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Trans Bullies Won't Make Women Wheesht (April 14, 2023)

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The bleak irony that a lesbian academic accused of “endangering” people with her views is now concerned for her personal safety. My  @thetimes  column on Kathleen Stock & academic freedom.  https://t.co/FNmhHkzH8c — Janice Turner (@VictoriaPeckham)  October 8, 2021 Janice Turner in The Times mounts a powerful and passionate defence of Kathleen Stock who believes that women's rights to single sex spaces should be respected and protected, as they are by the Equality Act 2010. Stock is no right-wing bigot but a mild-mannered, dry-humoured, left-wing lesbian. An acclaimed philosopher who received an OBE last year, she teaches trans students, respecting their pronouns, and has written repeatedly in support of their human rights. It is bleakly ironic that she is accused of “endangering” others just for holding heretical views, when police have warned her to stay off campus and take security measures for her personal safety. Yesterday morning a demonstration at Sussex d...
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Seismic Fine For Sussex

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This is a seismic fine in the context of a higher education industry which is facing increased financial pressure. It is a clear indicator that universities need to take academic freedom seriously and to understand the complexities of equality and human rights law. https://t.co/1cFFsbDGuX — Dr Michael Foran (@michaelpforan) March 26, 2025 How wonderful! England's university regulator fines Sussex University £585,000   over its failure to prevent abuse and harassment of certain groups on campus. Dr Kathleen Stock was forced out of the university in 2021 by a three-year campaign or bullying and harassment by trans activists.    England’s university regulator fines Sussex uni record £585,000 over allegations it failed to uphold free speech & academic freedom. Policies intended to prevent abuse or harassment of certain groups on campus had created “a chilling effect” https://t.co/NUs3KL7sWj — Hannah Barnes (@hannahsbee) March 25, 2025   Trans Bullies Won't Make ...
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Glasgow 'Fat Cat' Probe

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EXC: Skint Glasgow council spent £63,500 on lawyers to probe golden goodbye payment scandal. https://t.co/kAc4TW7PkI — Paul Hutcheon (@paulhutcheon) March 26, 2025 What a shocking lack of oversight by the political leaders of Glasgow City Council! How could senior politicians not know the terms on which the Council's outgoing chief executive was retiring and being replaced by a new chief executive? Beggars belief.   EXC: Police Scotland receive report into golden goodbye scandal at SNP-run Glasgow council. Cops are gathering "further detail to assess whether any criminality is involved". https://t.co/nGzqpodfbk — Paul Hutcheon (@paulhutcheon) March 24, 2025
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Free Gaza - From Hamas!

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BREAKING: Massive crowds of Palestinians have taken over the streets of Northern Gaza, chanting, “Down with Hamas, we’ve had enough, Hamas!.” I dare the @nytimes or @mehdirhasan to report on this. pic.twitter.com/qKt64IAiZH — Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 25, 2025 Palestinians take to the streets calling for Gaza to be freed from Hamas! No wonder because Hamas has brought destruction on an unprecedented scale to Gaza since the terror group started a war with Israel on October 7 2023. I wonder if Muslim politicians in the UK will now call for the Islamist terrorists of Hamas to be disarmed and removed from positions of influence and power?
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'Class Actions' - Rogue Employers and Trade Unions Beware (March 10, 2025)

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Sounds to me like these self-ID cases could end up in a class action lawsuit  and the trade unions could become target too - if they take the side of bullying employers against their own members. The trade unions were guilty of the same lack of leadership during the long fight for equal pay in Scotland's councils, of course.  
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Trade Unions, Women and Privacy (November 02, 2024)

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Unison failed to stand up for low paid women members in the fight for equal pay - they were shamed into action. So maybe a 'class action' is the way for women to fight for privacy at work - a joint action against rogue employers and any unions who refuse to protect their members?   Brave nurses just want the right to privacy Darlington nursing staff didn’t have views on ‘trans debate’, then a biologically male colleague used their changing room By  Janice Turner  - The Times On Wednesday Lisa Lockey cancelled her Unison membership. Starting as a teenage trainee nurse, she’d paid her union dues (latterly £11.50 a month) out of her modest salary for 33 years. But a public statement by the Unison president Steve North gave her no choice but to quit. Lockey, 51, is one of five Darlington nurses in dispute with their NHS trust over its policy of allowing a trans-identified male colleague to use female changing rooms. When the health secretary, Wes Streeting, heard they were su...
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Darlington Nurses - Unions Posted Missing! (November 22, 2024)

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Great interview with Bethany, one of the Darlington nurses who is challenging the local NHS decision to allow men to self-ID their way into women's single sex spaces including changing areas. Bethany was very measured, reasonable and articulate - just the sort of person you'd have in mind to be a local union rep! Astonishing the BBC interviewer never asked about the lack of trade union support for the nurses - surely the unions aren't in cahoots with the employer?
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