The only problem with people working illegally in the UK is that them working is deemed illegal

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

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This is an important one, folks. The question isn't how ID cards would improve efficiency under a humane and sensible government, it's how they would be misused by, say, Nigel Farage to target brown people or queer people or disabled people or just white migrants like me who are a little weird.

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This is a really good article. It’s long, but brilliantly encapsulates what’s happening in the UK in removing trans rights. It clearly points out the massive legal overreach & how anti-trans lobbying is designed to elicit ‘disgust’ to drive centrists towards the authoritarian right. Share widely!

We had hoped our own union's senior management would listen to our pleas to stop their breaching of union policy and jeopardising of members' legal cases. We are deeply disappointed not even to have had a reply and have no choice but to raise our concerns via other routes. qmucu.org/2025/09/24/b...

On the concern over new Academia dot edu T&Cs: can anyone else see the text I see in my account? Are only Premium subscribers affected?

Interesting thread. Christina is quite right about the MHRA, which is in law simply an agency of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with no separate legal personality.

Why are you threatening #UCU staff with pay deductions for ASOS? UCU policy is to oppose punitive deduction for ASOS And why are you asking staff to fill out a form when UCU members at QMUL were advised not to do this?

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

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Use AI to increase work but with added insincerity.

With another 9 @ucu.org.uk branches now calling on UCU to do the right thing we wonder if @drjogrady.bsky.social is listening to her members.

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

This is what two tier policing looks like. Numbers arrested in the past week: Peaceful, anti-genocide protesters - 890 Violent, racist, protestors - 25

My governing body, the British Psychological Society (@bpsofficial.bsky.social) is also highly critical of the EHRC Code of Practice. Thank you, BPS, for making this public statement. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

It's a little galling to receive a notification saying that all staff have to do mandatory GenAI training in the next 4 weeks when I've been trying to make mandatory disability training happen for the last 18 years with zero success. Guess we know our priorities lie, eh.

Complete agree with Matt here. Now is not the time for strikes over pay, even though we absolutely deserve more. We need to put our efforts, energies and our limited resources into protecting those colleagues whose jobs are under threat. We need to offer our solidarity to those that need it most.

I can absolutely appreciate that stance. I'm esp cross at us chucking approx £250,000 at a national postal ballot on pay when we already need every penny possible to support local action for jobs... (Let alone that UCU is more than HE + we're all fighting for funding, jobs+pay across post-16 ed)

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s called ‘Stochastic Terrorism’… Remember that term when you see ‘gender critical’ transphobes saying “it’s just a joke” or posting their trans-exterminationist rhetoric wrapped in whimsy, or spoken in a posh accent! 😣

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

We've heard from British Transport Police and will let you know our analysis in due course. In the meantime, our dignity is not up for debate. So hands off our bodies, our rights and our lives. Cisgender people are not entitled to our bodies.

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

One thing that we don't talk about often enough is how difficult it is to write academically during a genocide, in the midst of rising fascism while surrounded by the wilful destruction of knowledge cultivation through the financial incineration of universties & the imposition of the e-word juggler.

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

Every UK petition is like this

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Wrote this back in Feb about the Neil Gaiman allegations and it's also true for Gregg Wallace, TV presenter and green grocer, who recently used his autism to excuse abhorrent behaviour.

Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it. This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record. This is not how a democracy behaves. We will not be silenced.

A serious bollocking for Labour's TERF-Island. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: "deplores that discussions tend towards the exclusion of trans people from many aspects of society, rather than ensuring that their inclusion and dignity are upheld." www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

I wrote about the Vylanising of the Gaza discourse, and what happens if you keep telling people things they can see aren’t true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

Please take a moment to sign this petition to prevent the closure of the University of Nottingham's Language Centre which also includes its provision of Biblical Hebrew and Greek: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We keep trying to tell people - yes, dealing with MPs can be shit, especially when you disagree with a lot of what they do, but if you actually write to them or make appointments with them, they can use that in their work. You'd better believe the right wing is doing it. We need to do it too.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Always and in all ways ❤️

Happy Pride. No matter who you are, how you identify, you are valid and loved.

Every.single.word. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social has everyone's back against the wall.

Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

This is an excellent piece and thread. This point is really important— I don't think most people outside of academia realize that separate from normal processing fees in high-impact journals, we actually have to pay to make our own papers open access. This is only sometimes covered by institutions.

#workingpeople - That’s all we hear. What about #disabled people? What about #carers? What about #children? What about #students? What about social justice? #WealthTaxNow @teamlabouruk.bsky.social