My god did we need this good news! #Gorton&Denton #VoteGreen
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My god did we need this good news! #Gorton&Denton #VoteGreen
Yet another deadly Labour initiative: making the NHS accountable for patients' employment status and adding employment to Integrated Care Boards' performance targets. www.ft.com/content/6943...
It feels out of fashion but a reminder that if you want to be a woman you can just be one.
📢Wow community-led social justice oriented research on queer and trans healthcare klaxon
Fierce article from '24 where Andrea Long Chu calls for leaving behind appeals to gender identity & fighting for a revolutionary redistribution of sex itself: "the freedom to bring sex & gender into whatever relation one chooses" nymag.com/intelligence...
Palestine Action activists granted bail
Activists released on bail include four hunger strikers.
“Despite the state’s best efforts to break each and every one of them, they will walk out today with their heads held high,” - Filton24 Defence Committee
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
Exactly: what starts with removing trans people's healthcare does not end with removing trans people's healthcare 👇
Ah the UCL settlement. Lecturers still have it particularly bad: huge numbers of students, tons of admin, AI shit, having to substitute for non existent support all while the sector (frankly) collapses. I know lecturers who are v unwell & desperate. Workloads are completely unsustainable
I am so sorry. I don't know how this conversation started here but hope you are in a better place now
This is appalling. Currently facing end of contract myself after 14 years at KCL but I have never heard of an extension on a lower grade?! I thought this is not legal? did you involve the branch?
Yeah - also make sure you radiate optimism at all times while the world is burning
Once again Hilary Cass on the BBC weaponising notions of 'care' & 'best interests of the child' to insist (with no evidence) that only a tiny number of children presenting at gender clinics are 'really' trans & that 'locking them in' a trans trajectory is harmful. Trans eliminationism at its finest.
Utterly irredeemable and craven. Once again for those in the back: by recommending the undermining of trans research participants' self-determination, the Sullivan Review hollows out the principle of research participant self-determination for ALL, especially minoritised people
True words
An alarming and enlightening thread on the lack of democracy at UCU HQ: silencing & threatening those who dissent/call for accountability, as well as attempting to shut down solidarity from branches. We need to put an end to this
Omg Jay where?
Indeed Des
Forgive the inelegant interjection but: they are both addictive. Obviously. D'oh?
The recommendations of the Sullivan Review on paring back ethics committees' oversight & EDI guidelines/input on research have devastating implications for the place of research participant autonomy & self-determination. All those working on #ppi #coproduction #livedexperience should pay attention
Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC+0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care
7 – 8pm GMT, Tuesday 3rd of March 2026 (online)
Register:
lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Book Review Symposium publication can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
More info: vagabonds.xyz
#Anticapitalism
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
Horrific that these people spent 18 months in jail but such extraordinary news that they were found not guilty
Following an article by @novaramedia.com we have now shared part one of the timeline of Oxford Health's installation of Oxevision.
The report outlines how the Trust invested millions in a technology its patients described as 'creepy', 'unsafe' and 'spying'
“Creepy, unsafe and spying”
This report is written to accompany our complaint to Oxford Health. We are asking questions as to whether personal connections and vested interests may have influenced decisions pertaining to the technology
stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/c...
Recommendations of the Sullivan Review also have wider alarming implications for research: "paring down 'the scope &power of ethics committees’ in various ways, removing ethical oversight from some university-based research, & arguing that [EDI teams] should not issue guidance on data collection."
Adults in the room calling for civility I see. 🤮
Please read this excellent &timely critique of the Sullivan Review out today: it cogently argues that the SR's recommendation of a single binary sex-at-birth model for data collection undermines trans&gender diverse people's (& I'd say, by extension, all participants') self-determination in research
Vital case of University of Sussex vs Office for Students is in the High Court this week. The results will matter for all of us given the OfS's overreach and directions of travel.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
When the ‘news’ doesn’t report news but feeds prejudices people are being actively encouraged to have, then repression follows, with the suspension of civil liberties and rights of protest.
Which is in part how we have ended up with the highest number of arrests for alleged terror-related activity