Eric Allison, the late great @theguardian.com prison correspondent, went from career criminal to journalist. His work, often alongside @shattenstone.bsky.social, made a huge impact on so many issues. I've (ghost) written this attempt to sum up just some of them here ⬇️ bit.ly/EricAllison-TheSpark

Learn from the best ⬇️

Interested in reporting on the life-changing decisions made by family courts in England and Wales? @tbij.bsky.social's new mentorship scheme is an opportunity for journalists to receive guidance and support from the awesome @hansummers.bsky.social, the UK's first full-time family court reporter

Whilst reporting this story, I received images on WhatsApp from a doctor in Gaza showing a blast injury infected with superbugs. The man had survived the bombardment only to lose his leg to an infection. For many, life-saving drugs aren’t working.

We spoke to Prosper less than a year after his son Chris Kaba’s death, in a raw and moving conversation about love, loss, racism and the long fight for justice. I’m so glad we can finally share that episode again. We cannot forget Chris and his family. Their struggle is far from over.

Devastating details of the everyday harms of anti-trans parent 'support' group Bayswater, both on LGBTQ+ children and young people themselves and the parents who become embroiled. Important continued work from @vrocca.bsky.social & @sasha98.bsky.social for @transsafety.network

I spoke to the brilliant @greatergovanhill.com and @everebecca.bsky.social about their work creating community led reporting with women impacted by gambling harms in Glasgow. Cat Cochrane who took part also shared her story on the power of journalism & women coming together ✨Read it bit.ly/44AOzq3

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO 14TH JULY PIRC are looking for *new* Team Heads and a Freelance Fundraiser. Could one of these be you, or could you help us find people interested in the roles? publicinterest.org.uk/join-our-team/

You really learn a lot of detail about some random (and concerning) things working at @tbij.bsky.social. I think 'quishing' might be my favourite new word (a terrible scamming practice with QR code phishing). ⬇️

Shocking and important work by @tbij.bsky.social colleagues ⬇️

✨ Only a few days left to apply for these exciting roles in programmes, operations and fundraising at the wonderful @publicinterest.org.uk If you are interested in supporting narrative change for social movements then these opportunities are for you. Plus they have a beautiful office in Wales.

Imagine being so passionate about domestic abuse that you dedicate your career to supporting victims - only to become one yourself at the hands of your own institution. This is the story of three policewomen with one shared experience. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts:

🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat. Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team. www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...

'I wasn’t just here to report on the community- I was here to be part of it. That kind of trust doesn’t come from one conversation. It begins with how you show up. It’s built gradually through consistency & presence...after the press releases fade.' www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-06...

✨NEW OPPORTUNITY✨ We're looking for an experienced caseworker to join our team and help us provide essential advice and support to families bereaved by deaths involving police, prisons & mental health services. Find out more & apply: www.inquest.org.uk/work-for-us

I had the pleasure of working with Viv Gordon Company, a small but mighty CSA survivor led arts organisation in Bristol. Viv's @metro.co.uk piece about co-creating Zebra day with other CSA survivors below is a reminder of why creative co-creational work is so powerful ❤️✊ metro.co.uk/2025/05/24/a...

Discussions about the rise of misogynistic influencers are everywhere but most conversations fall short on solutions. This is why I was pleased to visit a youth centre in Wolverhampton doing vital work with young men to tackle this problem. More info in my story: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

📣 FIRST POST ALERT 📣: I pretty much gave up on Twitter a while ago - tweeting less and less in recent years - but once it was a place which brought me joy (& some anguish). It was a place I could share articles I wrote, as well as my own observations about life: some tweets funnier than others.

A brilliant piece by Kieran Yates on rebuilding life after brain injury. I have witnessed a similar journey by a friend, and it was powerful to read this first hand perspective. I also continue to be in awe of the exceptional charity @headwaylondon.bsky.social ❤️ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Political parties banned from Manchester, London, Birmingham and Brighton Prides this year. Statements in the images.

A lot has been said about Labour's hardening of immigration rules & dehumanising rhetoric, but nobody is sharing the opinions of migrant workers. That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Bringing my two worlds together, the @inquest-org.bsky.social podcast features in this week's @tbij.bsky.social newsletter, The Spark, which highlights stories which change the world. Read & subscribe to the newsletter: the-spark-tbij.beehiiv.com/p/when-the-m... Listen: www.inquest.org.uk/podcast

Yesterday was Azelle Rodney's birthday. Nearly 2 decades ago, only a week after his 24th birthday, Azelle was fatally shot by a Metropolitan police officer. @lucybrisbane.bsky.social & Lee talk to Azelle's mother Susan about art as a tonic for grief & a tool for change. www.inquest.org.uk/podcast

This is a super useful explanation of what the Supreme Court decision actually means. The facts are not what you would think from the mainstream media headlines and voices of politicians and anti-trans rights campaigners. They probably won't let the facts stop them... but the law still should.

I was so so moved recording this episode, hearing the creative outputs and voices of people who have died. Lovingly collected and shared by their families.

I have many feelings on this judgement. Most have been said better by others. What I will say is: as a Scottish lesbian I am disgusted & disappointed in the Scottish lesbians saying this is good for people like me. They do not speak for me. Trans people are my community, my partners, my friends.

Kevin died a self-inflicted death the day after he was put on an indeterminate IPP jail sentence at HMP Woodhill in 2013. @lucybrisbane.bsky.social speaks to Lee Jarman and Sarah Kadri about @lungtheatre.bsky.social & campaigning through verbatim theatre. Please listen www.inquest.org.uk/podcast

It was so moving speaking to Sandra Ruiz about the amazing work of the community following the Grenfell Tower disaster. Including @grenfellunited.bsky.social & the memorial commission which continues to work on ways of remembering & memorialising what happened & the people of Grenfell. 💚 LISTEN ⬇️

I am SO excited to share the brand new season 3(!!!) of our @inquest-org.bsky.social podcast. We've been sat in a little studio for the past few months chatting to amazing bereaved people, campaigners, artists, organisers. The conversations are moving, shocking, powerful. Now you can hear them too

I am working with @mellino.bsky.social to uncover the many injustices workers are facing going through employment tribunals. Please help share our callout with your networks (available Polish, Portuguese Punjabi - Gurmukhi or Shahmukhi, Spanish, Romanian and Urdu) ⬇️

Delighted our independent @inquest-org.bsky.social charity podcast is up there with the big boys, shortlisted in the @amnestyuk.bsky.social media awards 🥹 🎉 We’re launching season 3 next week. I couldn’t be prouder of everyone we’ve spoken with and the team. www.inquest.org.uk/podcast

"...it should be investigated as a fraud because it would be criminal to sell a lifesaving product to a country where it will not work... If I had one of these people in front of me, I would say, ‘You are a son of a bitch.’ ” Important work by the @tbij.bsky.social global health team 👏

BREAKING: A Statement calling for Wes Streeting to Resign. Signed by: Rainbow Greens LGBTQIA+ Greens LGBT+ Liberal Democrats Out For Independence Citing recent comments by Wes Streeting on the Bayswater group.

Come work with me! @tbij.bsky.social are hiring a Bradford based community organiser to join our team. Please share with anyone in and around Bradford who is interested in engaging with local communities to tell impactful stories. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-01...

An important thread ⬇️ If I’d found Bayswater, I could have been easily drawn in, by its carefully crafted language, which affirms parental desires over those of the child, whilst claiming to have the children’s interests at heart. It’s a support group for transphobic parents. Nothing more. 1/2

We're hiring someone for 6 months to work as a press officer on our Spokesperson Network project. It involves placing people in broadcast media on a regular basis, developing & maintaining media contacts and meeting the needs of participants on the programme. Deadline is 16 Feb> lnkd.in/e4yBdDfs

So @tbij.bsky.social with @sasha98.bsky.social & @vrocca.bsky.social exposed Bayswater support group promoting conversion therapy & abusing behaviour. THEN Wes Streeting thought it was a good idea to meet with them & get their advice on the puberty blocker ban. www.wearequeeraf.com/revealed-str...

Brilliant work from @hansummers.bsky.social exposing so called experts in family courts. Including jaw dropping undercover recordings from one 'expert' concerned about feminists influencing courts against violent men (well I bloody hope they are!) as she supports abusive fathers to gain custody.

No one will be accountable for the failings [& violence] that contributed to the death of Kevin Clarke, a Black man in mental health crisis who was restrained by Met police. The misconduct panel said they couldn't hear him say 'I can't breathe'. Some reflections🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you've ever had a UTI, you'll know the thought of extreme infections which are resistant to antibiotics is just... awful. This important reporting by @misbahsk.bsky.social really puts into perspective the scale of the problem of anti-microbial resistance and how it impacts all of us.

BREAKING On the day the UK government announces a permanent puberty blocker ban I learn: ALICE’S DATA WAS NOT INCLUDED in data sent to Appleby to assess for his rushed DHSC report, that dismissed whistleblower claims of increased suicides in trans youth since Bell. The report is a proven sham.

Sending solidarity to all the PinkNews workers, past & present, who have worked to expose the misconduct of the leadership over years. In an ironic reminder of why we need LGBTQ+ media & reporters, well done to the BBC's LGBT Producer Josh Parry for this investigation⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are many things wrong with this article but I want to highlight the fact that the BBC is quoting a member of a conversion therapy advocacy group found to be engaging in child abuse. 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At @tbij.bsky.social we've been running a Trans+ Voices community reporting project, to highlight the many stories that are not being told in the mainstream media. Here's the latest by @billiegayjackson.bsky.social on HRT prescriptions being denied ⬇️ www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

Thank you @amnestyuk.bsky.social for hosting this chat with @kwajo.bsky.social It was as shocking & moving as it was hopeful. In a room full of people who care about everyday human rights & are taking action. I’ve loved reading Kwajo’s book to prepare. Buy it ⬇️ guardianbookshop.com/our-country-...

This is tomorrow! Such an amazing line up. Let me know if you'll be there. ⬇️

A very good job for a very good org! ⬇️

Important medical consensus on the safety of puberty blockers and other healthcare for trans youth in France. The Cass Review is an international embarrassment for the UK, with her findings refuted around the world and by British experts and trans people. Yet it's still the basis for public policy.

Important work from @rachelschraer.bsky.social, uncovering international work against abortion rights and links to Trump’s potential future government colleagues. (Did my first ever fact check on this story for @tbij.bsky.social, but Rachel made it very easy!)

The Greg Wallace situation exposes a gender (& sometimes generational divide) on how people mis/read behaviour which goes from inappropriate to dangerous to harmful. Having spent years working in cafes & bars, I have many stories. But I’ve been thinking of a recent one from an 18 yr old masseuse🧵⬇️