Rosi Sexton

For sometime now the arguments against renewable energy have been almost entirely motivated by narrow, greed driven interests. If you can reduce dependency on fossil fuels for more stable, less scarce, cleaner alternatives, it’s really very hard to see the downsides IMO

Home Office Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan Pippa Crerar Political editor Tue 10 Mar 2026 The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it.
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FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

Right, now I need to go for a run to calm down. 😤

When a kid is struggling with the overstimulation of a classroom environment and needs somewhere quiet to go - they're a bit more likely to be taken seriously if they have the words to describe what's going on; rather than (as in my case) having to keep telling people it's a "headache".

Understanding *why* certain things are hard is important for us. When an autistic person can say to a doctor (or have noted on their records) "I'm struggling to answer questions about my symptoms because..." it means they're a bit less likely to be dismissed without the problem being investigated.

Saying to an autistic person "but you're intelligent, you're not really disabled" makes as much sense as saying the same thing to a dyslexic person, or a wheelchair user for that matter.

Communication is about much more than being able to use words; and failures in communication aren't always obvious as such from the outside. They can be incredibly disabling though when it affects someone's ability to access education, healthcare, social support or employment.

Why is it that we can understand & recognise the importance and impact of being able to diagnose people who have a disability affecting their reading and writing (dyslexia); but so many still push back against having a diagnosis for a disability affecting social communication and sensory processing?

Or the autistic EDS patients who have been so traumatised by their experiences with healthcare that they can't go to A&E when they have a major joint dislocation and will try to relocate it and manage it themselves instead.

Like the (highly educated and intelligent) woman with barn-door rheumatoid arthritis who was told by a rheumatologist that it was "all in her head" and that she was "obviously depressed" when she became tearful and frustrated trying to answer questions.

I've seen so many cases where people have had important things missed, or been given inappropriate treatment because they didn't present neurotypically.

When autistic people see a doctor for a physical health problem, we're routinely dismissed, misdiagnosed, told that we're imagining it, that it's "all in our head".

All too often the characteristics of autism are attributed to moral failings - of "oversensitivity", lack of resilience, lack of effort.

Yes, exactly. At a time when autistic people are dying by suicide at a rate much higher than the general population, receiving substandard healthcare and routinely being excluded from education (more so since academisation) and discriminated against in employment this is harmful and dangerous.

There's a whole bunch of physical problems for which diagnosis is also really difficult, nuanced and often comes down to a matter of opinion. I see lots of this.

Also, this: bsky.app/profile/drst...

I can see that argument. I suspect different people will react differently depending on their own background and experiences. I don't think there's a single correct way to do it - and I'm sure that good healthcare professionals communicate that message in a variety of ways.

Absolutely, 100% this. Creating an environment in which patients can feel safe and heard is so important, and yet so rarely prioritised in healthcare.

I'll leave this here, as it reflects my views - but I'm not up to a dispassionate discussion about it right now.

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I'm afraid I'm not (at the moment) able to answer that properly without getting incandescently angry about it.

Las instrucciones del Eurosky👇

I wonder if there's a discrimination case here? @goodlawproject.org

"I dread even saying this... but I think that we've ended up in the wrong place on trans, and we've done that by treading very self-consciously and not actually following our hearts, which is that trans people are on the margins, they are vulnerable. "If the Labour Party doesn't look after trans people, what are we about? "They're most likely to get beaten up. They're the ones who are most likely to have prejudice against them. We should not be indulging in anything that marginalises them even more."

Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton.

This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing).

As we saw in G&D, they were more than happy to lie to the electorate knowing that they could be helping Reform to win instead of the Greens.

Perhaps they're deluded enough to think they can win, but even if not, they'd still prefer to be the second party with a Reform government than the inevitable collapse that would follow a move to PR (because they would no longer be able to hold their fragile coalition together).

I'm sure this will go well for him at the next election.

I'm sure that will go well for Wes in his constituency at the next election... 🧐