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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Jul 30

💥The fight goes on 💥

We are pleased to say that our case against the EHRC’s transphobic guidance will be heard in full in November.

This is just the beginning, and we’re ready to fight it, together.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 7h

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back

https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 21h

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back.

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive - add your name 👇
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with asylum hotels was never asylum seekers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

A crucial turning point.
Time to get on board, Keir
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody's surprised 👀
https://www.ft.com/content/277c6a95-e45e-4e7b-a99b-b757693955ca

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

www.ft.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

More than 70,000 people complained over GB News’s use of a hateful, homophobic trope. Now the regulator has finally acted and declared the channel in breach.

https://goodlawproject.org/update/ofcom-finds-gb-news-in-breach-of-code/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social_media

Ofcom finds GB News in breach of code | Good Law Project

More than 70,000 people complained over GB News’s use of a hateful, homophobic trope. Now the regulator has finally acted and declared the channel in breach.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

💥 WIN 💥

Remember Ofcom’s investigation into GB News’ homophobic comments?
Well, they’ve finally got back to us 👀

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

Another 500 people were arrested for supporting Palestine Action this weekend, and now the police are being handed even greater powers.

We are witnessing a dangerous shift to the right.
https://goodlaw.social/k42p

Martha Spurrier: Proscribing Palestine Action is a dangerous shift in the law

More than 20 years ago, ministers promised they wouldn’t use the Terrorism Act to target direct action. But if the powers to suppress dissent are there, it’s only a matter of time before the state use...

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

Another 500 arrests, another lurch to the right...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/police-to-get-new-powers-to-crack-down-on-repeated-protests-says-home-office

Civil liberty groups express concern over plan for more anti-protest powers

Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact' of demonstrations as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation'

www.theguardian.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d

The far right are weaponising the safety of women and girls to sow fear and division among our communities

Join over 54,000 women rejecting discrimination against trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people 👇
goodlaw.social/wu1u

Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d

⏰ 24 hours left ⏰

Apply to be our new Campaign Technology Officer 👇
https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/campaign-technology-officer/

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Join the team at GLP

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d

Some Sunday evening reading from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on Tony Blair and Larry Ellison, two men whose influence is being brought more and more to bear on the UK:
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the-tony-blair-institute-larry-ellison-peter-kyle-starmer

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

democracyforsale.substack.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d

Digital IDs

💸 Will cost billions
⚠️ Will be riddled with errors
❌ Won’t reduce irregular migration at all.

Tell Starmer to scrap his scheme ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/j2ld

Keir Starmer: ID cards are a recipe for repression | Good Law Project

Digital IDs don’t reduce migration but they do open the door to authoritarian control – it’s time to fight back

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 4d

More than 7,000 people have won cases against their employers and not been paid what they are owed – even after asking the government for help.

@tbij.bsky.social are reporting on an absolute scandal:
https://bit.ly/4gQETMx

Infographic reading:

Toothless tactics
Three quarters of people who've gone to the government's enforcement scheme have not seen their money ...
Paid - 1,850
Unpaid - 5,362

Source: Freedom of Information requests

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 4d

Over 4,400 people have written to Virgin Active telling them to stop following transphobes and stick to the law

Help us reach 5,000 🎯👇
https://goodlaw.social/d922

Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law | Good Law Project

Virgin Active is giving in to transphobes – let them know they're wrong

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 4d

“The absolute greed... I cannot believe it!”

@goodlawproject.org on the news that Thames Water’s creditors are asking to be let off sewage dumping fines for up to 15 years: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/02/thames-water-lenders-submit-new-rescue-plan-to-stave-off-collapse

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5d

"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules

Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

www.theguardian.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch wants pretend that her opposition to climate targets is based in facts, not culture war reasons.

She’ll need a better grasp of the facts, though – this is a comprehensive debunking from @fionaharvey.bsky.social:
https://bit.ly/4gT1l7G

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 5d

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women.

We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social to fight back against this harmful narrative. 👇
https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

Rejecting the false narrative that frames trans people as a threat to women

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women. We're supporting Not In Our Name (NION) Women to fight back against this harmful narrative.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 5d

Reform have been exploiting women’s safety to attack migrants, so we’ve come to Downing Street to take a stand.

Take action ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/d82509

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6d

“I’m pleased that some people involved in this national scandal are starting to face consequences. But we cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP Lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” – @goodlawproject.org
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6d

We asked the people around Labour conference what they thought of Keir Starmer’s proposed ID cards scheme 🪪

Tell Keir Starmer to scrap it with our simple tool ✉️
https://goodlaw.social/0c30fa

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 7d

💰 NEW 💰

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE

But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 7d

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE

⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project

The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP Lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.

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