"Debate and reasoning are “transphobic” and if you want to keep your job you declare your pronouns and keep quiet." Scathing anatomy of Amnesty's position of sex and gender by Maya Forstater. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20769...

"It’s one thing to be unfairly maligned, but when it is based on such an illiterate interpretation of one’s actual beliefs it’s fucking infuriating." jennylindsaywriter.substack.com/p/mildreds-w...

Here is a list of the organisations Amnesty has branded as dangerous and "anti-rights". In fact it's a list of mostly grassroots organisations advocating for women's rights. By calling them "anti-rights" Amnesty now makes it clear that they believe women deserve no rights of their own.

Taking the piss: Gender Surgery's Incontinence Problem. A new study tells us what gender clinics won't. genderblog.net/gender-surge...

"The consequences of replacing sex with gender identity in law, thereby enabling any man to claim access to female-only spaces and resources, just weren’t a thing back then. How could those amending legislation possibly be expected to consider the impact of doing so?" thecritic.co.uk/what-is-wron...

An excellent substack by a talented artist and author. Well worth a read.

It is utterly mystifying that Scope (a disability charity which you would hope would know a thing or two about discrimination) has proactively decided to unlawfully discriminate against a group of supporters because one of them has publicly stated you can’t change sex. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

"The lazy lumping together of women’s liberation with anything to do with liberation from gendered expectations has led to a situation in which women are expected to be grateful to men who challenge the most superficial of gender norms while reinforcing the most damaging ones."

They told us there was only a 1% regret rate for gender affirming care. This seemed unbelievable. The clinics didn't want to give out the stats. Didn't do follow-ups. Finally, Germany did. 72,7%!!!! How many of these girls are irreversibly harmed? Biggest medical scandal of the century!

Just one week to go to apply for a fully funded PhD with me on autism and gender dysphoria #psychology #phdfunding

"Nor will he know how frightening it is to realise that her trade union will ignore all of this and side with him, leaving her to fight alone." The captured Trade Unions and "the left" in general don't realise the extent to which this cancerous ideology is killing them.

Curse of Private Equity US evidence shows: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed. Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.

Made stuffed tofu pockets topped with pickled radish to go with a bok choy and gluten puffs stir fry this evening. They were interesting and tasty and complemented the stir fry.

"There is a profound ethical difference between respecting someone’s identity and being compelled to participate in it. ... Our reality is negotiable. Our boundaries are negotiable. Our safety is negotiable. But someone else’s self‑concept is sacred."

The "progressives" in Your Party and elsewhere should take note of this scathing analysis: "You’ll grudgingly consider you could have made your point better, but at heart the assumption remains that the stupid normies misunderstood you, not that they understood you perfectly well."

These surgeons are ghouls. This is the "life saving!" path the paused puberty "trial" will put children on. None of it is ethical. None of these children can ever give informed consent to any of it. And it's completely unnecessary.

This is mad & ethically incomprehensible. On what metrics did they decide who should pay more or less for the same thing? 'Dynamic pricing' has always been a thing, even on food. We expect a local 24hr shop to cost more than a supermarket we travel to. But not on same item, same time, same place.

"When not in Government, Wes Streeting berated then PM Rishi Sunak for using strike action to blame doctors for the parlous state of the NHS. Now HE is responsible, he’s doing the same.... You have the power to end the threat of industrial action Mr Streeting. Sort it out." - The Daily Politik

Your Party is officially dead. It just voted to constantly prioritise trans identifying men. It seeks to obliterate women's rights. 'Left wing' politics in this country is an absolute mess.

For anyone who cares about ensuring their loved ones can die with comfort & dignity, it makes for singularly depressing reading – key findings summarised in pics below. But perhaps most depressing of all is the government’s response to the report, this glib one-liner from a spokesperson:

PFI didn’t just burden NHS trusts with huge debt, it trapped them in decades of overpriced maintenance contracts. One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous. And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget

7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’. Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint" Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.

Such delicate and feminine "women", who are obviously "the most marginalised in all the universe", carrying out typical male violence against anyone who supports women having spaces free from them.

Govt reduces London’s affordable housing quotas. Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target. Bigger profits for developers. Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis. Let councils build affordable homes.

I've been seeing "radical" used as an adjective in collocations I've not seen before. Can anyone explain to me what it means when paired with: radical solidarity; radical empathy; radical trust?

Disabled Post Office Horizon scandal victim offered 15% of compensation claim Due to the illegal conviction for fraud she lost her home, served time in prison. No end to the misery. Why penny pinching? No culprit charged, forced to pay any compensation to victims.

Does anyone know how to separate the husks from the sprouted urid dhal (or any sprouted beans)?

Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs" Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"

“They don’t understand the rights they are giving away, or how hard we had to fight for those rights." "They stand on the shoulders of giants. It is not just me, but the Maiden crew, the people who got us there, my mother’s generation, my grandmother’s generation" www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2025...

Would anyone have access to a book review Kathleen Stock did of one of Judith Butler's book in the TLS? I'm not a subscriber & can't access it. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

Young people who vape are three times as likely to start smoking, develop asthma, cough, poor oral health, respiratory disease, mental health problems. Pressure on the NHS, public services increases. Industry increases misery, doesn't bear social cost.

PE has devoured care homes, vets, GP surgeries, high streets. It buys/sells schools too, albeit private ones. Education commodified. Parents complain about paying VAT on fees; silent on PE profiteering. How long before PE is let into state schools? archive.ph/LDSfI

"... “abrupt changes” are occurring in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, driven by human-caused climate change: ❄️ Sea-ice coverage is declining 🧊 Ice sheet and ice shelf stability is weakening 🐧 Populations of some terrestrial and marine species are struggling" www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ne...

Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them. Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.

forwomen.scot/04/08/2025/o... “Women’s rights, like any rights, are about ideas, not individuals; principles, not personalities.”

With talk of reviving PFIs under a new name – (PPPs) – now’s a good time to remind everyone what PFIs really cost the public💰 PFIs aren’t just flawed, they’re an economic disaster. Find out more from our research here: 🔗https://everydoctor.org.uk/campaigns/pfi-project/

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Govt's 10 year NHS Plan deepens privatisation. Govt "will enter discussions enter with private providers". Pushes PFI. For every £1 investment public purse repays £6 or more. NHS already suffering previous PFI. Corporate profits guaranteed. We pay more for less. Say NO to privatisation.

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

Ex-sports journalist attacks elite female swimmer for standing up for equality in sport for women & girls. This is why @TheDemocrats handed the election to Trump. Idiotic sexist men on the liberal/left weaponised women's sport against the right & gifted Trump a wide open goal.

"It is hard to say how exactly well-intentioned people ended up here, but the phrase “bodily autonomy” getting madly out of control is one part of the story. At this point, it seems to be operating more like a hypnotic mantra than an important value to be weighed up against other ethical values."

Agree!:- “So many of Johnson's ex-cheerleaders now pose as experts on what's wrong with politics They invariably cast the problem as one of "politicians", to be fixed by experts like themselves But they're not commentators on the problem: they're its architects Any solution must start from there”

RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity? Finance sector benefiting from wars? A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.

'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'. Exactly so. @unsrvaw.bsky.social www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Hind Khoudary reports that in two of the 'aid distribution hubs' Israel has established in southern Gaza Israeli drones & tanks have opened fire on Palestinians collecting aid. Many people have been killed, shot in the head or upper body as they were trying to get food parcels