A joint effort with @AndrologistUK to support Laboratory staff and Clinicians with the tricky area of 'round cells' in semen. Please click and share and we hope you find it useful! Open access thanks to @IBMScience! #semen #infertility
#urology #fertility frontierspartnerships.org/articles/10.33…

THE 4TH OF NOVEMBER IS SUPPORTING MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE DAY

#MenYouAreNotAlone

Today, 4 November, we stand in solidarity with the millions of men and boys who experience domestic abuse, often suffering in silence, without recognition, compassion or adequate support...
ative is leading this important annual campaign, reminding us that domestic violence has no gender and every victim deserves dignity, protection and justice.

📊 The statistics are sobering:

🔹 One in five men in the UK will experience domestic abuse during their lifetime — approximately 4.3 million men.

🔹 Around 40% of victims disclosing domestic abuse in the UK are male.

🔹 Yet only 1 in 23 victims accessing certain specialist community domestic abuse services is male...

Domestic abuse isn't just physical violence. It includes psychological manipulation, coercive control, financial exploitation, threats, humiliation and sexual abuse.

Men are often victims. Women are often perpetrators. And male victims deserve exactly the same empathy, compassion and protection as female victims.

Too often, male survivors encounter disbelief, ridicule, shame or services that simply aren't designed to accommodate them.

This must change.

We need more accessible support services, properly funded male-friendly refuges, better police training, greater public awareness and policies that recognise victims regardless of sex...

Supporting male victims doesn't diminish our commitment to helping women. Genuine equality means applying the same moral principles to everyone...

👏 Thank you to The ManKind Initiative for championing this cause and encouraging organisations worldwide to publicise the support available to male survivors.

🌍 Please share this message. There are men and boys who desperately need to know that they aren't alone...

🔗 Here are campaign resources, graphics and more information:

mankind.org.uk/news-and-campa…

BELIEVE VICTIMS. SUPPORT SURVIVORS. CHALLENGE DOUBLE STANDARDS. END DOMESTIC ABUSE.

#MenYouAreNotAlone #MaleVictims #DomesticAbuseAwareness #MensEqualityMonth #InternationalMensDay #GenderEquality #MensMentalHealth #CelebratingMasculinity #EndDomesticViolence

@ManKindInit

Despite boys being behind girls in school, at more or less every stage, the only ‘boys education’ we seem to advocate for, are the lessons for them to not become sexual predators.

And I get it.

My issue is not that these lessons aren’t needed, they are, in fact, in many ways, h.

They don’t go far enough, because they fail to see the other side of the problem, and tend to wholesale ignore the unseen perpetrators of abuse, violence, and coercion… who are girls.

Yes. I said it.

Demands to ‘educate your sons’ have offered useful, if not hard-to-hear lessons to our boys.

And now it’s time to teach them to our girls too.

So, educate your sons…

Educate your daughters…

And most of all, educate yourselves…

What do you think?

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My new Ask Me (Us) Anything with @lisabritton is out now! youtube.com/watch?v=bAYEaT…

Youth Endowment Fund Data youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/childr…

Teenage boys are being treated as terrorists for having right-wing views, while Islamist radicalisation goes largely ignored. The panic over social media, toxic masculinity and the mansophere is now endangering us all, says Joanna Williams
buff.ly/RQzKAK5

Leah’s family are campaigning to create Leah’s Law. I have worked with them on Leah’s tragic story
The petition is in the description x youtu.be/TPnP5AP1X0c?si…

The latest framing of the (so called) 'manosphere' as a public health issue has revealed a significant development... @JakeBenRichards has been appointed as the designated minister for men and boys issues... Jake recognises genuine disadvantages experienced by men & boys and is determined to dismantle the manosphere...so make of that what you will.

theguardian.com/society/2026/o…

So what u are saying is that at least 230,000 girls and boys and young men and women were victims of a form of crime that police define as violence against women and girls, an approach that effectively removes visibility and regard for roughly one in every three victims?

Petition: Do not extend BBC licence fee to streaming services
Govt is considering extending the BBC licence fee to include subscribers of streaming services that are not owned or run by BBC.

We believe this is a wholly unacceptable proposal.
11,926 signed
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7697…

Seriously, there are 15000 people following me.
Not all of you are based in the UK, but those who are, should be sharing this petition.

Scrap VAWG policy, that hides male victims, for something gender neutral that focuses on behaviours.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7781…

This is just embarrassing.

40% of men in UK prisons are there for non-violent crimes too, and the male prison population is 24x larger than womens', yet you say nothing about them.

What kind of journalism even is this?

“If misinformation really were the threat ministers describe, one would expect its footprint to be visible in what people believe.”

Labour are planning to build the most restrictive apparatus of speech control since Charles I. The evidence it relies on does not survive contact Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy flounced off X, taking her government department with her, blaming mis- and disinformation for her departure. Weeks earlier, her department had published its green paper, Watch this Space, which suggests platforms be compelled by law to give prominence to “regulated public service media” such as the BBC. Meanwhile, Lucy Powell, Labour’s Deputy Leader, wants platforms brought under “some of the same requirements” of accuracy and balance as licensed broadcasters during election campaigns.

Beneath this sits a single document: a 136-page “evidence review”, commissioned by the Government Office for Science (GO-Science) from a seven-person team at Sheffield University. Its authors made no attempt to establish what was actually true or false online. Instead, by their own account, they relied on summaries generated by large language models of 228 academic papers they had not read.

More significant is what the review missed. A Nature paper by Budak and her colleagues states that “public intellectuals and journalists frequently make sweeping claims about the effects of exposure to false content online that are inconsistent with much of the current empirical evidence”. Visits to 490 websites deemed “untrustworthy” made up just 5.9 per cent of Americans’ clicks on news sites; with television included, “fake news” accounts for roughly 0.1 per cent of the average media diet. “This reality,” the authors observed, “is not reflected in public discourse about social media.”

Britain has been here before. In July 1637, the Star Chamber of Charles I decreed that nothing might be published without a licence from approved authorities.

The Government’s case rests on a review that read nothing, measured nothing, and ignored the research that contradicted it. The case for the most far-reaching apparatus to restrict peacetime speech since the ousted Stuart king amounts to misinformation about misinformation.

Read more from FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK in The Critic and his report below 👇

If we truly want to end domestic abuse and get people the help they need, we have to make it clear that women can be perpetrators and men can be victims as well.

The investigators in this case thanked the victim for his bravery in coming forward, and urged the public to believe one’s claims of domestic abuse—even men’s—seriously. The recent Crime Survey for England and Wales showed that an estimated 2.2 million females and 1.5 million males, aged 16 years and over, had suffered domestic abuse in the previous 12 months.

Yet again, a video attempting to uproot the life saving Office for Men’s Health Bill, has gone viral.

It has hundreds of thousands of views and likes, and endless angry comments, in less than twelve hours.

Because, who cares that American men lead in 13 of the top 15 causes more at every age than women, and have worse health outcomes in every racial, ethnic and socioeconomic group?

Instead, here’s the familiar ‘women were excluded from clinical trials’ slogan, and another about male rats, and “something something, male bodies were centred” slop.

Look -

There are TEN federal, tax funded Offices for Women’s Health, and ZERO for men - despite men’s awful health outcomes.

And yet, clearly one is still too many for low effort, narcissistic, rage bait grifters like @katiecouric.

I can't decide what has amused me more this week. An alarming amount of the Internet thinking I'm a band wagon jumping, sex toy obsessed, performative outrage attention seeking politician, despite the inclusion of #parody or that Edwina Currie thinks I'm AI?

We're heartbroken to hear of the passing of @DermotMurnaghan and our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time 💙

He was a passionate supporter of our charity, and his work had a huge impact on the hundreds of thousands of men affected by #ProstateCancer.

🚨NEW: The Reform UK-led Leicestershire County Council has paid off £26.9 million of debt inherited from the previous Conservative administration, reducing the council’s debt to its lowest recorded level in history

[@CharlieSimpsonA]

Senior figures at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, under the command of Andy Burnham, have cautioned firefighters who support Reform UK over their political views.

In a further chilling assault on free speech, staff have also effectively been urged in an email to upport Reform.

Fire brigade bosses have also said they are seeking legal advice on what to do about firefighters who decide to stand as Reform UK candidates. This is despite the fact that, unlike police officers, there is no legal bar preventing firefighters from participating in national or local politics.

In their email, fire brigade bosses Mr Petch and Ms Ahmed said: ’We are aware that some staff members have chosen to represent Reform UK in their local areas. We know this may cause concern within our network and wider.

’The individuals involved have been spoken to, to make it clear that as members of GMFRS (Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service) our core values and professional behaviours must be displayed at all times.

’The service is currently seeking formal legal guidance… to ensure we are protected from all perspectives and that our inclusive culture remains safe.

‘Our priority is and always will be ensuring that every member of this network feels supported, respected and safe at work.’

They also confirmed that they would be consulting the Fire Brigades Union on the matter.

In his role as Mayor of Greater Manchester, @AndyBurnhamGM — who is also tipped by some to be a future Prime Minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election — is also Greater Manchester’s Fire Commissioner, responsible for overseeing the service.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, has now written to Mr Burnham to raise concerns about the chilling effect this has on free speech.

Lord Young said that the ‘clear implication’ of the email from the fire brigade bosses was that ‘representing Reform UK constitutes an inherent threat to the institution’s culture and values and is to be treated as morally suspect’. He also highlighted that no action appears to have been taken against firefighters who support other political parties.

The letter also states: ‘Staff are further invited to report colleagues who support any groups that go against the service’s values, which effectively amounts to an instruction to inform on colleagues for their political beliefs.

’The email will create a chilling effect on the free speech of GMFRS employees who support Reform.

’The practical effect is that a public fire and rescue service governed by you is treating the lawful political activity of your electoral opponents as a reputational risk to their employer.

‘Regardless of whether this reflects your instruction, it reflects your governance; and a public office-holder who permits his institution to demonise or chill the speech and political activity of those who support his principal electoral rival cannot claim to be discharging that office with the impartiality it demands.’

Read more below 👇

"Boys aged 14-17 accounted for 98% of victims of sextortion". Terrible number increase.

All these boys are defined by successive governments as victims of violence against a girl! @IWFhotline @NSPCC @mollyroseorg @ukhomeoffice @MoJGovUK #VAWG #Orwell

theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

Are you trying to get fit but worried that low testosterone is holding you back?

Psychologist Dr John Barry and Senior Clinical Scientist @sbjlong give advice on:

- Signs of low testosterone
- How to increase levels
- Is the 'manopause' real?
...and more
centreformalepsychology.com/male-psycholog…

Report shows 27% of domestic abuse linked suicides feature a male victim. We believe it is higher due to male non-disclosure and police and definitely coroners not believing bereaved families because it was a man. @CollegeofPolice
@PoliceChiefs @TheVKPP
news.npcc.police.uk/releases/growi…

I had to go check the 98% figure because I didn't believe it, and it's true!