Latest data show that 1.7 million, 7% of women in the UK experienced domestic abuse in 2022. Or rather felt able to report it to the police. An increase from 1.3 million in 2020, post pandemic. One in four women will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime. This alarming percentage, recent high-profile and prolific perpetrators convicted or spared – Ryan Giggs, David Carrick, Mason Greenwood…
Sir Tom Jones himself is set to be banned in Wales. With two women per week killed by a partner or ex-partner, “She stood there laughing, I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more” surely isn’t the ideal anthem for public events, sing-a-longs, weddings… The English language is rich in heritage evolved from centuries of invasions and influence. That evolution has…
The 2020 Olympics has been a triumph against the odds for the hosts, and for Team GB, but this event more than any also bought to the fore the mental health challenges the sporting elite face. Simone Biles supreme talent and unprecedented career success further crowned by her successfully beaming over Piers Morgan’s bile. No early adopter here, these recent testimonies made me finally sit…
BBC’s Newsnight and Bedfordshire police have this week highlighted a study that points to a tsunami of mental health conditions and struggles, a fairly predictable outcome following the circumstances of the last 12 months. Is this setting the scene for a mental health crisis, as the annual statistics are still set to be published by the ONS, NHS, HMIC to name a few? The headline…
