There may be some clues here, who knows? “Fiona Cottrell’s son… had offered money-laundering services on the dark web and subsequently wrote a book called How to Launder Money” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Joke candidate farage up against binface. And even getting bad press from the telegraph??

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Andy Burnham has so far ✅said he supports the vile and hateful Mahmood reforms and briefed he may keep her as Home Sec ✅ said he want to use more migration detention centres ✅refused to describe what happened in Gaza as a genocide ✅ supported the EHRC’s segregation charter

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Sorry, hang on, the former Ofcom chair Michael Grade stated ‘the white majority’s voice must be protected’?!

So the UK government didn’t leave X when it produced a deluge of abuse images including CSAM and now Starmer is lecturing us on child safety? What about holding social media companies to account?

As long as the government remains on the fascist enabling X nobody can take anything they say seriously with regards to social media and safety

The British government should stop policing young people’s social media and start holding social media platforms accountable for how they foster harm against various groups.

In the broadest sense, the multi-faceted attack on trans lives is being litigated by a very small number of people who can’t accept the reality that trans people exist, have always existed, will always exist, and need some medical support and social acceptance in order to thrive.

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

The decision to conduct this review is based on politics and ideology, not science. Decades of gold-standard scientific evidence have overwhelmingly demonstrated the safety of mifepristone, including when it is provided using telehealth.

Buy your Anti fascist, pro abortion T-shirt and raise funds for the abortion support network! I’ll link the site in the next post inews.co.uk/news/farage-...

@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social - you were at Oxford Pride yesterday but you haven't yet signed the motion against the trabsphobic EHRC "guidance" Why not? You can't have your cake and eat it. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @laylamoran.bsky.social thank you for attending AND signing @tacc.org.uk

This 👇 Never understood the idea that you are somehow a better person if you don’t immediately block fools on sight

Once again noting that the self declared “feminist” protectors of women (aka transphobes) say little to nothing about abortion rights and pal around with anti abortionists 🤔

It’s almost like all surveillance, no matter the purported use, eventually becomes an extension of the carceral state.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

Pleased we have a green incumbent in my constituency who is excellent, makes it very easy to decide how to vote. (Though I have to go home to get ID for the polling station which will add pointless friction to my day…)

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

Oxfordshire County Council has issued a formal legal notice to Raise the Colours Oxfordshire in response to the continued placing of flags across the county, on or near highways without consent. This notice requires them to stop the activity. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

TLDR; no it is not a good idea to use genetic testing to attempt to determine “biological sex“. It doesn’t work and is unscientific.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

I keep saying to people that the fight against right wing attacks on trans rights and their attacks on abortion rights are linked. We’re in the same fight for human rights and if you can’t see it yet here’s a clear sign www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/e...

Use this link to email the lords it only takes a few seconds. Please share bpas-campaigns.org/time-to-act/...

🧵Some Lords are busy trying to wreck abortion decriminalisation. An amendment to report every girl under 16 who has a legal abortion to the POLICE and Sharron Davies wants to ban telemedicine that allows early abortions to happen at home in privacy

If you're in Oxfordshire... #LocalElections2026

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people. I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

Is this the only leader of a party who unequivocally says they support trans people? ✊

There are more important things to notice, but look. On truth social you can “reTruth” a post. Almost makes me want to join to try it out #philosophy

We have endured the Botley Road closure for so long. Add that to the list of things like the lock downs that we never anticipated! Here's the technical account of what has been going on, in New Civil Engineer. www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/deliv...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

I quote the work of @drjengunter.bsky.social who has used her Substack and social platforms to expose the doctors in the sex offender’s network

Two things are being overlooked in the #EpsteinFiles The complicity of doctors The extent of violence My new piece @bmj.com #IWD #Epstein #Healthwashing #VAW

It’s heartbreaking that this case implies the students have no sense of what their teachers went through to deliver their courses, or perhaps don’t care. People worked in their bedrooms with toddlers climbing round them, after bereavements where they could not attend funerals, while sick with

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Regular readers will already know how much I love country dancing and I am very into this article in today’s Cherwell (Oxford Student Newspaper) “Unlike so much at Oxford, this is a place where mediocrity can flourish”

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

In one email exchange, Jeffrey Epstein and Olivier Colom, former aide to French President Sarkozy, compared girls to marine life. Epstein: “some are like shrimp, you throw away the head and keep the body” “I can;t even think of the smell of black shrimp. ugh” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

and concerning that this alone would undermine the rest of the review. As this paper describes, though, this is far from its only problem. 4/4 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

p.s. I had not seen that the review recommends gagging ethics committees on these matters. As the ex-Chair of an ethics committee, the idea that a random person with an axe to grind could demand that my committee ignore certain ethical questions is so bizarre 3/4

It's disappointing that academics spend time debunking neo-fascist rubbish seeping into the public consciousness, but here we are. Once again: "Biological sex" is not a simple binary, and it is not scientific or 'clarifying' to assert that it is. 2/4

Here's a great, and short, paper on the problems with the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. 1/4 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...