Laura
@laurajerramp.bsky.social
Equality, Disability Rights, Early Years Education, Long Covid, Social Care, Art and Humour. Views my own.
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Laura
@laurajerramp.bsky.social
· Jan 12
New campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of Send children
Backed by actor Sally Phillips and MPs across parties, group raises concerns about overhaul of provision in England
www.theguardian.com
The UK Governments ill conceived plans to reduce or remove the legal rights of children with special educational needs is shameful, illogical & cruel.
💪 Please join the campaign:
www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
#SEND #Disability #stopfascism #equality
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💪 Please join the campaign:
www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
#SEND #Disability #stopfascism #equality
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Spot on. It is the bedrock of inequality
If you have a Royal Family, you have deference.
If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system.
If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power."
Why would anyone want that at all?
If you have a Royal Family, you have a class system.
If you have a RF, you essentially say, "These people are better than everyone else by dint of birth & should maintain enormous influence, wealth and power."
Why would anyone want that at all?
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Spot on. It is the bedrock of inequality
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"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
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FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
February 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator.
Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.
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Reform pledge to scrap the Equality act.
If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public.
For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation.
Doesn't sound good to me.
If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public.
For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation.
Doesn't sound good to me.
February 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Reform pledge to scrap the Equality act.
If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public.
For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation.
Doesn't sound good to me.
If they do so you can be discriminated against or abused at work, in education or in the public.
For Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage status, Pregnancy, Race, Religion. Sex or Sexual orientation.
Doesn't sound good to me.
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Nothing says "anti-establishment" like appointing the former Minister of Immigration and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and former Home Secretary and Attorney General for the previous government, which was in power for 14 years, to your front bench.
February 17, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Nothing says "anti-establishment" like appointing the former Minister of Immigration and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and former Home Secretary and Attorney General for the previous government, which was in power for 14 years, to your front bench.
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Welcome to Reform’s front bench
Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school
The authentic voice of the working class
Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school
The authentic voice of the working class
February 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Welcome to Reform’s front bench
Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school
The authentic voice of the working class
Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school
The authentic voice of the working class
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This is a good and welcome move. Until we tackle the vile, hostile and dehumanising political and media rhetoric which so often stoke these hate crimes though it is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Disability and LGBT hate crimes set to become aggravated offences
The proposed change has been set out in an amendment to the government's Crimes and Policing Bill.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This is a good and welcome move. Until we tackle the vile, hostile and dehumanising political and media rhetoric which so often stoke these hate crimes though it is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Pls can we keep signing and sharing on all the platforms we use?
Pls can we keep signing and sharing on all the platforms we use?
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 17, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Pls can we keep signing and sharing on all the platforms we use?
Pls can we keep signing and sharing on all the platforms we use?
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Farage‘s connection with Epstein appears to be more directly financial than Starmer’s, but it seems uninteresting to the political press.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Farage‘s connection with Epstein appears to be more directly financial than Starmer’s, but it seems uninteresting to the political press.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination.
Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.
Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.
February 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM
BREAKING 🚨 | Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination.
Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.
Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black, pregnant or gay.
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“We are committed to building the evidence base” says the SEND minister when asked what evidence base is being used for the current ramp-up in creating “inclusion bases”. What’s wrong with this picture?
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...
Special Educational Needs
Department for Education written question – answered at 13 February 2026
www.theyworkforyou.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:08 AM
“We are committed to building the evidence base” says the SEND minister when asked what evidence base is being used for the current ramp-up in creating “inclusion bases”. What’s wrong with this picture?
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...
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Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
giftarticle.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
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Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
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Meanwhile, the rest of us scrape together our fivers and tenners to try to stop this happening...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
Help Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc
Help us raise £10,000 towards Leicestershire Museums' acquisition of this unique object so that it can remain in the public domain.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Meanwhile, the rest of us scrape together our fivers and tenners to try to stop this happening...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...
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I was shocked reading this article. I too had no idea that driver less cars are in fact linked to teams of people -remote assistants - who intervene to ‘help’ the vehicle make decisions! And that these are based abroad for cheap labour. Plus the potential national security threat this poses.
Waymo reveals shocking way they "assist" autonomous cars: "Public knows almost nothing"
Lawmakers question behind-the-scenes human involvement as autonomous driving technology expands nationwide rapidly.
www.newsweek.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I was shocked reading this article. I too had no idea that driver less cars are in fact linked to teams of people -remote assistants - who intervene to ‘help’ the vehicle make decisions! And that these are based abroad for cheap labour. Plus the potential national security threat this poses.
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Nine out of 10 unvaccinated people will catch measles if exposed.
If you are not sure if you are vaccinated against measles, & your doctor has no record of childhood measles vaccination, you can get a free measles vaccination on the nhs as an adult.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
If you are not sure if you are vaccinated against measles, & your doctor has no record of childhood measles vaccination, you can get a free measles vaccination on the nhs as an adult.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘We almost lost you in the night’ - the life-threatening rise of measles in the UK
It is one of the most infectious diseases around, and can cause blindness and hearing loss – and can also be fatal. Why are cases now soaring and what can be done about it?
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Nine out of 10 unvaccinated people will catch measles if exposed.
If you are not sure if you are vaccinated against measles, & your doctor has no record of childhood measles vaccination, you can get a free measles vaccination on the nhs as an adult.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
If you are not sure if you are vaccinated against measles, & your doctor has no record of childhood measles vaccination, you can get a free measles vaccination on the nhs as an adult.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Another excellent article from John Harris as Government heads towards another policy car crash, this time on Special Educational Needs & Disability.
Please read up & get involved
Www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
Please read up & get involved
Www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
Latest from me: on the govt's imminent Special Needs revolution, and a familiar (old) Labour story: of lofty aims undermined by meagre budgets, constant anonymous briefings – and a drive to remove families’ basic rights www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I fear that Labour’s special needs revolution will instead be a catastrophic letdown | John Harris
A familiar Labour story is unfolding: of lofty aims undermined by budgets, constant anonymous briefing – and a drive to remove families’ basic rights, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Another excellent article from John Harris as Government heads towards another policy car crash, this time on Special Educational Needs & Disability.
Please read up & get involved
Www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
Please read up & get involved
Www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
Peter Thiel’s company Palantir is now at the centre of UK Government systems.
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel.
February 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Peter Thiel’s company Palantir is now at the centre of UK Government systems.
Watch this if you want to hear what some of the best doctors in the world are doing for their #ME/CFS #Longcovid patients!
Also a handy film to send to that person who thinks you are ‘just tired’. 😉
And no, I don’t understand it all either -but these two are a joy to watch & give me hope!
Also a handy film to send to that person who thinks you are ‘just tired’. 😉
And no, I don’t understand it all either -but these two are a joy to watch & give me hope!
Another episode of Unraveled: Understanding Complex Illness posted to YouTube. Please share, subscribe, comment, and most of all I hope it is helpful and educational.
youtu.be/NGbJWUp2ipU
youtu.be/NGbJWUp2ipU
Fatigue--The Dominant Problem in ME/CFS and Long Covid
YouTube video by Unraveled: Understanding Complex Illness
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Watch this if you want to hear what some of the best doctors in the world are doing for their #ME/CFS #Longcovid patients!
Also a handy film to send to that person who thinks you are ‘just tired’. 😉
And no, I don’t understand it all either -but these two are a joy to watch & give me hope!
Also a handy film to send to that person who thinks you are ‘just tired’. 😉
And no, I don’t understand it all either -but these two are a joy to watch & give me hope!
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Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
The High Court has ruled on our challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance.
The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad.
Read our analysis
goodlawproject.org/update/high-...
The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad.
Read our analysis
goodlawproject.org/update/high-...
High Court rules on lawfulness of the EHRC’s interim guidance
High Court decides services may lawfully allow trans women to use women’s facilities – but the fight for trans rights continues
goodlawproject.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to.
Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
UK’s 15-year-olds have the lowest average life satisfaction in Europe. (International Student Assessment, PISA 2022)
I’m sure that the UKs focus on exams, exams and more exams, plays a significant part in this is. I’m surprised more isn’t being done about it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I’m sure that the UKs focus on exams, exams and more exams, plays a significant part in this is. I’m surprised more isn’t being done about it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
More exam stress at 15 linked to higher risk of depression as young adult – study
UK charity warns against excessive academic pressure and suggests reducing the number of high-stakes tests
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
UK’s 15-year-olds have the lowest average life satisfaction in Europe. (International Student Assessment, PISA 2022)
I’m sure that the UKs focus on exams, exams and more exams, plays a significant part in this is. I’m surprised more isn’t being done about it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I’m sure that the UKs focus on exams, exams and more exams, plays a significant part in this is. I’m surprised more isn’t being done about it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Exclusive: Emails appear to show that Andrew tried to facilitate a meeting with Colonel Gaddafi for Jeffrey Epstein.
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Exclusive: Former Prince Andrew tried to facilitate Epstein-Gaddafi meeting
Emails appear to show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor tried to facilitate a meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for Jeffrey Epstein, at Epstein’s request.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Exclusive: Emails appear to show that Andrew tried to facilitate a meeting with Colonel Gaddafi for Jeffrey Epstein.
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In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.
It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Our latest.
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This ruling is disappointing but one thing is clear: the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed. Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans-inclusive basis for customers and service users. [1/3]
Today’s judgment makes one thing very clear: the reality of trans lives still goes ignored by the courts.
Read Jo Maugham’s response to the crisis of empathy that’s harming the UK’s trans community – and the law 👇
https://goodlaw.social/np26
Read Jo Maugham’s response to the crisis of empathy that’s harming the UK’s trans community – and the law 👇
https://goodlaw.social/np26
Trans lives are real and they matter. The courts must recognise that
The High Court’s decision is wrong and we will appeal it
goodlaw.social
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This ruling is disappointing but one thing is clear: the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed. Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans-inclusive basis for customers and service users. [1/3]