Everything from Camden Market to the Admiral Duncan pub and central London Harry Potter stores are owned by shell companies in tax havens. For years, they hid the identities of their real owners. Today, @andrewkersley.bsky.social pulls back the curtain.

In any case, I think all the stories that are going to frame this as being about trans athletes are, at best, a bit misleading. Trans women already weren't competing at the Olympics, with one exception in 20 years. Here's the real 🚨🚨🚨:

“Deception as to sex” has the same impact as a Trans+ Panic clause – and has embedded transphobia into the law In the next edition of Milestones, @sasha98.bsky.social traces the history behind it and why it matters today  Get it here 👉 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/milestones/

Today my students discussed whether and to what extent Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism play a similar structural role in Europe to the role antisemitism played in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then the Israeli Foreign Ministry just goes and tweets out an Islamophobic octopus.

We don't know who did this attack or what their specific motivations were, though it of course seems likely that there was antisemitic intent. That said, I have a theory about why someone would target an ambulance 🧵

Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again. The fate of the books remains to be seen. @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

[CN: Conversion therapy, abuse, discusses trans youth suicide, seriously, this is potentially very upsetting stuff] This is an excellent summary of the historical background and current day reality of conversion practices in the UK. Would def recommend as a primer to anybody not familiar.

Queer journalists should be writing our news, which needs better justice than short, lacking in nuance social media captions – in a world where our rights are under attack. PinkNews have now confirmed the redundancy consultation to @wearequeeraf.com, and this divestment in news is concerning 👇

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

How the fuck do you have a reporter free news room?

Did an anon Labour source tell the FT that the party now has fewer members than the Greens under @zackpolanski.bsky.social? www.ft.com/content/49fe...

The Tories' Shadow Justice Secretary is stoking hatred toward Muslims for praying in public. His comments are completely beyond the pale and if the Tories had a single shred of decency, they would sack him.

From when I arrived as a child up until the last six years, living in London meant black snot, black mucus - never even noticed it as out of the ordinary unless you went on holiday. Ten years ago I lived just off the A23 in Stockwell - when you coughed, it was grey. This is PHENOMENAL progress

Frankly this whole notion of 'biological sex' is a trendy fad that only started in the 00s and I refuse to indulge it.

They really sat down and said: how can we make trans people even less comfortable reporting crimes to the police?

Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢 #data #gender #trans #police #Scotland

The very definition of courage—

Not to be that guy constantly whining about the state of British press but... it is kind of astounding that there have been so many news articles about Bayswater's lawfare and I haven't seen even one of them mention the group's history of abuse.

The trial, by design, requires the ban. 113 youth will be told they get blockers. 113 youth will be told NO blockers, but you still have to do all the tests & questions as we watch you go through puberty. Without a total criminal ban, many of the 113 no-blocker youth will try to access privately

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot. w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2

While this is a positive development, it's not even the bare minimum. The government needs to create an easily enforceable financial remedy for the creative works that have already been stolen to train AI models.

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

More than 30 MPs are calling on the government to tighten up the enforcement of employment tribunal awards, following our investigation into the thousands of companies that have ignored tribunal decisions. Without proper enforcement, tribunals are worthless. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Except it was Wes Streeting who halted the trial, and did so off the back of a letter whose author has now been recused due to impartiality concerns. goodlawproject.org/biased-lette...

Horrifying to refuse UK visas to people *because* – not in spite of the fact – they are fleeing a genocide: specifically, a genocide that Britain continues to fuel through its supply of arms to the UAE

5. The opinion outright says that states can legally ban transgender adult care after applying Skrmetti to adults.

🔴 EXC by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: 360 race-related complaints made to a pair of police forces after they declared themselves 'institutionally racist' did not result in a single officer being sacked in two years. The data has only been released to us after an 8-month transparency battle.

#spycops officer Carlo Soracchi took a woman he deceived into a relationship for 2 days in Venice, paid for by police expenses. He says it was legit as he was going to make links with Italian Trotskyists but admits he didn't make contact with any. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It has been 14 years since the last time powers under section 13 of the Public Order Act 1986 were used to impose an outright ban on a march. Note that this is a one-month ban, starting 11 March, applying to all related marches

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.

David Lammy’s proposal to diminish your democratic right to trial by jury makes its way to Parliament today: More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London Research found extreme disproportion in use of police power in districts such as Richmond-upon-Thames via @vikramdodd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

So the 10 reviews for the consultation on HRT for trans youth that was started today have been published. I'm currently skimming through them, and I'm already very suspicious of what's been included, and more importantly what's been excluded.

That recent article isn't an outlier. The NHS's trans healthcare materials were written by activists for unproven and abusive "Conversion Therapy" approaches transsafety.network/posts/nothin... National ICB guidance is widely missing or actively malicious transsafety.network/posts/from-l...

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Today's ban on NHS HRT for under 18s formalises a policy that has already been in place - Noone under 18 has received a new prescription for HRT since mid 2024 (I don't know of any since late 2023). Of course this policy also raises the risk of similar action on private healthcare for under 18s.

Iunno, it's just so weird for me, as somebody who was an out queer in the first couple of decades of this century to see this rewriting of history where the "debate" about gay rights then was this genteel, public spirited conversation. They blamed the gays for hurricanes and earthquakes.

BREAKING: The Met police have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House. AGAIN. Once again the basis of the raid is conspiracy to protest. It's a violation of freedom of expression & association rights. Not to mention freedom of religion for the Quakers too.

They say: - the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement - the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms 3/5

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

'They will get me killed': Mothin Ali slams Starmer and Tory MP over smears in parliament - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-will-get-me-killed-mothin-ali-slams-starmer-and-tory-mp-over-false-smears-parliament

TL;DR Labour's policies: 🚨Increase use of irregular routes 🚨Increase human trafficking 🚨Increase number of people forced to be undocumented 🚨Force people into deprivation 🚨Leave, particularly women and children, at risk 🚨Cost more than current policies 🚨Violate international law 10/ #r4today

In fact, the Home Office's own analysis shows that harsher policies, such as those being presented by the Home Secretary, are more likely to force people into more exploitative situations, and being trafficked. 7/ freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...

This represents a limit (at least for now) of Farage's stretching of the Overton window. If he said "I agree with my voters" much of the press would turn on him. If he said "These views have no place in Reform" he'd alienate the majority of his base.

Cruelty upon cruelty: Labour is banning would-be students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan as well as work visas to Afghans. These announcements often come with Shabana Mahmood smiling. What an achievement. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Why we fight.

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...