Politics

When I became old enough to realise that other people thought there was something wrong with my mum, my initial response wasn’t anger or shame. It was co

Daisy (whose surname is omitted) made history when her DNA was used to get her birth father convicted of raping her mother in an unprecedented court case e

On 12th August a 22-year-old man named Jake Davison killed his 51-year-old mother, Maxine Davison. He then left his house with a gun.  Just after 6pm,

Like so many people, class didn’t exist for me (insofar as I didn’t really think about it or, perhaps, tried not to) until I was much older. But once I

In 2017, 29-year-old Sophie Bichener made what she describes today as “the biggest mistake” of her life. Did she break up with the love of her life? No

Economic abuse is now properly recognised as a form of domestic abuse. It falls under what’s known as coercive control. Some of the most common behaviour

In the weeks following the kidnap, rape and death of Sarah Everard, public pressure led to the government promising to do more to tackle violence against w

Anti-vaxxers have found yet another conspiracy theory to cling to in their fight to remain unvaccinated against the deadly coronavirus. Since the vaccines

In any garden-variety conversation between millennial women who date (or, indeed, don’t date) men, you can almost guarantee that the phrase “men ar

There is something inescapably weird about walking past your old front door, 15 years after your family moved away. It’s pretty strange to vote in your f

Warning: This article contains descriptions of traumatic events, including sexual assault, which some readers might find upsetting. My Body Keeps Your Secr

One year ago, a young woman took out her phone on a street in Minneapolis to record a murder that caused a movement. Darnella Frazier, who was 17 at the ti

Shirien Damra didn’t expect to go viral when she started sharing her art on Instagram. “For years I’ve built so many relationships with folks in othe

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and an alleged co-conspirator in his many sexual abuse scandals, will be the su

On Sunday, The New York Times published a report detailing billionaire Bill Gates’s “questionable behaviour” in and outside the workplace

Next month will mark one year since protestors at a Black Lives Matter march in Bristol toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston. The event sparke

In 2008 we bailed out the banks. We now face the biggest financial crisis in a generation, with record youth unemployment. Who will bail out young people?