Excl: Rishi Sunak ignored a direct plea from Britain's most senior police officers who wrote to him a week before the election urging him to announce the SDS40 early release measure. They warned that failure to act would leave criminals exploiting the prisons crisis and police

Join us on Friday 4 October for an evening Tom Shakespeare✨ Tom Shakespeare is a sociologist and ethicist who works at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he leads teams researching disability and mental health in Africa and Asia. wegottickets.com/event/632722

Exclusive Woman’s Hour poll: 73% of mothers of children with SEND think the SEND system is broken. We commissioned a survey of 1,000 mums across the UK who have one or more children with SEND. 58% told us they gave up work or cut their hours to support their child ⬇️

Sadly, we're bidding farewell to David Knowles, a wonderful British journalist who dedicated years of his work to Ukraine and launched Ukraine: The Latest, a weekly podcast with The Telegraph. We talked here on Twitter Spaces just several weeks ago... and now this happens to the

Barack Obama doesn't zing him often but, when he does, it crushes his empty soul.

When a rightwing billionaire pays £100m for a publication that made £4.8m last year, that's not a business proposition. That's buying political influence.

(A friend in LA whose a.c. had broken down shared with me his nightmarish experience of global heating.)

Have pre-loaded, as the young people have it, for the Britten Midsummer Night's Dream Prom, on an Autumnal night in September. But where is my glamorous companion?

‘The education system likes to put children in little boxes and if you don't fit in that box, you get pushed out’ In our special Woman’s Hour episode live from the BBC Radio theatre, 17-year-old Katie shared her experience of navigating the SEND system ⬇️

Women of the Day are the three women who were among the first emergency responders to arrive at the World Trade Center OTD in 2001: Paramedic Yamel Josefina Merino, MetroCare Ambulance, born 21 October 1976 in Queens. She volunteered to approach the Towers while her partner

The SUCCEED Africa Sierra Leone team has kicked off the SUCCEED Trial in partnership with Mental Health Coalition - Sierra Leone through a Community Mental Health Forum in Freetown. MH InnovationNetwork #communitymentalhealth FCDO Global Health Research

THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE #TrumpIsACoward #TrumpRally Tuscon

📢 Publication alert! Our team's work on sexual health service preferences among middle-aged and older adults in the UK is out now in STI_BMJ. Kpokiri Eneyi, PhD Jason Ong Joe Tucker, MD Tom Shakespeare Dan Wu Hayley Conyers Warittha Tieosapjaroen (Nittha) Yoshiko Sakuma, PT, MPH sti.bmj.com/content/early/…

Went to see 3 of the writers, 3 of the editors, 2 of the translators (all women) of this fantastic book speak at a launch chaired by Lyse Doucet. Very moving to hear how the Taliban take-over of Afghanistan affected people.

Yoga time.. 😊

“Light My Fire” - The Doors ‘67

Have just sent The Ends, post edits, back to Farrago Books . Expect laughter & climate change (not two phrases which often go together) in 2025.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Are you a disabled artist based in Wales? We've got two Welsh partners for this round of UK Partner Awards, Span Arts and Tŷ Pawb. There's 12 days left to apply! 🔗 Find out more and apply by Monday 30 September: bit.ly/4fmLRro