Do this today. Even if your MP is awful. Don't let them claim that they only had emails from constituents opposing trans rights. It really does only take seconds to fill out.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

If you were to Google whether the journalist who wrote this article has written about trans issues and the angle she's taken in them, the results would not in any way shock you.

We’ve put together a short animated video exploring what Pervasive Drive for Autonomy can feel like, both on the outside and from within. Sometimes it might look like: • avoiding or delaying things • struggling with everyday demands 👇🧵

Meanwhile 22000 students are misssold weekend delivery courses as attracting maintenance loans and no investigation has been opened. Make it make sense

OfS' track record in bending to the whim of political masters while simultaneously disappointing them is breathtaking in way. "Yeah we'll do as you say. Badly!"

Hey! @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social! This quango has been causing harm for too long, and government has known how bad it was since at least 2023 (and before, but this report is undeniable). Time to actually act on that information.

Workload, and how workload is allocated, is a problem in HE. @ducu.bsky.social has a mandate for ASOS right now — you know, legal protection to do your job and be allowed to refuse working for free. PalTV did a piece on our current action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuPD...

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Those reasons that are totally beyond him: mostly because of the commonwealth, ie the empire, which he probably thinks was a good thing (Btw I am a commonwealth citizen who votes Green, and works, but I’m white, so he’s probably relatively ok with me)

@ucu.org.uk and @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social say: Jumping from the TPS to USS is not a choice we should be asked to make www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/jump...

Books from Below is at 50%! We have released a new meme to mark the occasion. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

This should be a national scandal. But won’t be. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Reduce Your UCU Subscription Cost by Claiming Tax Relief As we’ve entered a new tax year, it’s a great time to remind #UCU members that you may be able to reduce the cost of your union subscription by claiming tax relief from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Click the link for more details.

Aporia describes itself as ‘the world’s only sociobiology magazine’. As @harryshukman explains in his frightening Year of the Rat, this is a euphemism for scientific racism. I’d hope Tory Peer Nigel Biggar’s appearance on its podcast was naive rather than knowing.

I asked the Restore Britain donor, Miles Routledge, if he stood by the Hitler post and other comments. He replied: “That’s exactly what I said and meant, and I was likely holding back… I must add that I will also imprison journalists such as yourself when I take an ounce of power.”

It was in the public domain that Mandelson had been fired from the Cabinet twice, that he was Epstein's friend, that he'd stayed in Epstein's house while Deputy PM, that he'd been a lobbyist for 15 years, and more. It was in the note prepared for the PM, too. So…what game are we playing here?

Wes streeting admits what he is doing is "humilating and cruel". But only for trans men (that look and sound man enough). Perfectly happy to inflict cruelty and humiliation on trans women. Source. LBC

It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010. Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇

Interesting… this means his ancestors specifically oppressed mine (eg my g.g.g.grandmother Margaret, born in Cawdor, Nairnshire in 1829, worked as a servant, family moved to Aotearoa in 1860). But just to be clear, you shouldn’t vote for any Reform candidate regardless of who their ancestors were.

See also: www.gov.uk/government/p... Their immigration changes will cost the country billions, have discriminatory effects, & take care workers from people who need them, but it's “justified for legitimate policy aims of lowering net migration and reducing reliance on overseas workers.”

This! Nobody is like "Subscribe to my phpList" or "you should check out this Wordpress"

There have been brief moments recently where I wished I wasn’t autistic. This was because of other people’s treatment, not because of any intrinsic flaws within me. When those people are very close relationships, it hurts even more.

This book looks excellent, really looking forward to reading it. If you have a connection to an academic library, you could also put in a purchase request for this.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

He’s done too much damage to too many vulnerable minorities to be given a platform. Kanye isn’t great either.

The McSweeney set really still do seem to believe “moderate social democracy is unelectable, the working class want a sensible govt that won’t stop militarily assisting a paedo white suprematist who threatens to wipe out a civilisation, and polling 1/3 of Labour’s votes under Corbyn proves that”

He’s had a ghoulish fascination with the idea of using nuclear weapons for years. I assume he’s needed to be talked down from having used them already. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.

This would be a huge contract for JCB. In other news, the JBC group has so far given £1.1 million to the Conservative party and Kemi Badenoch since she became its leader

Just think what a different view of humanity we’d get if, instead of focussing on those who smear and scapegoat “illegal immigrants”, the media covered the groups up & down the UK providing refugees from war zones with welcome packs of food & clothing, & offering them voluntary work opportunities?

"You can’t persistently mislead children about social expectations and then punish them for believing you. "Only, when it comes to autistic kids, obviously you can." @epballou.bsky.social on Autistic Social Experience & the Sally-Anne Test: chavisory.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/a... #neurodiversity

I am a Christian ethicist and I endorse this message [hate to wreck a 1 liner, but: following Jesus no, Christians yes, w/ many predecessors among God’s people, as Bible & history make clear. We can’t do no-true-Scotsman to deny our connection to these Christians & our own complicity & failures.]

Yes, because we don’t want to have to have a whole infrastructure of income/wealth verification & means-testing before we allow people to enter a public park, use a public toilet, walk on the footpath or use the road, be saved by a lifeguard, call the cops, or go to the library, you gooses

Jesus treated disabled people with respect and love, honouring their value and dignity as much as anyone else, acting for their social healing, restoring or bringing disabled people into full participation in society (whatever the complexities of the cure miracles), even breaking the law to do so.

Today we remember Jesus, executed as a subversive in solidarity with all crucified peoples throughout history. The @labouruk.bsky.social government echoes the empire that crucified Christ in its scapegoating cruelty (and not even for political gain, as they slip to fourth in the polling average).

This is despicable And let’s not forget that all attacks on Motability are because of lies from an extreme right online provocateur, picked up by far right, then “centre right”/“centre” politicians and media and this govt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The problem with April Fool's about university management decisions is that there's no actual room for parody.

TRANSLATION: Chancellor confirms she's 'very happy' to... -Torpedo climate progress -Keep us hooked on volatile, expensive fossil fuels (instead of cheap clean energy) -Make us all poorer and less safe -Dance to Reform Trump's climate denialist tune Dangerous moral cowardice.

Huge respect for Ed Miliband's refusal to back down to pressure over North Sea oil. The fact is drilling for oil in the North Sea will do NOTHING to fix the Iran crisis. The only long term solution to this crisis, and others that will follow, is renewables. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda

"Resident doctors defy the PMs 48hr ultimatum to call off strikes. The govt is now to cancel plans for an extra 1,000 doctor training places for them this year" The party of organised labour punishing workers for going on strike.

Under VC John Latham, Coventry University has seen: Staff moved into subsidiaries Restructures and redundancies Erosion of terms, conditions & pensions And all led by someone advising government on business. Please sign/share the Vote of no confidence 👇 speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/vote-of-no-c...

Puns, increasingly bad, until the last job is saved Solidarity @hwucu.bsky.social

Coventry University is planning 12 UG intakes a year. At the same time, staff are TUPed into subsidiaries, forced into contracts where teaching loads rise to 750 hours and scholarly activity slashed. This isn’t just change — it’s a shift in what HE is.

🧵/ The NHS is about to undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote “advice & guidance” from hospital clinicians, making it even harder to see an NHS specialist.

Why is it so seismic for the Covid inquiry to state this week that ‘Covid is airborne’? 1. It means that we never had the correct advice to protect ourselves and still don’t! Covid hasn’t stopped being airborne. 2. It means so much could have been prevented. 3. It means healthcare has been …