Elizabeth Ashcroft
@emashcroft68.bsky.social
Prof of Economics (Emeritus) Uni of Strathclyde. FRSE. Interests: Scots Economy, Church of Scotland Elder & guitar playing. Trans woman, post operative and with a GRC. Author of Stars Fell on Stockton & a lot of economic stuff.
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The Sick Reason The Right Is Obsessed With Trans People
YouTube video by Channel 100 News with Evie
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September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
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Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
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Not just the right wing press: the Guardian demonstrating (once again) it struggles to tell the difference between right and wrong.
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Not just the right wing press: the Guardian demonstrating (once again) it struggles to tell the difference between right and wrong.
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The draft is cruel; there is no evidence it will better protect women, cis or trans; it breaches Labour's manifesto commitment to trans people; it is unenforceable; encourages vigilanteism; and it is clearly inconsistent with the UK's obligations under the ECHR. We will challenge it in court. 2/2
September 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The draft is cruel; there is no evidence it will better protect women, cis or trans; it breaches Labour's manifesto commitment to trans people; it is unenforceable; encourages vigilanteism; and it is clearly inconsistent with the UK's obligations under the ECHR. We will challenge it in court. 2/2
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We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2
September 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
We are aware of the EHRC's briefing to The Times about its draft statutory guidance. The draft is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's explicit assurance (from para 248) that its "interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." 1/2
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Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom.
In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom.
In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
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'Ultimately, diversity should be our greatest strength, and it is that argument that anti-immigration zealots fear most.'
The immigration debate is going badly off track, thanks to a combination of opportunism, racism and spinelessness in the UK's political and media class.
But it's not too late to turn things round.
Me in Time magazine
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But it's not too late to turn things round.
Me in Time magazine
time.com/7312223/uk-i...
Britain Is Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong
There are worrying signs about the country's direction, as Reform tops the polls, and mainstream politicians chase the far right, writes Jonathan Portes.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
'Ultimately, diversity should be our greatest strength, and it is that argument that anti-immigration zealots fear most.'
Everyone with a social conscience should read this article: -
Leading Scottish equality chief: ‘I wouldn't fight for trans rights if it hurt women’
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Leading Scottish equality chief: ‘I wouldn't fight for trans rights if it hurt women’
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It’s so f*****g tedious and soul-destroying as it’s so unjust'
Rebecca Don Kennedy runs the Equality Network. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about the attacks, abuse and hate she’s suffered…
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August 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Everyone with a social conscience should read this article: -
Leading Scottish equality chief: ‘I wouldn't fight for trans rights if it hurt women’
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Leading Scottish equality chief: ‘I wouldn't fight for trans rights if it hurt women’
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Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
July 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Thank you, Wes Streeting.
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The appalling shitshow that is the British media ignores the reality for trans people - that they are overwhelmingly the victims of violence, violence that almost invariably goes unpunished - in favour of peddling the false narratives of the Far Right.
June 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The appalling shitshow that is the British media ignores the reality for trans people - that they are overwhelmingly the victims of violence, violence that almost invariably goes unpunished - in favour of peddling the false narratives of the Far Right.
You know a bully when he only steps in once his opponent is down.
June 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
You know a bully when he only steps in once his opponent is down.
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Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group
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Judgement Day for the EHRC
How the equality watchdog turned into a culture war campaign group
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June 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group
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"Obviously, I am trans. I can’t escape that. I feel like I could have died, somebody could have shot me, I could have been revived on the operating table, and the headline would still be about being trans.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming-of-age tale
Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s ...
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May 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"Obviously, I am trans. I can’t escape that. I feel like I could have died, somebody could have shot me, I could have been revived on the operating table, and the headline would still be about being trans.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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The knives are properly out for Kishwer Faulkner and the little clique of culture warriors masquerading as regulators she has gathered around her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling
Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue
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May 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The knives are properly out for Kishwer Faulkner and the little clique of culture warriors masquerading as regulators she has gathered around her. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Deeply troubling that an EHRC Commissioner is praising advice that ignores Human Rights, GRA / GDPR privacy and practical issues before the EHRC-led consultation has been held. How are trans people to have any confidence in the process?
May 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Deeply troubling that an EHRC Commissioner is praising advice that ignores Human Rights, GRA / GDPR privacy and practical issues before the EHRC-led consultation has been held. How are trans people to have any confidence in the process?
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Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.
May 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.
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"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed."
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
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The UK Supreme Court's ruling and the rights of transgender people
On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that only those who are what it terms
as biologically female can be defined as women.1 This has wide implications for medicine
as well as for people who a...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"The Court's discussion is poorly informed and simplistic... reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed."
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Supreme Court taking a shoeing from an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge University.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The man on the left is Colin Kaepernick, the man on the right needs no introduction. They both have one thing in common, they sacrificed their careers to call out injustices suffered by marginalised people. In a world full of hatred, be more like Colin and Gary.
May 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The man on the left is Colin Kaepernick, the man on the right needs no introduction. They both have one thing in common, they sacrificed their careers to call out injustices suffered by marginalised people. In a world full of hatred, be more like Colin and Gary.
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I’m starting to see advice like that below being circulated / published.
It is fatally flawed - there is no Human Rights Act / ECHR analysis, which courts must follow (and the Supreme Court ignored).
www.theretailbulletin.com/retail-solut...
It is fatally flawed - there is no Human Rights Act / ECHR analysis, which courts must follow (and the Supreme Court ignored).
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Do retailers need to provide single-sex toilets and changing rooms? [IRWIN MITCHELL] | Retail Bulletin
Last month the Supreme Court decided that sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Accordingly, when it refers to men, it means a person born male and when it refers to a woman, it means...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’m starting to see advice like that below being circulated / published.
It is fatally flawed - there is no Human Rights Act / ECHR analysis, which courts must follow (and the Supreme Court ignored).
www.theretailbulletin.com/retail-solut...
It is fatally flawed - there is no Human Rights Act / ECHR analysis, which courts must follow (and the Supreme Court ignored).
www.theretailbulletin.com/retail-solut...
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When you are ensuring Gary Lineker is removed for calling for compassion while Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova are still employed while lying about trans people regularly, you are broken beyond repair.
May 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
When you are ensuring Gary Lineker is removed for calling for compassion while Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova are still employed while lying about trans people regularly, you are broken beyond repair.