Govt has published their updated guidance following the Supreme Court judgment. As I have set out before, this new code will still lead to confusion for businesses & contains multiple legal contradictions which will see some of the worse elements of transphobia continue being aided and abetted 1/7

Thank you @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social

Many voices in the Trans community have more important things to say about this but what gets my goat is the "in error". Framing an intrusive, judgemental and transphobic intrusion as helpfully fixing a mistake is insidious.

Only now is the relentlessly racist policing of the COVID-19 lockdown period starting to see civil claims and compensation (but never any admission of liability). Nottinghamshire Police continues to argue race was not an influencing factor in this case www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Solidarity with University of Nottingham staff beginning their 61 days of strike action today. I share their deep concerns about the impacts of 600+ proposed job cuts and 40+ proposed course closures on staff, students, and our city. [1/2]

Action- the administration says they are making 100% salary reductions in response to our marking and assessment boycott and that all other work from participants during this time is "voluntary." Response- We strike for two months straight. westbridgfordwire.com/university-o...

I worked with @care4calais.org to table a motion calling on the government to immediately discontinue the UK-France one-in-one-out pilot. This pilot has resulted in serious human rights violations - affecting children and survivors of torture and trafficking - and has been condemned by UN experts.

Ed Davey and I have written to the Minister for Women & Equalities, asking her to withdraw the EHRC Code of Practice. The Government have repeatedly assured trans people that they have protection from discrimination, yet this guidance does the opposite, breaking decades of precedent.

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Peter is absolutely right. Juries provide public engagement in the justice system. 12 people from different backgrounds come together in a micro democracy to decide if someone is innocent or guilty. It's not the state marking it's own homework, it's the people having the final say. We need juries!

A leaked letter signed by 400 female writers has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories for commissioning a male writer for a drama about the Met police and the Sarah Everard murder. Read it in full here: www.thenerve.news/p/female-scr...

When Blair and his tech billionaires come with demands to pay workers less, the Labour government caves in 48 hours Workers rights are not rights at all unless applied to one and all. Pay all workers the same rate for the same job. Now.

Just a fifth of journalists now say they don't use AI, down from a third a year ago The most common uses are brainstorming angles and interview questions (48%) and research and fact-checking (43%) pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Banning social media for teenagers... I'm ambivalent about this and feel it should be guided by the science but the BBC's reporting is definitely sus. Such as the "expert" just now linking social media and "extreme porn". This speaks volumes about the real agenda here.

Just left the site and got a signal for the first time in four days. Did I miss anything?

The tent is up, first cup of tea consumed. Bearded Theory has officially started.

This is important because it lays out exactly why AI needs legal standards. However, before anyone jumps in with 'ai sucks' comments, remember the error rate in human journalists is 40%+ and GB News is legally defined as a trustworthy news source. We need better regulation of all forms of "news".

I think this isn't about information, that's always been under the control of media owners and publishers. What's critical with AI is that the means of production, and the control of information, are being centralised along with the means of distribution. This is too much power in one place.

🚨University of Nottingham UCU Industrial Action🚨 🪧 Join our picket line! 📍University Park, West Entrance - more to be announced 🗓️ Friday 22nd May from 8am

No COBRA meeting No breaking news alerts No discussions about stopping islamophobia by Starmer No meeting community leaders Nothing

I'm not interested in people making 'tough choices'. It's the people who make 'right choices' who interest me.

No Juries, no justice. Nottingham protest featured in photo of @thejuryalliance.bsky.social national day of action yesterday at around 40 Crown Courts... www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have been told that they are "at risk". The UCU branch is fighting back. 🌟 Rush solidarity to @uonucu.bsky.social! 🌟 Donate to their fighting fund at uonucu.org 🌟 Come to the activist meeting on Tuesday in this thread! 👇

NUJ members at BBC Newshour and The World Tonight are on strike today over management's proposed changes to rotas - which effectively add up to an additional 26 office days per year with no extra pay. Live coverage⬇️ www.nuj.org.uk/resource/liv...

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

It's always a pleasure to visit Himmah and hear about the work they are doing to tackle poverty and racism in Nottingham. I am pleased that they are one of the local hubs for Power to Prosper - a project that aims to address the root causes of poverty, inequality and problem debt in this country.

NUJ responds to Farage doxxing a photo journalist who was doing their job. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

true posters know that the best posts are the ones that blow up but you use 'your' when you meant 'you're' >posting is inherently embarrassing<

Joanne Rowling's fellow traveller Kellie-Jay Keen is speaking at Tommy Robinson's rally tomorrow. Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

EXPLAINER – the Crime and Policing Act 2026 The Crime and Policing Act 2026 finally became law on 29 April and, like previous criminal justice legislation, it is vast. It includes several new police powers and new offences related to protests in Part 10 of the Act. The main four are: powers for…

Reason number 27 why Nifel Garage is a living piece of shit. Sharing a journalist's details and implying they are a threat.

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Ministers should get their own back and camp outside Sky TV and shout "Are you still broadcasting shite, Sam?" as Sam Coates enters the building.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

BREAKING Reporting restrictions on the so-called “terrorism connection” in the Filton retrial have been lifted. For the first time in British history, a judge is seeking to sentence protestors as terrorists despite the jury convicting them only on criminal damage charges. 🧵

This is terrible for colleagues, for students and for Nottingham. Solidarity.

This is a brilliantly crafted knife-in-the-back. It focuses specifically on her ministerial responsibilities with no mention of the wider issues yet lays bare the fundamental problems with Starmer's ineffective leadership.

In the future, everyone will be a Reform UK Councillor for 15 minutes

2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have received 'at risk' letters from the management. The same management which refused to cut their own pay, and the same management which refused to resign after losing £60 million on a disastrous attempt to build a new campus. #JoinAUnion

With additional details about the (wholly unnecessary) course closures and redundancies coming out today, we share these wonderful photos of our rally taken by @tregenza.bsky.social to remind you all that there is clear and significantly more humanitarian alternative to the path we are currently on.

🧵 Analysis of the self-described rally against antisemitism, London* Lionising far right speakers, & failure to invite the only Jewish party leader, tells a story. The flags for the Iranian King in exile & laughter/booing of left wing figures, tells another. Fascism doesn’t protect minorities [1]

💥Hungary's newly elected PM Péter Magyar, in his first speech, apologizes to victims of the Orbán government's smear campaigns and harassment, including NGOs and journalists. For 16 years, dozens if not hundreds of us had to endure our newsrooms being taken over, surveillance and pressure campaigns.

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.

Before the next week of No! starts, images to give strength. Thank u @tregenza.bsky.social

A must-read but disturbing thread about today's event. The just cause of opposing antisemitism is being (ab)used and manipulated by the hard right - within & without the UK Jewish community - as a political tool to attack their political & ethical opponents in a highly discriminatory way.

A few minutes back two young Jewish women appear to be repeatedly booed and removed from the rally by police for carrying a sign that reads ‘Jews are not safe until all minorities are safe’

Brilliant news 👏👏👏 CWU joins a growing number of unions, together representing millions of workers, in calling for a fair voting system. The movement for PR is gaining momentum. Together, we can win a democracy where every vote counts 💪

As Labour returns to Parliament next week and sets out its new framework for excluding trans people from public space, a timely reminder from the electorate today that nobody wants their fucking shit.

NUJ members at Newshour and The World Tonight have voted for industrial action. John Sailing, NUJ broadcasting organiser, said: "We have already proposed a workable solution to management and would urge them to get back the negotiating table and end this dispute." www.nuj.org.uk/resource/jou...