Want a timeline cleanse? Peggy is helping me work from home today by sunbathing on a blanket 🌞🐶❤️

Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day iandunt.substack.com/p/orban-defe...

Useful assessment of the most recent research paper out of Finland (on gender affirming meds and trans youth).

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

“Girlguiding has taught her values of kindness and compassion, and now she’s being told those values have limits and that limit is your younger sister. It’s very difficult.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“I am the Lord your God. It is time that you start using my correct pronouns. Which are They/Them. Capitalized.” The people were distraught and cried out, “My Lord, My God! ... What?” And God frowned, for They knew this was going to be a whole thing.

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

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📣Trans+ guides in Sussex please know that @allsortsyouth.bsky.social is always here for you. We have youth groups, summer programmes and 1:1 coaching, as well as a parents support service. You can find us here: allsortsyouth.org.uk. Pls share for reach❤️ www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

The government's draft of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 sets out proposals that would have a profoundly negative impact on trans, non binary and gender diverse children in schools and colleges. Please respond, and speak up for trans+ children's right to learn (links in comments)🧵

As with almost everything Labour has done regarding immigration and asylum since coming to power, reducing asylum protection times poses massive risks not only to individuals directly affected, but also wider communities. The whole lot needs scrapping. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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This is *super* fun. I tapped out at the end of 1200, despite my very trad English degree (complete with Middle English and Anglo- Saxon). Have a go!

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting. A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

CW suicide @goodlawproject.bsky.social sharing data from FOIs on trans children and young people in the National Child Mortality Database. It shouldn't take FOI campaigns to highlight this - extremely distressing- data. It should always have been public, and *taken into account* by policymakers 1/2

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BIG part of the picture is the huge resistance in many schools to actually teaching in a way that works for autistic students www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Coates is always worth reading. apple.news/AEP72W5oLQW6...

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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

always a lot of panic about right wing young men, the second most progressive demographic in britain

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I hate how these articles get framed. People go to A& E b/c they cant get a GP appointment. I was *sent* twice by 111 because my GP wouldn't see me for months. Im probably recorded in these figures. Cough and breathlessness. It was cancer (and they missed it) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why is Wes Streeting picking over the number of autism and ADHD diagnoses when he should be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them? Well said ⁦‪@johnharris‬⁩1969.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws

As with government "reviews' into migrants rights, disability support, trans and non-binary individuals etc there is usually a preferred outcome which the government wants to achieve. That is helped by media outlets pushing somewhat misleading reports supporting the preferred outcome. 1/

NEW: Labour inherited public services in crisis. Performance had fallen, investment had been cut + spending plans were undeliverable. It's made some progress, providing stability and positive long-term plans. But it has been undermined by poor prep in opposition and lack of co-ordination in govt 🧵

Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.

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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

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MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable. It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Westminster chatterati’s perception of Birmingham is so utterly deranged by this point I’m actually sitting here laughing The way people are talking about it you’d think it was some dystopia from the Hunger Games or something Go outside, touch grass, come to Birmingham - you’ll be fine 😂

For generations people have come here and made *massive contributions to our shared life, some speaking English fluently, some with only a few phrases. I hate that our politics is this debased. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Analysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey. With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:

Which party underperformed the most in the 2025 local elections? Arguably Reform UK. A 🧵 on what the locals tell us about a key and neglected dimension in analysis of the current political situation.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

Must watch for anyone who cares to know about the state of trans+ healthcare in the UK👇