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Zoe
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Social, Political and Data science, academic living in Scotland -- cycling, hill-walking, running, snow-sporting, live music. Cats, also cats.

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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.

Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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zdgreene.bsky.social
Leo thinks it is not ok that major institutions refuse to divulge basic information over use of automated decision-making algorithms when deciding questions over human rights @equalityhumanright.bsky.social @sarahowen.org.uk If it is too expensive to report then maybe it was too expensive to use.
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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clairemullaly.bsky.social
That Tim Davie and Deborah Turness are resigning from the BBC and Donald Trump and Panorama are the talking points signals a far-right move on the BBC as an institution.

Tory stooges should have been removed from all public positions within weeks of Labour taking office, from the BBC to EHRC. [1/2]
BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage
Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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goodlawproject.org
The EHRC's position "leaves businesses and their staff caught in the crossfire of the increasingly bitter gender wars, while doing absolutely nothing to advance women’s rights or protect vulnerable women from abuse": Rachel Taylor MP. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable | Letter
Letters: The EHRC has ignored warnings about the contradiction between possibly being sued for challenging someone’s gender versus being sued for failing to, says Rachel Taylor MP
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Here's the question.

The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
zoedg.bsky.social
Chancer claims didnt rush through guidance, but my FOI request asking standard questions about LLMS in their analysis of comments was rejected on cost grounds. This which only cost a lot of money if they hadn't already done any of the processes checking for bias

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
EHRC guidance will help businesses comply with the law on sex and gender | Letter
Letter: Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, says its updated code of practice will balance the rights of service users and protect all from discrimination
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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thechiller.bsky.social
Note to Keir Starmer AND Jeremy Corbyn/Zahra Sultana.
juliusgoat.bsky.social A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Oct 27
"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members. And you can't persuade people who disagree with you that you can be trusted to fight for them when you won't even fight for those you say are with you." www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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soozuk.bsky.social
If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski
Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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jentaub.bsky.social
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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sutr-northtyneside.bsky.social
🚨COUNTER PROTEST: Defend Refugees! Stop the far-right!

📍 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
🕦 11:30am
🗓️ Saturday 6th September

Join the counter protest and help to stop the anti-migrant racism whipped up by the far right.

#StopTheFarRight
#NoPasaran
August 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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goodlawproject.org
"Let's be clear, this is the destruction by the State of a work by an important artist which is critical of Government policy. Britain ought to be standing against autocracy, not for it": me to the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/a...
British Courts Service Destroys Banksy Mural Depicting Attack by Judge
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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oliver48.bsky.social
In questioning of Met Police spokesperson on #Radio4Today
- massive complaint about the arrest of a homophobic celebrity at Heathrow
- no mention of almost 900 people arrested for 'terrorists' offences for holding a placard protesting against genocide
Yet again BBC glued to agenda set by Reform
September 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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nateo.bsky.social
Mandelson’s toast, hopefully
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Sep 10
Newly released emails from Mandelson to Epstein - “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.

"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."

www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
Epstein’s pal Mandelson COACHED paedo through arrest, leaked emails reveal
PETER Mandelson coached “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein through his “years of torture” over teen sex allegations, leaked emails suggest. While the predator was facing charges in June 2008 over solicitin…
www.thesun.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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joshuaholland.bsky.social
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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samwhyte.bsky.social
I'm not sure turning it into objectively better art was the aim, but nevertheless ...
adrianandshane.bsky.social Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
September 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
reform are high in the polls bcos your base, ppl like me who voted labour our entire lives, are constantly under attack from this labour government. just relentless bigotry from the cabinet. never stops.

your fearmongering about reform is not gonna win me, or anyone, back.

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britishelectionstudy.com The British Election Study @britishelectionstudy.com · Sep 3
Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters.

This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.
Four graphs showing vote intention among 2024 Labour voters by immigration preferences (top-left), defence spending (top-right), taxation preferences (bottom-left), and welfare spending support (bottom-right). In short, each graph shows that Labour has lost a greater number of voters who support a 'left-liberal' position, while also losing the very few 'right-conservative' voters that they had at a higher rate.
September 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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jennifilm.nz
This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:
Systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care  - Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)
[...]Read More...
hei.healthsci.mcmaster.ca
September 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
zoedg.bsky.social
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 4
Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom.

In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
Alt text: A screenshot of a tweet from Graham Linehan (@Glinner) posted on April 20, 2025. The tweet reads: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” The tweet shows engagement counts: 629 comments, 71K retweets, 20K likes, and 534 bookmarks. (Note: The content contains transphobic and violent language.) The tweet, posted October 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM, reads: “We believe … is studying computer science somewhere in London. If you know … and want to help to stop … harassing people, please get in touch.” The attached image is obscured by a large pink rectangle. The tweet shows 20.7K views. The tweet, posted October 22, 2024 at 12:53 PM, reads: “More … footage from the weekend.” It includes a video thumbnail partly obscured by a large red rectangle. The video length is 3:20, with 171.9K views.
September 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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mcduff.bsky.social
I think the notable thing about this stuff isn't that someone is saying it, but that all the mechanisms for asking "lads, have we gone too far here?" seem to have been snapped off and can't be repaired.
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Sep 4
Some people might say the same about Robert Jenrick.
We are talking about vulnerable people who have fled unimaginable horrors and are often facing massive trauma. They need support, safety and security, not dehumanising treatment for seeking asylum.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in 'rudimentary prisons' Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform's immigration plans as too weak Thu 4 Sep 2025 00.00 BST Robert Jenrick has called for asylum seekers to be detained in "camps" with facilities like "rudimentary prisons", in an apparent attempt to outflank Reform with his anti-immigration rhetoric. The shadow justice secretary told Tim Shipman at the Spectator of his hope for a "decade of net emigration" as Britain "now needs breathing space after this period of mad migration".
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Starmer is simply not the man to respond to this dangerous moment in history.

Labour must get rid of him.
August 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
Yknow when the prime minister has just been continually been posting anti immigrant propaganda for weeks and then a terrorism happens in the name of this xenophobia, can’t help but think of these people as Their Terrorists
edpoole1975.bsky.social Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · Aug 31
These demonstrations outside asylum hotels are terrorism.

They are designed to terrorise. They involve violence against civilians for political reasons.

That is terrorism. Not pating planes.

Will the government act, or are they too gutless?
minnierahman.bsky.social Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · Aug 31
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM