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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚨 A staggering podcast series begins today, telling the story of the conversion therapy movement through the former head of the gay "cure" industry. 'Atonement: The John Paulk Story' (which I worked on as a consultant), is the wild tale of the man who led Exodus International:

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Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Back in the 1960s, my parents struggled to find a flat. No one wanted to rent to my Indian father. And they sure as hell didn’t want to rent to an interracial couple. It wasn’t unusual for them to be spat on. How great that times have changed, I used to think. How very, very wrong I was.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Happy publication day to the Two Roberts! Welcome back to the world, which loved you then almost forgot you and is now turning towards you again. My novel is a celebration of them and their bravery and brilliance, as artists, lovers, outsiders. 🖼️ 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🧑‍🎨 🧑‍🎨 📕 buythebook.online/the-two-robe...

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The Two Roberts by Damian Barr | Buy the Book

A BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2025 FOR THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, HERALD AND BBC

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

EXCL: Scammers stole the identity of a real doctor in Gaza to make money - exploiting public sympathy by crowdfunding + promoting it on social media. I tracked down the real doctor who reported it to Instagram - but it wasn't taken down. Now a warning to the public: inews.co.uk/news/how-onl...

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Scammers steal identity of real Gaza doctor to trick people out of online donations

Thousands of followers. Money streaming in. But an investigation by The i Paper reveals 'Dr Nabil Qudsi' as a fake

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

"[We need] to tell more powerful stories about how migration benefits this country, and why the elites, the multimillionaires and billionaires, are the problem, and not blame some of the poorest.” @zackpolanski.bsky.social on great form ✍️ @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/bullied...

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The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform

The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Love this! "An intriguing mix of confidence and humility... But like the Reform leader, once the tape starts rolling, he certainly knows how to punch (verbally)." My conversation with @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social on why I'm running to be leader of the Green Party. inews.co.uk/news/bullied...

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The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform

The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration

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Sanya Burgess @sanyaburgess.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is a fascinating interview:

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I interviewed Zack Polanski, running to be Green Party leader. He reveals the violent homophobic bullying he endured, losing his friend in the Manchester Arena attack and how he thinks we would welcome migrants. Oh and he’s never drunk alcohol. His vice? Vegan chocolate. inews.co.uk/news/bullied...

inews.co.uk

The left's outsider taking on Farage and Reform

The Green Party's Zack Polanski reveals how the homophobic bullying he suffered as a child shaped his politics, and how he plans to beat Nigel Farage on immigration

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

What's the point of a state watchdog if it simply serves as a government poodle? And why continue with an equalities quango if it ignores marginalised groups while driving open toxic divisions? My @theipaper.com column on the floundering Equality & Human Rights Commission inews.co.uk/opinion/an-a...

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An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong

Mary-Ann Stephenson has been appointed – with “utmost confidence” – as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 09/07/2025

"Being neurodiverse is not a free pass to behave badly or humiliate women. His comments are dangerous," writes @jessiehewitson.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/DSUtbWC

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

After the Salt Path scandal, here’s the memoir I’d read: white, straight, middle-class person in late middle age goes on epic odyssey of self-discovery only to realise that they are in fact hollow and soulless. And only miserable because they haven’t had enough trauma in their life to appreciate it.

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National AIDS Trust @nat.org.uk · 05/07/2025

Ready to March in Pride In London parade for the whole LGBTQ+ community. The liberation of all LGBTQ+ people, including our trans and intersex siblings, as well as migrants and asylum claimants, is central to the fight against HIV.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 17/06/2025

Exclusive | @jasonreiduk.bsky.social was turned away from an earwax removal after telling a member of staff he had HIV during a routine questionnaire 🔴 @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social reports Read more: trib.al/79c3GhS

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A modern media story: Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al"). In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

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Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source

Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Not nearly enough is being said about how incredible What It Feels Like For A Girl is. The writing, the performances. Best BBC drama in years + so many experiences that LGBTQ people have faced for decades with almost no recognition. The scene where little Byron goes to the doctor almost broke me.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Who among us hasn’t screamed into the abyss wearing glittery tights? #eurovision

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

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Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Let me get this straight: the Cass review wasn’t peer-reviewed yet was relied on by the government for major policy decisions - but now a critique of that review has been peer-reviewed and published, giving it more authority. Will government now be relying on this for policy? We all know the answer.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Last week, following the Supreme Court ruling, a trans man asked over 60 gyms if he would be able to join. Their responses included a gym asking him what genitals he has - and telling him he must use the women’s changing rooms. This is the Britain we now live in. inews.co.uk/news/gyms-tr...

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‘I asked 60 gyms if trans people like me could join – this is what happened’

After the Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender, Evan Wade wanted to know where his trans community could now work out

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An incredible loss. An extraordinary, inspiring man. Also an amazing writer - his report into the mistreatment of LGBT service personnel is a remarkable, damning piece of writing if nothing else.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I hate the phrase “giving voice to the voiceless” - no one is voiceless. Many people aren’t heard, listened to, given a platform, or ever asked anything. Not the same.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...

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Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case

What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This letter has now been signed by over 1,000 academics - distinguished professors of gender studies and multiple other disciplines.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I say this to fellow LGBTQ people, after a lot of experience: if you have to ask for compassion - whether it’s from a politician, an organisation, or a member of the public - then you are already dealing with someone who lacks it, will not provide it, and does not care. To ask is to be disappointed.

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Ben Gartside @bengartside.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Last year, my dear friend David Knowles passed away. He was 32, and had an undiagnosed heart condition. This weekend, the cricket team he founded will be playing a game to raise money for the BHF, to help fund their research. Please share and donate if you can www.justgiving.com/page/rhcc-vs...

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"...the new British sport is: who can make the most rabble-rousing, dog-whistling jab at trans women? The answer was surprising. Bridget Phillipson, who identifies as the Women and Equalities minister, evidently believes that some people are more equal than others."

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Dear newspapers. I just paid £40 for an annual subscription to the I Paper to read this article. If you let queer people cover queer stories, I will pay you money.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our biggest LGBT charity is in crisis. Are we just going to let it collapse? A piece by me about the future of Stonewall, which risks annoying everyone, but the stakes are too high to be coy about any of this. inews.co.uk/opinion/bigg...

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Our biggest LGBT charity is in crisis. Are we just going to let it collapse?

LGBT people need armour; an organisation like Stonewall to act as a first line of defence

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

“Guys, the only way we can keep this whole thing together is if we keep oppressing women and gays”

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Supreme Court ruling is a travesty. The existing rights of trans people - a minority - are denied without allowing that minority to give evidence or set out their argument. Instead, all evidence was taken from anti LGBTQ + organisations. This is appalling.

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 16/04/2025

I am so incredibly tired of this ongoing attack on trans people. Cis men are murdering women in plain sight. If gender-critical women turned their attention to dealing with men, women might be safe. I'm not worried about loos or changing rooms. I am worried about literally everything else.

A screengrab of the BBC website showing three stories from the past two days of men murdering women, and one from a week ago.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 11/04/2025

Opinion | People assume that life is now fine for gay people – it’s not We can no longer afford to pretend everything is going to be fine, or continue being the fun, smiley figure that straight people want us to be 🖋 @PatrickStrudwick.bsky.social

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People assume that life is now fine for gay people - it's not

What did the world think would be the outcome of LGB kids raised on a diet of loneliness and shame?

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This examination of free speech should be read by all humans in 2025. It might just make the world less stupid and cruel.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes

The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

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Patrick Strudwick @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thrilled to be shortlisted for Specialist Journalist of the Year at The Press Awards for my investigations into Kevin Spacey, struck-off therapists (who are still practising), and Dissociative Identity Disorder. And delighted for all my amazing colleagues at The i Paper for 9 awards nominations.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 12/02/2025

Exclusive | Kevin Spacey is facing new legal action after being sued by a former actor who alleges he was groped by Spacey following a performance at London’s Old Vic theatre 🔴 @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social reports inews.co.uk/news/kevin-s...

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Kevin Spacey 'victim' sues actor and Old Vic theatre over alleged abuse

A young actor who claims he was abused by Hollywood star Kevin Spacey whilst he was artistic director of the Old Vic is also suing the theatre

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Oliver Duff @olyduff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Really proud of the team at The i Paper. (@inews.co.uk) 🔥 Shortlisted for x9 awards at 2025 Press Awards. ⚪️News Website of the Year ⚪️Daily Newspaper of the Year ⚪️Sunday Newspaper of the Year – iweekend ⚪️Scoop of the Year – 2nd Post Office IT Scandal ...

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Oliver Duff @olyduff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

⚪️Campaign of the Year – Save Britain’s Rivers ⚪️Specialist of the Year – @patrickstrudwick.bsky.social ⚪️Columnist of the Year – @k8lister.bsky.social ⚪️Environment Journalist of the Year – @luciemheath.bsky.social ⚪️Front Page of the Year – “Everyone failed them”, Grenfell inquiry

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