IN the UK, 97% of 16 to 24-year-old women and girls in the UK have been sexually harassed. One in five will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
IT seems, with ease, that the Tories find a way every week to be more despicable than they were in the last. Between them and Keir Starmer’s now undeniably morally devoid Labour Party, I really am spoiled for choice when it comes to finding content for my column. I could write a book on the last two weeks alone, and it wouldn’t be my kindest work.
AS humans, we’ve taken generational comfort in the excuses we have concocted to exempt ourselves from historic atrocities. The Atlantic slave trade, the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide – the average person when prompted would unequivocally abhor such events. Often, we even express confusion when we speak
LIKE most ADHDers up and down the UK, I have been affected miserably by the severe, and ever worsening shortage in ADHD medicine.
MAKING friends, and retaining friends, as a neurodivergent is a minefield. One I’ve been reflecting on a lot in recent weeks, for various reasons.
IT has been hard to know where to direct my energy as events have unfolded in the Middle East. Death, destruction and misery have overtaken my social media feeds and, for those of us with a conscience, it is impossible to continue as normal, unaffected by the horrors unfolding before us.
IN what has been a period of extraordinary personal challenge for the First Minister, he’s been a guiding light in the darkest of times.
Kylie Jenner, the most followed woman on Instagram, shared and then subsequently deleted a post on the matter, pointing to the likelihood that she shared it without really understanding what she was sharing. But at the click of a button, gave access to that information to her 399 million followers.
IT’S been quite the conference for the Conservatives. Suella Braverman going straight from her most unhinged speech yet to stand on a guide dog ...
STANDING for election has never been a particularly easy endeavour, but for women in Scotland in 2023 – amid a rise of relentless online abuse and harassment – it’s seldom been harder.
