David Faith
@davidfides.bsky.social
Geeky lawyer, lefty dad, smarty pants.
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Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty
The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrab...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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We won!
Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices.
Reasons to follow later.
Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices.
Reasons to follow later.
In mindblowing news, the EHRC's landlord, it seems at the EHRC's behest, is trying to injunct protestors from protesting outside the EHRC's offices.
We will be in Court today making an emergency attempt to resist the injunction. www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...
We will be in Court today making an emergency attempt to resist the injunction. www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...
Protect the Right to Protest - from the EHRC
Good Law Project fights for a better, fairer and greener future.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We won!
Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices.
Reasons to follow later.
Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices.
Reasons to follow later.
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🚨 BREAKING UPDATE:
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
Liberty launches legal action against EHRC over ‘unlawful’ Code of practice consultation - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
May 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨 BREAKING UPDATE:
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
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Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’
A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision
goodlaw.social
May 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
@goodlawproject.org new guidance is great but it should be positive action under s158, not positive discrimination
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@goodlawproject.org new guidance is great but it should be positive action under s158, not positive discrimination
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We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers
A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
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This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.
May 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.
Saw an article on here recently asking if we should worry about AI suffering. Think that skips a step. Can AI experience anything at all? Or, to put it another way (and with apologies to Nagel) "what is it like to be a ChatGPT?".
So, of course, I asked ChatGPT what it had to say about this.
So, of course, I asked ChatGPT what it had to say about this.
April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Saw an article on here recently asking if we should worry about AI suffering. Think that skips a step. Can AI experience anything at all? Or, to put it another way (and with apologies to Nagel) "what is it like to be a ChatGPT?".
So, of course, I asked ChatGPT what it had to say about this.
So, of course, I asked ChatGPT what it had to say about this.
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There is zero legal basis to make that pronouncement. None at all. There is no moral basis to say anything of the sort. This is utterly reprehensible.
April 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There is zero legal basis to make that pronouncement. None at all. There is no moral basis to say anything of the sort. This is utterly reprehensible.
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My god.
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My god.
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The court judgment only focused on the rights of trans people who hold GRCs.
This is a massive step beyond that - this is a Labour Government introducing a Bathroom Bill by the back door.
Which would make the current Labour government worse on LGBTQIA+ rights than any this millennium:
This is a massive step beyond that - this is a Labour Government introducing a Bathroom Bill by the back door.
Which would make the current Labour government worse on LGBTQIA+ rights than any this millennium:
Bridget Phillipson here, confirming that the government’s position is that trans women must always use men’s bathrooms when out in public.
April 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The court judgment only focused on the rights of trans people who hold GRCs.
This is a massive step beyond that - this is a Labour Government introducing a Bathroom Bill by the back door.
Which would make the current Labour government worse on LGBTQIA+ rights than any this millennium:
This is a massive step beyond that - this is a Labour Government introducing a Bathroom Bill by the back door.
Which would make the current Labour government worse on LGBTQIA+ rights than any this millennium:
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1
April 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1
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NEW: Supreme court ruling on ‘woman’ at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant who helped write the act - me with @libbybrooks.bsky.social 👇👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Ruling on ‘woman’ definition at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant
Giving trans women same sex discrimination rights as biological women was ‘clear premise’, says key figure
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April 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
NEW: Supreme court ruling on ‘woman’ at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant who helped write the act - me with @libbybrooks.bsky.social 👇👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Well @hankgreen.bsky.social has changed the game. #connections
April 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Well @hankgreen.bsky.social has changed the game. #connections
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AFAICS there is **nothing** in yesterday's UK SC ruling that licenses or justifies this change of policy by the British Transport Police. (Though clearly the ruling is creating a space for all kinds of horrible behaviour, bullying, and poltical opportunism.)
Trans women to be strip searched by male transport police after court ruling
British Transport Police, the force that polices Britain's railways, is adopting an interim policy while it digests the Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a "woman" under equality laws refe...
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April 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
AFAICS there is **nothing** in yesterday's UK SC ruling that licenses or justifies this change of policy by the British Transport Police. (Though clearly the ruling is creating a space for all kinds of horrible behaviour, bullying, and poltical opportunism.)
If a GRC no longer changes your legal sex for the EA2010 surely the UK no longer has a proper legal mechanism for changing gender. Back to the days before the GRA and, as per ECtHR in Goodwin, in violation of the Art. 8 right to respect for private life.
April 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If a GRC no longer changes your legal sex for the EA2010 surely the UK no longer has a proper legal mechanism for changing gender. Back to the days before the GRA and, as per ECtHR in Goodwin, in violation of the Art. 8 right to respect for private life.
This is wild. The GRA was brought in to address Art. 8 human rights issues identified by the ECtHR in Goodwin. Only had a quick read of the SCt judgement so far, but I can't see any consideration of whether this result could undermine that position. Am I missing something?
April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This is wild. The GRA was brought in to address Art. 8 human rights issues identified by the ECtHR in Goodwin. Only had a quick read of the SCt judgement so far, but I can't see any consideration of whether this result could undermine that position. Am I missing something?
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valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x
April 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x
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Absolute solidarity with trans and non-binary individuals today. This is another blow to being recognised and accepted. It does nothing to protect anyone, but it does make lives harder and rights at more risk, for trans and non-binary individuals, yet again.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
UK supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women
The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.
www.thepinknews.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Absolute solidarity with trans and non-binary individuals today. This is another blow to being recognised and accepted. It does nothing to protect anyone, but it does make lives harder and rights at more risk, for trans and non-binary individuals, yet again.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
Petition to rename the Amazon to Amazon Prime to avoid confusion.
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Petition to rename the Amazon to Amazon Prime to avoid confusion.
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listen, I can find myself as repelled by a culture of puritanical internet scolding as anyone, but if you think for one second that fascism is on the rise because "woke has gone too far" and not, for example, because of two decades of sustained depression of living standards, then you're a muppet
February 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
listen, I can find myself as repelled by a culture of puritanical internet scolding as anyone, but if you think for one second that fascism is on the rise because "woke has gone too far" and not, for example, because of two decades of sustained depression of living standards, then you're a muppet
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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple’s new sci-fi series “Murderbot” to make global debut May 16, 2025
Today, Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at “Murderbot,” created by Chris and Paul Weitz and starring Alexander Skarsgård
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February 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...