“You’re not alone.” That’s the steady heartbeat of this week’s Rebel Justice from The View Magazine, where host and guest peel back the idea that justice is something distant and abstract. It’s not. It regulates our everyday lives until it fails, and the failure lands at home. Our guest, Janine Ewen, grew up in Northern…
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What really happens behind the wigs, gowns, and solemn rituals of Britain’s criminal courts? In Behind the Wig: The Human Cost of the Criminal Bar, two barristers open up about the unseen emotional toll of defending justice in a system that often feels broken. Criminal defence barrister Catherine “Kate” Kelleher says it plainly: “The minute…
Child Imprisonment in England and Wales: The Case for Abolition By Jodie Hodgson England and Wales imprison more children than any other country in Western Europe despite overwhelming evidence that custody harms rather than helps. The average child custody population in 2023–24 was 430, with nearly half held on remand. These children, often already traumatised,…
After the traumatic removal of her children, Amy Van Zyl turned her pain into purpose. Through Her Circle, the organisation she founded in 2020, Amy now supports women facing what she calls “complex motherhood”, those experiencing overlapping challenges such as domestic abuse, poverty, addiction, and poor mental health. “I had a mental health breakdown, and…
Sodexo began by serving lunch and now it runs prisons where people have died in their cells. Founded in Marseille in 1966 as a modest catering business, the company has expanded into a global services empire, managing everything from hospital meals to justice and probation services. But behind the glossy rhetoric of “quality of life”…
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the most severe forms of gender-based violence, yet it remains shrouded in silence across much of the world. Despite legal bans, millions of girls continue to be cut every year. At the heart of the movement to end this practice is The Vavengers, a UK-based, survivor-led charity turning…
Every day across India, millions of flowers are offered at temples, weddings, and festivals — only to be discarded hours later. This “sacred waste” often clogs rivers, fills landfills, and releases harmful gases. But a growing movement is transforming what was once pollution into purpose. In Turning Petals into Purpose, writer Jhanvi Kaur explores how…
Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia, directed by Justin Martin, is a theatrical gut-punch that refuses to flinch. With Rosamund Pike as Jessica Parks—a Crown Court judge and mother—the play dives headfirst into the murky waters of gender, power, and parental accountability. From the opening rock riff to the haunting shadow play, Inter Alia uses bold staging…
At HMP Bronzefield, women with cancer are chained during treatment, denied hospital care, left to bleed in their cells, and forced to endure filthy, malnourishing conditions. Emergency bells go unanswered, and basic medical rights are ignored. This is not justice—it is systemic cruelty.
Meanwhile, King Charles received world-class cancer treatment. Why are women in prison,…
Megan Morris wrote this article on behalf of The View Magazine, UK.
Krish Patel, founder of Tales to Inspire, believes that stories have the power to change how we see education. His podcast and community project began in 2019, after a series of marathons and a chance meeting with a friend who had been living on…