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βSome will take their own livesβ: Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
1 Taylor Swift 2 Charlie xcx 3 Addison Rae 4 Ethel Cain 5 Lorde
These artists topped my listening this year. #SpotifyWrapped
1 evermore 2 folklore 3 Golden Age 4 Red (Taylorβs Version) 5 1989
The albums that topped my year. #SpotifyWrapped.
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
π#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
#Gazaβs war: 2 years too long.
π΄ Famine confirmed in Gaza governorate
π΄ 455 malnutrition-related deaths
π΄ Almost all cropland damaged, inaccessible, or both
The State of Israel has banned UNRWA from bringing in aid for over 7 months.
UNRWA response: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa...
#UNRWAworks
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyoneβs safety β MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell
π΄We have failed Afghans when we owe them so much. We should be outraged. We should be absolutely incensed.
My thoughts on yet another government betrayal, a source of national shame. π
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
Since the Israeli-American GHF aid distribution scheme started operating a month ago:
π¨at least 500 people have been reported killed
π¨nearly 4,000 people injured
The UN-led coordination and distribution of aid, inclusive of UNRWA, must be reinstated.
Simply put, based on Starmer's own policies and rhetoric, he is either massively anti-migrant, anti-disabled and anti-trans/non-binary, or so weak willed to have his whole policy agenda driven by those who are. Either way, he has no defence and shows himself unfit to claim any moral integrity.
Keep the pressure on. Sign and share βπ»π³οΈββ§οΈ
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
While the circumstances we're in should never be normalised and I wish they weren't so bad, I'm proud to have this published:
Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#transrightsarehumanrights #LGBwiththeT
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
Reminder that this is Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The right to privacy.
Chart shows the effects of Sure Start on academic achievements by age, SEN support by age, probability of hospitalisation by age and criminal behaviour up to age 16.
NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND.
Every Β£1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around Β£2 in total benefits over the long run.
THREAD on our new βͺ@nuffieldfoundation.orgβ¬-funded report:
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#Gaza: The U.S.-Israel plan to control the distribution of supplies under the guise of humanitarian assistance raises grave ethical, security and legal concerns.
Doctors Without Borders call on Israeli authorities to uphold International Humanitarian Law.
Share if you do too.
At the same time as establishing a 'VIP-Lane' to fast-track contracts to Ministers' friends, the two Nobel Prize winners at the Crick Institute were being ignored.
Yet another example of profit prioritised over public safety, and our loved ones paid the price.
#Covid
Abortion should be taken out of the criminal code.
Vulnerable women should be met with compassion, not criminal charges based on a Victorian-era law that predates women even having the vote.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At this level of politics there is no way someone didn't know Starmer's "island of strangers" line would be heard loud and clear as a dog whistle by far-right groups in the vein of Powell's "found themselves made strangers in their own country". Just stop with the defences of it. It was deliberate.
christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read
I moved to the UK in 2011, at the height of the βhostile environmentβ π€·π»ββοΈ having lived under Tory governments for most of it, listening to a Labour PM now saying immigrants have done βincalculableβ damage to the UK, economically and politically; is just beyond pale πΆπ
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Couldn't have put it better myself !
Climate change is real , and fossil fuels are killing our planet .
Just 5 days left to force a Parliamentary debate on banning fossil fuel ads β sign my petition today govpetition.uk/700024
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Our report #SafetyAndSurvival uncovers shocking findings about the impact of the work ban on women seeking asylum.
Instead of finding safety, women are retraumatised and harmed.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s... [Content warning: rape, sexual assault, suicidality]
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Petition: Legally recognise Non-Binary as a gender petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Non-Binary individuals are just as valid as anyone else, but sadly are too often overlooked we need to push this hard. Sign. Share. Be Heard!!!
Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...