Streeting refuses to publish secret Palantir NHS briefings | Good Law Project The health secretary wants to keep us in the dark about Palantir’s systems for handling sensitive health records, so we’re taking legal action with Democracy for Sale to fight back

Wes Streeting is keeping Palantir’s secrets 🤫
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Women have much more reason than men to ask for things to be different. So I'm sure you're right.

Most often ‘being difficult’ is applied to women. In a job interview once I was told that it was a position in which I’d have to ‘fight my corner’, and then asked about a reputation for being ‘abrasive’.
Me: *smiling sweetly* I prefer to think of it as fighting my corner.

Strong agree. In England "being difficult" is often a synonym for insisting, and refusing to stop insisting, that the structures of power should share it more equably.

Side issue: if Labour wants to know why it is loathed it is because, despite promising change, it has done nothing to change, indeed it has embedded, the cultural conditions that make the above statement true.

In the UK today the de facto position is that you can be subsidized by the taxpayer, through charitable tax relief, to campaign for the pathologisation and elimination of a group nominally protected by the Equality Act, but not for its protection.

"I believed in it; I still do,” she said, but added that pushing for self-ID was “not top of the list” of Stonewall’s priorities. “We are an LGBT organisation, of course we’re going to be there for trans people, so that’s integral to who we are and what we do. But our priorities now are very much focused on things like securing justice for military veterans and compensation for what they’ve endured. We’re currently working very hard to ensure that there’s a ban on conversion therapy in this country, which is incredibly important.”

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Sadly I have found England to be full of people who get into advocacy roles and then centre whiteness and power.
I stopped trying to work with DV or tech harm reduction groups here because most of them want to feel good about themselves while not being seen as “difficult “ . I love being difficult

So, I know from my friends inside the Guardian, that Helen is perceived internally as trans inclusive. But I also know from my own interactions with her that... well, I am extremely unlikely ever to speak to her again

I would also struggle with that.

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No one who cares enough to understand what is being done to trans people, that's for sure.

I speak to a lot of people about JK Rowling - many once close friends with her. I was once friends with her. And they all say she is now very changed.

To pretend she is not radicalised, to give succour to her views on trans people, is an astonishing thing for Kezia, as Chair of Stonewall, to do.

Kezia says that too. And you can be wrong in your diagnosis, as I believe those who come from her tradition are, but still well intentioned. But perhaps this isn't the most interesting debate.

I'm entirely comfortable with it.

How Kezia was reported is not the same as what Kezia thinks. Helen Pidd comes from a liberal tradition at the Guardian - see also Libby Brooks - that thinks of itself as trans inclusive but lacks any real understanding of the forces driving transphobia.

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall Exclusive: Former Scottish Labour leader says she feels more scared as a lesbian today and calls for a kinder debate on transgender issues

It's true that Stonewall, attacked by the press, Charity Commission and the Right, came to the brink of collapse because it advocated for trans people. In the UK you can no longer do that work as a charity. But ceasing to be useful, genuflecting to hate, is not the answer. Better to cease to exist.

I'm pretty sure Kezia comes from a well-intentioned place. And I'm all for good faith engagement with people whose minds have been poisoned against trans people. But this is madness: JK Rowling is a toxic sewer of hate, aligned with fascists, and it's unforgivable for Stonewall to praise her.

Asked about JK Rowling’s opposition to trans rights, Dugdale said: “I have a huge respect for JK Rowling. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting her before and I think her story and how she came to be this prolific, incredible children’s writer in this city as a single mum writing in a cafe is phenomenal and an inspiration to so many women across the world. “I think she’s been a really powerful political advocate [for] improving the lot of single mums, making a case for tackling poverty and inequality in all its forms, and there is absolutely a place for her in public life to share her experiences and tell her story and make a difference.”

The new Chair of Stonewall, Kezia Dugdale, on JK Rowling (www.theguardian.com/politics/202...).

I agree. I think Salt Coast is totally majestic.

Thank you. Argh I knew that!

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Opening the lid of AI and it’s just Sam Altman crouched in there typing really fast to everyone. He seems stressed.

thank you!

fair

The logic isn't logical. Even if Olly Robbins couldn't tell Starmer *why* Mandelson had failed vetting - pretty implausible as Starmer is given huge amounts of sensitive information - it doesn't follow Robbins could not tell Starmer *that* Mandelson failed vetting.

Streeting refuses to publish secret Palantir NHS briefings | Good Law Project The health secretary wants to keep us in the dark about Palantir’s systems for handling sensitive health records, so we’re taking legal action with Democracy for Sale to fight back

Wes Streeting is keeping Palantir's secrets. So we're taking him to court.