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No, the “Establishment” didn’t take him down. It was a jury trial of everyday people listening to evidence for and against. And why do women take so long to come out? Usually because the intimidation is so huge that it often takes a critical mass of women and time and stories to break through.

Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls. These stories slip and slide between genres--from video games to fan fiction, avant-garde theater to choose-your-own-adventure--as characters cycle through giddying changes in gender, physiology, species, and identity. Collapsing boundaries between bodies and forms, these fictions interrogate the visceral, gross, and absurd. "This book is fucking weird," wrote Brit Mandelo in 2015. It's only gotten weirder since. Slug and Other Stories is a revised and expanded edition of a contemporary cult classic. Finally back in print, this collection is a testament to the messy anti-logic of queer feelings by a revelatory new voice.

The post’s author said they had joined the European Parliament’s Child Rights Intergroup for a high-level discussion on protecting children’s rights online, an issue they described as close to their heart. They wrote that they had been moved by families who shared their stories and worked to protect other children after losing their own. https://t.co/md2eM9mSfw #ChildRights #OnlineSafety #Europarl #EU

Walliams and Brand being exposed in 2026 shows how hard it is to report these stories, but also how slowly culture moves against dangerous men exploiting less powerful women. It's not that we didn't know these things were wrong in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But there was no will to stop it.

This is huge - and probably a sign (along with the leaflet delivery/moving towards ReformTV) of the big donations kicking in. But, crucially... their polling continues to drop and the negative stories cut through far more. After a point money has far smaller a impact than people think.

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission. As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.