Lucy
@notlucette.bsky.social
France via Scotland
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Likes maps, French/Scottish politics/elections/discussions about work/celebrity gossip/the Manics
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Likes maps, French/Scottish politics/elections/discussions about work/celebrity gossip/the Manics
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Diana would’ve loved all this
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Diana would’ve loved all this
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Abolish the Home Office
Just an endless parade of viciousness for the benefit of the worst people in the country
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Abolish the Home Office
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
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This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender.
This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.
This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.
October 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender.
This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.
This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.
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Did you notice how quickly the debate moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration” to “people with indefinite leave to remain should have their status retrospectively removed”
The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.
The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Did you notice how quickly the debate moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration” to “people with indefinite leave to remain should have their status retrospectively removed”
The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.
The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.
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Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully
Should really say "Farage plans to tear up the Brexit deal he supported" since it would requiring reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement (most "foreign nationals" claiming benefits are EU citizens with settled status)
://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals
://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals
Nigel Farage to ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK leader to make announcement at press conference on Monday
www.express.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully
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Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.
Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
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We're all sick more and it's because of COVID.
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We're all sick more and it's because of COVID.
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Great explainer on how a COVID infection hurts our immune system, so we're more sick, or sick more with other illnesses after a COVID infection.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
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Just gonna state for the record that this is appalling, and the tell it's rooted in bigotry rather than women's safety is that it risks preventing trans men - a group assigned female at birth - from accessing using toilets. It's an unworkable bloody mess, and those pushing it should be ashamed.
August 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just gonna state for the record that this is appalling, and the tell it's rooted in bigotry rather than women's safety is that it risks preventing trans men - a group assigned female at birth - from accessing using toilets. It's an unworkable bloody mess, and those pushing it should be ashamed.
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16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census)
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.
July 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census)
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.
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This is all happening within view & kilometres from places where people have unlimited food, water etc. etc.
A view of Gaza today 1km from where the blockade starts. In the few minutes I was allowed to stay I heard multiple explosions, heavy gunfire, & saw smoke rising from 4 or 5 places. Gazans have been locked in & trapped under this intense bombardment for close to 2 years now.
July 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is all happening within view & kilometres from places where people have unlimited food, water etc. etc.
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One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today
Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live
Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live
Deputy PM urges government to acknowledge people ‘real concerns’ and flagged deprivation where worst riots erupted last summer
An attempt by three former MPs to force the UK government to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote and other recent elections has failed at the European court of human rights.
The Strasbourg court ruled on Tuesday that countries had a “wide margin” in determining how to tackle attempts at electoral interference, and ruled against a case brought by Ben Bradshaw, Caroline Lucas and Alyn Smith. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today
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This
The IDF is an organisation right? So shouting 'death to the IDF' wishes for the end of that institution. Like if I shouted 'death to Farmfoods' you wouldn't think I meant execute Agnes from checkouts.
June 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This
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obviously this is mental in and of itself but man alive it really does suck extra hard when you think about all the ACTUAL CRIMES the police just isn't investigating, because of "lack of resources"
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
obviously this is mental in and of itself but man alive it really does suck extra hard when you think about all the ACTUAL CRIMES the police just isn't investigating, because of "lack of resources"
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None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest?
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
EHRC Drops Workplace Toilet Advice Amid Legal Threat - Law360
Britain's equal rights watchdog has dropped its advice to employers that they must provide single-sex toilets in the wake of a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision in the face of a court challenge.
www.law360.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest?
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
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Can't disagree with a word of this
May 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Can't disagree with a word of this
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Camarades cis-hétéros, si vous voulez être "allié-es", c'est par ce genre de choses que ça passe.
Une initiative citoyenne, c'est le minimum. Signez, et faites tourner le plus possible, la deadline est samedi !
Une initiative citoyenne, c'est le minimum. Signez, et faites tourner le plus possible, la deadline est samedi !
Hé ben écoutez, la Slovénie vient de passer le seuil de signatures : les 7 pays nécessaires sont atteints, il ne manque que le million de voix dans l’UE !
Alors vraiment prenez quelques minutes pour signer et faire bouger l’Europe pour le droit des personnes LGBTQ+ à EXISTER.
Alors vraiment prenez quelques minutes pour signer et faire bouger l’Europe pour le droit des personnes LGBTQ+ à EXISTER.
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Camarades cis-hétéros, si vous voulez être "allié-es", c'est par ce genre de choses que ça passe.
Une initiative citoyenne, c'est le minimum. Signez, et faites tourner le plus possible, la deadline est samedi !
Une initiative citoyenne, c'est le minimum. Signez, et faites tourner le plus possible, la deadline est samedi !
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In a week we’ve gone from “this is what sex means for the terms of single sex provision” to “no trans women in your lesbian book club.” Cruel and also a completely wrong interpretation of the ruling.
April 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In a week we’ve gone from “this is what sex means for the terms of single sex provision” to “no trans women in your lesbian book club.” Cruel and also a completely wrong interpretation of the ruling.