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Elisabeth Murray

@lizthelemming.bsky.social

Proud Yorkshire lass, currently exiled in Lincolnshire. Retired from the NHS. Cyclist, music lover (preferably 18th century or before). Cis ally to trans people. I block accounts asking for money.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · last wk.

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned… By Byline Times raising The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…

Tanita Tikaram@tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 6d ago

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 6d ago

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

We Own It@weownit.org.uk · 7d ago

Water companies are trying to hike your water bills AGAIN. Privatisation is not affordable. Andy Burnham must block these bill hikes. Let the water companies that can't survive without hiking our bills GO BUST. Then we take them into public hands for nothing.

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · last wk.

Glad to have added my name to a letter from 50 green groups urging PM to be clear that #climate breakdown is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. The public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces & offers a robust plan to tackle them

Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis

More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave

theguardian.com

TACC@tacc.org.uk · last wk.

The EHRC meets with organisations hostile to trans people and our rights. But would it meet with people opposed to homosexuality, race-realists, or organisations wanting to remove women’s bodily autonomy? If not, why are trans people the exception? These are the questions we have asked the EHRC!

(sent via email) Dear Chair and Board Members, We have recently become aware that the EHRC has met with the Darlington Nurses so that they can raise their concerns. This is, of course, entirely reasonable. People should be able to raise concerns with their national equality body. What is much harder to understand is why the EHRC has, over the last few years, repeatedly made time to meet with organisations and individuals whose campaigning is explicitly hostile to transgender people and our rights. So we have some very simple questions. Would the EHRC meet with organisations or individuals who were opposed to homosexuality and believed gay people should have fewer rights? Would the EHRC meet with organisations or individuals who were race-realists and believed that white people were racially superior? Would the EHRC meet with organisations that wanted to roll back women's rights and remove women's bodily autonomy? We would like to think the answer to all three is an emphatic no. And if it is no, then we want to know why transgender people are apparently the exception. Why is it considered acceptable for the EHRC to engage with organisations and individuals who discriminate against us, deny that we exist, describe trans women as men, use slurs against transgender people, and even compare being transgender to a "masturbatory fantasy"? We are tired of the double standard. We are tired of watching the organisation that is supposed to protect people from discrimination repeatedly provide access, legitimacy and a listening ear to people whose politics are fundamentally hostile to our existence and equality. There is an important distinction between allowing people to express views the EHRC disagrees with and repeatedly choosing to engage with organisations whose campaigning is directed at stripping rights and dignity from a protected group. The former is freedom of expression. The latter raises serious questions about institutional judgement... And frankly, if the EHRC genuinely believes that this is an appropriate and reasonable way for an equality body to operate, then we have to ask a very uncomfortable question: If you believe this treatment of transgender people is reasonable, what exactly does that say about the EHRC? Because if discrimination is only taken seriously when it is directed at everyone except us, then the problem is no longer simply the people campaigning against transgender people. The problem is the equality body that has decided they are worth listening to. We expect a substantive answer to these questions, rather than another carefully worded statement about the EHRC's commitment to equality and human rights. Regards, Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
Daniel Lismore@daniellismore.bsky.social · last wk.

Jk Rowling is putting her Harry Potter money into an open pot to sue the NHS whilst you are on the waiting lists for things like cancer treatments- the pot is to sue Human Rights Organisations too. No wonder she gave her human rights prize back

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.

Millions in UK could face power cuts at short notice. 16%-20% of electricity imported. In hot weather & high winds, solar farms, wind turbines turned off. Poor electricity transmission/storage infrastructure. National Grid makes record profits, investment neglected. Wonders of privatisation.

Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice

Exclusive: Grid operator Neso can now respond with rolling blackouts as last resort without need for government powers

theguardian.com

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s time to accept that the state is very willing to incur significant damage fighting and suppressing the left, but it is not at all interested in defending itself from the far right. Will incur damage to accommodate them, in fact.

Early signs are not encouraging about whether Burnham is willing/able to improve on the most odious failure of the Starmer government: responding to racist violence by condemning the violence but being silent, or even placatory, about the motives behind it. Sunder Katwala (sun... @sunde... • 1d This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22

Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
Not In Our Name (NION) Women@nionwomen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Too often, the public conversation gives the impression that one narrow viewpoint speaks for all women. It doesn't. Over 100,000 UK women have already signed our letter because they believe in fairness, inclusion and treating trans+ people with kindness, compassion, and inclusively. Join us.

“The majority of women are trans-inclusive, or are happy just living their lives alongside trans people without any concern. However, we are being ignored – by politicians and the media – in preference to a small, loud, group of ‘gender critical’ anti-trans lobbyists masquerading as ‘feminists’.” #WhyWeSigned NION logo
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 2w ago

For anyone who has climate anxiety my advice is this. Read the science & accept it. Once you do that you’ll see how close to death we are & why if our leaders continue to fail we’re screwed. Once you accept the inevitability of our predicament, you’ll be ok & become a protester.