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Please sign. This really bothers me. Green energy, so much cheaper to produce, is being charged at the rate of gas because they can. Are they going to give that up once gas is phased out? We need to ensure fair prices now, and see the benefit in our bills, to keep fair prices for the long term.

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air. stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

3/ Lol, even a British judge operating under communist rule managed to state the obvious: that trans people use toilets to pee, and that toilets have cubicles. One can only marvel at how the Ladies and Lords failed to do the same.

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

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Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary By ST Williams @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

It's all just so amazingly wonderfully brilliant for women, isn't it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We have this already - it's called the cross-subsidy from international fees to underfunded home students

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

This is a serious problem for all gender non-conforming women (especially the butch lesbians who ‘the lesbian intervenors’ are purportedly concerned about). The SC decision was a victory only for heteropatriarchy. Monique Wittig once said “lesbians are not women”. This is not what she meant.

By defining “sex” in the Equality Act as “biological,” it ignored key case law, EHRC guidance, and even Parliament’s intent. This isn’t just a reinterpretation. It’s a rollback. We broke down what the Court left out. gender-matters.org/law/ignored-...

Dr Victoria McLeod outlines how the Supreme Court’s reading of “sex” within the Equality Act to mean sex assigned at birth only places the UK now at serious risk of breaching its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. We need our courts to give space and listen to trans people.

“We reject the proper functioning of sex, sexual orientation, lesbian-only spaces and associations, fair participation in sport. The absence of coherence is the only correct reading.” Emily Grabham has written a searing parodic judgment exposing the UK Supreme Court’s non-sense of “biological sex.”

Sign of the day…

💯 the Southern Poverty Law Centre reported the same tactic outlined at a right-wing US conference as well.

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

I'm really sorry, but we just need to stop doing this. Your wood-burning hygge leads directly to people's deaths - other people's and perhaps your own. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m delighted to have jointly won the 2025 impact prize - thank you very much to the SLSA and congratulations to fellow winner Mark Walters, as well as all the nominees and winners across the categories. This prize is for my work challenging the revocation of same-sex marriage in Bermuda so…

Interesting blog by Sasha Roseneil, Sussex VC, clearly right about the impact of the recent OfS decision finding that its trans-inclusive policy violated free speech. I’ll be talking about the decision in light of ECHR jurisprudence at #SLSA2025 next week

Sometimes politics is simple. A man who speaks like an idiot will do idiotic things. That's really the sum total of the political analysis you need to understand what's happening today. But political commentators and investment advisers sought to make it more complicated.

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

We are absolutely delighted to bring you the 1st issue of Gender and Justice! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... A HUGE thank you to all of the Authors, Reviewers & Editors who contributed to this issue #GenderSky #GenderStudies @sharronfitz.bsky.social @lexnetwork.bsky.social

The Covid pandemic accelerated this. It supercharged the idea that there are entire groups of people who are not worthy of protection. Not worthy of life. Acceptable losses. If we don’t start acknowledging that and changing the narrative, the hate and division will only continue to grow.

It's really fucking clear that Trump and his cronies are out to break everything and everyone as much as they can, their 'enemies' within and without. The more cruel, the more mean, the more unfair - the better. and convert the tears of others into gold in their pockets.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

Remember the Cass Report, which supposedly "followed the science" on trans kids health? The huge York University epidemiology study on which it was based has finally been published, and it contradicts many of the report's conclusions. By @gidmk.bsky.social. gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...