I want to put a pin in this for a bit (sorry to use that 🤮expression!) in terms of me tweeting and raising the profile because I need a bit of time to recover from what has been a five year ordeal, escalating in intensity. pressgazette.co.uk/news/observer-… 🧵 I desperately want to go back to my full time work on the nature and climate crisis. I may not have a lovely column in the Observer anymore from which to agitate, but I do have other avenues...

Hmm as @DefraGovUK appears to have hastily deleted this video featuring @theresecoffey hanging at the banks of the dying #riverwye let me describe to you what I saw and why it's a bigger scandal than the wrong type of otter footage. 🧵

https://twitter.com/MarkAvery/status/1670312093285851137

In the opening shot our Environment Secretary who has previously blamed wild birds for the state of the water quality in catchments elsewhere, looks sadly but sternly at camera and announces that sadly the river wye is quite fucked, or at least she concedes...

Hoang Thi Minh Hong, Vietnam’s climate activist has been jailed on phoney charges (the fifth environmentalist to be jailed in vietnam recently) Environmental journalists and activists remain at huge risk globally. @Global_Witness From @washingtonpost making the clear case for Hoang Thi Minh Hong. Authorities should be listening and acting on her advice not throwing her in jail.

1. A few people have congratulated @Telegraph on being one of few British papers to have the guts to report on our NYT story. Well 'yay' but also let's remember their initial take....While I'm relieved that @gordonrayner has covered this time I spent months.... 2. trying to be heard by @IpsoNews about their initial hot take by Ben Woods (he left the industry) which was shameful. (trying to deal with @Telegraph was one of the hardest bits for me. @ipso did not find in my/our favour). But back to yesterday's piece...

Please read my thread 🧵There has been a lot about sexual assault and reporting this week. Not least because @Kathbum @louistheroux interview again created a bit of space for this debate. @PollyVernon & @HarrietEJohnson pushed the discussion forwards on Woman's hour fri..1/ There are so many egregious 'misunderstandings' about sexual assault complaints. Many from women internalising misogyny. They've been aired a lot this week and they are maddening to those of us who are whistleblowers/victims etc. One of the main 'myths' is that we are out to../2

So here's an extraordinary thing. Yesterday I became aware of this article written by Nick Cohen in 2020. For reasons I've outlined previously, although he is a celebrated writer I don't tend to read his work so wasn't familiar. thecritic.co.uk/issues/july-au… Thread 🧵 Some of it really resonated with me. especially this bit, 'There are no grounds for British complacency. Women runners routinely experience harassment. I remember seeing a guy go for a young woman who had bent over to tie up her shoes. He grabbed her backside and scurried away.'

1. I don’t normally read Nick Cohen’s column in the Observer. Ever since he ‘groped’ me at the photocopier (zero marks for originality) at work when I was an admin assistant in my early 20s I have avoided being anywhere near him. But I do think he is a total creep. 2 But following a culture war/cancel culture debate on here where his behaviour has been discussed, I read his recent offering. I’m posting this primarily because I am angry about that piece....

Good to see so much reporting on #fastfashion production in #leicester including investigative reporting - undercover Sunday times journalist who was hired in factory on Thursday. This moment has been a long time coming..../1 Former MP for Wakefield @MaryCreaghMP led an Environmental Audit Committee investigation into #fastfashion two years ago. I was one of the experts who gave evidence. Her subsequent report #fixingfashion is worth a read. Every recommendation was rejected by the government /2