I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

The News Agents has always been problematic but this is beyond the pale

This is essential reading shedding light on what is a far-right attack on the BBC as a public broadcaster

So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC. Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points! 🧵

Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights. 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbcnews.com #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue

We have formally reported the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), calling for a full investigation and a downgrade or removal of their A-status accreditation. Full submission: tacc.org.uk/2025/10/23/p... 1/2

My take on this: 1. We have a hearing in the High Court 12/13 November. The EHRC has already substantially rolled back on where it was and, I think, is in some trouble. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Trans people are not a threat to cis women or anyone or taking away anyone’s human rights. Mahmoud’s actions reveal that transphobes would rather take away EVERYONE’S human rights, including those of cis women (whose rights to bodily autonomy will be next) than allow basic rights for trans people.

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Stark warning from the Council of Europe today about how the EHRC’s proposed guidance on the Equality Act will conflict with the UK’s international human rights obligations.

Keir Starmer comments about Reform are no more sincere than Wes Streeting saying trans people should be treated with 'respect and dignity'. They are words meant for Labour supporters who don't really care about either 'issue' but want some nice things to point to. Their actions tell you everything

Exactly. Since the last time Labour tried to introduce ID cards I warmed up to the idea after living in European countries where it is completely normal. But Labour are doing this for authoritarian reasons in the context of a serious assault on migrant and trans rights and it should be opposed

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The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Is that why he’s banned gender-affirming care for young people?

Anyone who can’t see through the “free speech!” “Cancel culture!” Bullshit now - the whole project has been about amplifying bigotry & shutting up criticism, is utterly complicit - Gervais, Carr & all- the reason they have far right fans is not the quality of jokes but the quality of propaganda

My analysis about Elon Musk's "awkward surprise appearance" at a far-right rally in London is out now on @theconversation.com I'm discussing how all this connects to the politics and economics of social media companies. Yes, it's about money and democracy.

Important analysis from @verenakbrandle.bsky.social on how Musk’s interference in democratic politics has economic incentives

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

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The only way this can be done is for random people to police who looks “feminine” enough to access women’s spaces, which is already happening and resulting in harassment of trans and cis folk alike. Why more cis women aren’t up in arms about this is beyond me

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Are you doing research on anti-trans politics? Consider submitting to the special issue of @cogitatiopag.bsky.social 'Global Politics and Anti-Trans Moral Panics: Transfeminist Perspectives', co-edited by me, @ashstokoe.bsky.social and @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social to be published in 2027 (1/2)

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

Deeply disturbed to see today's 'Unite the Kingdom' march in London with 100,000+ attendees. This was likely the largest far-right protest in British history and was led by Tommy Robinson and addressed by Elon Musk. The far right are emboldened like never before. But, here's the good news... 🧵

100,000 trans people & allies march through London without threatening or making anyone feel like it is a no-go area. Media: crickets. 100,000 fascists & Nazis march through London threatening violence & making anyone not cishet & white feel it is a no-go area. Media: wall-to-wall live coverage.

Likewise. Turning Point UK had a watchlist of UK academics back in 2019. For me this caused major anxiety teaching Brexit, at a time when I had already been targeted by the right-wing British press. TPUK had a tool for students to upload clips from lectures showing evidence of “political bias” (1/2)

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

British media really need to stop describing Charlie Kirk as a “conservative activist”

This is absolutely unhinged from Johnson and others. Kirk was a proponent of Great Replacement Theory who called for gays to be stoned and public lynch mobs to murder trans people. He is the definition of a right-wing extremist. The cowardice, avarice and opportunism of Johnson knows no bounds.

If you loved the disinformation playbook they ran with gender affirming care, you're going to love what they're starting to do to with birth control.

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

This research demonstrates that Labour, by aping the Reform fascists, is losing its own support while failing to have any effect on support for Reform...

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

FGEN are proud to be a signatory to this letter. The EHRC must me subject to Parliamentary scrutiny

This is chilling

Join us for the online launch of a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension.' Expertly edited by @giudifontana.bsky.social with some great articles by @elisabethking.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social and many others! 4 Sept, 9am EST

A good, if scary piece from one of our supporters, around the threat to wider LGBTQ+ rights if current attacks on Human Rights (esp. article 8) continue in the UK. www.opendemocracy.net/en/us-far-ri... @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social @jenniekermode.bsky.social @fiona-the-celt.bsky.social

Really important for people to reflect on the power dynamics surrounding this media storm

”Reductionist views which subscribe to and perpetuate misleadingly binary constructs of sex play into misogynistic right-wing politics which harm us all… this is not a theoretical debate, it impacts lived realities and the liveability of our lives.” Feminist scholars demand trans equality.

Harold Shipman arrested over inappropriate use of prescription drugs.

Important new piece by @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social in @opendemocracy.net !

Super excited to have this piece out in @opendemocracy.net. I argue that the attacks on trans people's human rights and renewed calls to leave or amend the European Convention are a logical consequence of Brexit, which was always about unpicking equalities and human rights protections in the UK.