Maria Kelly, who resorted to using ‘secret toilets’ after encountering a trans person in work lavatories, is suing the company for discrimination and harassment

Engineer Maria Kelly has taken her employer, the aerospace and defence giant Leonardo UK, to an employment tribunal in Edinburgh

Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced?

As I was saying…

Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources. His new vision is to see Uruguay’s success story replicated in other countries.

Sex tests brought in after data showed 50-60 DSD athletes in finals, World Athletics says

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

What the Declaration calls for: 🌱Restore insect-friendly habitats ⛔ Cut harmful pesticide use 🛡️ Protect key species and ecosystems 🔬 Invest in science and education 📈 Make the UK a leader in insect recovery 4/5

‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mr Dodgy and his girlfriend’s house in Clacton

Banksy is a pillar of British culture. He’s been daubing walls for three decades. As soon as he satirises peaceful protesters being dragged through the courts for holding placards opposing Israel’s genocide, he faces being unmasked and prosecuted.

Sums things up in Britain really, they try to cover things up, but all the scrubbing just leaves a ghost that will haunt them.

Tax aside, this is objectively a very sad end to Rayner’s political career: a teenage single mum from a deprived family who went onto be deputy prime minister. The right wing press detested her for not knowing her place. Their glee at her downfall will be palpable in tomorrow’s front pages.

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Angela Rayner has resigned but Nigel Farage who uses Tax Havens to pay almost no tax hasn't. Time for Farage to go too.

“Women could sue organisations for harassment if they allow trans women into single-sex spaces under new equalities guidance that has been submitted to ministers.” Hopefully these organisations will do the right thing without the need for legal action. 🎁 www.thetimes.com/article/e94f...

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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

The Irish comedian Graham Linehan was just arrested by British police for rude X posts—which is “totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues.

Trump: I FEEL GREAT NOTHING IS WRONG HERE LOOK A PHOTO OF ME GOLFING FROM A WEEK AGO Giuliani: I WAS HELPING SOMEONE DONT SPREAD CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT MY CAR WRECK Trump: EPSTEIN IS OVER HE DIED A LONG TIME AGO GET OVER IT Sure, guys.

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

As reported in The Times, we have lodged a summons in the Court of Session which was signetted (authorised for the legal process to proceed) and served on the Scottish Ministers, the Lord Advocate and the Advocate General for Scotland on the 15 August. forwomen.scot/16/08/2025/f...

'Alex Graham, who has given around £300,000 to the library, said he had been “shocked and angry” to learn that The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht had been excluded from an exhibit that he personally supported with a donation of about £20,000.' www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

This could be a game changer. 100% renewable energy is the future and it’s getting closer every day.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

After #RoevWade was struck down, as predicted, it has impacted negatively on Women, with sharp rises in sepsis, infant death & maternal mortality. It is Black & minoritised Women, poor Women & Young Women who are most affected #TrumpsAmerica #ReproRights #abortion #USA www.prb.org/articles/abo...

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Our comment on the judicial review challenge brought by Good Law Project: https://orlo.uk/U8So3

Mary-Ann Stephenson confirmed as EHRC chair despite MPs’ objections

2. The reason is as grim as you could imagine: a cynical and staggeringly expensive greenwashing scheme dreamt up by the fossil fuel industry and packaged as a "climate solution": the supposed "Carbon Capture and Storage" scheme the government is funding. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.

A baby born to a brain dead mother: this is the horror of abortion bans | Moira Donegan

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

@profalices.bsky.social column in the Times. 'Universities pay a price for selling out gender critics They have created excessive bureaucratic processes which have become levers for activists seeking to stifle dissenting voices' www.thetimes.com/article/0e02...

UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds

"Sir John Major turned his guns on Brexiteers and President Trump and called for Britain to re-join the single market and customs union" Finally, an adult in the room squashing that Brexit elephant

What @unsrvaw.bsky.social actually said: 'Violence against women and girls is rooted in the material reality of their biological sex, which often intersects with other aspects thereby augmenting their vulnerability to violence'. bsky.app/profile/wome...

This was always a huge insult to Women subjected to sexual violence. 'Judges will no longer have to refer to criminal defendants by the gender of their choice in an update after the Supreme Court’s transgender ruling.' www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Just a reminder that Trump was going to announce his sanctions on Russia for not negotiating “in two weeks” about 3.5 weeks ago. Taco

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

The House of Lords have voted for the sex data accuracy amendment! 🎉 #DataBill Contents 200/ Not Contents 183 H/T Sex Matters @forstater.bsky.social @pascallaura.bsky.social sex-matters.org/posts/update...

Stonewall's approach “simply cannot uphold the dignity, protection and respect" of women. To continue with Stonewall's TWAW approach would continue to be “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity & inclusion" of women in the UK. I'm truly sick of the arrogant dismissal of women and women's rights.

This seems like very good news

This is Stonewall continuing to spread lies about the law. “The ruling is not law as yet”: the Supreme Court has just told us what the law says. It is what the law always was, is, and will be unless MPs choose to legislate to allow male players to self-identify into women’s sport.