The @coe Commissioner emphasises that “rhetoric stigmatising trans persons, including by representing them as a threat, is unacceptable, and that the authorities must speak out clearly against such narratives.”
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/united-kingdom-backsliding-on-human-rights-must-be-prevented
United Kingdom: backsliding on human rights must be prevented
“Contrary to what some are trying to suggest, protecting women’s rights and the rights of trans people is not a zero-sum game”, said the Commissioner @coe
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/united-kingdom-backsliding-on-human-rights-must-be-prevented
United Kingdom: backsliding on human rights must be prevented
“The @coe is concerned about the impact of an increasingly hostile public discourse, supported by some politicians & by media reporting, on both young and adult trans persons, & LGBTI people.”
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/united-kingdom-backsliding-on-human-rights-must-be-prevented
"The UK Govt's approach, in policy and national law, places the UK in breach of obligations which it has undertaken as a matter of international law to facilitate the Gypsy & Traveller way of life and to refrain from discrimination"
https://goodlawproject.org/news/gypsy-traveller-legal-opinion/
Half of all children of lone parents living in poverty … in the UK, in 2022. Shameful, and shaming … worst government in history. Bar none.
@susandamussen @erupton The life I've led as an adult is one of women being my political side, my friends and lovers, what inspires most of my critical work, my fiction and my poetry. Detransition would be silence and death for me.
I feel the hatred of anti trans women as betrayal and as pain or loss.
"The precedent that modern parliament should most fear is perhaps not Notre Dame, but its own previous self."
Extraordinary piece from @RowanMoore about the full-fat metaphor that is the Palace of Westminster.
Britain‘s Notre Dame? Why MPs need to solve the Houses of Parliament problem
The renovation of the Palace of Westminster has foundered amid soaring cost projections, infighting and safety fears. Can anyone find a way forward?
www.theguardian.com
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Carrie Johnson helped get rid of @Dominic2306 - if she’s briefing against Number 10 (the press spox refused to support her over the most recent Carriegate scandal) we really are in End of the Romanovs territory
I'm not saying Boris has quite reached the end yet, but his wife briefing against him is probably not a good sign.
The Council of Europe are calling out the British Transphobic Moral Panic again.
It’s become so bad that it’s a serious concern for human rights bodies:
We should’ve done everything to win Tesla but unfortunately Brexit made that completely impossible.
We must be honest with ourselves here, the automotive industry will be a huge sacrifice on the altar of Brexit without any credible payback at all.
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Now it is an industry to be truly admired in engineering terms, logistics, cost efficiency, design and improvement.
But this jewel in the crown of our economy is under severe threat because we have left SM. Hundreds of thousands of good jobs at risk.
Fruit picking anyone?
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Since I went on Twitter shortly after EURef I have been warning of the risks Brexit posed to the jewels of our economy; the City and our Automotive industry.
This long 🧵 focuses on Automotive where I have pan-European expertise, and where export volumes have halved.
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You have to hand it to the Government - they are excellent at solving imaginary problems. https://twitter.com/Tony_Diver/status/1544038640132800515
EXC Local residents will be given the power to vote down road name changes because ministers think “woke councils” are “pushing through street names changes that communities don’t want”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/04/residents-will-given-powers-vote-woke-new-street-names/
Caroline Nokes(Tory MP) - "I had an experience last week with Chris Pincher ... when I encountered Chris, who'd had too much to drink on the Tuesday afternoon... & nothing happened when I reported this, b/c the next night Chris was drunk again."
Your man, meanwhile, signed up to something he’d said no British Prime Minister could ever agree to, lied about it countless times, put the idiot who negotiated the ridiculous ‘deal’ in the House of Lords & then disowned the whole thing before the ink was dry. What opportunities? https://twitter.com/conservatives/status/1543952149767413760
❌ Keir Starmer voted to block Brexit 48 times.
✅ Conservatives got Brexit done and we're seizing the opportunities
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Thrilled to be in the @BylineTimes print edition again with the formidable @WritesBright, delving into 'Johnson's 22 Big Money Backers' who pledged their unwavering support on the eve of the infamous no-confidence vote:
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Why Brexit is No Longer Boris Johnson’s Superpower
@WritesBright reviews exclusive polling for @BylineTimes, revealing the public’s newfound pessimism towards Brexit
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/07/04/why-brexit-is-no-longer-boris-johnsons-superpower/
Lessons from American Progressives:
Pramila Jayapal, ‘Rising Star’ of the Democratic Caucus – Byline Times
Bob Borosage
@BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/07/04/lessons-from-american-progressives-pramila-jayapal-rising-star-of-the-democratic-caucus/
"The battle will come down to a fight between the corporate wing of the party and the rising progressive wing; between big money and popular movements."
- @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/07/04/lessons-from-american-progressives-pramila-jayapal-rising-star-of-the-democratic-caucus/
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"Jane detects a sense in some quarters that Ukrainians are a convenient source of cheap labour, able to pick up the jobs left vacant due to Brexit."
- @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/07/04/homes-for-ukraine-and-the-two-faces-of-the-british-government/
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