Georgina Roche

1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵

Short-term, fragmented approach to funding is jeopardising government target to halve VAWG, says parliamentary committee | End Violence Against Women Today (11th July 2025) a parliamentary committee has raised the alarm about the government’s fragmented, short-term approach to funding work to end violence against women and girls (VAWG) – jeopardisi...

NEW: Home Affairs Committee finds lack of coordinated, strategic funding approach is jeopardising work to end violence against women.

Echoing specialist VAWG orgs, the commitee calls for 3-5 year funding settlements and ring-fenced funding for specialist services led by and for marginalised women.

Join me today for a free workshop on cyanotyping at @landworkersuk.bsky.social land skills fair in the kids area!

What about organic farmers? Have they also been sold this toxic sludge? As in, is there any way to avoid eating veg grown in microplastics?

Outrageous that this was ever allowed. Water companies are misleading farmers, selling them toxic sewage sludge containing tonnes of microplastics as a 'cheap fertiliser'...

Very excited to see Three Acres + A Cow performing tomorrow at the #LandSkillsFair at Crops Not Shops -- it comes with the review "Everybody should see this show" from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @landworkersuk.bsky.social

Leveson Review: Urgent action needed to address courts crisis | End Violence Against Women Today (9th July 2025) the Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part I has been published. Led by Sir Brian Leveson, the review outlines major structural reforms aimed at addressing delays and in...

We welcome the Leveson Review’s wide-reaching recommendations to address the Crown Courts crisis.

Extended delays to victims’ cases have not only left rape survivors without access to justice but caused them considerable harm and suffering. Urgent change is needed

Really enjoyed editing this paper exploring the social and behavioural science around risk communication and community engagement for experimental vaccines during health emergencies recently.

It's a controversial topic. What are your thoughts on experimental vaccines?

#RCCE #SBS #Covid19 #ebola

Baroness Bertin will give evidence to the @commonswec.parliament.uk this week.

🔗 committees.parliament.uk/event/23505/...

They want to find out more about how the availability of violent porn is contributing to #sexist & #misogynistic attitudes for their #misogyny inquiry.

#BertinReview

‘Staying silent is no longer an option’: female police of... When a domestic abuser is also a fellow police officer, victims have been subjected to further trauma as forces close ranks against them. Now survivors a...

Important podcast by @everebecca.bsky.social who spent months speaking to policewomen abused by their police office partners. Particularly interesting insight into how forces responded to murder of Sarah Everard

Listen to the podcast here: t.co/7eJuVEiQWF
Eve's story for the Observer:

Excited to listen to the podcast and learn more! Who created the wonderful animation please?

An exhilaratingly edifying read from @jasonhickel.bsky.social with a hopeful vision for the present/future and clear guidance on how to get there. Read and share!

Most women in England and Wales have seen abusive male behaviour in past year, says poll Exclusive: Survey reveals 69% have experienced sexual harassment, domestic abuse, violence, stalking or other offences

Met police lead on VAWG is right to call for more 'societal outrage' on VAWG. High levels of societal tolerance are a part of the problem and outrage is the antidote @theguardian.com @jessasatomp.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Verge of Harming Phase 2 resource: Empowering Engagement Practice resource for domestic abuse frontline and other professionals supporting young people who are using harmful behaviours in their relationships.

safelives.org.uk/resources-li... Everything you need to know to effectively support young people using abusive behaviours in intimate relationships is in this toolkit --> an invaluable resource for anyone working with young people @safelives.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Intensive agriculture could lead to the loss of 500 bird species -- but the return of the bittern in Somerset gives us hope that we can reverse this trend by restoring habitats and encouraging regenerative ag @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Opinion | Domestic Violence Support Is Unraveling Funding cuts are harming domestic violence programs.

“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.