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Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts. He/him. goodlawproject.org
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"Almost all the UK attacks reported in my study centred on LGBTQ+ materials." Meanwhile editors commission dozens more articles about the silencing of, perhaps, Britain's most published academic, Kathleen Stock. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

submitted 43 minutes ago • 8 comments

Sounds like a cover up to me. In the same way Streeting won’t acknowledge my daughter’s death, wasn’t counted in Appleby’s hatchet job DHSC report, minimising ⬆️ suicide since the Bell high court ruling (which was eventually overturned) began the slide toward the total removal of trans healthcare.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

“We cannot continue to pretend that NDAs are harmless legal instruments — they have become central to the suppression of abuse and mistreatment”, writes @louisehaighmp.bsky.social 🗣️ NDAs are silencing victims of workplace abuse — urgent reform is needed www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

submitted 17 hours ago • 100 comments

"The shit cannot be shoved back into the donkey": @katie0martin.ft.com. on.ft.com/3XWmDt9

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Because you have two homes?

submitted 1 day ago • 419 comments

🚨 BREAKING: US Department of Education has started the process to TERMINATE all federal funding for Maine K-12 schools. This is in direct response to Maine Dept of Ed refusing to comply with Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Orders. Full release here: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

My guess: politicians don't care about these jobs because they are in safe seats.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

This is a complicated story, but its impact is simple: It makes an already vastly difficult situation for Trans+ under 18s - practically impossible to navigate. And that's its design. This is what you need to know 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If you're an employment lawyer and you know you can't work your whole career without using your skills for a world that desperately needs them... this might be the job for you. Closes Monday. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I've been suspended by Instagram. Obviously this is bullshit - but underlines how we at the mercy of the whims of unaccountable tech giants. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/ive-been-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

Interesting and important. The first 'off-the-shelf product that allows for passive investments in global corporate bond markets without financing fossil fuel expansion.' www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Bizarre but true: during the Johnson years, one of his Ministers tried very hard to persuade me to apply for a Peerage which they were very confident they could swing. 'Why would I kick myself upstairs?' was my reply. Plus, my God, it's increasingly like one of Dante's seven circles...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments