Alarm over ‘substitutes’ sold on black market as Mounjaro price bloats Online sellers have started promoting weight-loss treatments that are yet to receive clinical approval. @phoebeivy.bsky.social

JD Vance's attack on buffer zones outside abortion clinics is just a small part of a huge plan to undermine the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people in the UK. Amnesty UK research has exposed a powerful and growing anti-rights movement in the UK. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Thank you Naomi! This means a lot (and obviously bias but agree on the love for a Sunday morning delivery of @theobserveruk.bsky.social )

‘I can finally get on with rebuilding my life’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation. bit.ly/40avxnL @phoebeivy.bsky.social

Catch up on recent happening in femtech and policing in the UK: @phoebeivy.bsky.social of @theobserveruk.bsky.social recently investigated new national guidance advising police forces to look at internet searches and menstrual tracking apps after pregnancy loss. ❗ bsky.app/profile/phoe...

Officers are advised to search for “drugs that can terminate pregnancy”, and access a woman’s digital devices to assess her “knowledge and intention” of ending a pregnancy in new NPCC guidance. It's more important than ever that we reform abortion law. Our statement 👇

This guidance is harrowing. Telling police to use menstrual tracking apps to investigate women for illegal abortion reads like something you get out of Texas, not the UK. There's only one way to protect women - #SupportNC1 to change abortion law. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

In 2020, Nicola Packer had an abortion - then was arrested and put on trial. Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law. Read the full report from @phoebeivy.bsky.social here:

NEW: UK police guidance suggests officers search homes for abortion drugs and check phones for menstrual tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Virginia Giuffre’s death is going to another touchstone for the Maga right, I’m sad to say. Early details in this piece with @phoebeivy.bsky.social and in the paper too - go and buy one! observer.co.uk/news/interna...

First piece for The Observer is on a man I have spent far too much of the last month thinking about: Tristan Tate. You thought Andrew was bad? Meet his little brother. Also a good time to say I am now a Reporter for The Observer. My DMs open if you want to get in touch ✍🏻

When I sat down to write this, I thought I was going to write about Virginia Cowles & Martha Gellhorn, about women war reporters and having a history of female journalists. But it turns out I needed to write about appeasement, fascism, Trump & Putin, and Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

Exclusive: Ex-MP offers to "shape policy" for clients while using his special pass to access parliament Laurence Robertson has attended several events in the months since losing his seat, meeting senior politicians in the process. 👇 www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/03/28/f...

@phoebeivy.bsky.social answered the question “what’s up with eggs?” In todays @tortoisemedia.bsky.social sensemaker (chart by me)

A column in which I ask um, should we all be learning how to perform abortions ? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

If you have also woken up mortified and disgusted, I would highly (highly) recommend this excellent book from @katherinestewart.bsky.social. It's the clearest reporting I have read on how in the hell we got here (extract below). jill.substack.com/p/male-supre...

Can confirm that UK-based far right and conspiracy theorist/anti-vaxx Telegram networks are absolutely pumped about what Trump and Vance did to Zelensky in the Oval Office They are celebrating it as public "humiliation"

Cutest protest award goes to No Births Behind Bars and Level Up today at the MoJ. Follows shocking reports that multiple pregnant prisoners were forced to wear handcuffs during labour.

NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

In honour of Valentine's Day, here's my podcast about AI "companionship" chatbots. As millions of users sign up to AI relationships, I asked: who are they really handing their hearts – and their data – to? w/ @mattrussell3.bsky.social for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3A0G...

I spent my afternoon going over as many British newspapers published in the last three days that I could access to document just how Trumps hatred of trans people has embolded people in the media. Since Friday, I found nine articles about trans people across three papers:

USAID funds religious pro-life groups all over the world. Why isn't the American pro-life movement standing up for them? jill.substack.com/p/can-we-get...

📢 LAWYERS!📢 Since 2 high-profile baby deaths in women’s prisons, there’s been a sea change in the sentencing of pregnant women. But there’s much more to be done - and we need criminal & public lawyers to do it! Come & find out how you can help on 5 March 🌟✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/human-righ...

Please share!! A genuine London gem #LongLivePCC you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

One of the largest US providers of abortion pills said censorship of its posts on Meta platforms had increased since Donald Trump was elected. ✍️ @phoebeivy.bsky.social Read more: torto.se/3WD8ikr

House Speaker Mike Johnson at today's March for Life in DC: "This new WhiteHouse has already shown its resolve...I don't know if you saw his executive order on gender, but it defines birth as beginning at conception, rather than birth." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

JD Vance and Trump are both due to speak at the March for Life today and a coalition of anti-abortion groups has asked the DOJ to "prioritise investigations and enforcement against those who are involved in the illegal distribution of abortion pills". Here we go. aul.org/wp-content/u...?

Some rare good news re UK immigration policy that I thought worth sharing 100s of refugee families who were accepted for UK resettlement but had been waiting years for relocation have finally arrived in Britain in the last yr, as the new govt has been quietly prioritising their cases Short thread🧵

I believe as a feminist investigative journalist, it's vital to promote and support women's work, so I finally got around to making this starter pack. go.bsky.app/RaopwNN

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Great turn out on a chilly Saturday for the #UKWomensMarch + some very on brand signs ofc

A number of my pieces are cited in this multi-agency statement calling for reform of UK abortion law. It's worth reading in full. Short write-up is below but more reporting (hopefully) to come soon on the impact of the prosecutions on the women and their families ⬇️ www.rcog.org.uk/media/00sjeh...

Musk’s obsession with Britain is complicated. Even so, most of what he thinks he knows is wrong. Read more in the Sensemaker: torto.se/4abeF3Z

Nick Robinson is doing a great job actually, just pointing out to Robert Jenrick how sudden his interest in the sex abuse scandal is on the Today Programme. It's crazy watching these GB News blowhards and Tory also-rans suddenly so interested in this scandal. There was absolutely no sign >>

A clear and excellent response to recent accusations about the integrity of Tortoise journalism, written by an editor I have the immense privilege of working with ⬇️

One minute they want to ban pills to protect us from men, and the next they are . . . .criminaly charging us for having miscarreages. Stay classy, England. Excellent reporting as ways from @phoebeivy.bsky.social of @tortoisemedia.bsky.social www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/18/b...

For 6 years the police and CPS have pursued this woman alleging she ended her own pregnancy. Now we know there was no evidence she did anything other than panic when she found out she was pregnant, ordered pills she never took, then had a traumatic stillbirth at home. The law needs to change.

NEW: A British woman was sentenced to an 18-month community order for conspiring with her partner to buy abortion pills to end her pregnancy when she was a teenager. My report from today's hearing at Gloucester Crown Court: www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/18/b... @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

Tortoise is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal to buy The Observer from The Guardian Media Group and The Scott Trust. Read more ⬇️ torto.se/3Bw2br1

Exclusive: Dozens of peers own stakes in the UK’s biggest companies, spanning sectors including banking, defence, mining and energy, that have effectively been held in secret – until now By me and @chefboibex.bsky.social for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/05/t...

In today's @tortoisemedia.bsky.social Sensemaker: The head of mental health services at Europe’s largest women’s prison has told its watchdog that care there is “the worst he has seen for 15 years”. My story on the latest HMP Bronzefield IMB report ⬇️ www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/03/m...

Exciting to have THE Kate Nash share her story on the latest Sensemaker podcast. Give it a listen! #podcasts

In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...

Honestly never been in a better crowd than last night at IDLES/Lambrini Girls. Everyone got to be rowdy but never felt dangerous. Huge shout out to Mike and Paul who I had a lovely chat with about the UK punk festival scene and got me a pint. And the girl who lent me a hairband. More of this please!

NEW: British MPs have voted in FAVOUR of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at second reading. The bill will now move forward to a parliamentary committee for amendments and a vote in the Lords before returning to the Commons. AYES: 330 NAYS: 275

Coming into the 5th hour of Commons debate over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. I really couldn't tell you which way it is going to go – but it is pretty clear no one is happy with the status quo for the care of the terminally ill. Vote in an hour or so.

Something for the weekend: Why are American women joining a radical feminist movement that started in South Korea? Was great to speak to Isabelle Frances-Wright about her (brilliant) research at the @isdglobal.bsky.social 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/no-men...

Picked up a chunk of followers here this week so feels like as good a time as any to use this platform to talk about something that has made this week feel particularly hard to report on women’s health. 🧵

I followed the story of "eco-terrorist" Paul Watson, arrested for his fight to save whales from Japan's hunting fleet. A story for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social Slow Newscast about how we treat the people willing to go to extremes to protect our world. podcasts.apple.com/mt/podcast/o...

Check out this brilliant bit of work from my colleagues at @tortoisemedia.bsky.social ⬇️ My favourite filter? "Visits since 2020"