1/ Recent comments in the Telegraph:

“After a year of rising middle powers using Sudan as their blood soaked playground, the country is barrelling down the road to the worst famine anyone alive has ever seen.

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Best intro you’ll read today via Poppie Platt

NEW: 336 MEPs vote in favour (62%) of a non-binding resolution calling for the right to abortion to be enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Also urges member states to fully decriminalise abortion in line with the 2022 WHO guidelines ⬇️

BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court rules to uphold the state’s 1864 near total abortion ban, which will wipe out nearly all access in the state (currently up to 15 weeks). Voters will likely have the chance to override this ban in November via ballot initiative.

Well this was some exciting news to get on a rainy London morning!

Truly honoured to be listed alongside some incredibly talented people on this year's Media & Marketing 30 under 30 for my reporting at Tortoise 🍾 #ForbesUnder30 forbes.com/30-under-30/20…

Fascinating that Dobbs is cited by the court as the basis for their decision to largely uphold the AHA - where SCOTUS 'considered the nation’s history and traditions, as well as the dictates of democracy and rule of law, to over-rule the broader right to individual autonomy”

The Constitutional Court of Uganda has denied nullifying the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety. The LGBTQI+ community has been pushed further in the darkness, as always, with claims of protecting public policy and moral values.

We should remember that because of my…

EXC: King’s College London has received over £1.5 million from a Sackler family-owned pharmaceutical company to research opioid overdose reversal drugs.

Read in today’s Sensemaker newsletter: torto.se/3PsBjvQ

✍️Phoebe Davis

Exclusive: King’s College London has received over £1.5 million from the Sackler family-owned pharmaceutical company Mundipharma to research opioid overdose reversal drugs 💊 Tortoise
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Exclusive: Tory party “sitting on” further £5m from disgraced donor Frank Hester

tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/14/exc…

Me for Tortoise

Important judgment about a transparency order in a case where there is a criminal investigation and care proceedings.
Mother was suspected of having an illegal abortion.
I represented the mother who supported Tortoise & Phoebe Davis's application to report. Judgment below.

A mother whose children were removed by a family court when she was investigated for an illegal abortion is fighting to get them back - Phoebe Davis reports for Tortoise after arguing for the judgment to be published. tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/08/chi…

I represented a mother who was accused of having an illegal abortion. Her children were removed from her care and initially placed into foster care.

Women are being prosecuted under Victorian era laws from 1861. Diana Johnson DBE MP 🇬🇧🇺🇦🌈 &
stellacreasy are on a mission to change them.

“The attack was aimed at silencing me. What the attacker said while trying to swipe a knife to cut my neck and what transpired after the attack clearly shows that,” Steven Kabuye (He/Him)

Index on Censorship, Tortoise indexoncensorship.org/2024/02/calls-…