"Reid, who said after the arrest that she had no involvement in her husband’s business activities, declared a donation in February worth £2,400 for media training from Earthcott Ltd, the lobbying company run by David Taylor."
You read the fine promises in the Government's VAWG strategy - and then you listen to this.
"I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do," as James Baldwin noted.
"The workers in Kenya describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex and other intimate moments.
'I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room. Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes,' one of them says."
In his interview with Sayeeda Warsi, Nick Robinson said: "he gives an example of where in another area, the debate about trans rights, you end up with police arresting a man at an airport for allegedly being anti-trans, something I think almost no one defends now." Robinson was referring back to comments made by Jonathan Hall KC ("do you remember the non-crime hate incidents, the arrest of Graham Linehan.") As the BBC's own reporting (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07p7v2nn8mo) makes clear Linehan was arrested "on suspicion of inciting violence" for a tweet which read "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls" and he went on to add "I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em.” Both Nick Robinson's description of the reason for Linehan's arrest ; and his description of Linehan's attitude towards trans people, are grossly inaccurate. Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inviting violence and he could hardly have been more explicit about how he feels about trans people.
I've made a further complaint to the BBC about the hideously bigoted - and inaccurate - Radio 4 Today programme.
And, it's not even really about young *progressives". There are generations (younger than the Times journalists to whom Labour looks for tone setting) for whom transness is just not a conflicted thing, whatever their politics. Labour is properly poisoning the political well with those generations.
Well, that's obviously a category I fall into too. But I am pointing to a generality about a generational divide on perceptions about trans people.
I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
what if you enjoy trolling the gavel-haters?
We're seeing a really horrible new trend of wealthy and powerful men using the law to gaslight women.
And we're going to the High Court to get an anonymity order against one of them discharged.
New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.
I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not sure I can take the conversation much further beyond promising I do always reflect on points, like yours, made in good faith.
They understand it as something cis women take, they might make the leap to something trans women take, I doubt they will make the leap to something (already too invisible) trans men take.
Many, indeed!
"In one case, the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said that there was no contract in place for a £1.9bn ($2.5bn) investment despite a press release declaring that one had been signed."
I'm told some Labour MPs are unhappy with this latest act of hostility towards trans people being blamed on Streeting. That feels silly or naïve. It's happening because Wesley kept in place in the NHS, indeed encouraged, the ideologues that Kemi Badenoch *told us* she introduced to key positions.
Yeah, and I very much don't want to push back on your central point for reasons I'm sure you can gather. Thanks Neilly.
Child poverty in one parent families is a national disgrace - and a big cause of that is absent parents, usually fathers, who don't pay maintenance and a Child 'Maintenance' Service that lets them.
Please do add your name.
(I really want to strike this balance thoughtfully - hence why I RT messages like this 👇
But it's a frequent tension: eg some trans led orgs tell me not to talk about suicide; others disagree. And I was told off for talking about 'cross-sex hormones' but I doubt many cis people understand 'hrt'.)
On 'helpful' see my second sentence. I see an important part of the work I do as trying to get cis people to understand what this means for trans people. There is some tension between that exercise and 'giving hope' and sometimes that tension is unresolvable.
Thanks for the challenge. My generality is obviously conditioned by whether you are wealthy, a man or a woman and even want to pass. And whether it's a good idea to advance it a function of whether I'm trying to speak to a cis or trans audience (and whether there are lots of trans youth on BlueSky).
So between denying trans kids access to affirmative healthcare and the guidance effectively banning social transition in schools, one could be forgiven for concluding that the government's strategy is to to maximise the suicides of trans kids, to minimise the numbers who survive to be trans adults.
If you’re reading this and you’re scared, that’s understandable. And I can’t tell you that you’ll be able to pass as cis. But just to give you a single data point, I didn’t come out at work until I was 34. You can be alright, and you do have a future. People know what trans people are. It’s fine.
SW1 is the only area of Britain where people of working age regard newspapers as anything other than risible comics.
I endorse this advice.
If you have been blessed with a trans child;
1. Keep them away from the NHS
2. Try and move abroad if you can
3. Be prepared to fight transphobic staff at school
4. Find other sources of hormones/medication. If you can, get a car loan to pay for them.
5. Protect them from all governmental agencies.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social
Brexit
a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)
www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
I’m Keir for you: The PM is visiting a community center in London to discuss the impact. Expect a pooled interview with broadcasters mid-morning. There’s one quote on rising bills in his words trailed overnight that warrants chasing up: “I will always be guided by what is best for the British public. And no matter the headwinds, supporting working people and their families with the cost of living is always top of my mind.”
I mean, this just isn't true, is it? If Starmer was focused on the cost of living crisis he wouldn't insist on no customs union and no single market? Nor would he embrace the negative economic consequences of his anti-migrant policy?
Like everything else about Starmer, this is empty rhetoric.
The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.
