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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 1d

My column in today's Times is about the home secretary's proposals to give police more powers to limit repeat protests. I'm sympathetic, but there are risks... but maybe the biggest issue is there's no legislative fix to rising levels of antisemitism.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Think twice before giving police more powers

Home secretary wants to restrict hateful Gaza protests but that won’t make us more tolerant

www.thetimes.com

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 5d

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 13d

If Reform fail in government, Farage could end up being a gateway drug to Tommy Robinson and the far right. My column in this week's @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/sonia-sodha-...

How Tommy Robinson could become PM

Britain’s crises give the far right fertile ground - and when Reform fails too, he will take advantage

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 15d

Campaigners are increasingly trying to emotionally blackmail people into using their preferred - inaccurate - euphemisms in debates like assisted dying and gender and sex. It should be resisted because they cover up real social harms.

My column in today's Times

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Beware the euphemisms over assisted suicide

As with trans ideology, we should resist being bullied into using ‘kind’ but misleading language

www.thetimes.com

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Aug 29

My column for this week’s @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is about the chilling prospect of a world with artificial wombs

www.thenewworld.co.uk/sonia-sodha-...

The chilling future of pregnancy without women

Stories about a Chinese ‘artificial womb’ seem more science fiction than fact – but reveal uncomfortable truths about the ethics of reproduction

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Aug 29

It's not just Farage who's borrowed from the populist playbook - on tax, Labour has too, and now it's paying the price. My column in today's Times.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Labour sold false promises just like Farage

Many of the party’s woes are down to its unrealistic election pledges, which came straight out of the populist playbook

www.thetimes.com

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Dame Sara Khan DBE @sarakhandbe.bsky.social · Aug 23

Fully agree. In 2018 I raised concerns about the APPG definition. It was implied I'm an Islamophobe for disagreeing with their definition! What's depressing with Gov's current political attempt is how it will do little to address growing anti-Muslim hatred.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/islamo...

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Aug 23

Adopting expansive definitions of Islamophobia and antisemitism is highly problematic - it risks encouraging institutions to unlawfully curb legitimate speech and distracts from the hard work of actually reducing these forms of bigotry.

My column in today’s Times

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Hate-crime definitions risk making things worse

Trying to codify Islamophobia and antisemitism is well intentioned but it doesn’t solve the problem and can curb debate

www.thetimes.com

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Aug 1

You’re presumably a doctor who presumably thinks sex isn’t binary. You’re not in a position to lecture anyone on science 😆

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Jul 31

I’ve been appalled by the conduct of NHS Fife, funded by taxpayers to scare future whistleblowers off exposing their wrongdoing. Grim stuff.

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Jul 31

My column for the Express on the disgusting witch burning to which NHS Fife has subjected Sandie Peggie to distract from their own unlawful conduct. Yes, people who share racist jokes in private what’s app groups of ppl they holiday with have employment rights too.

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2089...

'NHS bosses must be held accountable for witch-burning over female spaces'

A chilling message is being sent in what smacks of an arrogant culture war

www.express.co.uk

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · Jul 31

A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

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Sandie Peggie and the dangers of gender groupthink

A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · Jul 20

The erosion of access to trial by jury may well undermine the rule of law even more than the sustained underfunding of the justice system.

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Why justice needs juries

A new proposal to restrict the use of trial by jury could fundamentally undermine the justice system

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · Jul 9

A new cross-party commission has been created to look at the problems of social cohesion in Britain. But can it confront the most controversial issue of them all?

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Is this the answer to the immigration question?

A new cross-party commission has been created to look at the problems of social cohesion in Britain. But can it confront the most controversial issue of them all?

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you Alice! All good... am mostly posting on X these days though still occasionally on here x

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · Jun 16

The government failed to level with the public about the depths of Britain’s problems. It will come back to bite them, writes @sonia-sodha.bsky.social

The high price of Labour’s honesty deficit

The government failed to level with the public about the depths of Britain’s problems. It will come back to bite them

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Jun 6

The over-reaction to Blair's net zero intervention shows the climate debate risks curdling into net zero as a moral good v populist scapegoating of climate policies. An we need to avoid that.

My column for The New World
@theneweuropean.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/sonia-sodha-...

Fears are not enough: the hard sell of net zero

A populist pushback is fuelled by voter scepticism that our global leaders can ever crack the climate crisis

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Jun 3

Through a mix of complacency and defensiveness, UK universities have made themselves vulnerable to populist assault. They should get their house in order now. My column in today's @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

UK universities are ripe for a populist assault

Trump v Harvard will set a tone — and British institutions have made themselves vulnerable

www.thetimes.com

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · May 22

As organisations like Unison flout the Supreme Court ruling on sex & gender, leaders can’t continue to hide behind judges and regulators. They need to explain to detractors why protecting women’s rights is so important. Including Keir Starmer

My column in the Times

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Unions and bosses are flouting trans ruling

Implementing the Supreme Court’s judgment that ‘woman’ means female requires Keir Starmer to speak up for the law

www.thetimes.com

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · May 15

On the way home from recording Question Time. Great show for you this evening - including me getting selfie-shamed for taking this photo by an audience member 😂. Tune in at 1105pm on BBC1!

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · May 2

I wrote this about Labour's electoral problems last November. Voters quite rightly don't like politicians who over-promise & under-deliver. And Labour told them if you vote for us everything will get magically better. It's a breeding ground for populism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Voters must learn to accept that Britain’s challenges are too big to solve straight away | Sonia Sodha

Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re in

www.theguardian.com

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · May 1

Haven’t you spread enough dangerous misinformation about the law?

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · May 1

This is Stonewall continuing to spread lies about the law.

“The ruling is not law as yet”: the Supreme Court has just told us what the law says. It is what the law always was, is, and will be unless MPs choose to legislate to allow male players to self-identify into women’s sport.

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Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thank you William 🙏

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