Hannah Kennedy-Bardell
@hannahbardell.bsky.social
Small business owner, political commentator, speaker, former MP, bad weather surfer & occasional footballer. ⚽️ 🏄♀️ Lesbian, Scottish Independence supporter fighting for LGBTQ equality and against poverty & inequality. She/ Her 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Such desperately sad news, John and his wife Lynn, were an iconic pair that I looked up to when I started my career at GMTV. John was a phenomenal journalist and presenter. Much love to his friends and family.
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Broadcaster John Stapleton dies aged 79 after battle with Parkinson’s — The Standard
Stapleton presented on programmes including the BBC’s Watchdog and GMTV’s News Hour
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September 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Such desperately sad news, John and his wife Lynn, were an iconic pair that I looked up to when I started my career at GMTV. John was a phenomenal journalist and presenter. Much love to his friends and family.
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The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?
September 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?
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I’ve signed this letter calling for full parliamentary scrutiny of the EHRC’s guidance.
Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.
Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I’ve signed this letter calling for full parliamentary scrutiny of the EHRC’s guidance.
Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.
Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.
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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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While bills rise and Westminster sits back, I am focusing on your priorities.
We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket.
That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴
We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket.
That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴
September 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
While bills rise and Westminster sits back, I am focusing on your priorities.
We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket.
That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴
We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket.
That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴
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There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia
write to your MPs.
write to your MPs.
July 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI
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My statement on Canada-U.S. trade:
August 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
My statement on Canada-U.S. trade:
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We now know that, pending any appeal, the EHRC's support for its landlord's application to criminalise protest was not just an act of monumental hypocrisy by Kishwer Falkner - it was also legally flawed. 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 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We now know that, pending any appeal, the EHRC's support for its landlord's application to criminalise protest was not just an act of monumental hypocrisy by Kishwer Falkner - it was also legally flawed. www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect...
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We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
June 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
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We served our claim form on the EHRC yesterday and it has just changed its interim statement.
Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is.
*They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*
Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is.
*They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*
June 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We served our claim form on the EHRC yesterday and it has just changed its interim statement.
Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is.
*They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*
Snip one is what its statement was. Snip two is what its statement now is.
*They now accept there is no need for employers to provide single sex toilets.*
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Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
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In the world Labour is creating you can be as enthusiastic as you like about genocide but it will be a criminal offence to express support for Palestine Action's attempts to stop it.
Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
In the world Labour is creating you can be as enthusiastic as you like about genocide but it will be a criminal offence to express support for Palestine Action's attempts to stop it.
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There's a rare moment - with abortion rights increasingly under attack - to decriminalise abortion. Please use our easy tool to write to your MP asking them to support NC20, Stella Creasy's amendment. Please use and share in your networks. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law
The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
There's a rare moment - with abortion rights increasingly under attack - to decriminalise abortion. Please use our easy tool to write to your MP asking them to support NC20, Stella Creasy's amendment. Please use and share in your networks. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
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Here is the UK losing on Article 8 in Goodwin (from the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights). I can't show you where the Supreme Court didn't deal with it in For Some Women Scotland because it didn't deal with it.
Why did Labour reappoint as Chair someone so woefully equipped?
Why did Labour reappoint as Chair someone so woefully equipped?
June 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Here is the UK losing on Article 8 in Goodwin (from the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights). I can't show you where the Supreme Court didn't deal with it in For Some Women Scotland because it didn't deal with it.
Why did Labour reappoint as Chair someone so woefully equipped?
Why did Labour reappoint as Chair someone so woefully equipped?
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Wild stuff from Kishwer Falkner: the UK lost on Article 8 in Goodwin and the Supreme Court in For Some Women Scotland did not agree that Article 8 didn't apply - it didn't address Article 8 at all.
Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.
June 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wild stuff from Kishwer Falkner: the UK lost on Article 8 in Goodwin and the Supreme Court in For Some Women Scotland did not agree that Article 8 didn't apply - it didn't address Article 8 at all.
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In fact, funnily enough, this judgment just issued today
"The applicant also complains that he was forced to repeatedly and involuntarily disclose his gender identity every time he had to present his identity documents:
Violation of Article 8"
(T.H. v Czech Republic, no. 33037/22)
"The applicant also complains that he was forced to repeatedly and involuntarily disclose his gender identity every time he had to present his identity documents:
Violation of Article 8"
(T.H. v Czech Republic, no. 33037/22)
June 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In fact, funnily enough, this judgment just issued today
"The applicant also complains that he was forced to repeatedly and involuntarily disclose his gender identity every time he had to present his identity documents:
Violation of Article 8"
(T.H. v Czech Republic, no. 33037/22)
"The applicant also complains that he was forced to repeatedly and involuntarily disclose his gender identity every time he had to present his identity documents:
Violation of Article 8"
(T.H. v Czech Republic, no. 33037/22)
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Not clear whether she means:
1. We don’t agree with the large volume of ECtHR case law on this subject
or
2. There is no ECtHR case law to this effect
Either way, it makes her entirely unfit for her post.
1. We don’t agree with the large volume of ECtHR case law on this subject
or
2. There is no ECtHR case law to this effect
Either way, it makes her entirely unfit for her post.
For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life
This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis
Brazenly immoral, legally untrue
This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis
Brazenly immoral, legally untrue
Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.
June 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Not clear whether she means:
1. We don’t agree with the large volume of ECtHR case law on this subject
or
2. There is no ECtHR case law to this effect
Either way, it makes her entirely unfit for her post.
1. We don’t agree with the large volume of ECtHR case law on this subject
or
2. There is no ECtHR case law to this effect
Either way, it makes her entirely unfit for her post.
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If only there was a resource to help Faulkner understand. Perhaps a resource that only cites one example. I guess that's too much to ask...
June 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life
This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis
Brazenly immoral, legally untrue
This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis
Brazenly immoral, legally untrue
Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.
June 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life
This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis
Brazenly immoral, legally untrue
This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis
Brazenly immoral, legally untrue
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The amendments are both legally sound but do different things – (NC1) Tonia’s (which BPAS supports) is narrow and decriminalises only abortions by the woman; (NC20) Stella’s is broader and would also decriminalise abortions by partners and medics. /4
June 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The amendments are both legally sound but do different things – (NC1) Tonia’s (which BPAS supports) is narrow and decriminalises only abortions by the woman; (NC20) Stella’s is broader and would also decriminalise abortions by partners and medics. /4
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The amendment would be to the Crime and Policing Bill – and there are two amendments currently being tabled.
NC1 tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi (snip one) and NC20 tabled by Stella Creasy (snips two and three). /3
NC1 tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi (snip one) and NC20 tabled by Stella Creasy (snips two and three). /3
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The amendment would be to the Crime and Policing Bill – and there are two amendments currently being tabled.
NC1 tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi (snip one) and NC20 tabled by Stella Creasy (snips two and three). /3
NC1 tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi (snip one) and NC20 tabled by Stella Creasy (snips two and three). /3
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This is important because, as @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social has explained, there has been a surge in prosecutions. And we don’t entirely know what’s driving them. www.theguardian.com/society/comm... /2
Why abortion rights in the UK are getting more and more perilous
Campaigners say confused health professionals are driving the increasing prosecutions of women. Others blame the police. Ultimately, the CPS has questions to answer, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Will...
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June 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is important because, as @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social has explained, there has been a surge in prosecutions. And we don’t entirely know what’s driving them. www.theguardian.com/society/comm... /2