Gendered Harmful Practices (FGM, CEFM) Are A Public Health Crisis. Community Nurses Can Help Mitigate These Problems. The Virtual Conference on Nursing Innovation & Reproductive Health (Rome, Italy: WINRH-2026) invited me to give a talk on 13 April on FGM (female genital mutilation) and CEFM (child, early and …

Would be interested in any views on this? VAWG seems to feature only very modestly in most Public Health / Community Nursing approaches?
hilaryburrage.com/2026/04/12/g...

Poppy bloom
Organ mountains ⛰️ New Mexico

On the way home. Photograph taken this morning at sunrise on my way back down Glastonbury Tor.

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

“This is not a war for security. It’s a war for the political economy of fossil fuels – and the people paying the price are Iranian civilians and working‑class communities around the world.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Female Genital Mutilation Surgical Reconstruction: The Italian Perspective…. So Why Is Britain Far Behind Italy And France? It was a privilege and pleasure to be invited to the Italian Embassy yesterday, 6 February 2026, for an event to mark the Global Day Of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Disti…

Female Genital Mutilation Surgical Reconstruction: The Italian Perspective…. So Why Is Britain Far Behind Italy And France?

hilaryburrage.com/2026/02/07/f...

who made this

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

A vote for Matt Goodwin/Reform in #GortonAndDenton is a vote for racism and misogyny. A vote to shame the constituency, to divide and fail it. It’s a vote that takes no responsibility for its consequences because it hasn’t thought about them and doesn’t care enough to do that.
Don’t be that voter.

Am all for open and free exchanges of ideas and expressions of views in universities everywhere, but does this Cambridge appointment align with that sort of thing?
I hope so...

Greenland Prime Minister Frederik Nielsen speaking to reporters. PHOTO BY LEON NEAL /Getty Images

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “President Trump's idea of ​​sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted — But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice"

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

A snowy backroad amongst the trees disappears into the haze of the falling snow. Headlights of an oncoming car are barely visible in the distance.

On a snowy drive home
📷 Pentax 17
🎞️ Portra 800
#believeinfilm

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s photo placed in Louvre by activists

Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!! President DJT

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good.

Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies.

So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

Fantastic @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏

UK clinical trial into puberty blockers paused after medicines regulator raises concerns Study set to delay recruitment after warning participants should be a minimum of 14 years old

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

If UK news shows won’t call this absolute boll**** out let do it ourselves

Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco

📷: Elliot McGucken

#northernlights #auroraborealis #sanfrancisco #landscapes

We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown The abuse of women by figures such as Epstein, and of political power by the likes of Mandelson, must be confronted. As far as I am able, I will play my part, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brow...

“We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change”
Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Health Education: The Androcentric Agenda I originally wrote this post for the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education in 1986, and it was put online in 2014 – the date on which I am now publishing it.  To be honest, …

I originally wrote this in 1986. Maybe it still has some resonance?

Health Education: The Androcentric Agenda

hilaryburrage.com/2014/03/10/h...

UK

A group of Epstein survivors just formally demanded that the DOJ Inspector General open an investigation into how the heavily redacted Epstein files were released. They’re demanding action now to release the files and we stand with them.

Are ‘Anti-FGM’ Campaigns Harmful? What follows is my initial response, via the journal Gynaecology, to a recently published academic paper which many see as a backlash to women’s rights and entitlements. In September 2025 the…

Are 'Anti-FGM' Campaigns Harmful?

hilaryburrage.com/2026/01/10/a...

New York City turned OUT.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

Are ‘Anti-FGM’ Campaigns Harmful? What follows is my initial response, via the journal Gynaecology, to a recently published academic paper which many see as a backlash to women’s rights and entitlements. In September 2025 the…

The backlash against women is coming from all sides...?

hilaryburrage.com/2026/01/10/a... #EndFGM