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"The solution is obvious. Courts should never imprison pregnant women and new mothers, unless it is unavoidable and absolutely necessary." New blog by Dame Vera Baird DBE KC - 'Pregnancy and prison. Do not mix' Read it here➡️ow.ly/SUXr50VA4Ux

About time! Good announcement today that police guilty of gross misconduct will automatically be dismissed. But do police disciplinary processes always find gross misconduct when everyone else would, for instance when officers abuse women?

Women in Prison is a great charity with a big fund-raising project. Here is last night's panel on community solutions for women who commit minor offences. Chaired by the superb Polly Toynbee, with an expert by experience, a frontline campaigner & two fairly recognisable lawyers

Rupert Lowe: I call it Pakistani rape gangs... 95% are Pakistani Emily Maitlis; That's absolutely not true... 224 white grooming gang suspects were found compared to 22 Pakistani suspects... why do you only talk about Pakistani grooming gangs?

46% of children in households getting PIP are in working families. So this benefit does not primarily support people who could work but don't.

Victim arrested, on zero evidence, for blackmailing a man who'd given her sister drugs. (see my report on GMP pinned to this X account) Good that the IOPC will investigate her complaint, but the arrest was in 2022. Why does justice against the police take so long??

Police watchdog to investigate woman's strip-search - BBC News: The Baird Inquiry, into GMP's treatment of women in custody, said the woman was "Visibly upset by the degradation she felt", having been made to take off all her clothes without a blanket, for modesty

Great to be in Hay on Wye for the festival

🇬🇧 Britain is back on the world stage thanks to Labour's new EU deal 🇬🇧 Our deal doesn’t just make our future holidays smoother, it strengthens our borders here at home too. Tories and Reform? Against it ❌ Read here: express.co.uk/comment/expres…

Yeah! Renationalising the railways!!

"That is not true." DCC Becky Riggs, national policing lead on child protection and abuse investigations, rejects suggestions by Robert Jenrick MP that group based child sexual exploitation - i.e. grooming - is committed predominately by British Pakistani men. #Newsnight

We're pleased to hear Vera Baird DBE KC has been appointed as interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Great to see Vera Baird DBE KC step in to this role with the CCRC. Vera brings great skill, knowledge and common sense to all of her roles.

Thanks, Clive. I remember the case well, and you! Next week I will be in touch with Appeal.

CPS are piloting a viable way for serious sexual offence complainants to challenge a decision to drop their case. Looks like a good start.

Starting Monday

Parents who experience a miscarriage before 24 weeks of pregnancy will be entitled to bereavement leave under a planned law change. Vicki Robinson, Chief Executive of the Miscarriage Association, spoke to #BBCBreakfast about the proposed change to the Employment Rights Bill

Lead Reviewer of the Independent Porn Review, Gabby Bertin, will give evidence to us this week. We want to find out more about how the availability of violent pornography is contributing to sexist and misogynistic attitudes for our inquiry on misogyny.

Some defendants will be able to opt for judge-only trials under Sir Brian Leveson’s review, to be published on Wednesday… He will resurrect ideas he first proposed in 2015 in a review of the efficiency of criminal courts Story with ⁦Charles Hymas⁩ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

Employers to be barred from using NDAs to silence whistleblowers about sexual harassment and abuse- Government amendment to the Employment Rights Bill