Philippa Willitts is Editor in Chief of Global Comment. She is a British freelance writer who specialises in writing about disability, women's issues, social media and tech. She also enjoys covering politics and LGBTQI-related topics. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @PhilippaWrites.
New research for the End Violence Against Women Coalition, carried out by YouGov, has shown devastating attitudes towards sexual consent and rape in the UK. Their report begins: “There is a crisis...
A few years ago, the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire became synonymous with a child sexual exploitation scandal where girls had been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of older men. It...
This time last week, BBC TV was full of celebrities, news readers, pop stars and actors performing feats and making general fools of themselves to raise money for Children in Need, a charity telethon...
We are told that things are different now. We are told that times have changed. That maybe back in the 1960s, the criminal justice system was unfair on victims of sexual violence but that, around the...
When Dominic Raab took up his position as Brexit Secretary, following David Davis’s sulky resignation, I thought he couldn’t possibly do a worse job than his predecessor who seemed to have...
We live in a world where sexual violence is trivialised, and even though #MeToo and similar campaigns are being heard more than ever before, rape and sexual abuse are still laughed at far too often....
Sir Philip Green, a billionaire business man, categorically denies allegations of sexual and racial harassment and bullying of his employees but, if he had had his way, we would not even know that he...
A young autistic woman has made the news because the agency responsible for her care had been allowing her to have indiscriminate sex, apparently sometimes with strangers. A court approved a trial...
Statistics released last October showed that disability hate crimes against children rose 150% in two years, while disability hate crimes overall rose 53%. This came as no surprise to any disabled...
We’re finally approaching the end of the party conference season and this week has seen the Conservative party conference in full flow. It made news when some young conservatives apparently did a...
