Number 10 Downing Street CCTV

This was one year ago today. Helen Joyce "Every one of those people is a huge problem to a sane world"

Why are the majority of women murdered in their own homes? By men they know. Access. Because it’s easier for violent men to access women they live with, or are related to. It’s easier to harass, abuse and control women in spaces where you have unrestricted access. A front door key, for example. Women who are killed by partners or former partners have often experienced years of coercive control, psychological abuse and financial abuse beforehand. That can make it incredibly difficult to say “no”, or to leave a situation they know is dangerous - especially when children are involved. As a crime reporter of many years, you’d think Allison Morris would understand this better than anyone. Yet she appears to believe a man should, effectively, be handed the keys to female-only spaces - simply because he says he’s a woman. And has, apparently, forgotten that many women once believed the man they married, lived with, or had children with would never physically harm them. Which is exactly why domestic abuse refuges exist, and why charities devote themselves to helping women and children escape male violence. Morris also seems to think men who identify as women are too delicate to be told “no”. To be told that they are perfectly entitled to identify however they wish - but they must stay out of women’s spaces. Because women cannot tell, on sight, which men pose a threat and which don’t. And safeguarding is based on boundaries, not trust. But what I find genuinely sad is this. Morris knows all this - better than anyone. Yet she is still willing to publicly smear women who defend women’s single-sex spaces as bigots or right-wing extremists - rather than engage constructively with their arguments. You don’t have to agree with those women. But refusing even to hear what they have to say isn’t just a failure of empathy. It’s a failure of journalism.

2/ "What about if I went into the toilet, had a severe period, didn't make it to the toilet in time, spent ages clearing up and a trans woman came in and walked past me?" Realistically, what are the chances of any of these happening? 1 in a million? Less?