Why read feminist scholarship when you can simply start from scratch and ignore it all?

I don’t even call myself a demographer and I have an MSc in demography 😎

National Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge was arrested last night on Abingdon Road for public order offences. Bridge himself had called the police when an Oxford resident lay under his cherry-picker van. Mobile phone footage from local residents shows Bridge shouting “I’ve been arrested!”.

Good

Flags on the Abingdon Road

Oxfordshire County Council has issued a formal legal notice to Raise the Colours Oxfordshire in response to the continued placing of flags across the county, on or near highways without consent. This notice requires them to stop the activity.
news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

TLDR; no it is not a good idea to use genetic testing to attempt to determine “biological sex“. It doesn’t work and is unscientific.

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

Please let’s stop pretending that attacking trans people is “protecting women”

Former EHRC chair signs amendments targeting abortion rights Baroness Kishwer Falker, the EHRC's former chair, was among those to support amendments that would ban a form of abortion in the UK.

I keep saying to people that the fight against right wing attacks on trans rights and their attacks on abortion rights are linked. We’re in the same fight for human rights and if you can’t see it yet here’s a clear sign www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/e...

It's time to act Ask your MP to help change the law today.

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Telegraph article ‘Abortion "pills by post" must be banned, peers have said. A group of female peers - including Baroness Falkner, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Baroness Davies, the Olympic medal-winning swimmer - are seeking a change in the law to end the controversial Covid-era scheme.

What are the main amendments? Nine amendments have been laid on abortion so far, including proposals to have a police investigation of every girl under 16 who accesses a legal abortion and a proposal for the first new abortion offence in nearly 100 years. The key amendments are two broadly pro-choice and two broadly anti-abortion proposals. Source: Guardian

🧵Some Lords are busy trying to wreck abortion decriminalisation. An amendment to report every girl under 16 who has a legal abortion to the POLICE and Sharron Davies wants to ban telemedicine that allows early abortions to happen at home in privacy

If you're in Oxfordshire...
#LocalElections2026

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.

I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

Is this the only leader of a party who unequivocally says they support trans people? ✊

Impossible to beat the raw ingredients in this one. I tried to say something sarcastic but it came out almost the same as the news report 😳

There are more important things to notice, but look. On truth social you can “reTruth” a post. Almost makes me want to join to try it out
#philosophy

Delivering the delayed Oxford station bridge replacement before and during the 8-day blockade | New Civil Engineer Replacement of the bridge over Botley Road in the centre of the city is a key part of the Oxford Station upgrade being delivered by Kier and Network Rail.

We have endured the Botley Road closure for so long. Add that to the list of things like the lock downs that we never anticipated!
Here's the technical account of what has been going on, in New Civil Engineer.
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/deliv...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c

Now it's over to users!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

Well said. Great article

I quote the work of @drjengunter.bsky.social who has used her Substack and social platforms to expose the doctors in the sex offender’s network

Doctors were complicit in Epstein’s abuse—survivors must now be our priority A spectacle around Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity is overshadowing rights and justice for the survivors of the sex offender and his network, which included doctors, writes Jocalyn Clark The theme for I...

Two things are being overlooked in the #EpsteinFiles

The complicity of doctors

The extent of violence

My new piece @bmj.com #IWD #Epstein #Healthwashing #VAW

Also: “after” the pandemic there has been very little reckoning with the massive worsening of academic inequalities in Covid, which will likely also be worsened by successful legal cases

long Covid. I have huge sympathy for what all students went through, and I hope the ones bringing this case find peace. I wish it didn’t have to be like this though.

It’s heartbreaking that this case implies the students have no sense of what their teachers went through to deliver their courses, or perhaps don’t care. People worked in their bedrooms with toddlers climbing round them, after bereavements where they could not attend funerals, while sick with

The students claiming uni Covid compensation 'for the principle' Dozens of universities have received legal letters over what students say they missed out on during Covid.

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...