Sophie Wilkinson
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journalist/producer Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal for @bbcradio4 on iPlayer NOW [email protected]
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Joined February 2009
Mould, money and murder accusations. An estate in disarray, £46,000 spent by the managers on a trip abroad, accusations against the council that it tried to murder the chair of the board! My investigation into a London housing estate, for The Observer
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Russell Brand had introduced ‘Sir Bobby Gandalf’ to the stage, but I imagine what irked Geldof a tad more was that Brand, then 29, had been dating Geldof’s 16 year old daughter, Peaches.
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'I've always wanted four children' is such an odd explanation for hiring a woman to risk her life to have your child for you. Just say you're rich and put a price on another woman's physical and mental safety
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I think women in Orpington and around should be able to see the face of Joseph Farage, Nigel’s nephew who just admitted to upskirting. His sentence was just a series of fines, and he’s not on the sex offenders register, so how else are women kept safe?
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Joey Barton has twice been convicted for violence and was charged with assault by beating of his own wife (the case was dismissed after she withdrew her claims) but of course he thinks two innocent women talking about football and comparable with Fred and Rose West.
How is she even talking about Men’s football. She can’t even kick a ball properly. 🤯💩. Your coverage of the game EFC last night, took it to a new low. Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, the Fred and Rose West of football commentary. 👍.
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Wayne Couzens was reported to police eight times before he went on to murder Sarah Everard - that’s eight times someone could have intervened and set him on another course, eight times someone was let down by the police, eight times the police basically said that they don’t care.
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Prince William and Kate meeting Allison Hammond and now Francis Bourgeois is indicative of some serious youth culture clout-chasing - what next, chicken shop date? @ameliadimz.
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Late to this but Mel B has done a course in trauma-informed care for survivors of domestic abuse and is going to get an honorary doctorate from Leeds Beckett University to recognise her work in raising awareness of domestic abuse. True girl power!!!!
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Ok I'm absolutely obsessed with Fred Again's dad's clients
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Why do victims/survivors (especially women) prefer to speak to journalists than the police? Have been seeing this sentiment a lot on this platform since the Russell Brand story dropped. So, a thread:.
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Priyanka Chopra on her daughter, born at 28 weeks to a surrogate: "It's so painful when they talk about my daughter. I've been really protective of this chapter of my life. Because it's not about my life only. It's hers too" . not to mention the woman who. gave birth to her.
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Praful Nargund's private healthcare business is IVF - helping thousands of families have children. How dare he etc etc.
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Absolutely vile precedent. Anyone who suggests that child protection is at the heart of this sentence is doing so in the knowledge that three children - one with additional needs - are going to be without their mother for 2 years now.
Woman is sentenced to 28 months in prison. Judge says sentence after trial would have been 3 years. He says “one of the tragedies” of the case is she did not indicate her guilty plea at the earliest opportunity —sentence would have been eligible to be suspended with full credit.
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The money to be made from televising the Depp v Heard case is quite something - people can pay to have their comments placed at the top of fast-ticking comment boxes on YouTube #DeppvsHeard
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@rgay I think altruistic surrogacy can be a really good thing in some circumstances, but I don't agree with the US model of it being paid for. Not really a personal thing against Chrissy and John, more a general unease with women being paid to risk their lives to have others' kids.
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For avoidance of doubt…I read the entire interview, I find surrogacy a very troubling industry as it’s one of few that requires a woman to risk her entire life and future health for. This position is unlikely to change on the basis of being called a bitch a few times by her fans.
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Why has Andrew Scott come dressed as Barry Keoghan.
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Happy international Women’s day to all the big companies and brands who used to treat this day as a pinnacle of their calendar but are too scared to tweet now in case we see your gender pay gap. We can see you #IWD.
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just three years older than his own daughter, in case his contempt for women wasn't clear enough.
Johnny Depp's new girlfriend REVEALED: Actor dating 28-year-old Russian beautician and model Yulia Vlasova - two years after Amber Heard defamation trial
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@8b1tgaz I’m voicing an opinion about the financial manipulation of repro rights. Maybe that doesn’t concern you as it concerns me.
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The Met, which would have dealt with the UK-based incidents, has harboured the likes of Wayne Couzens and David Carrick for years. It has been found to be institutionally sexist by the Casey Review. Rape kits were kept in broken fridges alongside packed lunches.
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When I was 11 I went to one football practice at secondary school and was swiftly told I wouldn’t be allowed to play anymore because I couldn’t play vs the boys and no other girls would play. Today my 11 year old niece is at Wembley with her club and just saw England win! #eng.
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I'm at Stylist for the next few weeks and looking for pitches - relatable, first person kinds of stuff, hooked to the news agenda! I'm on sophie.wilkinson@stylist.co.uk.
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@volllani I’d like women in South East London/North East Kent to be aware of who this man is and what he decided to do to a woman.
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Nick Kyrgios admits assault of his ex gf, gets off with no criminal conviction because, the judge said ‘he acted in the heat of the moment’. The myth that men contain beasts that they kindly keep hidden until provoked is an insult to men and harms women
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You'd think that a party that is as seemingly single issue as the Greens would be politically neutral on issues that simply don't concern 'Green' stuff. But no, they're reliably batshit. Do they. want more women to die in childbirth? To experience life-changing trauma & injury?.
The Green Party, and I say this politely, can fuck the fuck off
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Women have historically been met by police with disbelief, with anger, with victim-blaming, with white knighty ‘i will fix this right here right now’ machismo. All of this is painfully insensitive and always seems to centre the officer’s desires over the victim’s needs.
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It is striking that self-professed feminist Prince Harry will tell the world meticulous detail about his family using the language of social justice and not once mention his feelings about Prince Andrew's notoriety. If he's revealing everything, why not this?.
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FYI! I disagree with commercial surrogacy; it sees richer women and men exploit poorer women. I’ve called out white people for doing it and will continue to. I can see why other people have different opinions - mine is based on an appreciation for UK law and free healthcare.
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Just awful. There’s a wilful misunderstanding that male violence against women is perpetrated against weak or small women. Rebecca was strong beyond most people’s comprehension. It is her perpetrator who is weak. How I hope he suffers for the rest of his pathetic days.
Very sad news. Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend, a Ugandan official says.
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This is very One Direction at the judges' houses waiting to find out if they've got through to to the live shows
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers thought they could overturn his convictions forever. As soon as they tried it…more women came forward. I hope he rots in prison for the rest of his days.
'Harvey Weinstein could face a new indictment after New York prosecutors announced that more women have come forward with sexual assault allegations against him.'.
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I can't even begin - the brutal callousness of casual little shitposts when someone literally died.
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Questions I have re Huw Edwards. 1. What did BBC know and when.2. How much did they pay him after knowing what they knew.3. Who is the adult man who sent him the images and will he face prosecution .4. Who else has been affected by Edwards’ contempt for morality and decency.
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This is while Heard is talking on the stand about the death threats she receives. Here are some about her and her family. courtesy of
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I have just discovered how Jack Grealish holds a pen 😳
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I see King Charles' Bundestag speech and I raise you my brand new German passport. My Opa (granddad) had his citizenship forcibly removed in the 1930s by the Nazis because he was a Jew. As a descendent, I've not only citizenship reinstated but received an *apology* from Germany!
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That’s an extreme end, you might say. The rank and file officer might be better at listening to women talk of their trauma. However, there was a severe lack of officers with training to handle these cases.
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Now let’s look at those who DO have faith in the police. Back before Couzens, maybe some women did! Some women have gone to the police. Going to the police means living day to day with strangers poring over your trauma, looking at your phone, assessing your believability.
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The contradictory expectations that internet sleuths have of a woman alleging serious sexual assault and domestic violence are based on the belief that only perfect victims are allowed. Our society seems to prefer dead victims to living survivors #JohnnyDeppvAmberHeard.
'We need to recognise as victims not only the angels who did everything right and nothing wrong – but those who behaved as humans do' writes @sophwilkinson
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This cross party thirst trapping just wouldn’t have happened if Jacob Rees Mogg was Lord President of the Council.
Got to say it, @PennyMordaunt looks damn fine!.The sword bearer steals the show. #Coronation.
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Between the horrific stories of Kyle Clifford and Axel Rudakubana the common denominator isn't just knives; it's young men whose violent tendencies hadn't been kept in check. It's young men who deliberately sought to kill women and girls.
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Plenty of forces are now acknowledging their mistakes and partnering with sexual assault referral centres to ensure victims can have someone in their corner throughout reporting to trial stage. A police officer can’t always be trusted by forces to be in a victim’s corner.
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Why would anyone pay all that money to go to an Edinburgh show just to hear an old man say racial slurs and get his bits out when Wetherspoons exists?.
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She could turn up in any British designer she so desires but instead does this….it’s the most lesbian thing a straight woman could do on this earth apart from be P!nk.
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If you’re a woman in UK media you can see this photo of Lloyd Evans and know to keep your distance at events and parties and god, the theatres that give him free tickets. If you’re a woman potentially trafficked into selling sex, you don’t have a choice. What a mess
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It's disturbing that young men are going to sympathise with Ben Mendy and Mason Greenwood and see them as poor falsely accused men (that's not what 'innocent' means) rather than understand that statistically, men are more likely to BE raped than ever be falsely accused of rape.
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‘We, the ones who remain behind, are the ones serving a life sentence.’ - Reeva Steenkamp’s mother, June’s statement on Oscar Pistorius’s release from jail today. He’s served 11 years for murdering Reeva on Valentine’s Day 2013 and is now out on parole. That’s the cost of a life.
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@paul_warrand For clarity: there is no suggestion from me that Nigel Farage is at all connected to his nephew’s crime.
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THIS IS GREAT ! Philip Davies is a long-running gambling shill who regularly spoke on men's rights panels run by a rape apologist and routinely complained about 'reverse racism' and filibustered some important bills that would've progressed people's rights. Good riddance.
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Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal looks at women who had their children taken from them in the 70s, 80s and 90s and the lasting harms of these custody hearings. Listen to my first @BBCRadio4 documentary on Sunday 8th December 1.30pm
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Fascinating to see Russell Brand hyperactively preaching about powerful elites preying on the vulnerable. Fascinating.
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A shame there is no sex disaggregated data for this map so we can finally get to the bottom of whether the lesbian epicentre of the UK is Hackney or Lewisham!.
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One of those people was allegedly kidnapped at knifepoint, one was a CHILD Couzens sexually assaulted… we can talk about how flashing escalates to more serious offences, but I’m afraid the actual story here is that police seemingly take nothing seriously
New: Wayne Couzens sexually assaulted a child, allegedly tried to kidnap a woman at knifepoint + repeatedly exposed himself before abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, a report has found. Police missed eight chances to stop him. With @benellery .
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Eliyanna Andam, the 15 year old killed in Croydon, was, according to reports, stepping in to protect her friend after the friend’s ex boyfriend tried to give her flowers. She was being an active bystander, it seems.
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If you want to understand why the royal family has struggled to respond to the 'where's Kate' chaos, it's because they just can't pay competitively; just £25,600 for a comms assistant for Buckingham Palace!
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Manchester United has branded women’s charities as ‘hostile’. We all knew football harboured nasty men but the rot goes right to the top.
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@JessicaRuston True, this is becoming such a norm. I'm just surprised someone as smart as her thought 'Liddle widdle baby me wanted to be a mommy to four and shouldn't that little baby me be indulged?' could make any sense.
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There have been whispers about Walliams' attitude towards women younger than him for a long time - if you know more and want to talk my DMs are open
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Trying to get to Charli XCX after Dua Lipa at Primavera like
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A group of four men filmed *5,000* teenage girls (aged under 18) getting dressed/underdressed in mixed-gender changing facilities and only two of them have been brought to ‘justice’ of 20 and 22months’ imprisonment each. What absurdly short sentences
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If he actually understood Jews it would be a mezuzah, not a Star of David!
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@rgay In the UK - the law isn't perfect here but I think better than in the US - altruistic surrogacy allows for living expenses. I think that bit is appropriate.
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Justice done to a man who not only sought to humiliate a woman by filming her having sex without her knowledge or consent, but profited off of it, bragged about it, delayed legal statements, turned up to court swaggering in furs with a hired Rolls Royce + breached bail conditions.
BREAKING: Stephen Bear has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after sharing private sexual videos of himself and Georgia Harrison.
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I've been going to Pride for almost half my life and the thing I really noticed this year was the amount of straight parents taking their teenagers (and leaving before it got too feral). I can't imagine what that positive re-enforcement would have meant to me as a kid.
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I am in awe.
🚨 | NEW: Nadine Dorries will not be resigning as an MP until she has completed her own investigation into why she didn't get a peerage . She has submitted Subject Access Requests to HOLAC, the Cabinet Secretary, and the Cabinet Office . "This process is now sadly necessary".
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This man is a creep and looks to be using the courts as a way of further perpetrating his creepery. I hope the Guardian win and the 20 women who came forward feel vindication.
Noel Clarke seeks £10m damages over 'false' Guardian articles
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This is one of the very biggest issues affecting women in the UK right now- even if you’re not a mum you’re a woman bereft of other women mentors, friends, supporters, allies…at work because so many are having to pick up pieces of warped childcare provisions.
NEW: For the first time in decades, the number of young women not working to look after family is starting to rise. As 1/3 of women barely break even after returning to work, Britain's childcare costs are pushing women out of work. @PregnantScrewed .
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I don't get how the police search for Nicola Bulley will be assisted by the public knowing intimate details of her mental health issues. I do get how this falls into a pattern of women's messy bodies being weaponised against them, though
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@MinnieStephC4 @nikefootball Not printing a pink shirt the year Barbie makes $1bn is a really dunce move!.
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Incredible news for lesbian couples across the country who no longer have to fork out up to £30k to be eligible for NHS IVF! They now only have to fork out for the ridiculous cost of childcare and the impact mat leave has on their earnings! Like other mothers!.
NHS group changes same-sex fertility rules after couple’s campaign
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As a Jew and a woman I'm glad Kanye's antisemitism is being responded to but I'm also surprised that he was allowed to carry on working with so many brands after using social media to abuse his ex for so long. It was DA in plain sight.
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@andreajenkyns @danwootton @GBNEWS I hope you appreciate that two former Sun journalists writing an article about multiple allegations of sexual extortion involving evidence currently with the police is not exactly a coordinated effort from the left.
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David Beckham's eternal quest for knighthood is simply adorable.
We come to pay my respects to The Queen and just before we go in we get to meet the handsome Mr Beckham. I got the pic😍 #Starstruck but respectfully 😎 x #DavidBeckham #Queen
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My big take on The Email is that 'man cheats on wife' is, post-Leveson, not really a story. 'Man gets sexually involved with teenager/woman too drunk to stand' is a very important story. Plenty of journalists want to tell it if and when sources come forward. I hope they're ok.
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I wish all women to be free from the blinkers of internalised misogyny, and all the financial tethers to men. What decisions would they be making without these two impositions? Who would they be defending then?.
“He's not a rapist": at the Pelicot trial, these women have come to support their accused husbands:.
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It’s shocking how much airtime Nigel Farage is getting simply by virtue of there being an election again. It all suggests that this man, who has never been elected to UK office, just EU (!) is just part of the furniture now.
"Nigel Farage says Reform UK is the new Conservatives. what would you say in response?" @KayBurley asks Education Minister @DamianHinds. Listen to his response in full below 🔽. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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'We're in a very fortunate position, we can go again. But you know, it's not easy' - Ollie Locke's husband talking about their surrogate's third miscarriage. I wish there was a way of making a man live through just one period before commissioning a woman's body to bear his child.
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The CPS dropping the case isn't a condemnation of Greenwood's accuser, more a condemnation of the society she lives in, that the CPS operates in, that allows myths about women's sexual availability to proliferate at the detriment of actually understanding us.
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EXQUISITE news that Prince Harry has narrated the audiobook to Spare, so we can hear his thick old Etonian patter say 'Willy' out loud.
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RIP Sinead O’Connor. What a special tough, brave, beautiful, principled woman. No one had a voice like hers and the bravery of her. She had endured so much and survived so much.
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If you’re at #EdFringe + have seen Charlie Hanson pls contact me: sophiewilkinsonjournalist@gmail.con I broke the initial story about his alleged sexual misconduct with far younger women and would like to find out if any company is allowing him unbridled access to young women.
Just in case you’re @edfringe and happen to be invited for a drink with Charlie Hanson, the former tv producer. He is allegedly very dangerous and I believe his victims.
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After an entire adulthood of being served Clearblue pregnancy test adverts on YouTube I have been shown one featuring a young woman taking a test because she DOESN'T want to be pregnant. It shouldn't feel revolutionary, but it seems that way!
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Anyone noticed that NDAs are over-used by those who shouldn't be using them and absolutely not used enough by those who should be using them? The diver in the Nicola Bulley case was doing a job on behalf of the police and yet spoke to the press like some random TikTok sleuth
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As Ricky Gervais made jokes about Hollywood stars being allied with sex predators, he was continuing to work with After Life producer Charlie Hanson, who was himself continuing his decades-long tenure as a predator. 11 women accused Hanson of bullying, assault and even rape.
Remember Hollywood elites' nervous laughter at the Oscars when Ricky Gervais joked about the Epstein list?. Now we all know why. This is glorious.
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What a beautiful man look at those eyes <3 RIP Ray Liotta
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Tarana Burke on #MeToo: "I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.".
"This is #MeToo without any me too": Ben Chew in Depp's closing arguments, telling the jury that Heard is the only one of Depp's exes who has come forward with a story of abuse. Jesus. #JohnnyDeppVsAmberHeardTrial #DeppVHeardTrial #DeppHeard.
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Instagram fails to act on 9/10 abusive DMs sent to women by strangers on the platform according to our brand new report from @CCDHate, the first I’ve done all the data-gathering and interviews for.
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Please can white liberals stop telling me that yesterday’s march was entirely peaceful. I imagine it mostly was yet I can’t think of any other progressive movement that contains spikes of such vociferous hate towards a minority group. I want peace but I can’t safely march for it.
🚨Hamas supporter in London says the quiet part out loud . “Hitler knew how to deal with these people". It always has been pure Jew-hatred under the guise of anti-Zionism. Watch more from @ThevoiceAlexa on the ground at
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What a pathetic defence from the BBC - basically; we're to separate Kyrgios as a hugely high profile star from a hugely high profile thing he's done. We're also to believe that, because other people hire him, a public service broadcaster should, too. He's a violent misogynist
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Dominic Raab should have been sacked in August 2022 when he spent the Afghan evacuation lounging about in a cabana instead of doing his most to ensure British allies were rescued from utter misery at hands of the Taliban.
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VICE reporter Charlet Duboc on how Russell Brand treated her during an interview. It's so transparent that Brand has always used PUA tactics. The entire tenet of The Game is to control and manipulate women
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@8b1tgaz I agree - they’ve paid a surrogate to have their fourth child tho, and now it’s framed as deserved because…Chrissy always wanted 4 kids.
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