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Doug Paulley

@kingqueen.org.uk

disability rights campaigner and human being

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Friends of the Earth@friends-earth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Heatwaves aren't just extreme weather events. They're disability rights emergencies. Read more from Doug Paulley, disability rights activist and co-claimant in our legal challenge against the government's weak adaptation plan. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6923j2wnpo

Disabled in a heatwave: 'We're talking about survival'

Disabled campaigners say the official advice for staying safe in a heatwave can put them in more danger.

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Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs

What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements. WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research. No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions. The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts. My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide. I don’t pretend to understand their motivation. In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide. I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes. I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up. Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure. None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle. Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
Doug Paulley@kingqueen.org.uk · last mo.

I'm quoting because I can't reply for some reason! It was funny. They complained i hadn't written a compliant LBA, when it clearly was (a stealth LBA fully compatible with the Practice Direction: Pre- action Conduct.) Then they quoted the RA LBA at me as "how to do it". Lolol. It didn't end well.

Natalya D@natalyad.bsky.social · last mo.

I hadn't entirely realised that. It is so hard to know what people respect. I tend to archive all of it, because sometimes even a "just a blog" can be useful in some ways My dear co-trustee @kingqueen.org.uk once got a lawyer citing our own CIO resources in a crip legal case at him. His reply=Smug!

Doug Paulley@kingqueen.org.uk · last mo.

Euston assistance failure: judge trebles damages, Network Rail appeals Network Rail was ordered to pay me £3,750 in June, after failing — again — to meet me with booked passenger assistance at Euston. It's the second time a court has found against them for exactly this failure, and the judge said…

Euston assistance failure: judge trebles damages, Network Rail appeals

Network Rail was ordered to pay me £3,750 in June, after failing — again — to meet me with booked passenger assistance at Euston. It's the second time a court has found against them for exactly this failure, and the judge said the repetition made things worse, not better. Network Rail is now appealing the damages. There's a long and undistinguished history of assistance failures…

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Doug Paulley@kingqueen.org.uk · 6mo ago

Rail Delivery Group members called me a "vandal," claimed I'm "raking in obscene compensation by bullying," and labelled me "vexatious." An orchestrated campaign of dismissing and drowning out anybody who doesn't kow-tow to their gaslighting accessibility narrative. @railmag.bsky.social

RDG’s Contempt for Disabled People

Doug Paulley, a wheelchair user and disability rights advocate, reveals troubling internal communications from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) that mock and undermine his efforts for accessibility in…

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