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Payout for Muslim NHS employee over single-sex lavatory policy
www.thetimes.com/article/6af5...
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Payout for Muslim NHS employee over single-sex lavatory policy
A worker could receive up to ÂŁ25,000 on the grounds her beliefs were discriminated against by allowing trans women to use single sex bathrooms
https://www.thetimes.com/article/6af5d639-c924-4c5a-ab03-055d83648ab2?shareToken=57a9510022fa1bb9477feeeb50830123
7 days ago
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Tom Roberts
20 days ago
That's the west coast mainline for you
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Nicky W
21 days ago
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Lewis Graham
21 days ago
Snowden LJ is the latest judge to be promoted to the UK Supreme Court. He will replace Lord Richards in June
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Lord Justice Snowden appointed to the UK Supreme Court - UK Supreme Court
Justice appointment Lord Justice Snowden
https://supremecourt.uk/news/lord-justice-snowden-appointed-to-the-uk-supreme-court
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Chris Ogilvie
about 1 month ago
đđNight Riviera - I'm on GWR's 21:15 Penzance-London Paddington. It's got the oldest carriages in UK, but one of the best interiors! Smart refurbished sleeper car, and a plush bar/lounge with sofas & armchairs. Even the cheap seats look good...đ§”âŹïž
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That claw hammer looks especially ânon-violentâ.
about 2 months ago
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LonWon
about 2 months ago
Roundup of latest Exeter news from our quality news source
@exeterobserver.org
exeterobserver.org/2026/04/02/t...
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Exeter Digest #101: Resident doctors strike - Pride in Place funding - City of Culture bid - Co Wheels car club - Mary Arches co-living revisions - Exeter to Cranbrook cycle path - Zero emission buses...
With our pick of upcoming local community and culture highlights.
https://exeterobserver.org/2026/04/02/the-exeter-digest-101-resident-doctors-strike-pride-in-place-funding-city-of-culture-bid-co-wheels-car-club-mary-arches-co-living-revisions-exeter-to-cranbrook-cycle-path-zero-emission-buses/
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The role of President of the UK Supreme Court
YouTube video by UKSupremeCourt
https://youtu.be/GnabK91y5B0?si=enDn1CyUx0hQpNG4
about 2 months ago
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Trans woman jailed for grooming 13-year-old girl
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c2844d7...
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Trans woman jailed for grooming 13-year-old girl
Skylar Savage blamed hormone transition therapy after sending sexual messages to children
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c2844d7fb123e6e3
2 months ago
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Fiyaz Mughal: âModerate Muslims like me have been cut off by Labour in favour of extremistsâ
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/861c5db...
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Fiyaz Mughal: âModerate Muslims like me have been cut off by Labour in favour of extremistsâ
The Tell Mama founder on confronting extremism, receiving threats from all sides and the isolation of not being the âright type of Muslimâ
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/861c5dbf2f08aa8b
3 months ago
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Man killed himself âunder orders from Google chatbotâ
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Man killed himself âunder orders from Google chatbotâ
Gemini AI allegedly issued four-hour âcountdownâ for Florida male to take his own life
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d3481bf37f0355b7
3 months ago
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Non-white voters should stay in their lane apparentlyđ€Šââïž Why oh why wonât they do what their betters tell them to? Itâs a mystery to anyone not a member of the metropolitan elite.
3 months ago
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This story of a boy raised as a girl burns with a sense of injustice
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/01/2...
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This story of a boy raised as a girl burns with a sense of injustice
After a secret gender reassignment as a baby, Jim Ambrose has spent his adult life undoing the damage. Now Channel 4 is telling his tale
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/01/20/the-secret-of-me-channel-4-review/
4 months ago
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Right To Life UK
4 months ago
Claiming abortion is better than foster care is deeply insulting to those whoâve lived that reality đ§ In 2022 as a result of "choice", there were over a quarter of a million abortions in England and Wales.
https://righttolife.org.uk/news/record-high-of-over-quarter-of-a-million-abortions-in-2022
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Ruth Deyermond
4 months ago
This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.
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'Listen to women' NHS nurses say, after tribunal rules sharing changing room with trans woman 'violated dignity'
However, the tribunal dismissed several other claims, finding that the trans woman had not harassed or victimised the nurses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62nwl7j44gt
4 months ago
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Joshua Rozenberg
4 months ago
It was AI after all.
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Minister blames 'slow' watchdog for trans guidance delay
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Minister blames 'slow' watchdog for trans guidance delay
The EHRC has urged Bridget Phillipson to speed up her approval of the guidance, which was submitted in September.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4k61dqnzlo
4 months ago
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Martin Rosenbaum
5 months ago
The ICO has published its decision in a high profile FOI case, backing the EHRC's refusal to disclose internal communications about its interim guidance after the UK Supreme Court judgment last April (which ruled that the meaning of "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 is biological)
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We won the Supreme Court sex ruling. The PM is subverting it
www.thetimes.com/article/911f...
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Latest news & breaking headlines
The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/911f839d-06dd-47e6-a008-a65de99f2112?shareToken=84b70c21c28bcb653136609b6cb8ac11
5 months ago
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Dominic Casciani
7 months ago
I went to Strasbourg to see whether reform, of the European Convention on Human Rights is possible, rather than quitting as some would prefer. Here's our tale for tonight's TV Ten. Pictures and editing by Lee Durant. My thanks to the ECHR / CoE team for accommodating my endless requests.
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Auschwitz Memorial
5 months ago
25 December 1942 | A cruelly beaten Polish prisoner, Stefan Muczkowski (no. 75688), a curator of the National Museum in Cracow, was brought to the infirmary Block 20 at Auschwitz I. He perished there on the same day as a result of injuries.
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The English church protects us all, yet is mute
www.thetimes.com/article/e389...
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The English church protects us all, yet is mute
Whatever our religious beliefs, we owe our freedom to an institution that has become strangely distant from its people
https://www.thetimes.com/article/e389daf5-882b-49b0-924b-1449b7a1ea41?shareToken=010fd8901501ccbd696340393af0516b
5 months ago
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âI objected to a man using my gymâs womenâs changing room. Now, Iâm banned by the councilâ
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
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Access Restricted
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/23/council-gym-trans-row/
5 months ago
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The Irish Times
5 months ago
Chris Rea, singer of Driving Home For Christmas, dies aged 74
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Chris Rea, singer of Driving Home For Christmas, dies aged 74
Family spokesperson confirms death in statement
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2025/12/22/chris-rea-singer-of-driving-home-for-christmas-dies-aged-74/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
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This is incredible
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Aerial footage shows scale of damage from Shropshire 'sinkhole'
Aerial footage appears to show the structural integrity of a stretch of waterway in Whitchurch has given way.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c62n9694lgxo
5 months ago
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Rachel Cunliffe
5 months ago
I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
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Joshua Rozenberg
5 months ago
Protestors who target Jews in London or Manchester by displaying or chanting slogans such as âglobalise the intifadaâ can expect to be arrested in future, the citiesâ police chiefs said in a statement yesterday. The policy doesn't seem to apply to other areas.
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Slogans mean arrests
Although only in London and Manchester, for now
https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/slogans-mean-arrests
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Joshua Rozenberg
5 months ago
People respond to outcomes rather than reasoning, the deputy president of the UK Supreme Court told me last week. Lord Hodge was reflecting on the reaction to the courtâs ruling in the For Women Scotland case, where he gave the leading judgment.
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Equality before the law
The UKâs second most senior judge prepares for a very busy retirement
https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/equality-before-the-law
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âWhen I tell Israelis Iâm not Jewish but here to help, grown men cryâ
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4117e7e...
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âWhen I tell Israelis Iâm not Jewish but here to help, grown men cryâ
The British volunteers determined to make a difference on the ground in Israel
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4117e7e35e671f34
8 months ago
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Rob Ford
8 months ago
Ancestor worship - a comfort for a distressed tribe?
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Postcard From The Past
8 months ago
We are here in Birmingham today. Can't say I like the place.
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Afghans relocated to UK 'staged torture videos' and 'holiday in Afghanistan', ex-interpreter says
"The only threat is unemployment," the source, who has direct knowledge of the government's relocation scheme, tells Sky News.
https://news.sky.com/story/afghans-relocated-to-uk-exaggerating-taliban-threat-ex-interpreter-says-13423813
8 months ago
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Moose Allain
8 months ago
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Fiona Graph
9 months ago
Why did you get a lesbian journalist thrown out for asking questions? Homophobic, no?Why are you supporting Pride in Surrey, which was co-founded by convicted child rapist Stephen Ireland, and is now run by two of his former boyfriends? Don't you think you should support an investigation into PiS?
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âHumorless, scoldy neuroticism, often rationalized by the view that one must be on âwar footingâ because the world is self-evidently in crisis.â
www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...
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What is Blueskyism?
And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?
https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-blueskyism?utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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Gender Services: NI services to be reviewed by Dr Hilary Cass
The author of the landmark Cass report into gender identity services for young people in England will carry out the review.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4w9pp5805o
9 months ago
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www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
Excellent news.
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National Library readmits gender critical essay book featuring Rowling in U-turn
The book includes submissions by authors including Harry Potter creator JK Rowling.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/national-library-of-scotland-readmits-gender-critical-essay-book-featuring-jk-rowling-in-censorship-u-turn-5303757
9 months ago
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James Mellor
9 months ago
Salvaging an unused cartoon - this week's trip to
#RejectionIsland
goes via Alaska.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
(free to read) by
@johnboynewriter.bsky.social
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Hereâs what happened when they tried to cancel me
My nomination for the Polari Prize led to this yearâs award being abandoned entirely â weâre supposed to believe in free speech
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/john-boyne-heres-what-happened-when-they-tried-to-cancel-me/
9 months ago
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Canât wait to dive into this
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9 months ago
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Dominic Casciani
9 months ago
So spent time breaking down the legal challenges and complexities around what may happen with the Palestine Action hoohar. Iâve tried to fill gaps in the knowledge. After mass arrests, what happens next with Palestine Action ban?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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After mass arrests, what happens next with Palestine Action ban?
Since the Palestine Action ban, the clash ahead now feels as much about politics and PR as about the law.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wn5gdv0wgo
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âLeft-wing authors are cancelling their own books. Itâs f---ing wildâ
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/700d372...
#polariprize
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âLeft-wing authors are cancelling their own books. Itâs f---ing wildâ
Adam Szetela is a young author going to war on cancel culture as publishing faces new forms of censorship
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/700d37208c7e3b58
9 months ago
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This is absolutely hilarious đ
www.the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-let...
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The strange death of east Londonâs most radical bookshop
Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-letters-closure-left-wing-bookshop/
10 months ago
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Right To Life UK
10 months ago
Feet the size of a penny and born two days after the abortion limit, Francesca was not going to let that stand in her way đȘ
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Girl born two days after abortion limit with feet size of penny now flourishing in primary school
Francesca Bradley-Curran was born after 24 weeks and 2 daysâ gestation. Weighing only 1lb 6oz, her feet were only slightly bigger than a penny. Doctors told her parents, Victoria Bradley and Paul Curran, that even if their daughter did survive, she would never be able to walk or talk.
https://righttolife.org.uk/news/girl-born-two-days-after-abortion-limit-with-feet-size-of-penny-now-flourishing-in-primary-school
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Name the pressures that you say trans rights are coming under.
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10 months ago
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Exeter Observer
10 months ago
ICYMI // Exeter residents eat lowest proportion of 5-a-day fruit and vegetables in Devon with only South Hams above England average Public health report also finds three in ten Devon residents are physically inactive and nearly two-thirds overweight.
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Exeter residents eat lowest proportion of 5-a-day fruit and vegetables in Devon with only South Hams above England average - Exeter Observer
Public health report also finds three in ten Devon residents are physically inactive and nearly two-thirds overweight with new countywide health and well-being strategy due in autumn.
https://exeterobserver.org/2025/07/14/exeter-residents-lowest-proportion-5-a-day-fruit-and-vegetables-devon-only-south-hams-above-england-average-public-health-report-three-in-ten-residents-physically-inactive-nearly-two-thirds-overweight-new-countywide-health-and-well-being-strategy-due/
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Investment Week
10 months ago
UK Supreme Court quashes Tom Hayesâ LIBOR-rigging conviction
incm.pub/3GXyzFD
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