Rebecca Boden
rebeccaboden.bsky.social
Rebecca Boden
@rebeccaboden.bsky.social
Academic who likes asking difficult questions. An accountant who is an unashamed social justice champion. She/her.
🧵1/4 Delighted that @DanNeidle has looked into how many local political parties aren’t paying their due taxes on rental income. Dan is generous about the reasons -citing that they are volunteers. But my experience makes me more sceptical. taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/05/11/p...
Political parties’ failing to pay tax on their rental income
Investigation reveals widespread failure by political parties across the UK to pay corporation tax on rental income, even when funded by taxpayers.
taxpolicy.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Boden
Calling all journalists.

The questions you SHOULD be asking those politicians and functionaries enthusiastically promoting the exclusion of trans people from a decent life in society are:
April 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
@robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Great interview on Woman’s Hour today.
May 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Labour, dragging its sorry ass to the Reform camp. No moral compass, no backbone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
So, it appears that the Supreme Court has defined lesbian for me. Am I to be grateful? Is this what all those rabid anti-trans lesbians are celebrating? Being defined by the state?
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The awful moral deficit of this government- we won’t scrap the two-child cap because it’s ’popular with key voters’. FFS. How low can they sink? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
April 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Boden
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
Reposted by Rebecca Boden
The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
goodlawproject.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Where is Labour’s leadership on child poverty? Shameful silence from them. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students
A survey of more than 14,000 staff also found schools having to step in to provide basic household items
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
When you’re voting in the May elections, here’s the Deputy Leader of Calderdale Council, Scott Patient (Labour), calling voters coming to a council meeting to silently protest exorbitant parking charge hikes that are wrecking their areas, ‘pernicious’. Down peasants.
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Boden
Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape plus two counts of sexual assault.
news.met.police.uk/news/russell...
Russell Brand charged by the Metropolitan Police Service
The CPS has authorised the charges following an investigation by detectives
news.met.police.uk
April 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Boden
The government would be prepared to scrap the digital services tax on US tech firms such as Amazon, Alphabet & Meta in exchange for a deal sparing British businesses from tariffs. Meaning the 3 richest men in the world will share £800 million & we all pay for it!
That isn’t a deal it’s appeasement
April 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This government is becoming truly Trumpian.
March 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Boden
'Come and enjoy the places where we raped and sold enslaved people, placed unmarried mothers into servitude and orphaned children into workhouse.'
March 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
UK ministers and officials treated to hospitality 3,500 times in five years. The answer is simple -prohibit it all completely.
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’
March 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM