Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species. And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.

Two days ago, Dame Anne Pringle was elected Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the first female Chancellor in the university's 600+ year history. #education #highered #AcademicSky #EduSky

Good - Streeting has removed the legal privileges that allowed those administering adolescent gender medicine to block follow up research into outcomes. This should have happened years ago when the Cass Review first met their lack of cooperation. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

The student loans system is scandalous. Labour have made it worse and allowed the Tories (who built it) an opening because it's the same old story: Lab forgets who its voters are. It doesn't like the coalition it has and hankers for another. New substack from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

'It is ...pertinent to ask why the regulator approved a study it now says risks sterilising children, damaging their bones, and impairing their cognition. Everything the MHRA appears to now be concerned [about] was known at the time of approval.'

Another splendid 'debunk' from @monkemma.bsky.social. It's hard to overestimate just how much work it takes to excavate, accurately and in detail, the layers of half-truth, falsity, misinterpretation etc. of these kinds of stories: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/the-500k-b...

Translation: Lesbian group wants to exclude heterosexual males. Ofc they do. It's a lesbian group. No brainer.

I agree with this article but I'm conflicted. Because we need to work out how to raise awareness that by voting for populists, they entrench the very problems they are "protesting" - without sliding into finger waving. No one likes being on the naughty step & they sure won't help fix it from there.

'Today, I have laid “The Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information) (England) Order 2026” in Parliament. The Order will come into force on 20 March 2026.' Hurrah! The data linkage study will progress! What happened to those children? questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

Finally, the aggression & abuse from men targeted at women across social media is obscene. On X it targets all liberal/left women. On BS it targets liberal/left women who resist men who want to access women's single sex services provisions & sports. Male aggression & abuse across the piste. NAM ofc.

Hawley is no friend to women. Nor is Howard. Both think women are second class citizens. Hawley wants to remove their reproductive rights, Howard wants to remove their rights to single sex services provisions & sports when sex matters. Men arguing about what a woman is for their own sexist ends.

Sherman's response was sensible. Re Howard, the physical danger is to women, not men (however they identify). Danger to women's, children's & lesbians' political & legal rights. From men across the political spectrum who want to remove reproductive rights or rights to anything excluding men.

I'm a leftie academic feminist very critical of gender identity ideology. But Hawley's behaviour to Dr Varma was unedifying. He talked over her aggressively & could have attempted a point of agreement by using 'male' not 'man' but was spoiling for a fight. The abuse towards her on X was frightening.

🚨 CAN YOU HELP THE VICTIMS AND ASSIST? ATTENTION: ALL STORAGE UNIT OWNER/OPERATORS! ALL STORAGE UNIT OWNER/OPERATORS MUST CHECK THEIR LEASING TENENT ROLLS, TO ASSIST IN FINDING THE ADDITIONAL MULTIPLE JEFFREY EPSTEIN MATERIALS, HIDDEN AWAY - ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

'The [puberty blockers] clinical trial will not start to recruit until the issues the MHRA raised have been resolved. It will only be allowed to go ahead if the expert scientific and clinical evidence and advice conclude it is safe to do so.' questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

a year is a long time in politics

Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/icel...

Letter from 24 consultant psychiatrists in the Times calls for "reinvigorated effort" to pursue existing data on 9k GIDS patients including 2k who were given puberty blockers. The data might not be rigorous but it must surely be capable of providing useful information.

A letter from a group of psychiatrists in Today's Times, asking why there was never any follow up of the 9000 children given puberty blockers at the Tavistock clinic.

@sonia-sodha.bsky.social's piece (£) offers an insightful challenge on student loans. She calls for govt to "fix this", but doesn't offer a solution, so I'd like to point her (and govt) to my thread in response to an FT piece yesterday: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

Zia Yusuf used the tragic death of Amy Houston in his speech today. Her dad explicitly asked politicians not to do this in 2013. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Women deserve safety and dignity too, Zack. But it seems the Greens refuse to admit it and don't feel any duty to protect us. You can protect trans people without compelling speech and belief and until you understand this we'll all carry on wasting time, energy and resources on a man-made problem.

I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once tinyurl.com/yzsey97c

"Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say". Labour chair Anna Turley said the policies were “a direct attack on settled families and fundamentally un-British”, threatening to deport our friends, neighbours colleagues”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.

The prospectus offered here by GLP to the WI and Girlguiding is: “Do what we want and we promise to pay the legal fees you incur in the resulting regulatory action, which will likely conclude with the dissolution of your organisation.”

GLP’s “indemnity” is nonsense. The ultimate legal risk for charities/trustees who are breaching their charitable objects is the removal of charitable status by the Charity Commission. It’s impossible for GLP to indemnify that risk, because it’s not a financial risk. bsky.app/profile/good...

Michael Shermer has an excerpt in Quillette from his new book "Truth": an excerpt about the reality of free will/ I find his argument for free will to be muddled and confusing, and not at all establishing the truth of libertarian free will. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/02/22/a...

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

And there we have it. The Daily Mail has now jumped on the bandwagon🙄 Want the reality? 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/monk...

This isn't a teaser—it's just an acknowledgment that the next PROOF report is taking a while and there's a good reason. The Epstein Scandal isn't primarily a sex scandal. You don't understand how powerful and well-connected this man was. This is a global scandal and it is scary.

No. Starmer cannot change the Supreme Court ruling. See separation of powers: the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. Starmer would have to legislate to remove women's legal rights to non-discrimination as per the Equality Act. Why would any woman vote Green? share.google/qKwt8fBnDZXp...

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

How can a medical trial on healthy teenagers go ahead based on an “unquantified risk” of “long-term biological harms”. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks. Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks. Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How can a medical trial on healthy teenagers go ahead based on an “unquantified risk” of “long-term biological harms”. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Puberty blockers trial paused. Here's hoping this is the beginning of a period of people waking up, saying "what were we THINKING", and never doing it again. www.thetimes.com/article/f538...

But placing him above the law by granting immunity and letting him wiggle out of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is totally cool.

BREAKING Zorro Ranch investigation into reopened! "To know that somebody reported possible bodies being buried on this property is horrifying and must be brought to justice immediately," New Mexico state representative Andrea Romero told CBS News. #ZorroRanch #Epstein #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

One underreported detail of the Andrew arrest in the U.K. is that police are asking the U.S. for the unredacted Epstein files. I wonder how much the FBI and DOJ will assist the U.K. police with their inquiries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd032xnm804o

BREAKING: We just won a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration requiring the DOJ to turn over records on an expedited basis about their efforts to compile millions of Americans’ sensitive voter data from states across the country.

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate agrees to pay up to $35m to settle survivors’ lawsuit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rep. Stephen Lynch: "It offers a great contrast. Look what the British government is doing in light of the evidence, and look what the US government is doing. Nothing. Our chief law enforcement officer Pam Bondi is defending and obstructing the investigation."

#Andrew #JustUs #JustICE #Injustice

He sounds more guilty every time he talks about this