Examples include: joining a dating service joining a single-sex association, such as Girlguiding or the Women’s Institute applying for a bursary, prize or award that is only for women joining a gym and using its ID to access male or female changing rooms registering for sport with a national governing body or sports team, or for competitions applying for a job in social care, policing, prisons or a single-sex service seeking to rent in a shared house, homestay, hall of residence or dormitory registering with a healthcare or social-care provider registering with a single-sex service such as a rape crisis centre or women’s refuge, or being referred between such services.

Sex Matters are demanding biological sex on Digital ID. Below are suggestions for when one should have to use their ID to "verify" their sex.

For the avoidance of doubt – this is a call for the effective repeal of the Gender Recognition Act, in breach of our human rights obligations & EU Law.

And Green party council candidates have the audacity to run on platforms like this…

Side point - but I feel the BBC article should probably have mentioned why Prescott was suspended and some of the concerns around him - this from Prospect and @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

Rather than just doing the 'John Prescott's son is now in the Greens!' thing

Man admits rape and religiously aggravated abuse of Sikh woman John Ashby, 32, initially denies the attack but changes his plea one day after the trial begins.

We need to appeal to all the proud white Britons who want to protect women and children from brutal, primitive men, to keep their Union Jack-draped demos lawful as they protest this rape: yet another of the 74,000 at least committed by a white British man each year:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not bothered by people who want Starmer to go. I agree. My reasons are selfishly practical - he lacks the vision and charisma to lead the UK through impossibly challenging times. What bothers me is when people cosplay moral outrage to not just oust, but destroy him, because it gives them a thrill.

genuinely think this is actually resignation worthy btw, like we fine with the Home Sec joking about tasering and deporting Jewish and dual-heritage political opponents?

Yikes

If nothing else, the decision to sack Robbins, when he didn't need to, must rank as one of the most absurd acts of political self-harm any prime minister has yet committed. All of this eminently foreseeable.

Resolution has applied my model to data up to 2025. As the chart shows, we can be less confident as time goes on. But firm-level evidence from Bloom et al shows a 6% loss. I think it's time to retire the OBR's 4%, which was a simple average of pre-Brexit forecasts.

Good news - we’re doubling down on clean energy

Why? Because it’s cheaper than natural gas

It's even cheaper to build now 👇

AI, look at the flags. Also that’s Antony Blinken who is no longer the US Secretary of State

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

What sank Johnson in the end was not so much what he'd done but that his MPs got sick of being sent out to defend it.

Ed Miliband to double down on net zero with measures to combat Iran energy shock As fossil fuel prices soar ‘the era of clean energy security must come of age’, energy secretary will say

There is no politician - and I mean none - who is better-placed than Ed Miliband to get us through this fossil fuel-driven energy crisis.

No-one in politics understands the energy system better. That’s why the billionaire fossil press hate him

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Starmer is caught in exactly the same trap Boris Johnson got himself caught up in: his excuse for his initial decision was false.

And then as problems pile up with the last excuse, you need a new excuse. And eventually you just pule yourself into a corner where you're talking nonsense.

The world in which Reform are at 25% is just so different to the one where they are at 30% in terms of how FPTP works. They could be the SDP in 1983 rather than Labour in 2024.

Pretty obvious that this is where at least some of that surge has come from in the past few months. The Greens are going to have a good set of elections next month, but lots of internal problems will come to the boil very soon

Cheeky little unvetted ambassadorial appointment as a treat

Today the Prime Minister will assure Parliament that there was no window, or if there was a window it did not break, and if it broke it was not from a ball, and if there was a ball there was no kick.

He will add that he is "furious" about the window that broke from a ball that was kicked. (By him.)

This seems a strangely under appreciated take. Drones would appear to have revolutionized modern warfare. Ukraine is the best protagonist of that warfare — that’s important! It’s also a very obvious game changer for European hard power.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Russian economy is faltering despite oil windfall, Sweden warns Stockholm’s military intelligence head says Moscow is manipulating data to make its economy look better

Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson is encouraging Republicans to back a bill defining the "nuclear family" as a husband, a wife, children, and the husband's Grindr hook-ups.

In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the
- £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends
- the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance
Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 26% (-1)
LAB: 22% (+1)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 15% (=)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 15-17 Apr.
Changes w/ 18-20 Mar.