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"Israel attacks Iran"

What's the background?

What happens next?

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Israel attacks Iran
What happens next?
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June 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The Utah state government commissioned a report on pediatric gender-transition treatment. It comes in at over 1,000 words and concludes that the evidence favorably backs such treatment.

But despite the fact that it bills itself as a systematic literature review, it isn't one.
May 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It was the best of deals, it was the worst of deals
thecritic.co.uk/euro...
May 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This is Stonewall continuing to spread lies about the law.

“The ruling is not law as yet”: the Supreme Court has just told us what the law says. It is what the law always was, is, and will be unless MPs choose to legislate to allow male players to self-identify into women’s sport.
May 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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From a Scottish friend into folk music:
April 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New post just out from @ldfreedman.bsky.social

"The Art of Bad Strategy" - on the car crash of Trump's tariff shambles and the wider lessons to be learnt.

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The Art of Bad Strategy
Trump, tariffs and terrible deals
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April 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Wishing Pope Francis the best of luck in his performance review with his boss today. Hope he gets a raise.
April 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Few people as brave as Hadley. Under huge pressure and horrific threats and yet she stood by what she considered right. Her and others like @helenlewis.bsky.social are exceptionally brave and real heroes. If only some men had been so brave, cowards the lot of you
April 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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This editorial is legally spot on … better than many lawyer written pieces on linked-in
“the supreme court has emphasised the balancing nature of the Equality Act, which adjudicates between the rights of different groups.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone | Editorial
The supreme court judgment gives protections to women at the same level as other groups
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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"they also don't care about your way of life" is a total lie. they're obsessed with your way of life! they vote and speak in loathing of your way of life! small-town red America obsessively focuses on other ways of life
This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.
April 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"Criticise Progressive Man’s attachment to gender ideology, and — not unlike a paranoid ex ...— he’ll instantly accuse you of being on the same side as Andrew Tate and the Pope."
Spijker op de kop van de onvolprezen @glosswitch.bsky.social
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The toxic shame of Progressive Man | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine
“Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart,” wrote Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter in their 1954 classic When Prophecy Fails: Suppose further that he has a…
thecritic.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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since rationing ended, British food has been superior to American food because the ingredients are better.

Meat is unforced, organic veg is freely available, animal welfare standards are better and nobody needs to wash eggs or dunk chickens in chlorine.

And that's basically it. Discussion over.
April 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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This is how Kent County Council spends its money.
April 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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You know women's groups tried being measured. They tried engaging with opponents. They weren't the ones who insisted on No Debate. They weren't the ones who bullied or censored or threatened or tried to get women sacked for daring to take a different view. The toxicity came mostly from one side.
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updates - BBC News
Tremendous.
So it's now safe to say
Swinging dick ♂️
Flat dick ♀️

I'm so base at times.
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updates
Judges say the
www.bbc.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The For Women Scotland v Scottish Government judgment has been handed down. The appellants have been successful.https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0042_judgment_aea6c48cee.pdf
April 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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HUGE win for grassroots #Feminism
@forwomenscotland.bsky.social #SupremeCourt victory 💥

A clear ruling that Women are a distinct group under the Equality Act.

Now the #EHRC & national gov'ts must step up for women, update guidance & align policy & practice with the law

#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Tomorrow morning the Supreme Court will rule on what the protected characteristic of "sex" refers to in the Equality Act. Sounds technical, but it's immensely consequential. Here's a reminder of what's at stake.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The law on single-sex spaces is a mess. It needs fixing, not political point-scoring | Sonia Sodha
Labour’s reaction to Kemi Badenoch’s plan to define sex is not only a hapless fudge, it’s legally illiterate
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Opinion: Recent legal cases brought by gender-critical employees show that going beyond the law can easily turn into stepping outside the law, says Akua Reindorf

#AcademicSky #EduSky
Many UK universities’ trans inclusion policies contravene equality law
Recent cases brought by gender-critical employees show that going beyond the law can easily turn into stepping outside the law, says Akua Reindorf
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The Kathleen Stock case shows the OfS means business on free speech and while the law is complex, the University of Sussex just seems to have got it wrong and has paid a hefty price, says James Murray
#AcademicSky
The Kathleen Stock case shows the OfS means business on free speech
The law around free speech is complex, but Sussex just seems to have got it wrong and has paid a hefty price, says James Murray
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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ie: *Turner* is not calling Trump a feminist hero (hence why she describes all of the deeply terrible things he has done) – she's arguing that the women's sport issue has allowed Trump to claim such a mantle.
February 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM