Lisa Mackenzie
@lisamackenzie.bsky.social
Policy analyst, crisp addict, unconvinced by this platform (hence absence)
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The ruling IS law. Good grief.
May 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The ruling IS law. Good grief.
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Excellent piece by @siennarodgers.bsky.social on Labour's not-quite-payroll vote (mission champions, trade envoys, etc. etc.)
How Keir Starmer Keeps His Massive Parliamentary Party In Line
How do you keep a large parliamentary party in line? Sienna Rodgers digs into Labour's job creation scheme for back benchers. Illustrations by Trac...
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April 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Excellent piece by @siennarodgers.bsky.social on Labour's not-quite-payroll vote (mission champions, trade envoys, etc. etc.)
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Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...
@fawcettsociety.bsky.social Hello. Have you anything to say about last week's ruling by the UK Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers?
April 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@fawcettsociety.bsky.social Hello. Have you anything to say about last week's ruling by the UK Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers?
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I don't wade into these issues much, but given the Sullivan review has been getting a lot of attention, I'll say this. I regard Alice Sullivan as an excellent social scientist, who has for years campaigned for one simple objective: clear recording of biological sex separately from gender ID.
March 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don't wade into these issues much, but given the Sullivan review has been getting a lot of attention, I'll say this. I regard Alice Sullivan as an excellent social scientist, who has for years campaigned for one simple objective: clear recording of biological sex separately from gender ID.
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🚨Announcement!🚨
The government-commissioned Sullivan Review of Data and Statistics on Sex and Gender has been published by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The government-commissioned Sullivan Review of Data and Statistics on Sex and Gender has been published by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender
An independent review by Professor Alice Sullivan that looks at data, statistics and research on sex and gender.
www.gov.uk
March 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨Announcement!🚨
The government-commissioned Sullivan Review of Data and Statistics on Sex and Gender has been published by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The government-commissioned Sullivan Review of Data and Statistics on Sex and Gender has been published by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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On Friday, along with Scottish Lesbians, Women's Rights Network Scotland and Women Won't Wheesht, we wrote to Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie regarding Scottish Labour's change of heart regarding their support of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. t.co/e05V7z5pBL
February 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On Friday, along with Scottish Lesbians, Women's Rights Network Scotland and Women Won't Wheesht, we wrote to Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie regarding Scottish Labour's change of heart regarding their support of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. t.co/e05V7z5pBL
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Our response to yesterday's comments by the Scottish Labour leadership on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill and the Sandie Peggie case.
February 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our response to yesterday's comments by the Scottish Labour leadership on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill and the Sandie Peggie case.
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We joined Sex Matters, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women to write to Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, calling on him to uphold the right of NHS Scotland staff to have access to single sex changing rooms at work. t.co/jksh0Cwosu
February 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We joined Sex Matters, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women to write to Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, calling on him to uphold the right of NHS Scotland staff to have access to single sex changing rooms at work. t.co/jksh0Cwosu
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Intergenerational wealth plays a big role in pensioner poverty, with housing, inheritance, & social security creating unequal outcomes for women. We're calling for urgent reforms to tackle these disparities and ensure the pensions system supports those most in need. www.ftadviser.com/pensions/202...
Intergenerational wealth ‘big factor’ in pensioner poverty
Intergenerational wealth is a big factor when it comes to identifying who may be at risk of living in pensioner poverty, according to Daniella Jenkins, policy adviser at the Women’s Budget Group.
www.ftadviser.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Intergenerational wealth plays a big role in pensioner poverty, with housing, inheritance, & social security creating unequal outcomes for women. We're calling for urgent reforms to tackle these disparities and ensure the pensions system supports those most in need. www.ftadviser.com/pensions/202...
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Tomorrow I'll present to Parliament The Jimmy Lai Bill: a bill to guarantee consular assistance to British journalists detained or held hostage overseas. In an increasingly dangerous world, where authoritarian strongmen fear scrutiny, we must protect those seeking the uncorrupted truth.
January 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Tomorrow I'll present to Parliament The Jimmy Lai Bill: a bill to guarantee consular assistance to British journalists detained or held hostage overseas. In an increasingly dangerous world, where authoritarian strongmen fear scrutiny, we must protect those seeking the uncorrupted truth.
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Terrific piece by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on what I think is a real (and alarming) trend: the decline of face-to-fact interaction.
Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health
Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?
www.ft.com
January 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Terrific piece by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social on what I think is a real (and alarming) trend: the decline of face-to-fact interaction.
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NEW: Our latest blog looks at recent developments on the Police Scotland review of sex and gender, which no longer appears to be “wide-ranging” or “fulsome”, as previously stated, but instead limited to data recording. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2025/01/16/p...
Police Scotland review of sex and gender: what’s the story? - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Introduction This blog traces how Police Scotland appears to be quietly retreating from a promise made to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), and indirectly, through the SPA, to the Scottish Parliame...
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January 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
NEW: Our latest blog looks at recent developments on the Police Scotland review of sex and gender, which no longer appears to be “wide-ranging” or “fulsome”, as previously stated, but instead limited to data recording. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2025/01/16/p...
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My new series The Body Politic launches on BBC Radio 4 this morning at 11am then on BBC Sounds. What happens when thorny issues of bioethics, bodily autonomy and life and death collide with the politics? First up: surrogacy. Produced by @lealapad. Let us know what you think!
January 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
My new series The Body Politic launches on BBC Radio 4 this morning at 11am then on BBC Sounds. What happens when thorny issues of bioethics, bodily autonomy and life and death collide with the politics? First up: surrogacy. Produced by @lealapad. Let us know what you think!
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The myth of the teenager, by @hannahsbee.bsky.social
Adolescents suffer from an image problem.
📖 Book of the Day: Teenagers: The Evidence Base by Matilda Gosling
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Adolescents suffer from an image problem.
📖 Book of the Day: Teenagers: The Evidence Base by Matilda Gosling
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The myth of the teenager
Adolescents suffer from an image problem. Matilda Gosling’s Teenagers: The Evidence Base looks at the facts to dispel unhelpful stereotypes.
www.newstatesman.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The myth of the teenager, by @hannahsbee.bsky.social
Adolescents suffer from an image problem.
📖 Book of the Day: Teenagers: The Evidence Base by Matilda Gosling
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Adolescents suffer from an image problem.
📖 Book of the Day: Teenagers: The Evidence Base by Matilda Gosling
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Presenting our 2024 BBC News/Channel 4 News musical Christmas collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins and I perform In The Bleak Midwinter. Wherever you are in the world, whatever you may be celebrating, our very best wishes. @c4ciaran.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @petroc.bsky.social
In The Bleak Midwinter - Ciaran and Steve (cello and piano)
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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December 25, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Presenting our 2024 BBC News/Channel 4 News musical Christmas collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins and I perform In The Bleak Midwinter. Wherever you are in the world, whatever you may be celebrating, our very best wishes. @c4ciaran.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @petroc.bsky.social
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Great piece from Rogé Karma on how Dems misread Latino opinion on immigration, and ended up shifting far to the left of where most voters were www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The theory shows up clear as day in the data 👇
The theory shows up clear as day in the data 👇
December 10, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Great piece from Rogé Karma on how Dems misread Latino opinion on immigration, and ended up shifting far to the left of where most voters were www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The theory shows up clear as day in the data 👇
The theory shows up clear as day in the data 👇
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We have written today to IPSO, following its ruling against
The Spectator. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/12/10/t...
The Spectator. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/12/10/t...
The importance of clear and accurate language: questions for IPSO - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
We have written today to the Chief Executive of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, following its ruling that the use of the phrase “a man who claims to be a woman” in this Spectator article...
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December 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM
We have written today to IPSO, following its ruling against
The Spectator. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/12/10/t...
The Spectator. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/12/10/t...
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From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow)
geni.us/HagsPB
geni.us/HagsPB
December 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow)
geni.us/HagsPB
geni.us/HagsPB
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Lucy is quoted in this article by Hannah Barnes on the arguments made by the Scottish Government in the For Women Scotland case, and the negative consequences for women. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
The Scottish government is ignoring women’s rights
A hearing at the Supreme Court exposed just how flawed its position on gender recognition is.
www.newstatesman.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Lucy is quoted in this article by Hannah Barnes on the arguments made by the Scottish Government in the For Women Scotland case, and the negative consequences for women. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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NEW: We consider the resistance of the Scottish Government and Equality and Human Rights Commission to publishing their written submissions to the UK Supreme Court in the case brought by For Women Scotland, and the steps taken to bring about publication. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/11/21/f...
For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers: making the arguments transparent - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Introduction Next week the case of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers will be heard in the UK Supreme Court. It will decide the definitions of ‘sex’, ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in the Equality Act 20...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM
NEW: We consider the resistance of the Scottish Government and Equality and Human Rights Commission to publishing their written submissions to the UK Supreme Court in the case brought by For Women Scotland, and the steps taken to bring about publication. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/11/21/f...
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The Scottish Government has now published its submission, which can be accessed here. www.gov.scot/publications...
For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent): supreme court hearing – statement of case
Statement of Case for the Scottish Ministers and Lord Advocate to the Supreme Court regarding the For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) hearing.
www.gov.scot
November 21, 2024 at 3:38 PM
The Scottish Government has now published its submission, which can be accessed here. www.gov.scot/publications...
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November 20, 2024 at 6:53 PM