Ben Bradshaw
@benbradshaw.bsky.social
Ex Labour Minister & ex MP for Exeter, now growing olives in Sicily.
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Excellent thread on the two recent employment tribunal cases & their impact on transgender people from Labour MP @racheltaylormp.bsky.social
1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Excellent thread on the two recent employment tribunal cases & their impact on transgender people from Labour MP @racheltaylormp.bsky.social
I was wondering why there were so many puff pieces based on IEA “research” in the Times before I gave up my subscription.
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I was wondering why there were so many puff pieces based on IEA “research” in the Times before I gave up my subscription.
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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We’re now up to 22 ex-Tory MPs joining reform. It’s not subtle - every day clearer this is just a rebranding of the nutty fringe of the Conservative Party offering to rerun the Truss/Johnson omnishambles
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We’re now up to 22 ex-Tory MPs joining reform. It’s not subtle - every day clearer this is just a rebranding of the nutty fringe of the Conservative Party offering to rerun the Truss/Johnson omnishambles
Good statement drom @stonewalluk.bsky.social following the recent Peggie & Leonardo employment tribunal rulings & what they mean for trans people. www.stonewall.org.uk/news/stonewa...
Stonewall (@stonewalluk.bsky.social)
We imagine a world where all lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, questioning and ace (LGBTQ+) people are free to be themselves 🌈
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December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Good statement drom @stonewalluk.bsky.social following the recent Peggie & Leonardo employment tribunal rulings & what they mean for trans people. www.stonewall.org.uk/news/stonewa...
Useful & hopeful thread from @jessothomson.co.uk on the outcome of the Scottish nurse case & its implications for trans people in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie
Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
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Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Useful & hopeful thread from @jessothomson.co.uk on the outcome of the Scottish nurse case & its implications for trans people in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
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A door is opening on Brexit. Here's how Labour can change course.
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Britain is stuck with a failed Brexit that neither citizens nor leaders want. Here are three ways to fix that | Stella Creasy
While those who defend the status quo and those who say ‘simply rejoin’ the EU are both wrong, there is a new mood and a clear opportunity, says Stella Creasy MP, chair of the Labour Movement for Euro...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A door is opening on Brexit. Here's how Labour can change course.
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Join us to help make it happen!
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More good news on the economy you won’t read in most of the papers.
UK first-time buyers in best position to snap up property in a decade, data shows
Halifax says average price of house was a record £299,892 in November but that affordability is at its strongest since 2015
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
More good news on the economy you won’t read in most of the papers.
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Budget bears be gone, the Great British Peso is so back
www.ft.com/content/e1aa...
www.ft.com/content/e1aa...
Sterling jumps as business survey triggers unwinding of negative bets
Better than expected activity adds to dollar weakness to send currency to highest level since October
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Budget bears be gone, the Great British Peso is so back
www.ft.com/content/e1aa...
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Another sad & worrying development that takes us back decades on LGBT equality. The WI, like the Guides, appear to have been threatened by well-funded trans-hostile groups pursuing a legally questionable agenda that would preclude organisations from being trans inclusive even if they want to be.
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Another sad & worrying development that takes us back decades on LGBT equality. The WI, like the Guides, appear to have been threatened by well-funded trans-hostile groups pursuing a legally questionable agenda that would preclude organisations from being trans inclusive even if they want to be.
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EXCL: The UK is hoping to secure an agreement within weeks to rejoin the EU’s flagship student mobility programme, as part of a drive to pursue closer relations with Brussels after a setback on defence @ecourea.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
EXCL: The UK is hoping to secure an agreement within weeks to rejoin the EU’s flagship student mobility programme, as part of a drive to pursue closer relations with Brussels after a setback on defence @ecourea.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Indeed. This is not the BBC's job and to make it worse, in the same piece, Chris Mason again lurches into opinion and gives government carte blanche when he absolutely should not have!
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Indeed. This is not the BBC's job and to make it worse, in the same piece, Chris Mason again lurches into opinion and gives government carte blanche when he absolutely should not have!
Looks like having Russian assets in your Party, Farage squirming about his teenage “banter” & a catastrophic record in local Government - Kent, Durham etc - are finally hitting Reform.
Support for Reform NOSEDIVES across several major polls
Support for Reform NOSEDIVES across several major polls
Blimey, this should set some alarm bells ringing. After a rough few weeks, Reform now find their advantage in the polls slipping.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Looks like having Russian assets in your Party, Farage squirming about his teenage “banter” & a catastrophic record in local Government - Kent, Durham etc - are finally hitting Reform.
Good to see the excellent Darren Jones doing a media round again. Such an asset to the Government.
“We’re being honest about the challenges the country faces” Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the PM tells Sophy Ridge
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Good to see the excellent Darren Jones doing a media round again. Such an asset to the Government.
Even the rabidly pro Leave Telegraph now acknowledges #Brexit has been an absolute disaster for Britain.
The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Even the rabidly pro Leave Telegraph now acknowledges #Brexit has been an absolute disaster for Britain.
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It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.
It's hardly a massive difference.
It's hardly a massive difference.
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I know some of the stories around the OBR and SEND have caused a bit of a stir.
Let me clear things up 👇
Let me clear things up 👇
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I know some of the stories around the OBR and SEND have caused a bit of a stir.
Let me clear things up 👇
Let me clear things up 👇
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once more I am begging everyone to do policy based on evidence, not on vibes from the loudest-shouting pressure groups. What the NHS is leaning towards - targeted screening for those most at risk - is the right way to do this. Blanket screening with an unreliable test causes harm.
🔺UPDATED: Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
Start prostate cancer testing regardless of advice, Wes Streeting told
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November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
once more I am begging everyone to do policy based on evidence, not on vibes from the loudest-shouting pressure groups. What the NHS is leaning towards - targeted screening for those most at risk - is the right way to do this. Blanket screening with an unreliable test causes harm.
A masterclass by @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on how to do a political interview. She answers the questions, concisely, complete sentences, closing down one, to go on to the next, polite but passionate, uses force of argument & totally on top of her brief. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. Today 08.10.
Today - 28/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A masterclass by @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on how to do a political interview. She answers the questions, concisely, complete sentences, closing down one, to go on to the next, polite but passionate, uses force of argument & totally on top of her brief. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. Today 08.10.
A small number of Labour MPs appear completely uninterested in governing & the compromises that demands. It is frankly ridiculous to oppose a small sensible compromise that is backed by the TUC to get the historic Employment Rights Bill on the statute book.
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A small number of Labour MPs appear completely uninterested in governing & the compromises that demands. It is frankly ridiculous to oppose a small sensible compromise that is backed by the TUC to get the historic Employment Rights Bill on the statute book.
A #budget to cut the cost of living, inflation & borrowing, boost public services, redistribute from old to young & capital to labour, while sticking to fiscal rules and increasing headroom has pleased the markets & Labour MPs. Quite a feat from an embattled chancellor. Now over to the public.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A #budget to cut the cost of living, inflation & borrowing, boost public services, redistribute from old to young & capital to labour, while sticking to fiscal rules and increasing headroom has pleased the markets & Labour MPs. Quite a feat from an embattled chancellor. Now over to the public.
Important & overdue observation on how the unelected House of Lords are busy thwarting policies the Government was elected to implement. The perils of incomplete Lords reform.
The Lords they are a-leaping to frustrate ministers | The Observer
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November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Important & overdue observation on how the unelected House of Lords are busy thwarting policies the Government was elected to implement. The perils of incomplete Lords reform.