Sharon P
@sharipin.bsky.social
IDVA @ LWA | VAWG & social justice | urbanism enthusiast in my spare time | 🇮🇹 in Leeds
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My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
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Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
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we're reading this important report but meanwhile here's a good summary and comment @hansummers.bsky.social @tbij.bsky.social Family courts’ failure to tackle domestic abuse laid out in… | TBIJ share.google/aB3C8u5X94Hx...
Family courts’ failure to tackle domestic abuse laid out in damning…
Dismissiveness towards victims, ignorance of abuse and pervasive pro-contact culture found to be putting children at risk
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October 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
we're reading this important report but meanwhile here's a good summary and comment @hansummers.bsky.social @tbij.bsky.social Family courts’ failure to tackle domestic abuse laid out in… | TBIJ share.google/aB3C8u5X94Hx...
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The official data on productivity shows Britain's big cities have decoupled from the national economy. But while the big cities outside the capital are roaring ahead, London is stagnating.
But can we trust this data? Are our regional divides closing? Our new paper investigates:
But can we trust this data? Are our regional divides closing? Our new paper investigates:
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The official data on productivity shows Britain's big cities have decoupled from the national economy. But while the big cities outside the capital are roaring ahead, London is stagnating.
But can we trust this data? Are our regional divides closing? Our new paper investigates:
But can we trust this data? Are our regional divides closing? Our new paper investigates:
Always a good time to re-share this
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Always a good time to re-share this
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Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
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I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
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September 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
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Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
August 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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I dont think there's been a worse government decision in terms of sheer immediate injustice, time-wasting, overreach for quite a while in the UK. lots that had *longer term* implications but this has been a shameful disaster.
UK police arrest more than 466 at protest for banned Palestine Action group reut.rs/4fv7lmF
UK police arrest more than 466 at protest for banned Palestine Action group
Officers made arrests after crowds, waving placards expressing support for the group, gathered in Parliament Square.
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August 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I dont think there's been a worse government decision in terms of sheer immediate injustice, time-wasting, overreach for quite a while in the UK. lots that had *longer term* implications but this has been a shameful disaster.
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Leaving aside points around racism. Every single one of my female friends and relatives have dealt with unwanted sexual advances, up to and including sexual assault. Several have been victims of domestic violence. Multiple have been raped. Sexual violence is a daily occurrence and needs addressing.
Let's be more blunt, if I had a nickel for every time I've been told a man on the right who posts aggressively about grooming gangs is "not safe in taxis", well, I'd have more than two nickels.
if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism
August 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Leaving aside points around racism. Every single one of my female friends and relatives have dealt with unwanted sexual advances, up to and including sexual assault. Several have been victims of domestic violence. Multiple have been raped. Sexual violence is a daily occurrence and needs addressing.
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One of the unintentionally impressive things about LLMs is that by dint of huge technical innovation, massive compute costs, and quite a lot of stolen data, they’ve managed to make computers bad at maths.
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
One of the unintentionally impressive things about LLMs is that by dint of huge technical innovation, massive compute costs, and quite a lot of stolen data, they’ve managed to make computers bad at maths.
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This has always been a story about the neglect of white, working class girls, whose safety meant nothing to the people meant to protect them
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This has always been a story about the neglect of white, working class girls, whose safety meant nothing to the people meant to protect them
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
This is a bit of a atretch/hope: there were 5 protests, with the largest two being up to 300 people, a total of around a thousand or so people.
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
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Real Estate Developers Decide Colorful Bench Enough To Deem Area ‘Arts District’ theonion.com/real-es...
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Real Estate Developers Decide Colorful Bench Enough To Deem Area ‘Arts District’ theonion.com/real-es...
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The stranger danger panic has convinced a whole lot of people that rapists are never people you know.
And they interpret that to mean that, if they know someone—personally or parasocially—that they must be innocent.
No matter how many victims come forward.
And they interpret that to mean that, if they know someone—personally or parasocially—that they must be innocent.
No matter how many victims come forward.
July 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The stranger danger panic has convinced a whole lot of people that rapists are never people you know.
And they interpret that to mean that, if they know someone—personally or parasocially—that they must be innocent.
No matter how many victims come forward.
And they interpret that to mean that, if they know someone—personally or parasocially—that they must be innocent.
No matter how many victims come forward.
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I think this is one of the biggest challenges in researching sexual violence.
Our cultural narratives about sexual violence are in such sharp opposition to reality that people really struggle to believe reality.
Our cultural narratives about sexual violence are in such sharp opposition to reality that people really struggle to believe reality.
it’s impossible to talk about epstein stuff without sounding insane, even if what you’re saying is true
July 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think this is one of the biggest challenges in researching sexual violence.
Our cultural narratives about sexual violence are in such sharp opposition to reality that people really struggle to believe reality.
Our cultural narratives about sexual violence are in such sharp opposition to reality that people really struggle to believe reality.
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My latest, on how the government is in a brilliant position to make big decisions, if only it can stop thinking small.
Welfare and the unexpected tyranny of government statistics
How the government’s obsession with tiny numbers has crippled decision making (and undermined the ONS).
martinrobbins.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My latest, on how the government is in a brilliant position to make big decisions, if only it can stop thinking small.
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Understanding the Impact of Child Removal on Women is our full-day, in-person training designed to equip professionals with the knowledge, skills, and empathy needed to support women affected by child removal.
🗓 Upcoming sessions:
3rd November 2025
23rd February 2026
📲 Book now via our website!
🗓 Upcoming sessions:
3rd November 2025
23rd February 2026
📲 Book now via our website!
July 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Understanding the Impact of Child Removal on Women is our full-day, in-person training designed to equip professionals with the knowledge, skills, and empathy needed to support women affected by child removal.
🗓 Upcoming sessions:
3rd November 2025
23rd February 2026
📲 Book now via our website!
🗓 Upcoming sessions:
3rd November 2025
23rd February 2026
📲 Book now via our website!
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“UN experts today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.“We are concerned at the unjustified ...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“UN experts today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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“Anti-trans groups would have everyone believe to be pro-trans is anti-women, we know this isn’t true.
NION [not in our name] letter is our attempt to show the strength & breadth of support that exists for trans people, from everyday women - a petition that is making waves'
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
NION [not in our name] letter is our attempt to show the strength & breadth of support that exists for trans people, from everyday women - a petition that is making waves'
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women
Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“Anti-trans groups would have everyone believe to be pro-trans is anti-women, we know this isn’t true.
NION [not in our name] letter is our attempt to show the strength & breadth of support that exists for trans people, from everyday women - a petition that is making waves'
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
NION [not in our name] letter is our attempt to show the strength & breadth of support that exists for trans people, from everyday women - a petition that is making waves'
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
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I feel like there used to be more understanding that if you punish people the same for mild acts of protest and actual terrorism you just make terrorism look more appealing.
Have you ever embarrassed the MoD so much that you get declared a terrorist organisation?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in
The home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I feel like there used to be more understanding that if you punish people the same for mild acts of protest and actual terrorism you just make terrorism look more appealing.