing whether this was the most “civilised” way to arrest Andrew and that Charles doesnt want him living “on the streets.” Magnificent stuff.

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

You don’t get points for publicly exposing one important friend of Jeffrey if it then emerges most of the media/political class was 100% on board with secret wrecking campaigns and relentless lying to the public that was being orchestrated under the table by Peter Mandelson, do you.

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I think we have a new winner.

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang".

Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.

... rather than fund these kinds of online projects to create these spaces for online youth work, or to properly regulate SM companies, or even set up their own, they just talk about bans. It's never about increasing a capacity to act, just clumsily obviating 'harms'.

In the research into online sex and relationships young people are always saying how much they value user generated content from social media (but that of they want advice they'll go to websites like BISH). They need safe spaces online to do this (would also recommend The Mix and Scarleteen), but

it's very instructive that all hell breaks loose when the sunday times does it, especially since it makes it clear where the boundaries of omerta lie

Time to reshare my "Don Draper pitches Jared Leto" memes.

There were some otherworldly sets that made me very nostalgic for the 2000 adaptation of Gormenghast, especially when Clunes was surrounded by bottles.

The sticky eggs, the grass scene…I love how visceral it was about bodies and sex. Domestic work, too. Reminded me of reading gothic novels and wondering what was hidden in the white writing when it came to women sweating and bleeding.

Jacob Elord looks composed as Heathcliff on a fine silk sofa

I adored Wuthering Heights (hated Saltburn and love the book) 8/10

- Elordi is fantastic & made me wonder how Colin Farrell would have played Heathcliff

- Alison Oliver got the big laughs

- A period drama that isn’t married to realistic set design, hurrah!

- Martin Clunes!

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

If we’d learned in 2018 that e.g. Seumas Milne was passing privileged government info to a secret network of influence-peddling sex offenders led by the world’s most notorious nonce - do you think the lads would struggle to understand why that had grave implications, far beyond Milne’s office?

Screenshot from link text reads: “His reputation as a skilled campaign strategist was further cemented in Barking and Dagenham, where the far-right, anti-immigrant British National Party was gaining support and hoping to win its first parliamentary seat 2010. McSweeney played a key role in the fight to defeat the BNP in the area, with a campaign which focused on local issues.”

And I played a “key role” in the 2012 Olympics because I was living in London.
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