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Financial analysts can go fuck themselves.
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"It was at this point that my legal injunction expired, so, in a desperate bid to evade further scrutiny, I decided to have myself admitted to the local psychiatric hospital."
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RIP Sean Lock you would’ve loved Russell Brand and David Williams getting outed as sexual predators
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I just want to remind everyone who’s losing his shit about the Russell Brand conviction that eight of the jurors were male. Men almost never vote to convict a rapist unless the victim was visibly injured, so the fact that a majority-male jury found Brand guilty should not be overlooked.
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It isn’t proper for a national library to be charging for access to spaces that were paid for by the public: also London is overrun by loss making “flexible workspaces”. The BL consultation on its future barely mentions books or access to knowledge. Save @britishlibrary .
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On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.
I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.
She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.
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Which would you rather have:
Shania Law: it is mandatory for all women to go totally crazy, forget you’re a lady
Shakira Law: hips are legally forbidden to lie
Shawarma Law: at least one shawarma must be consumed per household per day
Sangria Law: all public water fountains now dispense sangria instead of water
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Katie Piper stepped out of an internet cafe in north London and a man in a hoodie threw sulphuric acid in her face. It blinded her left eye. She swallowed some of it. Doctors had to remove what was left of the skin on her face. The man had never met her. He'd been sent by the man she'd been dating for two weeks.
March 31, 2008. Golders Green, London. Katie was 24, a model, building a career in TV. Life was just starting to happen.
She'd met Daniel Lynch online. He seemed charming. Two weeks later, in a hotel room in Bayswater, he raped her, beat her and stabbed her in the arms. He told her if she went to the police, he'd make sure no one would ever look at her again.
Then he sent her an email to lure her out. The attacker, Stefan Sylvestre, was waiting. CCTV caught all of it.
In the video below she tells it herself. The burning. Running into a shop screaming for water. Realizing her face was coming apart in her hands.
She spent 12 days in an induced coma. A surgeon named Mohammad Jawad tried something that had never been done on a full face. He removed the damaged skin and rebuilt it with an artificial skin substitute. For two years she wore a plastic pressure mask 23 hours a day.
Lynch got two life sentences, minimum 16 years. Sylvestre got life with a minimum of 6. He walked out on parole after about nine years.
In the UK, rape victims have lifelong anonymity. Katie gave hers up. She went on national TV with her real face, and a documentary called "My Beautiful Face" was watched by millions.
Today she's a TV presenter, a wife and a mother of two. She founded a charity for burn survivors. In 2025, after 17 years of fighting for her eye, she started the process of getting an artificial one.
How do you show your face to the world after someone tried to take it from you?