I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl.

If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece.

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‘The kids don’t get days off. Nor should you’: my secret life as a paedophile hunter on the dark web US undercover investigator Greg Squire can spend 18 hours a day befriending child sex abusers, to try to identify them and get justice for victims. He reveals the toll the work has taken on him

‘The kids don’t get days off. Nor should you’: my secret life as a paedophile hunter on the dark web

You have the incredible capacity to capture people, 'objects' and space at its best in the moment...

Blind man who fell on to the tracks at Manchester Piccadilly wins payout Abdul Eneser blames his fall on the lack of tactile paving on the platform and was awarded £18,000 by Network Rail When Abdul Eneser slipped off the side of the platform at Manchester Piccadilly station, he lay terrified with no option but to listen as the rumbles of a freight train drew closer. Eneser, who is blind, had fallen owing to a lack of tactile paving, meaning he had been unable to feel how close he was to the edge of the platform. Continue reading...

Blind man who fell on to the tracks at Manchester Piccadilly wins payout

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So you get the LP on vinyl and a unique artwork by me in one; I've painted over the sleeve in oils to create this homage to a Paul Nash painting called Flight of the Magnolia. Plus you get an archival quality print of the image here, and I've signed the label on the disc.

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Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

Lesson 2 - from the "lost month", as Baroness Hallett so vividly describes it - February 2020:

If you can't be arsed to do your job even as a deadly pandemic grips the world, you certainly don't deserve to be within a thousand miles of Downing Street.

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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
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‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown His mother had lived in the same house for 83 years. When the floods came, no one was ready. This is Paul Gilbert’s story

‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown

Lack of post-18 kinship care support has almost driven me back into homelessness

Kinship care supports thousands of children raised by relatives when parents can’t look after them — but what happens when they turn 18?

An interesting read however Millar needs to redefine his understanding of disability before making such statements.

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading...

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests

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‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding Man housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes

‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding

Such a pure way of undoing ... quietens the mind...

Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea that the public sphere belongs to men

Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell

Thank-you for your continued voice of sensibility, rationality and belief. So wish you governed this nation.

Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’ Nicola Green, 42, speaks out after significant legal victory against department that accused her of fraud * UK politics live – latest updates The mother of a teenager with cerebral palsy has demanded an end to the “sickening harassment” of unpaid carers after a significant legal victory against the government. Nicola Green, 42, was pursued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for more than a year after she was accused of fraudulently claiming nearly £3,000 in carer’s allowance. Continue reading...

Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’

Utterly beautiful...

I got a loan to help me pay for my dad's funeral. It sent me spiralling into debt

The Poverty Alliance and Fair By Design gave cameras to 15 people on low incomes to show what being refused credit or a loan meant for them.

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database – meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study – and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused. While the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denies it’s a registry, the agency did confirm a sweeping database of autistic people will power a $50m study on autism. Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said last week that he plans to announce results from the study within months. Continue reading...

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks.

But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof.

They were held in prison for 3 days then deported.

DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.

Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute Hugh Kirsch’s case one of wave of evictions of vulnerable residents caused by crisis in adult social care funding A pensioner with severe learning disabilities who was a victim of one of the most notorious care home abuse scandals of recent years has been told he faces eviction over a dispute about who pays for the costs of his state-funded care. The family of Hugh Kirsch, 66, said they had been warned he would have to leave his supported home because the council that funds his care refused to increase fees in line with costs and his care provider could no longer afford to subsidise the price. Continue reading...

Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute

Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026

Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa

NHS trust apologises as man’s tumour death investigated for manslaughter Exclusive: Richard Harris, 71, died last July after series of errors at troubled Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton A troubled NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a series of potentially fatal delays to treat a tumour, in a case that is being investigated by police as possible corporate manslaughter. Richard Harris, 71, died last July after a series of errors in the neurosurgery department at the Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton, which is part of University Hospitals Sussex NHS foundation trust (UHSussex). Continue reading...

NHS trust apologises as man’s tumour death investigated for manslaughter

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children

My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’ I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all

My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’