This is the most a-list cast in reality television history. cannot top it. #celebritytraitors

My manager included 'decorating the office for halloween' on the agenda for our team meeting this morning, and needless to say, we all adore her

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

I'm so over breaking news. How about some fixing news.

It's my husband's birthday and he's asked for a lie in, which is a very reasonable request, but I've been up since 5:30am with the dog and I am SO EXCITED to give him his presents

This ⬇️

Hollie McNish, yet again, getting it spot on.

slightly diminish a book: To Inconvenience a Mockingbird

Hi friends, it's been a few months since I've shown my face on here. We had a loss that winded me somewhat, and hibernating has been helpful. Popping back on to say hello, and I hope you are all okay despite *gestures hands at everything going on in the world* Hoping to be around a bit more now

This is your friendly reminder that hate wrapped in scripture is still hate.

81,885 in attendance for this Women's Rugby World Cup Final 🏆 #WRWC2025 #RUGBY #RWC2025

"Christianity’s most powerful metaphor is the Body of Christ, and that body was not perfect by classical standards. It was broken. Wounded. Pierced. And when Christ rose from the dead, he did not shed his scars. He showed them."

no, nobody has to accept a reduction in their human rights. they do not. do y’all hear yourselves

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

Coming back online after a few hours off

Almost finished preparing my first staff training session on understanding the long-lasting impacts of having experience of the criminal justice system and the potential barriers to higher education. Grateful to our Specialist Support team for asking me to deliver this.

Take a look at my piece in @feweek.bsky.social on why the proposed incentives to get prisoners engaging in education have the potential to be incredible, but how easy it will be to screw the whole thing up (and of course, how to make sure it isn’t!) feweek.co.uk/early-prison...

I was called 'diva' by a student today "Thanks, my diva" Which was especially alarming because I'm sitting here in a cardigan and looking forward to the prospect of a peppermint tea in an hours time

Thanks to @yorkshirepost.co.uk for publishing my article with @trusselluk.bsky.social's new stats. No child should be held back by hunger, but too many grow up in severe hardship, blighting childhoods & with long term impacts on prospects in adulthood. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Valuable @courtwatchldn.bsky.social reporting highlighting that delays to trials mean people are being tried as adults, despite having been children when they committed the crime.

This summer, I plan on hosting a garden party where only hotdogs and martinis are provided. I'm calling it a 'tinis and weenies' party.

Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man. But it is a bad sign of where our country of at. Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today

We popped into the town square to check out the food festival, then took a walk in the back fields. Now home for a cuddle and a marathon of Our Girl. 10/10 Saturday

Every so often, my husband asks if he can blow-dry my hair after I said how treasured & cared for it made me feel the first time he did it. A while ago, I learnt he'd been watching YouTube tutorials for techniques. Tonight, he revealed a hair product he'd read good reviews about & thought I'd like.

Very excited for this event hosted by UCL Centre for Education and Criminal Justice! 'Why should we prioritise higher education opportunities for those with criminal records?'

This cyber attack www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may... is one of the worst ever in that apparently people's criminal records have been hacked. These records in the hands of hackers could do terrible damage to people who have long moved on and risk people being subject to blackmail

Horrifying horrifying horrifying

May all your evenings be as relaxing as Mabel's

Listened to a podcast, whilst on my exercise bike, which made me so furious I achieved a new PB 😅

FairChecks supporter Steve met with his MP to talk about criminal records reform. 🎥 Hear Steve’s reflections and why he thinks meeting your MP matters ⬇️ 💙 Ready to take action? Use our handy tool to send off an email to your MP in a matter of minutes: 🔗https://fairchecks.org.uk/write-to-your-mp/

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

Very encouraging and exciting first meeting looking at how we, as a university, can better support applicants & students who have experience of the criminal justice system!

If three labradors were to sit for a Renaissance painting

You might think bookshops have nothing to do with the Met Gala, but you would be mistaken... Presenting, the 2025 #MetGala Looks to Books!!! ✨ Part 1/6

I've been given approval to start a very exciting project, and my brain is urging me to tap dance and "woop woop" around the office. Note, I cannot tap dance, so it would mostly be frantically happy stomping with a slight spring

For anyone who wants to look up Fine Cell Work: finecellwork.co.uk?gad_source=1...

Very much looking forward to watching this: a documentary that follows a quilting group inside a maximum security prison as they create personalised quilts for local foster children.

In among the madness, I'm delighted to have submitted the manuscript for our forthcoming book Incarcerated: Contemporary Photography from the Victorian Prison to @bluecoatpress.bsky.social. Incarcerated brings together @andyaitchison.bsky.social powerful photographs of HMP Lincoln and Liverpool.

I’ve signed this letter. If you teach at a UK uni you come into contact with many trans students; they’re no different, apart from the higher barriers to inclusion they face. If you teach queer history, you know that gender diversity is a simple fact. We have to resist this harmful moral panic.

Important campaign against a barbaric decision which will - per the government’s own evaluations of PAVA in adult prisons - fail to deter violence in YOIs and instead further damage fragile trust between children in custody and staff

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef salads with good things and bad things, chopped up and mixed together in a vinegarette of confusion and conflict." - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events

My puppy ate my book. I left her alone for 5 minutes, and the last chunk of pages have gone (with a very soggy corner throughout the whole book). Now, I need to wait until I can buy another copy before I find out how it ends!

Northumberland was wonderful. We explored a lot, rested well, and Mabel experienced her most scenic poo-stops to date.

Out of office: on My first trip to Northumberland and Mabel's first holiday!

For 2 years, artists with learning disabilities have explored and redefined their identity and voice with the I'm Me project.✨ Join us for the I'm Me Festival showcase on 19 & 20 June 2025. 📅 Plus an academic symposium on inclusive and creative methods.👇 www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/ins...

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

Just devoured my first Jessie Burton (The Muse), and ohhhh!! I've ordered 2 more of her books!

I love my big furbaby so much.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 50% of people in prison are neurodivergent, compared to 15% of the general population. But why? David Breakspear & @oxonadvisory.com discuss how neurodivergent people get caught up in the CJS & what the system could do to prevent unfair criminalisation 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/2c2982