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Sarah O'Connell

2 years

My article talking to (or listening to) Mark, a London gang member, who has lost over 15 friends and acquaintances to knife crime.

Violence is part of this London gang member's daily life - and now he's ready to talk about it

2021 has been the worst year for teenage killings in London. A stabbing in Hillingdon on 30 December which occurred less than an hour after another in Croydon took the total in the capital to 30.

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Sarah O'Connell

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1 year

Convicted paedophile given custody of young girl and gets her pregnant - as authorities believe 'he poses low risk to kids.' This kind of custody ‘agreement’ - children being handed to abusive men - is (horrifyingly) happening a lot up and down the UK.

Convicted paedophile given custody of young girl and gets her pregnant - as authorities believe 'he...

A convicted child sex offender was given custody of a child before getting her pregnant, despite authorities knowing about his criminal record, a report has found.

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Sarah O'Connell

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10 months

This woman should be sent around schools to give workshops to girls on how to excel in fabulousness.

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10 months

Would you wife a woman with a high body count?

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@MaggieOliverUK Thank you too, @MaggieOliverUK and @PendleburyRick for all your invaluable help with getting these horrific stories to air.

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8 months

I too have signed an NDA - which I’m breaching right now - but mine was with BBC News, not ITN. The whole experience almost destroyed me. And shattered my career for a decade. But journalists must be willing to fight for themselves if they have any hope of fighting for others.

Daisy Ayliffe

@daisyayliffe

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My article in @spectator is now free to read. Thank you to everyone has sent me kind comments, they really mean a lot. Thank you also to @FraserNelson for believing us, caring about this and allowing me to write.

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2 years

Whatever your thoughts on the monarchy or the Queen it’s ridiculous and outrageous to arrest someone for holding a sign that asks for abolition.

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BREAKING: Woman arrested after holding 'abolish monarchy' sign in Edinburgh.

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The news reports that 40% of households will enter fuel poverty after the price rises kick in later this year. That’s almost half the population. In one of the richest countries in the world. What is the point of working if you can’t heat your home? It’s not just about benefits.

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“If you’re not travelling it can be classed as loitering.” Is this type of attitude really necessary towards a pedestrian asking a few questions? It appears to be so deliberately intimidating. And just the opposite of good public relations.

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Police just stopped a crying woman at brighton station and started taking her away, I asked her if she was okay and more police came and were physically obstructing me saying I was obstructing the law by asking if she was ok and they said “she’s fine she’s fine” when she said no

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Robert Jenrick on BBC saying that people who've 'fallen between the cracks' in respect of cost of living should 'phone the council.' There speaks a man who's never waited for hours on a phone trying to get through to the council. And does he think they will hand a cheque over?

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2 years

@MForstater @carlinbris And let’s include news editors in this. For too long now the majority have stayed silent - or allowed this dangerous distortion of words and their meaning to take place. I have seen and heard so much fear in journalists about speaking out. Enough. We are meant to deal in truths.

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The Met police frequently strip-search young, black lads in police vans. I know this because they tell me. They’re told “either custody suite or back of van”and they choose the van because they’ll get away quicker. It’s humiliating for them. And illegal. But nobody seems to care.

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It said it was highly likely that "adultification bias" was a factor - where adults perceive black children as being older than they are because they see them as more "streetwise".

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Despite telling officers repeatedly that he could not breathe Mr Taylor was left lying on the street on one of the hottest days of the year without an inhaler, water or medical assistance. Police officers told him to “grow up” and to stop “acting up.”

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The inquest into the death of Ian Taylor, a 54 year-old Black British man from Brixton who died after suffering a cardiac arrest whilst being held by the Met, concluded yesterday. Police did not take him to hospital despite knowing ambulance was delayed

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1 year

“If you are British, the chances are that you will have a Barbour lurking somewhere in your house.” At around £270 for the basic coat, I doubt this. Gotta love the Telegraph for having no idea that half the country are struggling to spend £10 in Primark.🙄

Britons have long been excited by weatherproof clothing – and we love this brand more than any other

Not many British brands can boast of being family-owned, never mind for a fifth generation – but Barbour can

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1 year

“Cost of living” is to poverty, hunger and cold what “gig economy” is to slave wages and no workers rights. We - the media - use these phrases endlessly, myself included. But they sanitise and disguise the grim reality of what is happening to millions of people.

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10 months

👏👏👏 to Beth Rigby and her team for producing (and conducting) an incisive, fair, tenacious and exceptionally well informed interview on the trans/Self ID debate. It is long, long overdue that a senior TV News journalist does this.

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@SkyNews

10 months

Watch live as @BethRigby interviews the chair of Stonewall @iain_w_anderson about what it's like being caught up in a culture war, and if he thinks he’s winning. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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2 years

This debate is so depressing. All the stuff that matters - the myriad ways people are suffering with mental health care, housing, low pay, poverty, domestic abuse and rape - a criminal justice system that can’t deliver successful prosecutions, corrupted police. Nothing to say.

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1 year

These are really shocking scenes as the potential for danger is huge. You only have to look at the recent crushes outside Brixton’s academy to see how crowds like this can lead to tragedy.

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@khaiyamckenzie

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the state of london bridge station this evening, I love commuting x

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3 years

Please watch our film on how some courts are removing children from domestic abuse victims - and giving them to their abusers. ⁦ @LizLaneSky ⁩ ⁦ @JasonFarrellSky ⁩

'It's highly disturbing': Courts 'scandal' robbing domestic abuse victims of their children -...

Courts and councils are being accused of helping abusers land a huge psychological blow on the victim and their child, by separating them and severely damaging their lives.

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@Sarahcoconnell

4 years

@PoliceWarr What if you are not in control of your child? I have known mothers who have cowered in fear of their 15 year old son who will beat them without caring. Your tone is not necessary and leaves no room for discretion. Or understanding that some mothers are scared of their sons.

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2 years

It’s depressing how we - the news media - are now covering the barristers strike but we’ve largely ignored the impact of the decimation of legal aid + the effective collapse of the courts, prisons and probation services which has been taking place for at least the last 10 years.

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1 year

This is happening to hundreds of thousands of young Londoners - older ones too - but many young people will eventually leave a city that is simply unaffordable. Even if it’s home and always has been. It’s hugely unfair. Safe, appropriate housing should be available to all.

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6 years

@HadleyFreeman @PeterTatchell Depressing how quickly men will turn on women if they feel challenged by them. Peter Tatchell’s attitude here though is just hideous and merely an attempt to divide (and rule no doubt) the feminist movement.

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@Kwajotweneboa It is still shocking to me that someone can be designated officially homeless but not in “priority need.” How much more need can you be in?

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McDonalds are going to “work with the council” to find housing for this homeless man? There speaks a PR Executive who has clearly never come within twenty miles of a housing officer in a council. It’s going to be a very steep learning curve. 😬

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@GBNewsSpin @damocrat @FirehorseP @crisis_uk @Shelter We are shocked and saddened by this incident. The third party security guards involved have been permanently removed from our restaurants and the restaurant team has been reminded of the importance of treating all people with respect, including vulnerable people both in the

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10 months

"Instead of providing an unconscious female with medical attention they thought, 'I know let's take her clothes off instead and leave her there'.” Please watch our film on the behaviour of GMP in one station. ⁦ @JasonFarrellSky ⁩ ⁦ @LizLaneSky ⁩

'Stripped and left topless in a cell, I was drugged and sexually assaulted by Greater Manchester...

Zayna Iman, 38, has obtained CCTV of her 40-hour detention but there are three hours of missing footage.

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@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

“Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child.” What a horrific beginning in the U.K. for him. And now he’s “Sir Mo.” Can’t help but think that others with an equivalent story might be denied passports and sent to deportation centres.

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3 years

@KateLNER1 @amscanlon Please can you let me know exactly where LNER believes it got it wrong here, Kate? I’m just trying to clarify what the apology refers to. Do you agree with your company’s previous tweet apologising for using the words “ladies and gentlemen”?

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1 year

The live stream of the judge’s words during the sentencing of Zara’s killer is incredibly grim to hear. It’s so bleak hearing the detail. The breakdown of how this man abducted and murdered her, brutally inflicting 46 injuries, in just 9 minutes. Horrific.

Jordan McSweeney stalked four other women on night of Zara Aleena’s murder

Women’s campaigners claim her death could have been avoided if police had arrested him hours earlier for breaching prison licence terms

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@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

Panorama doing an “expose” on Uber. Please. As if we didn’t know YEARS ago that the sudden proliferation of drivers who would take you from Hackney to Brixton for £7 (or whatever) wasn’t a massive concern and something that had to involve utterly shafting the drivers.

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1 year

Report on the BBC Ten saying 40% of people have asked for help to buy food or heating. The levels of anxiety and anguish in this nation must be off the scale. Then the BBC offers it’s website “tackling it together”to help. But websites don’t help. Money does. People need money.

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Two serving Met Police officers and a former officer have been charged with sending grossly offensive messages on WhatsApp after an investigation into the messages of Wayne Couzens. It feels like a constant stream of stories of misogyny from the MPS.

Met officers charged over WhatsApp messages

The charges relate to an inquiry into the phone records of Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens.

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@Sarahcoconnell

4 years

@VictoriaPeckham @DiscerningCrit1 I'm weary of all the cowardly editors and journalists who know that gender is not 'assigned at birth' (sex is observed at birth) yet they still trot out this ludicrous, factually inaccurate line - and must not be getting pulled up on it editorially, as it's repeated ad nauseam.

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3 years

Please join @CassandraCentre @vicderbyshire @HiboWardere and @MaggieOliverUK at "Heads Above the Parapet: Women Who Make Change" on March 8th. @EventbriteUK

Heads Above the Parapet: Women Who Make Change.

Heads Above the Parapet: Women Who Make Change Join Victoria Derbyshire, Hibo, Maggie and Jennifer for a virtual chat.

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2 years

⁦ @KwajoHousing ⁩ 😂

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‘We lost 72 beautiful people. For them, we keep fighting’: Grenfell survivors speak out five years on | Grenfell Tower fire | The Guardian

‘We lost 72 beautiful people. For them, we keep fighting’: Grenfell survivors speak out five years...

The tower’s former residents will never forget the fear and chaos of 14 June 2017, or the anger and grief that followed. They talk about the night when everything changed – and their long battles to...

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2 months

“The Metropolitan Police has launched an appeal for a woman who was last seen in central London nearly three weeks ago. Samira Ayanle, from Westminster, was last seen at her university accommodation near Marble Arch.” #FindSamira on 21 February.

Metropolitan Police appeal for missing Samira Ayanle from London

The 19-year-old, from Westminster, was reported missing on 8 March.

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6 years

@PeterTatchell You are being divisive. And unfair. At least own it. Have always admired and supported your work. But it makes this more depressing. And it has genuinely shocked me how so many men I thought so good - so supportive - will throw ALL women under the bus when push comes to shove.

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4 years

Food poverty is a real issue for many people, including women and children. The @casslearncentre has been distributing over 100 hot meals a week since lockdown began for victims of domestic abuse and other vulnerable people. Please watch our film and help support us if you can.

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Pls watch our film on ⁦ @gmpolice and their treatment of this young mum.⁩ Huge thanks to ⁦ @DannikaStewart for having the courage to speak on camera and ⁦ @PendleburyRick for his invaluable help.⁩ ⁦ @JasonFarrellSky ⁦ @LizLaneSky ⁩

Mother says she was forced to strip naked in Greater Manchester Police cell

An inquiry by Dame Vera Baird was sparked by a Sky News investigation into police strip searches and treatment of women in custody - with a number of people allegedly "targeted" for "standing up to...

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3 years

@ProfAliceS @ONS It’s great news but I wouldn’t describe it - as the Times headline does - as a “blow” to trans rights, because I’m not sure what trans people are losing here. Because surely, in truth, it’s to the benefit of trans people too that the census counts sex not gender?

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4 months

This is the kernel of all these issues, Rochdale, the Post Office, NHS scandals, care homes scandals, policing scandals. Whistleblowers are NOT protected. Everyone knows that if you stand up and speak out it will be you in the firing line next and nothing else will change.

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There must be nowhere to hide from the full force of the law, we invite the @UKHomeSecretary to meet to discuss #OfficeOfTheWhistleblower & stop the scandals #MrBatesvsPostOffice #GroomingGangs #Rochdale #Rotherham #Maternity @Sarahcoconnell @MaggieOliverUK @MaryRobinson01

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Police officer, 48, who formed relationship with vulnerable rape victim is jailed for three years

Police officer, 48, who had relationship with rape victim is jailed

Simon Rose, 48, a constable with Greater Manchester Police, was jailed for misconduct in public office after striking up a relationship with a vulnerable rape victim.

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“You can also be a refugee, forgive the term,” says Penny Mordaunt. As if the term ‘refugee’ is somehow a dirty word. People who are forced to flee war or persecution are refugees. The Ukrainians who flee are refugees. Why ask for forgiveness for stating a fact? #BBCQT

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“They’ve just hoped it would die and go away. They probably hoped I would die and go away. But I’ve not.” ⁦ @MaggieOliverUK ⁩ on the GMP apologies to 3 Rochdale CSE victims ten years later. Our report ⁦ @LizLaneSky ⁩ ⁦⁦ @JasonFarrellSky ⁩

Greater Manchester Police apologise for Rochdale sexual abuse case,...

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has apologised to three victims of child sexual grooming gangs in Rochdale.He admitted that the force could ...

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1 year

@AynieLR I hear from a lot of women who say their children are taken from their care - sometimes even when they have custody orders - and given to abusive exes. I think it’s fairly common. The family courts are so hidden and secretive too - they should, and must, be more transparent.

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A joyful photo for me. My ⁦ @JSchofieldTrust ⁩ mentee ⁦ @venetiamenzies ⁩ a talented journalist who works with the public interest at heart and young campaigner of the year ⁦ @KwajoHousing ⁩ who has more fire in his belly than some entire newsrooms. All hail 🙌🏼😂

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1 year

"People" don't need menstrual products. Women and girls need them. How can they aim to end the 'stigma' around menstruation when they can't bring themselves to say who has periods?

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Menstrual health is a human right, and periods are a normal part of human biology. Yet, 500 million people lack access to menstrual products and adequate facilities. On Sunday's #MenstrualHygieneDay , let's end the stigma around menstruation. via @UNFPA

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Labour is, sadly, so out of touch here. Housing impacts on mental health, employment, health, family cohesion and education. It makes a fundamental difference to people’s happiness and life chances and is a key issue for younger voters of all demographics.

Keir Starmer ignores the housing crisis at his peril

The Labour leader has unveiled his five “national missions”. Housing is nowhere to be seen.

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4 years

Being a girl is just an identity? Tell that to the 276 girls that were kidnapped, raped and enslaved by Boko Haram in Nigeria (amongst thousands of other girls who are raped and enslaved). Shouldn’t they have identified out of girlhood and then they would have been left in peace?

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2 years

“He said, ‘shut the f*** up, it’s not about you.’ I kept apologising. But I just kept thinking, ‘why am I apologising for telling an officer I was raped as a child?’” Watch our report on GMP apologies to Rochdale CSE victims. @JasonFarrellSky @LizLaneSky

Rochdale sex grooming victims receive apology from Greater Manchester Police

The apology comes a decade after the conviction of nine men for the sexual exploitation of children.

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@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

There’s such a chasm now between the experiences of home renters (both private and social) and home owners. News editors, who will invariably be home owners (and nice homes at that), should pay more attention to this stuff. Inadequate or insecure housing causes huge mental pain.

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This is what a house viewing now consists of in Dublin. Over 100 people waiting in line for a rental property

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It’s almost normalised. 1000 in Telford. 1400 in Rotherham. 100’s in Rochdale. Thousands of terrified young girls in all British cities and towns being exploited, raped, injected with drugs, passed round like packages. Police and social services failing everyone. And on it goes.

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Hard to understand why Telford scandal is not front of every paper. 1000 children.

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The fact that national news journalists tend to be much wealthier than Joe Public is so significant. Privileged people won’t feel these bill rises in the same way - or panic about them. Mainstream news media needs to get out and listen to “ordinary” people now more than ever.

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“I am virtually out of tools to help people now,” says the Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis says the UK is facing the worst cost of living crisis he has ever seen #Raworth

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“ UK tenants face blame for causing toxic mould and deadly hazards under new rules.” Tenants are constantly blamed already - “dry your clothes outside” to people with no garden. “Turn your heating up” to people in minus on metres. This just legitimises it.

UK tenants face blame for causing toxic mould and deadly hazards under new rules

Lessons from the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale ignored, say experts, as environmental health inspectors told to focus on lifestyle

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2 years

What you are doing is amazing @KwajoHousing but desperately worried and upset people should not have to reach out to a young, unpaid campaigner because they cannot get any solutions from landlords, councils and housing providers - who have a duty to provide safe, habitable homes.

KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner

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Since 8AM this morning 11 separate families have emailed me about their homes falling apart. In the last 24 hours it’s been 16 different families. (That doesn’t take into consideration my other social media platforms)

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It’s truly diabolical how quickly people can be rehoused once they’ve appeared on national tv news. It’s just so wrong that people have to do this in order to be heard .

Daniel Hewitt

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UPDATE: Julie was this morning offered a permanent, two-bedroom house by the management company who look after the mould-infested flat she is living in. Mears has agreed to pay for Julie’s removal costs and she is expecting to move in to the property by the end of next week.

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3 years

Horrifying rundown of all the legal cases this year - largely brought (or against) women who are fighting for legal reason against a pernicious ideology. Shocking, but what is more disturbing is how mainstream news media has turned a blind eye - mostly afraid to even cover it.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

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This is Not a Drill: 2020 in Review Gender critical case round up And now with pictures...in case you want to know what "a phalanx of wealthy, white, middle-class cis women" looks like

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Has anyone bothered asking WHY women will queue for hours in preference to using mens toilets? Thought not.

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Written by two men: 'Granted, some people may feel uncomfortable in gender-neutral toilets – there are many reasons for this. But long waiting times are also seriously uncomfortable.'

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Monday 8th March, 6.30pm with @vicderbyshire @MaggieOliverUK @HiboWardere @CassandraCentre , "Heads Above the Parapet: Women Who Make Change." Tickets free. Donations welcome. #InternationalWomensDay #DomesticAbuse #sexualexploitation #nofgm @EventbriteUK

Heads Above the Parapet: Women Who Make Change.

Heads Above the Parapet: Women Who Make Change Join Victoria Derbyshire, Hibo, Maggie and Jennifer for a virtual chat.

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My lease management company, Parkfords, have send me another large bill for “works on a cupboard” but if I want to see their estimates and tenders on the work then I have to book an appointment to see them - they won’t email them across. And it’s my money they’re spending!

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Homeowners tell @theipaper they don't know where their money is going as they face soaring mandatory charges for services such as grass cutting 🔴 @alexxaphillips reports

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Housing reform should also be about affordable, safe, habitable, homes which people can enjoy and feel secure in within the rental sector (private and social). If the PM/Gove think housing reform should just be about home ownership then I despair.

Sebastian Payne

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#10 : PM says he will deliver a speech on housing reform on Thursday if he wins tonight's vote: "Michael Gove and I will be setting out plans to kindle that dream of home ownership in the hearts of millions who currently believe it is beyond their means"

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The “heating or eating” question grates. If you have to choose between them it’s pretty much a guarantee you can’t afford travel - even by bus - or toiletries, clothes or cleaning products. You probably can’t afford wifi or data either - meaning the UC/DWP is a nightmare for you.

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This is key. What is the point of Subject Access Requests and our right to see data and footage held about us if the police simply refuse to hand it over? Rights are only as good as their enforcement. And in these cases lack of enforcement has lead to zero accountability.

Sky News

@SkyNews

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"Have you been able to establish a pattern?" Home Editor @JasonFarrellSky says 'accountability is a big problem' as both police forces in the strip search investigation are yet to fully release all custody footage. Read more ➡️ 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

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Gary Lineker's status on Match of the Day is now being debated more than the government's migration policy that sparked the row

Gary Lineker's status on Match of the Day is now being debated more than the government's migration...

The country's most-watched football show, Match of the Day, is now embroiled in a thorny debate over the impartiality expected from non-news talent at the BBC, free speech and government pressure on...

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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All hail ⁦ @BBCPanorama ⁩ 👏👏👏 for exposing the true horrors that can go on in U.K. mental health units - when patients are often at their most vulnerable and most isolated. Heads should roll. And other mental health units should be scrutinised.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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@bindelj “Never for one second did I ever intend to hurt her”, he said. Despite throttling her so hard she was left with unsurvivable brain injuries. Just another accident where a woman ends up dead.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

London looking stunning this evening (might not be everyone’s favourite place but I love it).

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

3 years

Beautifully shot, and will no doubt be brilliantly reported. Clive Myrie and his team stand out so much with their outstanding and informative work. And, speaking as a producer, it’s great to see him say “our reporting” not “my report”. Correspondents take note, please.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

I am so bored with the constant news coverage about who will be the next Prime Minister. It is so tedious and infuriating when there are so many other stories that are worth covering but won't get any airtime. Journalists are chattering while Rome burns.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Congratulations ⁦ @Kwajotweneboa ⁩ on “Our country in Crisis” 👏👏👏 You may be able to write a book but you need to learn how to count when ordering cocktails 👀 cos it’s gonna be YOU in crisis in an hour ❤️😳

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

4 years

I’ve just spoken to a lad I know in a hostel. He’s in a tiny, dark room. No money and just noodles to eat. No lap top, no smartphone, no TV. And a history of mental health problems including two sections this year. He is so alone and vulnerable. If this happens he will crumble.

ITV News

@itvnews

4 years

The Health Secretary has warned that if lockdown rules are not followed - after sunbathers were seen in parks - then people could be banned from leaving their homes to exercise. Here's what you can and can't do during the lockdown

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Please watch our investigation into ongoing child abuse and grooming gangs in Yorkshire on Sky News at 8.30pm @JasonFarrellSky @LizLaneSky and huge thanks to @MaggieOliverUK @PendleburyRick @nazirafzal @DGreenwoodLaw @sammywoodhouse1 and the brave women and girls who spoke to us.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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@ForwomenScot @EdinburghUni Oh God, @EdinburghUni how can you publish this ill thought out, rambling drivel? You’re meant to be one of the greatest seats of learning in the country and you trot out the term “Cis”? Beyond depressing.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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A list of cancelled fireworks displays because London councils have no money for them - but the wealthy can go to ticketed events. The poorer kids can go without. As a child I loved Bonfire Night and it taught me history too. Free community events matter.

6 London Bonfire Night events cancelled for 2023 - the alternatives nearby

One major London park isn't getting any fireworks this year

www.mylondon.news

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

3 years

Thanks to @replay_artist and Terrie for speaking to @itvnews about their scandalous housing situations. It takes so much courage - and a big leap of faith - to talk to journalists when you’re in a situation like this and I hope they know we couldn’t do our job without them.

Daniel Hewitt

@DanielHewittITV

3 years

In our ongoing housing investigation, we’ve looked at how damp, mouldy homes impact tenants' health. Poor housing costs the NHS an estimated £1.4bn a year. Junior has a neuromuscular condition & needs a ventilator to breath, but his flat is covered in mould that makes it harder:

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Does this mean that the Education Secretary is acknowledging that if a nurse’s boiler should break then they would not be able to afford to pay for the repair and buy food at the same time?

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

Many nurses needing to use food banks are doing so because of a broken "relationship or boiler", Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has suggested

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

3 years

Huge thanks to @fransoy6 for having the courage and faith to talk to me and @DanielHewittITV about her appalling and dangerous living conditions. Thanks also due to Leroy Macnally for also letting us in. Without people willing to talk to us journalists are worth nothing.

Daniel Hewitt

@DanielHewittITV

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Leaking ceilings, black mould, risks of electrocution: our investigation found what experts call the worst housing conditions they’ve ever seen. No one should have to live like this, but in a tower block run by Croydon Council, people have been for months

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Greater Manchester detective guilty of rape of 12-year-old child

Stockport-based Det Con Stephen Hardy is found guilty of 20 offences of "sickening sexual abuse".

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

18 calls made and ignored. More evidence that tenants and others are just ignored when complaining. But it goes further than housing. Everyone is ignored by businesses and govt agencies, departments of state (just look at prisons) and the rest. It’s cultural and prob U.K. wide.

KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner

@Kwajotweneboa

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@Sarahcoconnell

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Please watch our report on child sexual exploitation and the repeated failings of Greater Manchester Police (over a decade after the Rochdale scandal). Huge thanks to a very brave Scarlett West and her father Marlon for having the courage to speak. @JasonFarrellSky @LizLaneSky

Sky News

@SkyNews

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'I'd wake up with bruises up my legs' Home Editor Jason Farrell speaks to a victim of exploitation in Greater Manchester who has waived her anonymity as a sexual abuse victim in the hope of helping others in her position

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Fingers crossed tonight for a win @BAFTA tonight with @VictoriaLIVE team. Losing a loved one to knife crime devastates families and thank you to @IntroDjLondon @NabzDeezy59 , Stanley Goupall and Russell Brown for having the courage and faith to speak.

Men who lost loved ones to knife crime

These men have all lost a son or brother to knife crime and said they often feel their grief is overlooked.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

5 years

@janeclarejones “Authentic lesbian experience.” This desperation for authenticity. Please. Stop. Everyone is NB anyway unless there’s a man/woman out there who 100% fits sexist gender stereotypes. If there is, I haven’t met them yet. As my grandmother used to say “what a total load of twaddle”.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Please watch our full report on how one young woman was bounced from place to place, miles from home, and raped and abused while in the ‘care’ of the state. Thanks to the courageous Amber for speaking out and to ‘Millie’ too. @JasonFarrellSky @LizLaneSky

Young woman's harrowing tales of abuse while in social care system

An independent review is calling for a "radical reset" of the children's care system to help break a "cycle of escalating problems".Youngsters who've spoken ...

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

3 years

@MForstater @innocent @innocent says re its staff, "We’ll always make sure....their opinions, questions and issues are heard. This way, everyone can help shape their own diverse place to work – because we can’t be an inclusive business unless every single person has a say." #exceptwomen #ironyalert

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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@bindelj I’ve been a journalist for over 20 years and for the first sixteen of them I didn’t work for a single female editor - despite working on lots of different programmes. He’s so misguided and ill informed it’s funny (and a bit worrying).

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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“…officers will no longer seek…children who repeatedly disappear from care facilities if the risk of harm is considered low.” These children are never at low risk of harm and almost always being criminally/sexually exploited. Low harm? Give me a break.

Police won’t look for ‘low risk’ missing persons

Police are to stop responding to thousands of missing persons reports in an effort to prioritise day-to-day crimes such as burglaries.Overstretched officers wil

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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I hope it is Keith Bennett. I can’t drive over (or see) Saddleworth moor without thinking of his body lying somewhere on it and I’m sure most of my generation (from Manchester area) are the same. Just wish his mum had lived to find him and a little peace.

Police dig for Moors murders victim Keith Bennett after 'skull found'

Officers are investigating on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester, but said they cannot yet be certain human remains have been found

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

Beautiful sunset sky over #Brixton

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Great to see Dame Vera Baird’s review into GMP’s treatment of women and girls will also look at the police complaints procedure. Long overdue in all forces. Huge thanks to the brave women who spoke to us ⁦ @LizLaneSky ⁩ ⁦ @JasonFarrellSky ⁩

Women's safety in Greater Manchester Police custody under review

It follows a Sky News investigation in which a woman alleged she was drugged and sexually assaulted while being held in custody by Greater Manchester Police.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

2 years

Thriving businesses will mean higher wages? 👀 Like Uber? Or Amazon? Both thriving businesses that employ 1000’s of staff on minimum wage - some on zero hours contracts taken from agencies (another thriving business model) who offer no workers rights. Please.

John Harris

@johnharris1969

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To hell with poverty

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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So much respect for @HiboWardere for continuing to speak out about FGM. My mother worked in Egypt when I was a child and would tell me of the women she would visit who had haemorrhaged during childbirth due to this barbaric practice. Other women giving birth didn't even survive.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

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"We were mutilated for you ... so you can't tell me it's got nothing to do with you. It's got everything to do with you." We spoke to FGM survivor and anti-FGM campaigner @HiboWardere . Read more: | #AJOPINION

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@Sarahcoconnell

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Suella Braverman broke law by denying asylum seekers £3 a week, judge rules

Home secretary’s withholding of payments for healthy food for children and pregnant women found to be unlawful

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Croydon placing their tenants in homes unfit for human habitation. Again. And moving them when the media get involved. Again. Same as everyone else. It’s disgusting that press have to get involved or @KwajoHousing for councils to treat some tenants like humans not animals.

Ruby

@RubyLGregory

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Latasha and her two kids, aged two and 14, live in a one-bed studio flat as part of temporary accom provided by Croydon Council. The flat has several problems, inc. overcrowding, this picture shows mould her two-year-old unknowingly plays with. @hrw

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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@MForstater “The protest…had a joyful yet pensive atmosphere that left many passersby in awe..” In awe? At the sheer magnificence of students protesting? And “joyful yet pensive”. This is a Cambridge uni magazine? I realise it’s not your point but the writing made my toes curl.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Our two year anniversary 😂❤️😇 All power to your elbow, my friend.

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Sarah O'Connell

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I have a young friend who arrived in UK at 12 months old. She went to nursery, primary and secondary school here. Aged 21 she was taken to Yarls Wood after serving a short prison sentence. Now, 29, she’s still fighting to stay here. Where her family live. It really is a scandal.

Here to Stay UK

@HeretoStayUK

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National scandal that UK deports people who regardless of paperwork are thoroughly British - products of British schools, British communities, British System. Time to pass #ShawAmmendment to stop the deportation of people who’ve been here since childhood (3/3)

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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The men that shouted will have forgotten about it five mins later. And likely done the same to another 3 teenage girls today. I can remember being 14 and wearing shorts one summer and grown men shouting at me. I can remember what they said and the realisation of how they saw me.

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@harriet1969

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We live in the countryside. My 14yo daughter who loved riding her bike to feel freedom, solitude and nature, no longer wants to do it. A car load of blokes drove alongside her yelling about her 'tits and arse.' She came home crying and terrified. No more bike rides. I am irate.

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Today I’ve been deluged with phone calls or messages from traumatised and angry women and girls I know who have been abused. First by men and then by the criminal justice system. It is diabolical that it’s allowed to happen. Policing and the CPS has to reform entirely. #Rochdale

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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Love this thread. I think tea is more than just a hot drink here too. It’s a reason to chat to a neighbour, a conversation point about how you take it, a balm for those who feel anxious or upset and a special occasion as well (eg afternoon tea at the Ritz).

Bayt Al Fann

@BaytAlFann

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In Muslim countries, tea is more than just a hot drink. It is very important to the heritage, traditions and cultures in which it originates. To start the weekend, we celebrate the art of tea, with 24 different types of tea from across the Muslim world… A thread…

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Sarah O'Connell

@Sarahcoconnell

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“More than 1,500 UK police officers accused of violence against women in six months.” I find it quite ironic (but great) that they are now releasing data like this. If we’d asked for it they would have referred us to FOIs and then refused the information.

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