Kim Willsher
@kimwillsher1
Foreign correspondent. News and feature writer. Guardian/Observer. Former Reporter of the Year: UK Press Awards. Views own: RT≠ endorsement.
It took all the strength I had to report my rapist. I endured a justice system that was brutal and traumatic, but against all odds I secured a conviction. After that I waived my anonymity in the hopes of helping others. The price of doing this was a campaign of abuse.
GP could face probe over abusive rape survivor posts bbc.in/4m4nP7d
The regime wants to hang her to make an example. The death sentence of #Pakhshan_Azizi has been confirmed for the third time. She is one of many brave women the Islamic Republic is trying to punish for the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising. And yet… the free world still does…
The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace. 'Diversity officer' Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn't…
Correct: one of the grimmest aspects of this case is how easily these middle-class luxury-belief doctors engaged in appalling treatment of a nurse because their crazy belief system (that men are literally women if they only say so) enabled them to unfairly malign her as a bigot.
The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace. 'Diversity officer' Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn't…
Disturbing surge in female suicides in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan: A rise in depression and suicide attempts among Afghan women is linked to Taliban's restrictive policies against women. School closures, limited access to education and work, and a mandate for a male chaperone…
Remember that tense moment in April 1970 when the commander of Apollo 13 said, "Houston, we've had a problem”? An exploding oxygen tank 210,000 miles from Earth placed the Apollo crew in peril. Woman of the Day electrical and aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen of New York who…
“The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel” from @TheEconomist economist.com/leaders/2025/0…
After 15 years and a Netflix documentary France reopens inquiry into whether rock star Bertrand Cantat was violent to his former wife Krisztina Rady before she committed suicide in 2010. Cantat was jailed for killing girlfriend Marie Trintignant in 2003. lemonde.fr/societe/articl…
What an intro! "Salvador Dalí was sitting on a throne, wearing a red Catalan cap and dressed in white silk, and about to make a literary revelation." thetimes.com/world/europe/a…
I honestly thought I was beyond being shocked by the abject garbage that comes out of James O'Brien's mouth. Apparently not. I and most of my family went to Hebrew school and guess what we learned there? Hebrew. Breaking news! You can be horrified by Gaza and not be antisemitic!
This is simply untrue. Every detail is wrong and the allegations are antisemitic. How can it have been aired?
The war against women is so close to a genocide. For shame.
The Taliban are now arresting Afghan women simply for walking outside without a male guardian. This is not culture — it’s gender apartheid and cruelty. The world must not stay silent.
If anyone wants to get up to speed on why NHS Fife is trying to defend its behaviour in leading a blatant witch hunt against a female nurse in the employment tribunal, I wrote this for the Observer back in February on the Sandie Peggie case. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
An actual medical doctor is saying out loud, in front of a judge, that someone’s sex is decided by the people who deliver the baby and that she is not an expert. Oh. My. God. 🤡 🤡 🤡
It's a decision made at birth by the ppl delivering the baby, I believe. I'm not an expert at it. NC So sex assigned at birth is whether u have a M or F body? Yes NC Bio sex is very important [lists re responses to drugs, normal ranges for bld results] KS Yes
It’s Eric Ravilious’ birthday today - he was born in Acton #OTD in 1903, although he spent his young life in Eastbourne after his family moved to #Sussex. It’s wonderful there are so many of us who continue to appreciate his work. Long may it continue!
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Sandie Peggie’s legal team has accused a group of senior doctors of defying a legal order in a bid to conceal alleged wrongdoing 👇
Southern water have taken bill payers for fools for too long. A bumper pay rise for their CEO is indefensible and should be turned down.
Exclusive: Twenty MPs have accused Southern Water CEO of ‘pure greed’ and urged him to refuse a pay hike that would take his salary to £1.4m “Decline this disgraceful payment for failure”.
Remembering Jean Charles de Menezes shot dead by the Met police today 20 years ago theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
French word of the day: "cumulard" = politicians who wear many hats, accumulating multiple sinecures and salaries to expand their networks, maximise their earnings, and stay in the game. lejdd.fr/politique/cour…
