Jill Foster

Good Law Project Verified account @GoodLawProject · 2d

Powerful men use the law to intimidate women they’ve abused into silence.

But it’s time to flip the fear. Help us to fund cases that turn the tables on these men, empower women to speak out – and get justice:
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Janet Murray Verified account @jan_murray · 4d

🚨 NEW: ‘Perhaps only at Oxford University could the unacceptable so often be considered acceptable.’

I worked with the Daily Mail’s Paul Bracchi on this profile of Oxford University lecturer Matt Rattley.

How did a gifted young academic - with a first-class degree, academic prizes and prize-winning essays become the lecturer who wears enormous prosthetic breasts to teach students at one of the world’s most prestigious universities?

A talented musician, too, who played bassoon with Somerville’s musicians, performing works by Beethoven, Poulenc and Bach.

And how did behaviour that has prompted repeated complaints come to be defended, by some, in the name of ‘freedom of expression’?

This is a story not just about one Oxford lecturer, but about an institution - and the questions it appears unwilling to confront.

And perhaps the most troubling question of all is why so many people inside Oxford appear afraid to speak out.

Read below 👇

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