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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Important announcement on the View Magazine The View Magazine's editorial board has decided to dissolve the limited company and CIC, which was guaranteed by shares and registered as a Community Interest Company with Companies House in England and Wales. The CIC regulator claims to have received complaints about the campaigning activities of the View Magazine…
HMP & YOI Eastwood Park, the women’s prison in Gloucestershire, is once again under the spotlight, and for all the wrong reasons. An unannounced inspection by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) from 17 June to 3 July 2025, published on 22 September 2025, reveals a distressing environment of self-harm, violence, and despair. Although Chief…