Meroë Candy

I did my first podcast with @stonecoledfox and who knew? I can talk ALOT. I really enjoyed it.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government 'will listen carefully to the case for a public inquiry' into the Corby toxic waste scandal ITV News revealed there are fears more families could be impacted, with more than 40 coming forward after the Netflix series Toxic Town

Just popped back on to say thank you for all the love for Toxic Town. It’s been a labour of love for those families and for the indomitable Sam. A total honour.

@WFTV_UK @KirstyWark Any chance you could post the awards stuff on Bluesky so we don’t have to come on here anymore. 🙏

.@KirstyWark gets a standing ovation #WFTVAwards

When I can work out how to download my archive, I'm out of here. Find me here @meroecandy.bsky.social.

@13alscott EVs start paying tax in April 2025.

#Budget2024 Petrol currently cheaper than for years. And forecasted to stay so. #Reeve should have reversed 5p cut. But lost nerve after shooting in foot with politically naive winter fuel change. And surely time for EVs to pay road tax. Can't run scared of drivers for ever

@giovanni_ulleri @ThatTimWalker Yes you're right. That doesn't excuse the police of course. I read that he had one woman was arrested for theft when she rejected him. 🤔 Women not feeling they could trust the police is a common thread in these cases.

@meroecandy @ThatTimWalker Yes Vanity Fair did an incredible job getting the story out there . It’s not because people don’t care enough it’s because the libel laws are so financially punitive to any media organisation that wants to expose individual crimes, abuse of power and injustice.

We are awfully good and brave in this country at exposing sexual predators after they die. theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

@meroecandy The allegations of racism, misogyny & sexual abuse by Fayed was included in an episode of ITV’s The Big Story called A white Christmas at Harrods from December 1994 see: m.imdb.com/title/tt140234…

@giovanni_ulleri 1994! Sorry I had it down as 1997. Thanks for that.

For the record. The ITV first reported this in December 1997 in a Dermot Murgnahan documentary. imdb.com/title/tt402960…

And Vanity Fair and Private Eye subquently. archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/…

@giovanni_ulleri @ThatTimWalker 100%. Plus the Vanity Fair article in 1995. It was out there but noone cared enough. archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/…

@ThatTimWalker Not entirely true. ITV’s The Big Story exposed Fayed at the time for his racism, misogyny and sexual harassment and abuse. We spoke with women who signed NDA’s and another young woman allegedly raped. None wanted to talk on camera.

@KeatonStone Absolutely. The BBC first reported it in December 1997.

Today has been a hell of a long time coming. #MohamedAlFayed #Harrods #AlFayed bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

For the distinction between protest and racist rioting, seek out media comment etc from social psychologists such as Stephen Reicher, @ProfJohnDrury, @DrChrisCocking, @cliffordstott etc. We collected many of their past contributions for us here bps.org.uk/psychologist/f…

#typistartistpirateking Now on Netflix @NetflixUK ! Let those algorithms bend & keep spreading the news! Get our road movie on the map! #audreyamiss #monicadolan #kellymacdonald #ginamckee

26-year-old Kyle Clifford is being hunted by police. It’s a fast moving situation and there’s a lot we don’t know. But there is one thing that we DO know. And it’s depressingly, devastatingly familiar. Three woman are dead. They were killed in their home. A mum, she was 61, and her two girls, 25 and 28, both in their twenties - that decade when you’re working out who you want to be and where you want to go with your life. But for them, that’s now over. A woman is killed by a man every three days in the United Kingdom. That number has been remarkably consistent for the last twenty years. Women are also much more likely to be killed by someone they know - two thirds of them are killed by a current or former partner. “Domestic” – that word that somehow doesn’t feel adequate – because terror can also happen in the home. Remember the three women killed at home in Bushey were still alive when the emergency services got there. Yvette Cooper – the new Home Secretary – has said the killings are “truly shocking” – and she’s being kept fully updated on the case. During the campaign, she said that violence against women and girls will be treated as a national emergency under Labour. And less than a week into the job… three women killed at home. It certainly feels like an emergency.

Coming to @NetflixUK 12 July 2024 #typistartistpirateking Road movie artful shenanigans #audreyamiss @MonicaDolan #kellymacdonald #ginamckee #kieranbew @BFI @ModernFilmsEnt 💜

GREASE was released 46 years ago today. One of the most popular musicals to come out of Hollywood and one of the movies that launched the career of John Travolta, the behind the scenes story is like greased lightnin’… 1/40

Please help with our new research study! #Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more: tinyurl.com/IUonlinetask

Both Anatomy Of A Fall and American Fiction are on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, I've just noticed. As are The Northman, Lady Bird, The Social Network and Catch Me If You Can. So, um, yeah. Now you know.

@NiamhAlgar I’m so sorry this has happened to you. I lost my gorgeous big sister to cancer 20 years ago when she was 36. Sending you love and hope that, like me, the loss and her memory will eventually, over a long time, lead you to a better place of understanding of what matters most x

I love you Lynne, you will never be forgotten. Thank you to the incredible medical teams at Beaumont, the Mater Hospital & To the Irish Cancer Society. She passed on doffodil day and if you can please donate to the Irish cancer society and Brain Tumour Ireland. 🌼🌼

There are simple no words to describe the pain in loosing a big sister. My heart is broken. 💔 She thought me everything, she touched & inspired so many she met & worked with, and accomplished more in her short life than most people would achieve in several lifetimes.