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She Was Only Walking Home: What the Angiolini Inquiry’s New Report Tells Us About Women’s Safety

The Angiolini Inquiry’s new Part 2 First Report, published on 2 December, is a stark reminder of a truth women already know in their bones: public spaces still don’t belong to us. Four years after the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police officer, this report asks a deceptively simple…

8 December 20250Comments

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The System Is Failing Fran: A Woman With Cancer Lost in the Gaps of Probation, Prisons, and Healthcare

At 39, Fran Geary should be focusing on surviving stage two breast cancer. Instead, she is fighting for her life inside a system that treats her illness as an inconvenience rather than an emergency. In this shocking investigation, The View Magazine exposes the dangerous failings that have defined Fran’s journey; from delayed diagnosis to brutal…

7 December 20250Comments

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UK GOVERNMENT PLEDGE TO HELP PROTECT WOMEN FROM VIOLENCE

On average, a woman is killed every three days and that nearly 900 women were victims of domestic homicide over the last ten years, most killed by a current or former partner. This International Women’s Day, the UK government has restated their target of halving violence against women and girls in the UK within the…

7 December 20250Comments

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Literature That Transforms: How Stories Illuminate the Realities of Imprisonment

What can a metamorphosing beetle and a kidnapped art student teach us about the lived experience of incarceration? In this powerful literary essay, El Jamieson explores how two classic works – Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and John Fowles’ The Collector – reveal uncomfortable truths about isolation, gender, and the dehumanising nature of imprisonment. At first…

6 December 20250Comments

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Living With an Invisible Disability

“I have had a stroke, not a lobotomy.” With wit, honesty, and striking resilience, one woman shares her story of survival after a devastating brain injury, and the quiet battles that come with living in a world that can’t see your scars. In Living With an Invisible Disability, a senior civil servant from Guernsey recounts…

5 December 20250Comments

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Unequal Access, Uneven Outcomes: How Interventional Radiology Could Address Gender Inequity in Cancer Care

By 2040, more than six million people in England could face a cancer diagnosis; that’s one every two minutes. But as cancer rates rise, so too does the inequality in how patients are treated. In Unequal Access, Uneven Outcomes, Éva Malpass examines an emerging medical frontier that could change the future of cancer care, and…

4 December 20250Comments

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How Prison Leave For Prisoners is being abused by Governors

Release on temporary licence (RoTL) for women in prison is supposed to be part of their resettlement and rehabilitation. They can access resettlement leave to maintain contact with their children, especially their young children. In addition, women are allowed to apply for a special purpose licence (SPL) to leave prison to attend urgent medical appointments. …

4 December 20250Comments

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Prison Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence: Cancer and Cruelty Behind Bars

Prison is meant to take away freedom, not life itself. Yet for many women behind bars in Britain, a cancer diagnosis becomes a slow and silent execution. Prison Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence: Cancer and Cruelty Behind Bars exposes the devastating reality of medical neglect faced by incarcerated women living with cancer. Through the harrowing…

3 December 20250Comments

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Ofcom: Women need to be better protected online

As vigils were held across the country for all those who have suffered gendered and domestic violence on the 25th of November, a change started in the tech world. Ofcom have taken decisive action against the internet’s culture of misogyny and published a set of guidelines for tech companies with the aim of making the…

3 December 20250Comments

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“Full of Practicality and Humanity”: Judith Moran on 150 Years of Quaker Social Action

Some organisations claim to be rooted in community. Quaker Social Action actually is, and has been for over 150 years. In this intimate and refreshingly honest interview, Judith Moran, QSA’s director, reflects on the charity’s long history, her own working-class upbringing, and why listening is still the most radical tool in social justice work. Growing…

2 December 20250Comments

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