Ferg
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Damsel in disgrace
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So the BBC did a news story on the horrible conditions in the hotels were people seeking asylum are forced to live and instead of the media talking about humanity and compassion about improving conditions and letting them work, this was the outcome:
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
So the BBC did a news story on the horrible conditions in the hotels were people seeking asylum are forced to live and instead of the media talking about humanity and compassion about improving conditions and letting them work, this was the outcome:
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David Lammy was right in 2020 when he called the jury system fundamental to our constitution.
Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.
Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
David Lammy was right in 2020 when he called the jury system fundamental to our constitution.
Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.
Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is off the top of my head.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.
Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?
“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”
It is absolutely mind-boggling.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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The Dutch word for a seesaw is "wipwap"
As ever, do with this information what you will
As ever, do with this information what you will
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Dutch word for a seesaw is "wipwap"
As ever, do with this information what you will
As ever, do with this information what you will
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November 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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It's so interesting that the AI boosters have popped up asking if Bluesky is ready to accept the good word of prophet Sam Altman yet, at the EXACT time that the timeline is lit up with the "OpenAI says they can't be blamed for driving a teen to suicide because the TOS says you can't kill yourself"
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's so interesting that the AI boosters have popped up asking if Bluesky is ready to accept the good word of prophet Sam Altman yet, at the EXACT time that the timeline is lit up with the "OpenAI says they can't be blamed for driving a teen to suicide because the TOS says you can't kill yourself"
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This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
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This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
t.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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For obvious reasons to do with the UK media, Badenoch’s fanatical hatred of trans people is underreported but she is as extreme as it gets
Kemi Badenoch demands end of puberty blocker trial and claims ‘no child is born in the wrong body’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/kemi-badenoch-wes-streeting-puberty-blocker-trial/?utm_content=1764156000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/kemi-badenoch-wes-streeting-puberty-blocker-trial/?utm_content=1764156000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
For obvious reasons to do with the UK media, Badenoch’s fanatical hatred of trans people is underreported but she is as extreme as it gets
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Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
www.myeu.uk
www.myeu.uk
myeu.uk – see what the EU has done for you
The EU invests around £5 billion a year in the UK. Search by your address or postcode to see some of the investments near you.
www.myeu.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
www.myeu.uk
www.myeu.uk
A-Team 2
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A-Team 2
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What a week: now writing both in defence of juries and against the military following unlawful orders.
Depressing that both points are contested, but you have to take law and policy topics as you find them.
Depressing that both points are contested, but you have to take law and policy topics as you find them.
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What a week: now writing both in defence of juries and against the military following unlawful orders.
Depressing that both points are contested, but you have to take law and policy topics as you find them.
Depressing that both points are contested, but you have to take law and policy topics as you find them.
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I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
This is fucking reprehensible. The problem is underfunding. Why is this government such a fucking shitshow?
| Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article...
| Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is fucking reprehensible. The problem is underfunding. Why is this government such a fucking shitshow?
| Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article...
| Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Perversely, I *need* to try pizza with duck on it now
Chicken on pizza: too dry, weird
Beef on pizza: too rich, weird
Duck on pizza: perverse
Fish on pizza: repulsive
Almost any form of pork, ham or sausage types on pizza: fabulous
Vegetarian pizza: fabulous
I mostly don’t eat red meat, though occasionally I fall off the wagon for 🍕
Beef on pizza: too rich, weird
Duck on pizza: perverse
Fish on pizza: repulsive
Almost any form of pork, ham or sausage types on pizza: fabulous
Vegetarian pizza: fabulous
I mostly don’t eat red meat, though occasionally I fall off the wagon for 🍕
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perversely, I *need* to try pizza with duck on it now
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...
transsafety.network
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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Oh, look. Science showing that gender affirming care dramatically reduces suicidality in trans kids. Listen to children! And scientists!
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Oh, look. Science showing that gender affirming care dramatically reduces suicidality in trans kids. Listen to children! And scientists!