Any London people, let me know and I will put you in touch with your local anti-raids group (where one exists).

To give you an idea of the level of demand, we are receiving about 5 applications an hour for our accessible toilet keys.

Les travailliste britanniques ne sont pas des camarades, episode 162..

Sex *is* special category data though... You don't just get to put scare quotes around laws you don't like.

Last week's ONS data, showing a continued drop in net migration, led some to ask why immigration remains the number one topic on the doorstep Headlines like this from the Express, published the same day offer one explanation

The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.

3. It’s going to be impossible to enforce those rules (and we should work to make that worse for anyone complying with them!) but that’s not the point. The point is that it removes legal protections which shaped the normal business approach for a decade.

2. What the new code does is the opposite: it makes it complex and expensive to be inclusive and privileges those striving for inequality’s discomfort over equality for everyone.

EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

This is why you really shouldn't trust the immediate reporting on, eg, the code, or about legal cases. It is genuinely remarkable the extent to which reporting does not get even the most basic details correct. Please wait for actual analysis from the law and policy experts working in this space.

The UK Government is expected to publish its updated Code of Practice tomorrow – just in time for their holidays.

Going to all this trouble to get Andy Burnham a seat when he's basically committed to governing exactly like Starmer is a really good bit

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

You know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They're rolling the pitch for a Reform government, and they wont just be against people that don't like genocide.

I spoke to the historian @ajawoods.bsky.social about their new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. www.vashtimedia.com/the-go-to-co...

really enjoyed this @vashtimedia.bsky.social interview with @sasha98.bsky.social, especially the bit where they give me vietnam-esque flashbacks to the miliband years! www.vashtimedia.com/the-go-to-co...

I'm honoured to get the Amnesty Award, but honestly this was a group effort. Thanks to the crew, fact-checkers, lawyers, journalists, and the team at Nebula who helped bring this scandal to light. And thanks to @jessothomson.co.uk for collecting the award on my behalf! Here’s my acceptance speech:

During the first trial, the jury acquitted all of the activists of 'aggravated burglary', a crime of intending to use violence in a break-in, which could have resulted in a life sentence. The state will still insist Corner's guilty verdict is proof of the legitimacy of its ban of Palestine Action

Four Palestine Action activists who stood trial over a break-in at Israeli defence firm Elbit's Filton site have been convicted of criminal damage. Samuel Corner was also found guilty of GBH on a police officer. All were previously acquitted of aggravated burglary www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Oh, I didn't realise the stabbings were funded by the Arts Council

List of those Starmer has called out for anti-Semitism: - The Universities - The Arts Council - The Green Party - Pro-Palestinian protestors List of those Starmer has not called out for anti-Semitism: - Twitter - Reform UK - The Trump administration Feels like there’s a pattern here.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Not to detract from how evil it is, but surely even Reform voters can see that 'let's put concentration camps in densely populated urban areas with a population sympathetic to the people we want to detain there' is not a policy that can feasibly survive contact with reality.

It is Trans+ History Week after all 👇

For anyone interested in the anti-trans movement in the UK, here's a thread of all my investigative work on the topic. 🧵 Starting with Bayswater Part 1: How the Tories let abusive anti-trans parents dictate education policy www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

Personally when I've called out antisemitic sentiments in movement spaces, I've found people are usually willing to reflect and change their behaviour. If they don't – sure, kick them out. But a zero-tolerance approach just doesn't seem very productive to me in most cases.

If we're mutuals and you love movies, follow me on Letterboxd letterboxd.com/renaissance_...

A few weeks ago, a woman wearing a hijab was deliberately hit by a car just around the corner from where I used to live in south london. There's cctv footage, and a car that is pretty old, and therefore not difficult to identify. It did not make even the local news

Imagine the headlines if – in somewhere like Russia or China – a senior lawyer faced a secret trial and potentially imprisonment for expertly representing a client and, against the odds, aiding in their acquittal for serious criminal charges. This secret trial is happening at 10.30 today in London.

the UK has some of the world's greatest universities, many of them on the verge of financial collapse due to government indifference, and for some reason a regulator with ~400 full time staff members that appears to be focused on pursuing culture war vendettas

Scapegoating Jews for the government's repressive politicies only further convinces antisemitic conspiracy theorists of outsized power we do not possess. Banning pro-Palestine marches is racist, and does not keep Jews safe from terrorism.

This has to be said: Seeking to ban public opposition to Arabs being slaughtered is racism. Arab life has the same worth as any other life. Believing that is not antisemitism. That's why thousands of Jews joined these marches.

"Body-worn video of a woman's "degrading" arrest, which police falsely told a court did not exist, has been shared exclusively with the BBC." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's always a good day to remind people that Kathleen Stock has been a consistent opponant of her critics' free speech – but today may be an especially good day for that www.opendemocracy.net/en/anti-tran...

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.

The High Court has just confirmed what many of us knew. The Office for Students fine of the University of Sussex for supposed ‘free speech’ infringements was a biased piece of right wing culture war politics and had nothing whatsoever to do with free speech. Sussex vindicated and the OfS exposed.

Despite warning signs that trans people are dying of suicide more than the general UK population, official data remains inadequate – while rights and healthcare rollbacks continue www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people...

Important context for this, as also noted in the comments on the post below by @jamesbowes01.bsky.social, is that under Labour the acceptance rates for asylum claims have dropped off a cliff, especially for Afghans, all while Labour closes safe routes for them to seek asylum. #r4today

I had a similar experience when I gave an expert interview to the BBC. They refused to publish a correction until I threatened to sue them, and even then the original radio broadcast remained up. They will lie to your face, knowingly expose you to abuse, and twist your words to fit their narrative.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Oh dear god metro.co.uk/2026/04/23/s...

Folks in my feed are pointing out that this is yet another way for Meta to avoid real moderation and yes, but also it’s a terrifying escalation of parental surveillance for kids who might be looking for, to name just a few things on a long list—abuse support, abortion support, transitioning help.

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

So Israel bombed a synagogue. Seems about right.

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

So today the home secretary told someone – presumably a voter – who disagrees with her anti-immigrant policies to "fuck off", and joked about tasing and deporting her political rivals. This does not bode well.

A High Court challenge against the Met Police's use of live facial recognition technology in London, brought by youth worker Shaun Thompson who was previously misidentified by system and Silkie Carlo of campaign group Big Brother Watch, has been dismissed www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult. She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

Trans people are exhausted. Non-stop fighting, writing, documenting, archiving, pleading, begging, hiding, crying and more. Exhausted. I have been considering similar tbh.