New petition: "Require UK-trading companies to provide a contactable phone number" Deadline 5 February 2027, created by Andrew Spurr #NewPetition

New petition: Require UK-trading companies to provide a contactable phone number

Many companies operating in the UK have removed all phone contact options, forcing customers through chatbots, forms, or endless email chains. We call on the Government to legally require any company trading in the UK to provide a working phone line to speak to a human agent.

petition.parliament.uk

In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 8h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

Trans men can have a penis @mrjamesob.bsky.social They can also use urinals. And, while we are here, trans men are banned from the men's AND The women's under this update.

I know she's incapable of ever admitting she's wrong about anything, but even I'm surprised that Kemi Badenoch has chosen this particular hill to die on

How do we incentivise firms to take on more young people? Some believe the problem lies with the convergence between youth and adult minimum wages, while others think we should scrap employer NICs. But we see far greater promise in expanding existing government schemes. More⬇️ buff.ly/tDv85WG

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

The EHRC code of practice - that came into force today - has been called a "system of segregation”, "impractical and inhumane” and even “genocidal in nature” ICYMI:

EHRC says 'sex questioning' will be "rare" – but evidence suggests it's increasing

The chair of the EHRC has claimed in a letter to a Labour MP that sex questioning under the updated Code of Practice will be “rare and exceptional”

wearequeeraf.com

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

theguardian.com

No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.

Andy Burnham says he wants to release low-risk female prisoners early. I suggest he starts with these three women from Palestine Action who were jailed as “terrorists” for trying to stop the mass murder. #freepalestine #gaza #genocide

We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.

How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why

goodlaw.social

The Code of Practice goes live today. It *does not change the law*. No member of the public has a right to demand details about your sex and expect to be told anything.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 19h ago

🚨🚨Today the EHRC Code of Practice goes live. Our voices have been ignored. We will not stand for this. We will not stop until our rights are restored. The CoP does not change the law. Inclusion can happen. The vast majority of the public do not want this. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT 🏳️‍⚧️✊♥️

🚨🚨Today the EHRC Code of Practice goes live. Our voices have been ignored. We will not stand for this. We will not stop until our rights are restored. The CoP does not change the law. Inclusion can happen. The vast majority of the public do not want this. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT 🏳️‍⚧️✊♥️

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 22h ago

From @greenparty.org.uk

Just remind me, who are the terrorists? These wankers attempting to terrorise ordinary workers trying to do their job, or pensioners holding pieces of cardboard in protest against actual genocide?

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Farage may have a more credible pitch in the idea he could work best with France on the channel if Le Pen & Bardella won the Presidency of France. But he is torching that with this notion he could take boats to France *without* any arrangement with France!

Reform had seemed to be moving away from "invade French waters without pernission A risible 'come & have a go if you think you are hard enough' (Likely to end in humiliating crisis by triggering suspension of justice & home affairs + trade cooperation Tim M noted it was daft 18 months ago

After being rejected 4 times, Thames Water's creditors are now submitting a 5th proposal to keep the failing utility in private hands. This time, they're promising to increase public control. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 1/2

Also the Nazi salute already is a crime - the Police are just extremely selective about how and when s.4/4A/5 Public Order Act applies.

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

theguardian.com

Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell John Healey to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

#TaxTheBanks

Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

you.38degrees.org.uk

No excuses at all not to make the banks pay more - a lot more These parasites use our hard-earned cash to make themselves richer, and to shower obscene amounts of money on their CEOs and shareholders www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Calls for UK bank tax to fund cost of living help as HSBC profits hit £7.5bn

Levy could raise £19bn to help pay for Andy Burnham’s support for those struggling with bills, say campaigners

theguardian.com

OK, so I do not want to hear, at any point in the coming years, a Government spokesperson talking about "tougher sentences" for whichever type of offending is causing popular outrage at the time. You need to own this, politicians, and all the needless confusion and pain you're causing now.

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If it's good enough for a right-wing ghoul like Thatcher, the issue should be when is Burnham going to do it, not whether or not there's pressure.

Positive Money UK@positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · yesterday

Pressure is growing for Andy Burnham to slap a new windfall tax on big banks after a £29 billion profit bonanza 💰 Alongside the @tuc.org.uk, we're calling for a windfall tax on banks to help millions of UK households www.mirror.co.uk/mon... Sign now to #TaxTheBanks 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks

THE INDEPENDENT: Conservatives selected former neo-Nazi activist Joshua Bonehill-Paine, convicted of harassing Jewish MP Luciana Berger, as a local election candidate, citing rehabilitation but calling his past “indefensible.” - by Athena Stavrou

Former neo-Nazi activist convicted of harassing Jewish MP standing as Tory candidate in local elections

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted of racially-aggravated harassment of a Jewish MP Luciana Berger

independent.co.uk

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

This has made me so angry. It's time NHS staff were properly protected from these people who should be banned from accessing NHS treatment. Let them pay for a 'white' clinician if they want one so badly (and hopefully they'll struggle to find one- be an ally!) news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

news.sky.com

“The branch and indeed party are fully aware of my past. Our chairman has been a vocal advocate and has supported me since I became a member of the party. I am very grateful for the support,” he said.

Israel blocks ambulances in the West Bank again. Shoots Palestinians, then seals off medical access so they bleed out and die. Deliberate. Sadistic. State policy. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

Despite biblical level rain for the first third of 2026 we now have a drought because nobody built reservoirs in the last 30 years. The last to be built was Carsington Reservoir in Derbyshire, completed in 1991. JUST ONE, Havant Thicket Reservoir, is under construction to protect the Test & Itchen.