Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.
“Palestine protests are treated differently in Britain to all other forms of activism. Direct action is regarded as terrorism and words on a placard are rendered illegal... The only time our equipment has been seized and destroyed was when it related to Palestine.”
The GuardianLed By Donkeys wins compensation over seizure of Gaza protest banner
Remember when Farage claimed he was “debanked” by Coutts because they disagreed with his politics and everybody in the country just sort of nodded along
Financial TimesNigel Farage’s Reform UK had its bank account temporarily frozen during the 2024 general election campaign, a revelation that adds to questions about the party’s finances. ft.trib.al/SqH7xbo
I would love to see JK Rowling take to a stand, under oath, to defend herself and her org as not anti-trans. All those tweets, from her and all the people she has endorsed over the years, just lying out there ready to go. I would pay into any crowdfunder that would guarantee that would happen.
NHS and government data policy on trans people now completely functions as a means of sidelining our needs and what we think, feel, experience through our healthcare on the basis that we don't know what's good for us. The approach to policy development around trans issues is fully disciplinary.
GeekOnALeash 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️"Sex at birth (observed)" is now a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard (v2.0.1). It also appears (if I am reading this correctly) that gender identity and pronouns have been removed. The NHS are transphobic as fuck!!! standards.nhs.uk/published-st...
So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
The business of the British print press is the recruitment and promotion of malignant wingnut crackpots, to further their own horrible agendas.
Lee Hurley"The Liberal Democrats have been accused of softening their position on women’s rights after accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds from one of Britain’s biggest financial backers of transgender causes." [Times] Sex Matters, who are backed by JK Rowling, quoted.
Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
The ExchangeIf you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
