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...
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#linguistics
#forensiclinguistics
A map that shows life expectancy rates across the UK. Life expectancy is lower in Scotland (it is lowest in Scotland) and the North of England than in London and the South of England. This map uses data from ONS life expectancy for local areas of Great Britain 2021-23 and ONS life expectancy in Northern Ireland 2021-23.
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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