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FFS Friday: Sandie Peggie 2.0 After this past week, there is no one else in the world this week’s post could possibly be about. Link ⬇️ (no paywall; free and shareable).
The Prime Minister must act with immediate airdrops of much-needed aid into Gaza and get other countries to do the same. It is simply inhumane that Gaza faces starvation due to Israel’s aid blockade. Words alone won’t save lives.
The UK government says it is doing everything it can to alleviate suffering in Gaza. The UK government won’t suspend the sale of F-35 parts to Israel. The UK government won’t stop the use of RAF Akrotiri or end military cooperation. The UK government won’t accept the ICJ…
There are 1.3 million people on social housing waiting lists in England alone. But Keir Starmer believes there’s ‘lots of housing’ spare we should be giving to illegal migrants That’s madness. What is he going on about?
It’s insane that in 2025 a woman not wanting to get undressed in front of a male work colleague is “hate.”
In November, I expressed my concern that the Assisted Dying Bill could not provide adequate safeguards against abuse and social coercion. I am still not satisfied - and that is why I voted against this legislation.
My statement on the Assisted Dying Bill.
10-year-olds cannot be prostitutes. They are rape victims. Suggesting otherwise is revolting. But this is the sort of thing social workers convinced themselves to avoid facing up to the truth of these crimes. None prosecuted for letting this happen. National inquiry. Now.
Seven men who groomed vulnerable girls in Rochdale in the 2000s have today been brought to long-awaited justice after a dedicated GMP investigation was bravely supported by two survivors
Shall we have a sandpit? Nah, we should have a @Shitlawns pit
Thousands of Brits are in tears tonight. Channel 4 just smashed through the establishment lies and told the world what really happened. This is massive.
Judgment has been given this morning in the matter of For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) UKSC 2024/0042: supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
When you remove the trans stuff from this case, you are left with a monstrous demand from a powerful man (a doctor); that a less powerful woman (a nurse) should strip off her clothes and change uncomplainingly in front of him, at her workplace. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
NC: 'you need a large gamete and small gamete person to produce babies. DU: 'I'm sure there are people who believe those things. Doesn't make them right' I kind of hoped a qualified doctor would 'believe' those things...
Today, in Fife, Nurse Sandie Peggie was challenged in tribunal about whether she could tell that her male colleague Dr "Beth" Upton - who insists on changing in the female changing room - is actually male. FYI = here's Dr Beth Upton himself.
The Taliban has just banned Afghan women from attending nursing school. Imagine: you cannot pursue any education, even healthcare, because of the sole reason that you are a woman. We are witnessing the erasure of women in real-time. It is beyond horror.
I simply cannot believe that the time available to MPs to debate a decision that could led to thousands of people receiving state assistance in ending their lives prematurely is… 5 hours. Nor that an argument currently doing the rounds in parliament to win over uncertain MPs is…
I would love to be able to promise all my patients that I can provide them with the palliative, social & NHS care they need to die in comfort & dignity. But I can’t, because the care isn’t there - causing terrible avoidable suffering. How about fixing that first, @Keir_Starmer?
"I made a promise to Esther Rantzen before the election that we would provide time for a debate and a vote on assisted dying," Keir Starmer says "I'm very pleased" that I'm able to "make good" on that promise, the prime minister adds bbc.in/3ZRTjWd
Britain has such strict anti-corruption rules that street cleaners are banned from accepting charitable donations, but politicians can accept hundreds of thousands of pounds in gig tickets, holidays, designer clothes, and lavish parties. What a country! theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…
Today, the Taliban passed a law that bans women from showing their faces and having their voices heard in public. Their burqas must now entirely cover their faces and they are not permitted to speak in public or to look at any males that are not relatives. Perhaps it’s been an…
#ThroughHerEyes The Taliban has now banned women's bare faces and voices in public 'to promote virtue'. I've no words for that but let us use our voices to stand with the women of Afghanistan. rte.ie/news/world/202…
No other group of people could be so victimised and oppressed without international outrage. But women, who cares.
As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader. The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law.