Phoebe Davis
@phoebeivy.bsky.social
Reporter | The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Mostly ✍🏻 about gender (especially how it relates to healthcare 🩺 & the justice system ⚖️ )
✉️ phoebe@theobserver.co.uk
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ she/her
Mostly ✍🏻 about gender (especially how it relates to healthcare 🩺 & the justice system ⚖️ )
✉️ phoebe@theobserver.co.uk
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ she/her
NEW: At least five of England’s top-rated maternity units have been forced to turn pregnant women away because of “significant and unanticipated increases in demand", despite birth rates falling across the country.
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Top hospitals turn away pregnant women too scared to use ...
Low care ratings at maternity wards across the country have put immense strain on a small number of units
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November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
NEW: At least five of England’s top-rated maternity units have been forced to turn pregnant women away because of “significant and unanticipated increases in demand", despite birth rates falling across the country.
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'At least five of England’s top-rated maternity units have been forced to turn pregnant women away because of “significant and unanticipated increases in demand”, despite birth rates falling across the country."' observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Top hospitals turn away pregnant women too scared to use ...
Low care ratings at maternity wards across the country have put immense strain on a small number of units
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
'At least five of England’s top-rated maternity units have been forced to turn pregnant women away because of “significant and unanticipated increases in demand”, despite birth rates falling across the country."' observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Also @phoebeivy.bsky.social reveals how top-rated hospitals are being forced to turn away pregnant women fleeing failing maternity units observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Top hospitals turn away pregnant women too scared to use ...
Low care ratings at maternity wards across the country have put immense strain on a small number of units
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Also @phoebeivy.bsky.social reveals how top-rated hospitals are being forced to turn away pregnant women fleeing failing maternity units observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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It’s shocking that the NHS spends almost as much on clinical negligence claims related to maternity care as it does on maternity care itself - my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the crisis in maternity services and how to fix it observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Clinical negligence costs NHS almost the same as it spend...
Maternal death rate has risen 42% in a decade, while ombudsman reports a culture of cover-ups
observer.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It’s shocking that the NHS spends almost as much on clinical negligence claims related to maternity care as it does on maternity care itself - my piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the crisis in maternity services and how to fix it observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Alarm over ‘substitutes’ sold on black market as Mounjaro price bloats
Online sellers have started promoting weight-loss treatments that are yet to receive clinical approval.
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Online sellers have started promoting weight-loss treatments that are yet to receive clinical approval.
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Alarm over ‘substitutes’ sold on black market as Mounjaro...
Online sellers have started promoting weight-loss treatments that are yet to receive clinical approval
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August 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Alarm over ‘substitutes’ sold on black market as Mounjaro price bloats
Online sellers have started promoting weight-loss treatments that are yet to receive clinical approval.
@phoebeivy.bsky.social
Online sellers have started promoting weight-loss treatments that are yet to receive clinical approval.
@phoebeivy.bsky.social
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JD Vance's attack on buffer zones outside abortion clinics is just a small part of a huge plan to undermine the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people in the UK.
Amnesty UK research has exposed a powerful and growing anti-rights movement in the UK.
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Amnesty UK research has exposed a powerful and growing anti-rights movement in the UK.
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US Christian conservative groups escalate support for UK ...
Network of well-funded bodies backs cases in UK after JD Vance’s challenge on buffer zones outside abortion clinics
observer.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
JD Vance's attack on buffer zones outside abortion clinics is just a small part of a huge plan to undermine the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people in the UK.
Amnesty UK research has exposed a powerful and growing anti-rights movement in the UK.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Amnesty UK research has exposed a powerful and growing anti-rights movement in the UK.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Thank you Naomi! This means a lot (and obviously bias but agree on the love for a Sunday morning delivery of @theobserveruk.bsky.social )
this is a really important story told in a sober and responsible way:
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it's a great paper to have delivered physically on a Sunday morning.
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it's a great paper to have delivered physically on a Sunday morning.
US Christian conservative groups escalate support for UK ...
Network of well-funded bodies backs cases in UK after JD Vance’s challenge on buffer zones outside abortion clinics
observer.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thank you Naomi! This means a lot (and obviously bias but agree on the love for a Sunday morning delivery of @theobserveruk.bsky.social )
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‘I can finally get on with rebuilding my life’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation.
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Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation.
bit.ly/40avxnL
@phoebeivy.bsky.social
‘I can finally get on with rebuilding my life’: MPs vote ...
Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation
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June 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
‘I can finally get on with rebuilding my life’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation.
bit.ly/40avxnL
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Ending a pregnancy will no longer carry the threat of prosecution after first major law change in a generation.
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Catch up on recent happening in femtech and policing in the UK: @phoebeivy.bsky.social of @theobserveruk.bsky.social recently investigated new national guidance advising police forces to look at internet searches and menstrual tracking apps after pregnancy loss.
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NEW: UK police guidance suggests officers search homes for abortion drugs and check phones for menstrual tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss
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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Catch up on recent happening in femtech and policing in the UK: @phoebeivy.bsky.social of @theobserveruk.bsky.social recently investigated new national guidance advising police forces to look at internet searches and menstrual tracking apps after pregnancy loss.
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Officers are advised to search for “drugs that can terminate pregnancy”, and access a woman’s digital devices to assess her “knowledge and intention” of ending a pregnancy in new NPCC guidance.
It's more important than ever that we reform abortion law.
Our statement 👇
It's more important than ever that we reform abortion law.
Our statement 👇
May 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Officers are advised to search for “drugs that can terminate pregnancy”, and access a woman’s digital devices to assess her “knowledge and intention” of ending a pregnancy in new NPCC guidance.
It's more important than ever that we reform abortion law.
Our statement 👇
It's more important than ever that we reform abortion law.
Our statement 👇
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This guidance is harrowing. Telling police to use menstrual tracking apps to investigate women for illegal abortion reads like something you get out of Texas, not the UK. There's only one way to protect women - #SupportNC1 to change abortion law.
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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This guidance is harrowing. Telling police to use menstrual tracking apps to investigate women for illegal abortion reads like something you get out of Texas, not the UK. There's only one way to protect women - #SupportNC1 to change abortion law.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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In 2020, Nicola Packer had an abortion - then was arrested and put on trial.
Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law.
Read the full report from @phoebeivy.bsky.social here:
Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law.
Read the full report from @phoebeivy.bsky.social here:
Prosecuted, shamed and traumatised for mistake of taking abortion pills too late | The Observer
In 2020, Nicola Packer had an abortion - then was arrested and put on trial. Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law
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May 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In 2020, Nicola Packer had an abortion - then was arrested and put on trial.
Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law.
Read the full report from @phoebeivy.bsky.social here:
Now, found not guilty, she hopes she will be the last woman in history prosecuted under England’s archaic law.
Read the full report from @phoebeivy.bsky.social here:
NEW: UK police guidance suggests officers search homes for abortion drugs and check phones for menstrual tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss
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observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
observer.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
NEW: UK police guidance suggests officers search homes for abortion drugs and check phones for menstrual tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss
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Virginia Giuffre’s death is going to another touchstone for the Maga right, I’m sad to say. Early details in this piece with @phoebeivy.bsky.social and in the paper too - go and buy one!
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‘She was the light that lifted so many survivors’: tributes pour in for Virginia Giuffre
Giuffre’s suicide has revealed the cost of justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
observer.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Virginia Giuffre’s death is going to another touchstone for the Maga right, I’m sad to say. Early details in this piece with @phoebeivy.bsky.social and in the paper too - go and buy one!
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
First piece for The Observer is on a man I have spent far too much of the last month thinking about: Tristan Tate. You thought Andrew was bad? Meet his little brother.
Also a good time to say I am now a Reporter for The Observer. My DMs open if you want to get in touch ✍🏻
Also a good time to say I am now a Reporter for The Observer. My DMs open if you want to get in touch ✍🏻
Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, Andrew.
But today Tristan’s central role in the brothers’ alleged criminality can be revealed for the first time.
Alexi Mostrous | Andrei Popoviciu | Phoebe Davis
Read more: bit.ly/4cYs6FZ
But today Tristan’s central role in the brothers’ alleged criminality can be revealed for the first time.
Alexi Mostrous | Andrei Popoviciu | Phoebe Davis
Read more: bit.ly/4cYs6FZ
The other Tate brother
Tristan Tate is far less well known than his notorious elder sibling, Andrew. But new evidence suggests he holds a central role in their alleged criminality
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April 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
First piece for The Observer is on a man I have spent far too much of the last month thinking about: Tristan Tate. You thought Andrew was bad? Meet his little brother.
Also a good time to say I am now a Reporter for The Observer. My DMs open if you want to get in touch ✍🏻
Also a good time to say I am now a Reporter for The Observer. My DMs open if you want to get in touch ✍🏻
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When I sat down to write this, I thought I was going to write about Virginia Cowles & Martha Gellhorn, about women war reporters and having a history of female journalists.
But it turns out I needed to write about appeasement, fascism, Trump & Putin, and Ukraine.
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But it turns out I needed to write about appeasement, fascism, Trump & Putin, and Ukraine.
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We could be heroes... on women writing war
Thoughts on women war reporters
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April 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
When I sat down to write this, I thought I was going to write about Virginia Cowles & Martha Gellhorn, about women war reporters and having a history of female journalists.
But it turns out I needed to write about appeasement, fascism, Trump & Putin, and Ukraine.
open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...
But it turns out I needed to write about appeasement, fascism, Trump & Putin, and Ukraine.
open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...
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Exclusive: Ex-MP offers to "shape policy" for clients while using his special pass to access parliament
Laurence Robertson has attended several events in the months since losing his seat, meeting senior politicians in the process.
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Laurence Robertson has attended several events in the months since losing his seat, meeting senior politicians in the process.
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Former MP offers to ‘shape policy’ for clients while accessing parliament
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March 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Exclusive: Ex-MP offers to "shape policy" for clients while using his special pass to access parliament
Laurence Robertson has attended several events in the months since losing his seat, meeting senior politicians in the process.
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www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/03/28/f...
Laurence Robertson has attended several events in the months since losing his seat, meeting senior politicians in the process.
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www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/03/28/f...
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@phoebeivy.bsky.social answered the question “what’s up with eggs?” In todays @tortoisemedia.bsky.social sensemaker (chart by me)
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@phoebeivy.bsky.social answered the question “what’s up with eggs?” In todays @tortoisemedia.bsky.social sensemaker (chart by me)
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A column in which I ask um, should we all be learning how to perform abortions ? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Our hard-won rights are being erased one letter at a time | Eva Wiseman
The US continues to roll back trans, gay and abortion rights, and the UK is not immune to any of it
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A column in which I ask um, should we all be learning how to perform abortions ? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
If you have also woken up mortified and disgusted, I would highly (highly) recommend this excellent book from @katherinestewart.bsky.social. It's the clearest reporting I have read on how in the hell we got here (extract below).
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Male Supremacy Is the Backbone of Authoritarian Movements
An excerpt from Katherine Stewart's Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
jill.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If you have also woken up mortified and disgusted, I would highly (highly) recommend this excellent book from @katherinestewart.bsky.social. It's the clearest reporting I have read on how in the hell we got here (extract below).
jill.substack.com/p/male-supre...
jill.substack.com/p/male-supre...
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Can confirm that UK-based far right and conspiracy theorist/anti-vaxx Telegram networks are absolutely pumped about what Trump and Vance did to Zelensky in the Oval Office
They are celebrating it as public "humiliation"
They are celebrating it as public "humiliation"
February 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Can confirm that UK-based far right and conspiracy theorist/anti-vaxx Telegram networks are absolutely pumped about what Trump and Vance did to Zelensky in the Oval Office
They are celebrating it as public "humiliation"
They are celebrating it as public "humiliation"
Cutest protest award goes to No Births Behind Bars and Level Up today at the MoJ. Follows shocking reports that multiple pregnant prisoners were forced to wear handcuffs during labour.
February 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cutest protest award goes to No Births Behind Bars and Level Up today at the MoJ. Follows shocking reports that multiple pregnant prisoners were forced to wear handcuffs during labour.
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NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
NEW: Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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In honour of Valentine's Day, here's my podcast about AI "companionship" chatbots. As millions of users sign up to AI relationships, I asked: who are they really handing their hearts – and their data – to?
w/ @mattrussell3.bsky.social for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
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w/ @mattrussell3.bsky.social for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
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My AI girlfriend: a cure for loneliness
The Slow Newscast · Episode
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February 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In honour of Valentine's Day, here's my podcast about AI "companionship" chatbots. As millions of users sign up to AI relationships, I asked: who are they really handing their hearts – and their data – to?
w/ @mattrussell3.bsky.social for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3A0G...
w/ @mattrussell3.bsky.social for @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3A0G...
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I spent my afternoon going over as many British newspapers published in the last three days that I could access to document just how Trumps hatred of trans people has embolded people in the media. Since Friday, I found nine articles about trans people across three papers:
February 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I spent my afternoon going over as many British newspapers published in the last three days that I could access to document just how Trumps hatred of trans people has embolded people in the media. Since Friday, I found nine articles about trans people across three papers: