Seventy-five years ago this weekend Timothy Evans was hanged having confessed to the murder of his wife and child - but he hadn't killed them. Find out whether or why he confessed in our new 🎙️Writing Wrongs🎙️ podcast series. youtube.com/shorts/0YGft... #truecrime #linguistics #forensiclinguistics

Today's ONS stats illustrate the devastating impacts of poverty on life expectancy. Most areas across Great Britain have experienced a fall in life expectancy. 📢 With some of the most deprived areas having the lowest expectancy. 1/3

"A law prohibiting abortion services for women raped by their husbands and girls under the age of 18 is unconstitutional, Zimbabwe’s High Court has ruled." 🇿🇼 www.africanews.com/2024/12/03/z...

Following my post yesterday - there is no "middle ground" on abortion when the opposition wants no abortion, full stop. Also @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's substack abortion everyday is the best place in the universe for US abortion news.

The government plans to hold even more people in immigration detention centres, despite worsening conditions like: increasing levels of self-harm & suicidal ideation; barriers to legal support; & people being released into homelessness. Take action now. support.detentionaction.org.uk/page/159220/...

Londoners! Come to a screening of The Guilty Feminist podcast about abortion!! Featuring me but also @dfdubz.bsky.social Grace Petrie Bonnie Greer Aja Barber and MORE. Sunday 1 pm, at the Kings Head Theatre, Tickets here: guiltyfeminist.com/live-shows/

i've a tiny grant for a new study exploring how abortion pills "testing" in Great Britain functions as a moralising & disciplining force, reinforcing abortion stigma & acting as a mechanism for reproductive governance. I'm hiring a part-time RA for it: shorturl.at/AgWcB @kings-sga.bsky.social 1/

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