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For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.
Amazing interview attacking Polanski as a "fantasist" "selling unicorns".
But Polanski has not said "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need.” He has simply argued, as many tax economists do, for a wealth tax.
So who is the fantasist?
But Polanski has not said "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need.” He has simply argued, as many tax economists do, for a wealth tax.
So who is the fantasist?
December 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.
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The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
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transitioning is the best choice i’ve ever made in my life and the only regret i have with it is that i didn’t do it when i was younger
December 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
transitioning is the best choice i’ve ever made in my life and the only regret i have with it is that i didn’t do it when i was younger
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Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD
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1/🧵 Day 2 of 2. Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update”.
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
1/🧵 Day 2 of 2. Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update”.
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
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1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
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⚖️ HEARING UNDERWAY ⚖️
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
We’re taking on the EHRC interim guidance in court
After more than six months of disruption unleashed by the EHRC’s guidance, we’re arguing at the High Court that it is legally flawed.
goodlaw.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
⚖️ HEARING UNDERWAY ⚖️
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
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Missed this the first time round going through Cass. It's gibberish; "A known side-effect that *may* reduce psychological functioning..." If it was "known" then saying it "may" is a self-contradiction. It also includes a reference from only 4 months 12 days before Cass was published...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Missed this the first time round going through Cass. It's gibberish; "A known side-effect that *may* reduce psychological functioning..." If it was "known" then saying it "may" is a self-contradiction. It also includes a reference from only 4 months 12 days before Cass was published...
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Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho
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Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.
🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...
rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...
🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...
rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.
🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...
rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...
🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...
rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...
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Does anyone here have contact with Ciara, or her representatives or her family? Anything?
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Does anyone here have contact with Ciara, or her representatives or her family? Anything?
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1/🧵 Is there any information on whether Ciara Watkin plans to appeal the bristling miscarriage of justice that effectively criminalises the sex lives of all trans people in England?
Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.
Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.
October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
1/🧵 Is there any information on whether Ciara Watkin plans to appeal the bristling miscarriage of justice that effectively criminalises the sex lives of all trans people in England?
Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.
Recorder Peter Makepeace KC‘s misogynistic remarks shocks me.
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And assuming the BBC's quotes from the judge are accurate, he believes a trans woman who has sex with a straight man is by definition a rapist, as he does not believe it possible for straight men to be attracted to trans women without being deceived (which is rape now, but only for trans people).
If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.
People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.
If you're trans, that's a crime.
People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.
If you're trans, that's a crime.
She's been jailed - to be raped every night.
She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
October 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
And assuming the BBC's quotes from the judge are accurate, he believes a trans woman who has sex with a straight man is by definition a rapist, as he does not believe it possible for straight men to be attracted to trans women without being deceived (which is rape now, but only for trans people).
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Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting.
It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.
If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.
I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.
It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.
If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.
I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.
October 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Oh do fuck off Wes Streeting.
It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.
If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.
I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.
It's not designed to intimidate women, it's designed to protest transphobia.
If I protest against racist scum, that's not me 'intimidating men', it's disagreeing with racism.
I am sick to fucking death him pretending that transphobe and woman are synonyms.
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This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social
archive.ph
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is an amazing defence of trans people against one of the country’s worst transphobic bigots by @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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I've tracked death by suicide of Trans youth in the UK since 2017. Leia's is the 25 death of Trans youth age 18 & under.
- Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths.
Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare
- December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths.
Our Government is culpable.
- Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths.
Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare
- December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths.
Our Government is culpable.
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've tracked death by suicide of Trans youth in the UK since 2017. Leia's is the 25 death of Trans youth age 18 & under.
- Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths.
Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare
- December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths.
Our Government is culpable.
- Feb 2017 to November 2020 9 deaths.
Following Bell v Tavi (Dec 2020) & removal of access to healthcare
- December 2020 to June 2024 16 deaths.
Our Government is culpable.
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Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.
Share this and speak up for your freedoms.
Share this and speak up for your freedoms.
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.
Share this and speak up for your freedoms.
Share this and speak up for your freedoms.
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There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
UnCommon Sense
Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach t...
uncommon-scents.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.
For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
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If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
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UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding.
Note: Healthcare is still free.
If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.
👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...
Note: Healthcare is still free.
If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.
👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...
September 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding.
Note: Healthcare is still free.
If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.
👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...
Note: Healthcare is still free.
If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport.
👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...
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Graham Linehan wants his shoot-first, question-later mob to assault women like this if they dare use female toilets.
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Graham Linehan wants his shoot-first, question-later mob to assault women like this if they dare use female toilets.
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Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.
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So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.
August 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.
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this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
September 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen