Parent, lawyer, linguist, liberal. European, Scot, Brightonian, in that order.
Brighton, U.K.
Joined April 2014
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Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Lucy Beaumont is currently on tour. Looks like her next gig is Bristol on the 17th, next week. I really really hope she receives a massive standing ovation from the start. We need more people with moral courage like her, she's a hero.
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Andrew Thomas KC, CBA Chair, and Kama Melly KC, CBA Vice Chair, add the following:
“In his sentencing remarks in the case of Russell Brand, Mr Justice Joel Bennathan said this: “Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no and to demand justice from the criminal courts when sexual predators like you act without their consent.”
The CBA are proud of the progress which has been made in our criminal courts over the past few decades, seeking to ensure that ‘rape myths’ of any kind do not cloud the decisions of judges or the verdicts of juries. The CBA have worked alongside many groups and organisations to provide specialist training. Clear guidance has been provided to Judges by the Judicial College and in the decisions of the Court of Appeal. As recently as 2025, the Law Commission produced a comprehensive report on Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions highlighting these issues.
We must remain ever vigilant to ensure that the evidence which goes before a court, including evidence sought in cross-examination, is truly relevant and admissible. Myths must play no part in that. Equally, we must never lose sight of the defendant’s right to a fair trial.”
Judge who sentenced Russell Brand praised for dispelling rape myths
Criminal Bar Association and campaigners hail Mr Justice Bennathan for delivering remarks with ‘piercing clarity’
Andrew Thomas KC, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association, and Kama Melly KC, its vice-chair, said: “We welcome the piercing clarity of the judge’s statement. Myths about rape and sexual assault must play no part in our culture or in our courtrooms. Raping or sexually assaulting someone is a crime, and blame lies entirely with the perpetrator.
“Victims of sexual violence should know that when they go to the prosecution authorities, their evidence will be judged fairly and properly. As the verdicts in Russell Brand’s case show, a properly directed jury will not be put off by a defendant’s appeal to rape myths.”
theguardian.com/news/2026/no…
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Prince George of Wales is 13 and he drew this kingfisher? What is he, Beatrix Potter? Quite the talent you have there @KensingtonRoyal
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Watching Lucy Beaumont on @SkyNews with @cathynewman and I think I speak for every woman I know when I say thank you, Lucy. For caring, for speaking out even when it’s hard or terrifying, for trying to help women and girls.
We appreciate you.
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Absolutely choked listening to #LucyBeaumont talk on Sky just now. The most brutally honest interview without getting herself into legal trouble. If she’s correct about having no more TV work for speaking out, the TV world is dirtier than we all could have imagined
Exclusive interview on my show NOW on @SkyNews with TV comic Lucy Beaumont who says she blew the whistle on #davidwalliams . He denies the allegations.
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
643 people sent me a DM yesterday about my post exposing how Andy Burnham’s Manchester council machine secretly intercepts emails from the public.
I believe this new revelation is going to trigger an even bigger shockwave.
Manchester City Council is currently fighting tooth and nail to keep a massive urban regeneration contract hidden from taxpayers.
The corporate partner is a Hong Kong-based developer called Far East Consortium. The funding is a staggering £120 million of public money, including £34.1 million handed over directly by Burnham’s combined authority.
Here is the specific detail that exposes the absolute arrogance of the modern political class.
When a local resident filed a request to read the document, the Chinese developer actually consented to its publication. It was the British council that intervened, heavily redacted the contract, and officially branded the taxpayer’s request for basic transparency as "manifestly unreasonable."
We are operating in a geopolitical environment where foreign powers routinely use infrastructure and property investment to build leverage inside Western cities.
Yet local Labour authorities are handing nine-figure sums of public wealth to Chinese-linked conglomerates, while deploying the full weight of their legal departments to keep British citizens in the dark.
They are perfectly comfortable outsourcing the regeneration of a major UK city to foreign capital. They are just terrified of the people funding the project ever seeing the actual terms.
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In light of #RussellBrand, this clip deserves attention.
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Tonight, I am the proudest Head in the country. After school today, a man collapsed at a train station. Adults stood by. Our students didn't. One rang 999 and, using first aid she'd learned in LIFE lessons, put him in the recovery position until paramedics took over. 🧵1/2
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
NHS TRUST EDITED A DEAD BABY'S MEDICAL FILE
Kate Stanton-Davies lived for 6 hours. She was born in 2009 at a midwife led unit in Ludlow, run by Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust @sathNHS.
Her mother Rhiannon Davies had reported reduced movement. Nobody acted. Nobody classed her as high risk.
A 2016 investigation found someone had changed Kate's clinical observation notes after she died.
Rhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton @hergehound5 were refused an inquest and had to threaten a judicial review to get one. In 2012 the jury found that delivering Kate in a midwife led unit contributed to her avoidable death.
Their campaign led to the Ockenden Review by Donna Ockenden @DOckendenLtd, which has examined 1,862 cases at the same trust. Kate was case 1.
West Mercia Police @WMerciaPolice opened Operation Lincoln into gross negligence manslaughter. It is still running.
In 2023 both parents received MBEs. They spent over a decade doing the NHS's job for free before anyone admitted what happened.
Sources: @BBCNews @Channel4News @guardian @HSJnews
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Hamas released a video showing them digging up Gaza’s water pipes and electricity lines—to turn them into rockets.
If you’re upset about Gaza’s lack of a sewage system, direct your outrage where it belongs: at Hamas.
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
Some long-time aviation industry veterans have asked me to explore the potential of creating an endowed scholarship in memory and honor of Nathalia Filgueiras. Many feel that she represented not only female pilots, but also a new generation of aviators working their way up the aviation career ladder. In that light, we feel it’s only right to honor her life by making aviation more accessible to other women and young people.
Before moving forward, I want to have her family’s blessing. If someone can help me gain their approval, I would be grateful.
I’ll also need the aviation community's help to fundraise, structure, and endow properly. My contact information will be on the KittyHawk link below.
If you are interested in helping or want to be part of the conversation, you can find me on KittyHawk. I can organize this endeavor and keep the conversations civil and productive there. Link below:
kittyhawk.global/post/f26cba…
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
A carpet of poppies in #Pompeii for Remembrance Sunday
#RemembranceDay
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Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
If she reports immediately, she's accused of trying to ruin a famous man's career.
If she waits, she's accused of inventing it years later.
If she tells nobody, she's accused of having no corroboration.
If she tells friends, she's accused of spreading rumours.
If she continues working in the same industry, she's accused of not being sufficiently traumatised.
If she leaves the industry, she's accused of being bitter about her failed career.
If she liked the man, she's accused of regretting consensual sex.
And if she disliked him, she's accused of having a grudge.
You CANNOT win.
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
MPs LEFT FUMING as a witness breaks ranks and exposes their FAILURES one by one! The truth they clearly didn’t want to hear! 😡🔥
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
"the defendant's story that they were acting out of ‘mercy’ is often unquestioningly accepted by the criminal justice system, even though there are often of signs this is not so"
New, from academics Jonathan Herring and @Hannah_Bows blasts the idea of the "mercy" killing
📢 Exeter College Fellow Professor Jonathan Herring has co-authored a new study examining domestic ‘mercy’ killings in England and Wales, published in 2026.
🔗 Read more: ow.ly/ishF5101ZLO
#ExeterCollegeOxford
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Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
I do strangulation exams as part of my job. I have taken extensive training in strangulation and am qualified to testify as an expert in strangulation cases. The general public has no idea how bad this epidemic has become, how many women and girls this is happening to, or how dangerous this is.
I share facts about it sometimes like men who strangle women are twice as likely to be involved in a mass shooting or to kill a cop. Women who are strangled by their partners are 750% more likely to be killed by that partner.
I tell people that death by strangulation can occur in just minutes, under a minute if you hit the right nerve bundles that lead to certain arrhythmias. I also tell them that a woman can die from a strangulation event up to one year after the event and that a pregnant woman who has been strangled is at high risk of pregnancy loss for weeks after the strangulation event. Strangulation can lead to brain damage, physical disability, stroke, pregnancy loss, and death.
I tell people that there is no safe way to strangle and that nobody has the ability to consent to being murdered, and consent is not an excuse for murder, if someone were to consent to this it is incumbent on the would be murderer to use self discipline and restraint, because a person’s “consent” to being murdered is not going to be recognized by any court as a legitimate excuse. Nobody can consent to being killed.
When I tell people these things, a very few are appreciative, mostly women, some are interested, men and women, and some attack me for being stupid and not knowing what I am talking about, apparently days of professional training and hundreds of exams performed mean nothing to the “experts” of X. Those that attack are mostly men. Some argue with me about dumb things, like my insistence to call strangulation what it is. Strangulation is not choking, choking is not strangulation, these are two different types of ways to block an airway but they are not the same. That is what people argue with me about the most. They insist on using incorrect language and then provide me with a weak google link picture of a choke hold to try to prove it’s the same.
So then it becomes me explaining that a choke hold is called a chokehold but it is not choking it is strangulation and that blows their minds and I am met with silence or swears.
This is an incredibly important issue that needs to be discussed but it is very contentious and the defenders of strangulation can turn into rabid dogs very quickly.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate the effort you are taking here, that you are raising awareness and that you are using accurate language and data. It’s really important that we change the narrative around this subject.
I would like to share this resource with you, I’m not sure if you are aware of them or not, but this was the group that did my training on strangulation. They go all over the US teaching medical professionals and law enforcement about strangulation and they have a ton of information and resources on their website. You might find them useful.
Thank you for talking about this.
strangulationtraininginstitu…
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
If you’re in or within reach of Limerick City and interested in experiencing a full and traditional sung (probably with organ) Latin Requiem Mass (quite the cultural as well as spiritual experience), there is one being held for the Feast of The Holy Souls tomorrow (Monday) evening at 6pm in The Sacred Heart Church in the middle of the city. This is the form of Mass that the great classical music requiem mass pieces was written for. Something to experience first hand.
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
This is one of the most powerful articles (about the experience of being a woman - especially a young woman) I've ever read.
Matt Rattley’s prosthetic breasts made me uncomfortable – but at Oxford, I felt women’s discomfort didn’t matter – [Un]Captured thisisuncaptured.com/matt-ra…
Katriona Grahame 🇪🇺🏴 retweeted
This just might be Kemi Badenoch's most viral tweet ever.
Well deserved, it's excellent.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.