The ruling IS law. Good grief.

Excellent piece by @siennarodgers.bsky.social on Labour's not-quite-payroll vote (mission champions, trade envoys, etc. etc.)

Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...

@fawcettsociety.bsky.social Hello. Have you anything to say about last week's ruling by the UK Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers?

I don't wade into these issues much, but given the Sullivan review has been getting a lot of attention, I'll say this. I regard Alice Sullivan as an excellent social scientist, who has for years campaigned for one simple objective: clear recording of biological sex separately from gender ID.

🚨Announcement!🚨 The government-commissioned Sullivan Review of Data and Statistics on Sex and Gender has been published by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology www.gov.uk/government/p...

On Friday, along with Scottish Lesbians, Women's Rights Network Scotland and Women Won't Wheesht, we wrote to Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie regarding Scottish Labour's change of heart regarding their support of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. t.co/e05V7z5pBL

Our response to yesterday's comments by the Scottish Labour leadership on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill and the Sandie Peggie case.

We joined Sex Matters, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women to write to Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, calling on him to uphold the right of NHS Scotland staff to have access to single sex changing rooms at work. t.co/jksh0Cwosu

Intergenerational wealth plays a big role in pensioner poverty, with housing, inheritance, & social security creating unequal outcomes for women. We're calling for urgent reforms to tackle these disparities and ensure the pensions system supports those most in need. www.ftadviser.com/pensions/202...

Tomorrow I'll present to Parliament The Jimmy Lai Bill: a bill to guarantee consular assistance to British journalists detained or held hostage overseas. In an increasingly dangerous world, where authoritarian strongmen fear scrutiny, we must protect those seeking the uncorrupted truth.

Terrific piece by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on what I think is a real (and alarming) trend: the decline of face-to-fact interaction.

NEW: Our latest blog looks at recent developments on the Police Scotland review of sex and gender, which no longer appears to be “wide-ranging” or “fulsome”, as previously stated, but instead limited to data recording. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2025/01/16/p...

My new series The Body Politic launches on BBC Radio 4 this morning at 11am then on BBC Sounds. What happens when thorny issues of bioethics, bodily autonomy and life and death collide with the politics? First up: surrogacy. Produced by @lealapad. Let us know what you think!

The myth of the teenager, by @hannahsbee.bsky.social Adolescents suffer from an image problem. 📖 Book of the Day: Teenagers: The Evidence Base by Matilda Gosling www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Presenting our 2024 BBC News/Channel 4 News musical Christmas collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins and I perform In The Bleak Midwinter. Wherever you are in the world, whatever you may be celebrating, our very best wishes. @c4ciaran.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @petroc.bsky.social

Great piece from Rogé Karma on how Dems misread Latino opinion on immigration, and ended up shifting far to the left of where most voters were www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... The theory shows up clear as day in the data 👇

We have written today to IPSO, following its ruling against The Spectator. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/12/10/t...

From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow) geni.us/HagsPB

Lucy is quoted in this article by Hannah Barnes on the arguments made by the Scottish Government in the For Women Scotland case, and the negative consequences for women. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

NEW: We consider the resistance of the Scottish Government and Equality and Human Rights Commission to publishing their written submissions to the UK Supreme Court in the case brought by For Women Scotland, and the steps taken to bring about publication. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/11/21/f...

The Scottish Government has now published its submission, which can be accessed here. www.gov.scot/publications...

We are pleased that the Scottish Government has confirmed to us this morning that it will be publishing its Statement of Case lodged with the Supreme Court. Their lawyers have advised us that SG hopes to put this on its website today and will confirm the position with us as soon as they can.

NEW: Our briefing note about For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers, which will be heard in the UK Supreme Court next week, on 26-27 November. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/11/19/b...

The House of Commons Modernisation Committee is inviting ideas for its inquiry, with the aims of:   - driving up standards - improving culture and working practices - reforming Parliamentary procedures to make the House of Commons more effective. committees.parliament.uk/committee/73...

For 15 years, Momodou Keita has worked for one of Gambia’s premier women’s rights groups, carrying out quarterly patrols monitoring women who had once been the region’s most active cutters, looking for clues of recidivism.

We’re offering up to £150k Global Innovation Fellowships to UK based humanities and social sciences scholars on the below themes in eligible countries. You’d work with a (non academic) partner organisation of your choice - eg community organisation www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/oda-...

Until 5 August 2023, Amnesty International believed women and girls were oppressed by the Taliban "for the 'crime' of being born a girl". Between 5 August 2023 and today, they believed it was "for the 'crime' of identifying as a girl". Today they believe it's "just for being women and girls".

What are this morning's Russian papers saying about the detention in Paris of Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram? Watch my video press review on youtu.be/2625kjzD1G4

Magnificent photographs of an amazing property that tells the history of multiple waves of migration in Spitalfields on.ft.com/3z2hXbE

Thanks to a small Scottish charity 19 courageous women have escaped the barbaric Taliban regime, but when is the international community going to show the same courage and stand up for the women of Afghanistan. I ✍️in The Scotsman www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

‘fathers manage to maintain their relative gains and do monumentally better than mothers, women without children and men without children.’ Claudia Goldin, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Claudia Olivetti, IFS Deaton Review | Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

I don't have and never have had seven bins. (And I can't believe this is my first post on here. Will try for more wit and erudition soon.)