Andy
@sunburycross.bsky.social
Education esp UK post 16 FHE/Skills, cats, art, politics, trans rights, reproductive rights, anti-racist, disability rights, history, blues, jazz, rock. No time for Islamophobia. Not a fan of genocide. ADHD. He/Him. Personal account.
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
In my Inbox this morning. Are there UK based builders and infrastructure engineers we didn’t notice in the 2021 Census?
@samfr.bsky.social
HM Government
Chancellor takes on the blockers to get Britain building.
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English.
@samfr.bsky.social
HM Government
Chancellor takes on the blockers to get Britain building.
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English.
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In my Inbox this morning. Are there UK based builders and infrastructure engineers we didn’t notice in the 2021 Census?
@samfr.bsky.social
HM Government
Chancellor takes on the blockers to get Britain building.
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English.
@samfr.bsky.social
HM Government
Chancellor takes on the blockers to get Britain building.
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English.
I see Starmer’s reverted to the usual Labour manifesto
“…always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.”
“…always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.”
September 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I see Starmer’s reverted to the usual Labour manifesto
“…always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.”
“…always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.”
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Trans Orgs demand that MPs scrutinise new EHRC Code:
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...
@transactualuk.bsky.social
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...
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Joint statement: Calling for full scrutiny, meaningful debate and a free vote for MPs when the EHRC Code of Practice is laid in Parliament – TransActual
transactual.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trans Orgs demand that MPs scrutinise new EHRC Code:
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...
@transactualuk.bsky.social
transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09...
@transactualuk.bsky.social
This overtly anti-trans tendency and anti-immigration mis-steps (you can’t challenge Reform by being the same) means we have to prepare for a one term government.
September 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This overtly anti-trans tendency and anti-immigration mis-steps (you can’t challenge Reform by being the same) means we have to prepare for a one term government.
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Labour is inferring that sickness absence in our children isn’t genuine but they are anxious. We all know what’s making the kids repeatedly absent. We never had this situation with a 40% increase compared to 2019. Yes children got sick but never this often and no child was off school persistently 🧵
August 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Labour is inferring that sickness absence in our children isn’t genuine but they are anxious. We all know what’s making the kids repeatedly absent. We never had this situation with a 40% increase compared to 2019. Yes children got sick but never this often and no child was off school persistently 🧵
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Welcome to the new DfE. Same as the old DfE. I did vaguely contemplate applying for that behaviour adviser job but I didn't fit the criteria because I've never led a school. Looks like that wasn't actually essential. Hmm. 😒🙄
August 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Welcome to the new DfE. Same as the old DfE. I did vaguely contemplate applying for that behaviour adviser job but I didn't fit the criteria because I've never led a school. Looks like that wasn't actually essential. Hmm. 😒🙄
Disability cuts. I wanted to say this behaviour is unbelievable, but sadly it is believable.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
BREAKING: Labour just told a pack of lies to the UN over its DWP benefit cuts
The UNCRPD has intervened over Labour's cuts to DWP benefits - and now, the government's responses have been released
www.thecanary.co
August 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Disability cuts. I wanted to say this behaviour is unbelievable, but sadly it is believable.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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We are now outside of Wes Streeting's office where a protest is now taking place.
August 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We are now outside of Wes Streeting's office where a protest is now taking place.
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Great graphics - long A&E wait times are caused by a lack of bed not by the number attending. It's counter-intuitive but really important in understanding how to fix the problem!
It was good to see @samfr.bsky.social say today that "the main reason for lengthy A&E waiting times is the lack of hospital beds for people who need admitting, which gums up the whole system as they have to keep being treated by emergency staff."
samf.substack.com/p/optimism-o...
#rstats #ggplot2
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#rstats #ggplot2
July 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Great graphics - long A&E wait times are caused by a lack of bed not by the number attending. It's counter-intuitive but really important in understanding how to fix the problem!
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For those continuing to campaign on #COVID. I’m not a scientist but I am a teacher and I can see that we still haven’t convinced many on very fundamental issues. It would be better to go back and post everything from 2020 that was missed all over again. It’s all getting lost in translation. We can’t
July 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
For those continuing to campaign on #COVID. I’m not a scientist but I am a teacher and I can see that we still haven’t convinced many on very fundamental issues. It would be better to go back and post everything from 2020 that was missed all over again. It’s all getting lost in translation. We can’t
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One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event.
We told you this would happen.
We told you this would happen.
June 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event.
We told you this would happen.
We told you this would happen.
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Just concluded my keynote at Pride In London's Human Rights Forum.
I have announced today publicly that I now see it as my sad duty to make an evidence based report to Genocide Watch and The Lemkin Institute requesting investigation into the systematic oppression of the trans community of the UK.
I have announced today publicly that I now see it as my sad duty to make an evidence based report to Genocide Watch and The Lemkin Institute requesting investigation into the systematic oppression of the trans community of the UK.
June 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Just concluded my keynote at Pride In London's Human Rights Forum.
I have announced today publicly that I now see it as my sad duty to make an evidence based report to Genocide Watch and The Lemkin Institute requesting investigation into the systematic oppression of the trans community of the UK.
I have announced today publicly that I now see it as my sad duty to make an evidence based report to Genocide Watch and The Lemkin Institute requesting investigation into the systematic oppression of the trans community of the UK.
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A group of lesbians disrupt a GC hate talk
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
June 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A group of lesbians disrupt a GC hate talk
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
This bit is just perfection 😘👌
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Fellow LGBTQs - will you be celebrating pride this year? I somehow don’t feel like dancing to Gaga in sparkly hot pants is appropriate at this time? Chatted to Jude Guaitamacci of Trans Solidarity alliance about this in the lbc studios today, as trans ppl + allies stage the biggest lobby since s28.
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Fellow LGBTQs - will you be celebrating pride this year? I somehow don’t feel like dancing to Gaga in sparkly hot pants is appropriate at this time? Chatted to Jude Guaitamacci of Trans Solidarity alliance about this in the lbc studios today, as trans ppl + allies stage the biggest lobby since s28.
Reclining nude.
Ginger cat with white socks sleeping precariously in a position that could only have been set up by a malevolent portrait painter.
Ginger cat with white socks sleeping precariously in a position that could only have been set up by a malevolent portrait painter.
June 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reclining nude.
Ginger cat with white socks sleeping precariously in a position that could only have been set up by a malevolent portrait painter.
Ginger cat with white socks sleeping precariously in a position that could only have been set up by a malevolent portrait painter.
I see Dom’s doing a more apocalyptic version of your latest…. @samfr.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/dominicc...
open.substack.com/pub/dominicc...
People, ideas, machines XII: Theories of regime change and civil war
Preference falsification and Britain's slide to chaos...
open.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I see Dom’s doing a more apocalyptic version of your latest…. @samfr.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/dominicc...
open.substack.com/pub/dominicc...
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Yes.
Do you suggest people pre-empt this kind of rubbish by proactively raising it with their HR heads/bosses, explaining why they shouldn't touch the EHRC "guidance" with a barge pole?
May 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Yes.
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If anyone knows any students at the University of Sussex please tell them to get in contact with me ASAP
Thank you.
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Thank you.
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If anyone knows any students at the University of Sussex please tell them to get in contact with me ASAP
Thank you.
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Thank you.
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
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Starmer bullshitting about the SC judgment to cover up govt lack of action to correct things, and Phillipson directing business back to the EHRC who then direct you to get a lawyer is *classic* organisational transphobia. It's all designed to take the heat off their own incompetence and transphobia.
May 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Starmer bullshitting about the SC judgment to cover up govt lack of action to correct things, and Phillipson directing business back to the EHRC who then direct you to get a lawyer is *classic* organisational transphobia. It's all designed to take the heat off their own incompetence and transphobia.
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I genuinely find this very shocking. Paul Nurse isn't a fringe figure or a random academic. Astonishing that government wasn't *approaching* the Crick for support with testing, even more astonishing that they ignored his frequent attempts to get in touch to offer expertise essentially for free.
Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.
The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
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The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.
Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I genuinely find this very shocking. Paul Nurse isn't a fringe figure or a random academic. Astonishing that government wasn't *approaching* the Crick for support with testing, even more astonishing that they ignored his frequent attempts to get in touch to offer expertise essentially for free.
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1/🧵 Many new archive finds. The UK considered in 2002 to use a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to bring the law into compliance with Goodwin & “I”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
May 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
1/🧵 Many new archive finds. The UK considered in 2002 to use a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to bring the law into compliance with Goodwin & “I”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.
The government opted for primary legislation because of the “complex knock-on effect”.