At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down.
Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.
For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either.
#NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow
When you're talking, reporting about Covid
It's DISINFO not to mention that the Covid pandemic is ongoing
We are not 'post Covid' in any way, shape or form
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
screenshot of the article heading at https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/03/the-world-energy-shock-is-coming
The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/
Children catching illnesses does not make them well. This is a fundamentally flawed concept and one that needs to be consigned to history and had been until COVID. I see mums saying my children need to build ‘natural immunity’, this is why antivaxxer misinformation took hold. If you are a parent
"One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation." #MinabSchool
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Dad has been in hospital for 3.5 weeks. I wanted to call something out... something beautiful yet unapplauded.
The nurses attending to him are Polish, Indian, Filipino, Nigerian, Ugandan and Somalian.
Imigrants.
And they treat my sick and confused dad with such respect. /1
Mountains and lochs as seen from a single track road.
The 'Coast Road'. Looking towards Loch Shieldaig and Upper Loch Torridon. 09:00 this morning.
The space between Farage and Jenrick is the perinuem.
Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff All three rising significantly from the point that covid infections started.
Sickness, Disability, and Death in NHS England Staff
The three graphs that *every person* needs to see.
The question that every single person needs to ask their government:
What are you doing to protect me from Covid infection?
1. As a result of the current high prevalence of influenza and the accompanying media coverage of the spread of the disease, I've been asked about mitigations by a number of friends who take *no precautions against SARS-CoV-2*. A few observations regarding these conversations:
ITV News: BBC to air Would I Lie To You Boxing Day episode featuring David Walliams
So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'?
We are right.
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
science.org ScienceAdvances SARS-CoV-2 induces Alzheimer's disease- related amyloid-ß pathology in ex vivo human retinal explants and retinal organoids SEAN J. MILLER D , RAHUL M. DHODAPKAR BRIAN P. HAFLER +14 authors SCIENCE ADVANCES • 4 Jul 2025 • Vol 11, Issue 27 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads5006
Direct quote from Yale University research published in Science:
“In conclusion, these data suggest that #COVID-19 infection, through the SARS-CoV-2 Spike 1 protein, leads to #Alzheimer’s disease–related pathology.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#N95 for your BRAIN
Maternal covid infection linked to neurological, motor, and communication delays in children😞 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
//"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino//
so fun watching the Official Five Year Empirical Science quoting back to me word for word what I've been saying since 2020 to friends and family who all just stare silently in response
A nurse protecting the skin just under their chin Headline: Covid Is Surging, So Remember To Protect That Important Bit Of Your Neck Just Under Your Chin. Story by Pivvi Swarthyboost and Dink Nerfdom Photo from Adobe
Covid Is Surging, So Remember To Protect That Important Bit Of Your Neck Just Under Your Chin.
Mary-Ann Stephenson was very active in feminist politics in Coventry during the 2010s. I can confirm she is extremely transphobic, although she always kept her nastiest comments behind closed doors.
This proposed appointment should be resisted in the strongest possible terms.
would actually read a proper piece on conspiratorial thinking around health issues from health professionals, a (thankfully quite distant) relative who's a doctor is now quite convinced the COVID vaccine did more harm than good and.....?????
NHS frontline staff are refusing the flu jab in ever-greater numbers and putting patients at risk. Almost 9 in 10 at one of England’s largest hospital trusts were unvaccinated last winter.
Appalling selfishness towards disabled patients that’s sadly not surprising. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Please read this harrowing story 👇 A minister telling a disabled women the cuts will help her, and stepping around her collapsed body to leave the room. These are the mental gymnastics needed to justify decimating disability benefits.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Want to repeat that if folks even wore masks just where it’s easy—in the grocery store, on the subway, sitting at your desk at work—we could likely knock down community transmission substantially, and make life a lot safer in places where mitigation is harder—like nursing homes.
BREAKING: Thailand reports over 53,000 new Covid-19 cases in a week, school shifts to online learning.
