Media Storm

By Mathilda Mallinson and Helena WadiaNews Education News Commentary Politics

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January 13, 2022S1E5 Criminal Justice: Does prison work? - with The Secret Barrister and Paula Harriott
Media Storm presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
Read the transcript: https://mediastormpodcast.com/2022/02/07/1-5-criminal-justice-does-prison-work-with-the-secret-barrister-and-paula-harriott/
Plans to lock up 20,000 new prisoners, a Home Secretary who wants criminals to “literally feel terror”, and the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe…
This is the UK’s ‘tough on crime’ mantle, and a political battleground fought all over the world. Media outlets vilify ‘thugs’ and ‘terrorists’ while politicians auction for the ‘law and order’ vote. But with no clear correlation between incarceration and crime rates, are we keeping people safe, or just keeping them scared?
This week, your hosts sit down with The Secret Barrister and former prisoner Paula Harriott to talk all things crime - from prisons to Prince Andrew - after heading behind bars to answer one simple question: does prison work?
Your hosts
Mathilda Mallinson @mathildamall
Helena Wada @helenawadia
Your Guests
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret https://thesecretbarrister.com/
Paula Harriott @paula_harriott https://weareagenda.org/board/paula-harriott-2/
Sources
Priti Patel op-ed https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7316055/I-want-criminals-terrified-says-Priti-Patel-Home-Secretary-restore-confidence-Britain.html
European incarceration rates: https://www.statista.com/statistics/957501/incarceration-rate-in-europe/
UK incarceration rate: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04334/
Policy: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05646/SN05646.pdf
Prison population projections: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1035682/Prison_Population_Projections_2021_to_2026.pdf
Ofsted review of prison education: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/launching-our-prison-education-review
Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill:
Mental health in prisons: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7455/documents/78054/default/
1976 Bail Act in action: https://howardleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/APPG-For-their-own-protection-FINAL.pdf
Domestic abuse in UK prisons: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/female-offender-strategy
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Music by Samfire @soundofsamfire. Artwork by Simba Baylon @simbalenciaga. Prison sounds from Cody Lachey @ExOffenderCodyy.
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January 10, 2022 COMING UP ON MEDIA STORM
Media Storm will be back with more episodes on Thursday 13 January.
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December 16, 2021S1E4 Transgender healthcare: A waiting game - with Laura Blake and Shivani Dave
Media Storm presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
Content warning: Suicide, self-harm
Episode 1.4: Transgender healthcare: A waiting game - with Laura Blake and Shivani Dave
Read the transcript: https://mediastormpodcast.com/2021/12/30/1-4-transgender-healthcare-a-waiting-game/
The mainstream media might have us all thinking changing genders is a piece of cake - that hormones are being readily prescribed and surgeries booked in swiftly. But with people waiting years for the first ever appointment - that's simply not the case. Cancellations, discrimination from healthcare staff and semi-decade long waiting lists - this is the reality for gender diverse people. NHS England’s Gender Identity Development Service are currently seeing people referred in 2018. For other clinics, it’s 2017. Media Storm investigates the lack of healthcare for trans people, finds out what it’s like to be stuck in the waiting game, and sits down with The Good Law Project, who are taking the NHS to court. We’re joined in the studio by Laura Blake (she/her) and Shivani Dave (they/them), to discuss the mainstream media’s depiction of transgender and non-binary people, plus look at some of the week’s headlines on conversion therapy and trans people.
Speakers (in order of appearance):
Felix Mufti @felixmufti
Eva Echo @EvaEch0
Jo Maugham @JolyonMaugham @GoodLawProject
Cleo Madeleine @quidtumcicero @Genderintell
Shivani Dave @ShivaniDave @dah_vey
Laura Blake @heylaurablake
Sources:
GIDS waiting times: https://gids.nhs.uk/how-long-wait-first-appointment-gids
GIC waiting times: https://gic.nhs.uk/appointments/waiting-times/
Gender GP survey on bridging hormones: https://www.gendergp.com/bridging-hormones/
The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye: https://www.queerlit.co.uk/products/the-transgender-issue-an-argument-for-justice
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Music by Samfire @soundofsamfire.
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46 min
December 09, 2021S1E3 Rape Justice: What happens to the 98%? - with Leyla Hussein and Gina Martin
Media Storm presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
Content warning: Rape, sexual violence, FGM
Episode 1.3: Rape Justice: What happens to the 98%? - with Leyla Hussein and Gina Martin
Read the transcript: https://mediastormpodcast.com/2021/12/15/1-3-rape-justice-what-happens-to-the-98/
Authorities declined to reveal the true rape conviction figures in a Freedom of Information request by Media Storm, after we discovered that the reported numbers - which hit a record low in 2020 at 1,109 - are over-inflated. It follows Guardian revelations that 98% of rape investigations are dropped by police.
But this is not an exclusively British problem. Judging by public data, US police drop 95% of rape investigations; Swedish 96%; Belgian 94%. So how do you begin to diagnose an issue that is so far-reaching? Media Storm sets off across the pond and back, sits down with national police and prosecution chiefs, and follows an unravelling battle in Parliament, to find out why the overwhelming majority of rapists walk free on our streets. We are also joined in the studio by Dr Leyla Hussein, women's rights activist and founder of Safe Spaces for Black Women, and Gina Martin, writer and the campaigner who made upskirting illegal. We discuss how the mainstream media depicts victims of sexual assault, how male-perpetrated violence litters our pop culture, and discuss the latest reporting on the case of Alice Sebold.
Donate to Dr Leyla Hussein’s Safe Spaces for Black Women: https://www.gofundme.com/f/safe-spaces-for-black-women
Subscribe to Gina Martin’s newsletter: https://ginamartin.substack.com/
Speakers (order of appearance):
Alison Turkos @alisonturkos
Pieke Roelofs @pieke_r www.photoandgrime.com
Verity Nevitt @veritynevitt www.thegeminiproject.org
Dame Vera Baird, Victim’s Commissioner @VictimsComm
Sarah Crew, National Police Chiefs Council @aspsarah_crew
Siobhan Blake, Crown Prosecution Service @CPSUK @crownprosecutors
Dr Leyla Hussein @LeylaHussein @SafeSpaces4BW
Gina Martin @ginamartin
Sources:
UK prosecution: https://www.cps.gov.uk/publication/cps-data-summary-quarter-4-2020-2021
UK police charges: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/23/fewer-than-one-in-60-cases-lead-to-charge-in-england-and-wales
UK crime survey: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/natureofsexualassaultbyrapeorpenetrationenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2020
USA prosecution: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv19.pdf
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48 min
December 02, 2021S1E2 Pandemic of hate: We need to talk about anti-Asian abuse - with Zing Tsjeng and Hussein Kesvani
Media Storm presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
Episode 1.2 Pandemic of hate: We need to talk about anti-Asian abuse - with Zing Tsjeng and Hussein Kesvani
Transcript: https://mediastormpodcast.com/2021/12/13/1-2-pandemic-of-hate-we-need-to-talk-about-anti-asian-abuse/
With reports anti-Asian hate speech surged by 1,662% during the pandemic, and many accounts of rising hate crimes against Asian communities, Media Storm hears from those personally affected. It seeks to find out the impact of the pandemic on Asian people, and investigate the accuracy of the data that emerged over the Covid-19 crisis. Vice UK editor Zing Tsjeng and podcaster & producer Hussein Kesvani join us in the studio to discuss the way the mainstream media reported on the pandemic and the 2021 Atlanta Spa shootings, East & South Asian representation on screen, and the latest coverage of cricketer Azeem Rafiq's accusations of racism and bullying at Yorkshire.
https://www.ditchthelabel.org/research-papers/hate-speech-report-2021/
https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-september-2021/
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49 min
November 25, 2021S1E1 El Dorado: Why do refugees ‘love’ the UK? - with Steve Ali
Transcript: https://mediastormpodcast.com/2021/11/29/1-1-eldorado-why-do-refugees-love-the-uk/
With headlines reporting ‘record numbers of migrants’ reaching the UK in dinghies, Media Storm heads across the Channel to find out why they’re coming. Reports this week show the government declined a Freedom of Information request to reveal their research on this very topic. It raises questions over the government’s repeated claim that accepting asylum seekers creates a ‘pull factor’ and encourages more people to come. With moves underway to criminalise the crossing, contain people in island camps thousands of miles away, and launch potentially fatal ‘turn-back’ operations at sea, we look at whether this ‘pull factor’ is really what’s causing the crisis. Writer, actor, co-founder of Refugee Media Centre, and real life refugee Steve Ali also joins us in the studio to discuss his experiences of seeking asylum and why he thinks the mainstream media reports on refugees the way it does - with a deep dive into some of this week's newspaper headlines.
National asylum figures
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets (UK)
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Asylum_statistics (Europe)
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39 min
November 24, 2021Deborah Frances-White in conversation with Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
Media Storm is a new podcast from The House of the Guilty Feminist.
Episode 0. Deborah Frances-White
Read the transcript: https://mediastormpodcast.com/2021/11/24/0-deborah-frances-white-meets-mathilda-and-helena/
Mathilda and Helena talk to Deborah about their new podcast, what it aims to do and how they came up with the idea.
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October 28, 2021 SERIES 1 TRAILER
Media Storm is the new podcast from The House of the Guilty Feminist
Where fact-checking meets fun, reporting meets road-trip and the mainstream media meets its match, Media Storm is a news podcast that starts with the people who are normally asked last. "Migrants", "criminals" and "sex workers" are some of the biggest stars in the headlines, yet we rarely actually hear from them. There’s no right of reply – and that’s just bad journalism. Here, from the house of The Guilty Feminist, Media Storm hands the mic to people with lived experience, to shed new light on old stories and roast the headlines that love to roast them.
Presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia

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