It’s usually glib clickbait to say I was left speechless at the end of this, but I was, shocked and stunned at the catharsis and anger – yet justifiably and righteously so. Blurred Lines is horribly sexist and completely unredeemable. Combining it with Nirvana’s Rape Me in a call and answer mashup just brings out the creepy side even more. This song by Amanda Palmer and Reb Fountain is sadly very apt given the last few days – with the Metropolitan Police specifically here in London. On Thursday we had copper Wayne Couzens sent down for life for the murder of Sarah Everard and the same day as Kate Wilson won a case against the Met for looking the other way while Mark Kennedy, aka Mark Stone, an undercover cop to have a relationship with her for years. And then we have Patsy Stevenson who has just said that after being famously arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil in Clapham Common, she was approached by about 50 policemen on Tindr and has had death threats and kidnap threats. Then we have the murder of Sabina Nessa in Kidbrook, South London and suspect was arrested just over a week ago, and there have been a vigil in Eastbourne last night where the suspected killer is from. I’m glad they didn’t react like they did Clapham Common, but I bet those who attended were scared of that. It never ends. And it has to stop, now. Women shouldn’t laughably ‘flag down buses’ if they don’t trust a police officer, or double check their warrant card – which wouldn’t have saved Sarah since he was a genuine police officer? I say use civil disobedience, and refuse to go with a lone police officer without backup. Scream kidnap and rape. Make sure they cannot take you without people noticing. Call 999, I doubt given this case a judge would prosecute resisting arrest on safety grounds for a woman on their own. But if not, better to be alive and fighting in court than dead. And Cressida Dick has to go, and the Met has to change and stop abusers and killers in their midst. It is a massive systemic problem, as the last week has proven – not that I was surprised – and not ‘one bad apple’. As I’ve said many times, it’s a fucking forest. But in the wider world, women should not be scared to walk down the street – whatever they are doing – things like ‘she was just walking home’ again blames the victim and puts responsibility on other women. No, all women should be safe, whatever they are doing and wherever they are going. And the police should be there to help not attack them in the street or at vigils? They serve us the people not the state. They police by consent. Shame a few of their officers didn’t learn the meaning of consent.