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/...

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/...

❌ Turning Point Gets Abortion Talk Cancelled Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s “anti-cancel culture” frat whose main gig was screaming “free speech on campus!” has successfully pressured Texas Tech to CANCEL a talk by a retired physician who provided third-trimester abortions. bit.ly/3M7Ehaz

Lest anyone think that not directly abusing children somehow absolves any of Epstein’s associates

This is good news. Now can the media please stop amplifying this obvious hate group. Imagine campaigning to *keep* conversion practices 🤢

After many false starts I’ve written p.1 of my book 🎉 The rest of it should be straightforward, right?

The most important public health story in America right now is that the Trump administration is kidnapping 2-year olds

🧵 In Health Affairs Forefront, I wrote about why fertility tracking must be grounded in evidence and reproductive justice - not co-opted by agendas that strip away other reproductive health care. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... Sharing a few key points in thread below 🤓

did a The Concept Of Sexual Harassment Itself write this article

Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The logical endpoint of the “censorship” moral panic

“She hurt his ego so he killed her”. All this, all of it, spirals back to a moment years ago when a woman said “no, don’t” to a man. All of this is about male entitlement and weakness. All of it is on men who got radicalised, who twiddled their thumbs and both sides-ed, who never called out a friend

In Musk's latest masterful gambit, instead of putting a stop to the wave of sexual abuse imagery generated by Grok, he's attempting to monetize it instead by only letting paying subscribers generate images in replies. This isn't curbing abuse, it's profiting off it www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Anyone posting on X now that it is documented as being a site for serious image based abuse, including CSAM risks being seen as complicit in that abuse. Everyone should be off the platform as a matter of urgency

And that's even aside from the CSAM side of things, which in a sane world would have shut the entire website down immediately and sent a whole lot of people to jail

Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.

I would very much like someone to ask someone in the government what the consequences would be for someone (unwittingly or otherwise) viewing CSAM on Twitter/X, because I'm not aware of any legislation passed recently that makes doing so legal.

This is great. Sound on for best effect.

The word abortion is really hard to write on my iphone because apparently the default is to treat it as if it’s a swear word. Any suggestions of how to fix? It’s very annoying #reprosky #abortionishealthcare

Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.