This investigation has been 3 months in the making and exposes the widespread nature of third-party sexual harassment in the public sector, including NHS
Anyway, I won't be wishing people a happy international women's day - I am wishing for liberation, an end to misogyny, and an #IWD where women are free from sexual harassment. Which is why we published this today. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/iwd…
UK media seemed to miss the arrest of former Fox exec in London on Thurs for violating sanctions & his links to anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ oligarch - me & @Heidi_Cuda didn't tho... bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/the…@BylineTimes
It's a story about how Russian oligarchs have drawn inspiration from Fox; how they have launched a war of disinformation; and how anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ movements collaborate cross-borders to sow division bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/the…@BylineTimes@Heidi_Cuda
Another woman has died in Poland after being denied an abortion. Both her twins died. She is at least the 2nd woman to die since the ban was tightened a year ago.
PRO LIFE THAT’S A LIE, YOU DONT CARE WHEN WOMEN DIE.
She leaves behind 3 children who now have no mother. She carried the dead foetus of one twin for a week, as they waited for the 2nd twin to die. She survived 2 more days and then died. wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy…
Since August, I've interviewed various vulnerable people stuck in Afghanistan, including interpreters who worked with the British, and women's rights activists.
Now we have the emails that show PM authorised the pets charity evacuation, something previously denied.
So after years of freelancing on the side, this year I got my first proper full time, permanent journalism job at @BylineTimes – & what a year to do it in! Here's a thread of the stories I'm proud of.
Starting with THATCHERISM IN YOGA PANTS! bylinetimes.com/2021/01/18/fro…
How corporate supporters of International Women's Day are failing to deliver equal pay:
Still can't quite understand how little the Conservative Party's far-right alliances in Europe have been reported on, but I reported it: bylinetimes.com/2021/04/12/mai…
The other night I watched a doc about the attempted insurrection at the Capitol and had some very real concerns bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… which I will share in a thread.
The doc featured illuminating interviews with many of the people who stormed the Capitol but it was really concerning that no context was given about their views or their previous careers.
Men spoke who were described as "filmmakers and activists" - but this hid the fact that one was an anti-abortion extremist who vandalised a Planned Parenthood clinic with the slogan "babies lives matter"