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Colin Lawson

@colindlawson.bsky.social
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Physics/education/retired. Walking and small boat sailing. Cornwall, UK. Lifelong news and current affairs addict. North Utsire. South Utsire. Occasionally poor. Becoming good.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 7h
All your Triple Lock questions answered: - what is the new policy - why it’s a ‘triple lock’ - why pensioner poverty is expected to fall in the 2030s torstenbell.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The Future of the Triple Lock
The questions I’ve been asked most after Andy Burnham’s speech - and what the answers are.
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 22h
Forgot to post my report on the final day of Peggie v RCN. Subscribers got this via email last night. There was so much I had to leave out (there was an entire day of submissions from both parties), but hopefully this gives you a flavour: genderblog.net/peggie-v-rcn...
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Peggie v RCN Day 7: Closing Submissions
Let’s go to work. Naomi Cunningham and David Hay KC. Pic Iain Masterton Today was the final day of the Peggie v RCN employmeny tribunal in which Nurse Sandie Peggie is making three claims aga…
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Freya @saintdagny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No doubt about it.
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The draft Conversion Practices Bill would silence therapists, harm children and divide families. That is the warning of a new report, based on 30 in-depth interviews with mental health professionals. Read it here: sex-matters.org/posts/update...
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Criminalising conversations
By Matilda Gosling for Sex Matters
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The draft Conversion Practices Bill would silence therapists, harm children and divide families. That is the warning of a new report, based on 30 in-depth interviews with mental health professionals. Read it here: sex-matters.org/posts/update...
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Criminalising conversations
By Matilda Gosling for Sex Matters
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's the letter Zoe wrote asking how the LIbDems plan to amend equality law after their vote at the conference. These same questions should be put to anyone who glibly asserts that the law should be changed without explaining how.
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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am not sure if the USA can ever recover from the ongoing self destruction. What will rise from the rubble might be better or far worse. It’s up to the USA nation to decide and the rest of the world to choose if they can be trusted again. All I know it’s going to be a long road.
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Zoe Hollowood 🔸 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @zoehollowood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I spoke in the defending democracy debate @libdems.org.uk conference about the fact Orwellian denial of basic reality was undermining faith in democracy, including when politicians do not speak honestly about basic facts such as female biology.
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Examining the Legal Context of Sex and Gender in Higher Education by Michael Foran. This impartial, expert explanation is a must-read for anyone interested in sex and gender law. open.substack.com/pub/knowingi...
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Examining the Legal Context of Sex and Gender in Higher Education
I’m grateful to the Open University for inviting me to speak about the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, and its impact on Higher Education.
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bravo Naomi Cunningham
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Examining the Legal Context of Sex and Gender in Higher Education by Michael Foran. This impartial, expert explanation is a must-read for anyone interested in sex and gender law. open.substack.com/pub/knowingi...
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Examining the Legal Context of Sex and Gender in Higher Education
I’m grateful to the Open University for inviting me to speak about the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, and its impact on Higher Education.
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Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Share your views on our recently published draft Technical Guidance for Schools if you are involved in schools in England, Scotland or Wales: ow.ly/Bz3Z50ZSkc3 Our consultation is open until 11:59pm tomorrow - 30 September. Get involved and make a difference!
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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just about every paragraph is an absolute humdinger.
'I do not believe anyone genuinely fails to see that respecting single-sex spaces and allowing gender self-ID are incompatible propositions, yet gender critical women have been told this incompatibility is all in their heads. Or rather, we have been told there is a solution, if only we would sit down and have the “proper conversation”, which apparently we haven’t been having for the past decade (women talking and analysing and making proposals isn’t a “proper conversation”. A “proper conversation”, as far as I have been able to work out, is women shutting up and accepting that single-sex spaces and resources can be mixed-sex spaces and resources at one and the same time. Quite why we don’t see this as a compromise is a mystery).'
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Kim Willsher @kimwillsher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you Victoria Smith @glosswitch.bsky.social glosswitch.substack.com/p/how-do-the...?
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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Evidence that gender affirmation does not improve mental health. bsky.app/profile/coli...
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/09/2026
Report about Ukraine’s efforts to find answers to the jet-powered Geran drones. Let’s hope they are indeed as advanced as suggested here www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...
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Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Wettlauf der schnellen Drohnen
Gelingt es der Ukraine, den russischen Vorsprung bei schnellen, mit Jetantrieb ausgestatteten Drohnen aufzuholen? Die Antwort entscheidet über Leben und Tod vieler Menschen. Von Kai Küstner und Stefan...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Manchester City cheating scandal, just like Chelsea’s cheating under Abramovich, is the inevitable result of complacent regulators allowing British football to be used for sportswashing by charlatans, crooks and despotic regimes
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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can be against Netanyahu without being anti-Semetic Just like you can be against Trump without being anti-American
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Protests erupt as Netanyahu gives inflammatory UN speech - The Latest
More than 100 people were arrested in large protests outside the UN headquarters as the Israeli prime minister addressed the general assembly, while he faced a mass walkout of delegates as he began hi...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two things about this 1. Some of the lack of diversity discourse is unfair to these individuals. There’s no reason to think the JAC wouldn’t have selected a more diverse range of people if they had applied and met the criteria 2. There’s some crackpot antisemitism in some of the replies and quotes
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
20 days ago Anyone heard anything more about this apart from the two that stood aside initially?
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes, excellent speech, and so brave to stand up and deliver it in front of a hostile crowd. One day Zoe will be vindicated, but who knows how much harm will be done before then?
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brave speech by @zoehollowood.bsky.social at the Liberal Democrat conference. 👏 Unfortunately it fell on deaf ears.
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think it's important to get the facts right about Brexit. The culpable parties (the villains) are: 1. Cameron for agreeing to a referendum to appease the Tory shits; 2. Lidington for persuading parliament that a supermajority was unnecessary because the referendum was advisory only;..
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sunak's says his inclination was to ignore the argunent that he couldnt be English because he was brown & Hindu [as attention-seeking] but he recognises it should be addressed, about British civic citizenship ane identity & also about the case for an inclusive English identity too.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spencer vs Windsor From the Private Eye archive. Issue 933, September 1997.
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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Julie Bindel: The Greens are Dangerous Lunatics Listen to Julie's interview with former Haringey Councillor, Emine Ibrahim who was hounded and protested by trans activists for demanding single sex services to female victims of male violence. This is fine 👍 juliebindel.substack.com/p/the-greens...
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The Greens are Dangerous Lunatics
Listen to my interview with former Haringey Councillor, Emine Ibrahim. She was hounded and protested by trans activists for demanding single sex services to female victims of male violence
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the Sunday Times tomorrow. An exclusive interview with Sandie Peggie ahead of her tribunal hearing against her union, the Royal College of Nursing: www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
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Sandie Peggie: ‘My nursing union is blinded by trans activists’
The campaigner for single-sex NHS changing rooms is suing the Royal College of Nursing, claiming she was turned away when she needed support
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The number of 2025/6 Welsh gender clinic surgery referrals have been published and it's quite staggering in comparison to England. genderblog.net/nhs-wales-to...
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NHS Wales to review “paused” surgeries by Christmas
St David’s Hosptial in Cardiff, home of the Welsh Gender Service Around sixty people whose gender surgeries were cancelled by NHS Wales are expected to have a review into their necessity comp…
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is nice but very sad as well. I expect Mike is being paid far more than those brave nurses.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Quick feminist analysis. Q: Does the motion acknowledge women's legal & human rights to equality? A: No. Q. Does the motion benefit males or females? A: Primarily males at the expense of females. Conclusion: motion reinforces power relations between the sexes. This is patriarchy.
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
First interview with a clinician who worked as a team leader in an NHS gender clinic: "It's pseudo-medicine... the NHS is castrating people as a treatment option... the whole thing is wrong." genderblog.net/former-gende...
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Former Gender Clinician: “It’s pseudo-medicine”
Shortly after publishing the piece which flagged the Welsh Gender Service as a potential Service of Concern (now a fully fledged Actual Concern) I received an email from a former gender clinician I…
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Acta Paediatrica</em> | Paediatrics Journal | Wiley Online Library
Aim To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment. Methods Finnish.....
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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mina told me that, in 2021, no fewer than NINE of her classmates announced that they were transgender. Not all made drastic changes to their appearance, but all went at least as far as to announce publicly that they had changed their pronouns. 3/8
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/09/2026
Whether MAGA reps care or not about Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, the Trump administration's lawyers have quietly conceded that adding his name may have "irrevocably damaged" the historic marble facade. Read more: bit.ly/4x2pXBH
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Trump lawyers quietly conceded admin has 'irrevocably damaged' Kennedy Center
Lawyers for President Donald Trump didn't dispute that adding his name to the Kennedy Center may have "irrevocably damaged" its historic marble facade.The tacit concession surfaced in a Wednesday court filing from Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center's board of truste...
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Freya @saintdagny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Per Kara Dansky: Democrats need to just say out loud that a woman is an adult human female and that it's wrong to damage children's bodies with harmful hormones and surgeries. apnews.com/article/tran...
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Some Democrats are recalibrating their approach to transgender issues as they seek a path to power
An increasing number of Democratic leaders have begun to push back against their party’s unflinching support for the transgender community this midterm season.
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How long before BlueSky's love in with Jolyon Maugham hits the buffers?
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Trans rights are human rights', 'trans women are women' & 'Brexit means Brexit'. These are meaningless slogans to deflect from the absence of a rational argument. We all have the same human rights - none of us has a special extra right to violate the rights of others.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm a @ucu.org.uk member & disgusted at this attempt to undermine women's equality rights & sex discrimination legislation going back to 1975 & now consolidated in the Equality Act. By the @tuc.org.uk and my own trade union. Regressive & sexist.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Quick feminist analysis. Q: Does the motion acknowledge women's legal & human rights to equality? A: No. Q. Does the motion benefit males or females? A: Primarily males at the expense of females. Conclusion: motion reinforces power relations between the sexes. This is patriarchy.
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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TUC Motion 17 Erases Women From Their Own Rights “TUC Motion 17 commits 5.3m trade unionists to campaign for gender self-declaration. It never once uses the word “woman”. This is how a movement legislates over women’s rights while pretending not to see them.” 👍 heartlandstribune.com/tuc-motion-1...
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TUC Motion 17 Erases Women From Their Own Rights - The Heartlands Tribune
TUC Motion 17 would change the law on who counts as a woman. It never names women. From single-sex spaces to Darlington nurses: what the TUC voted for.
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political-economy.bsky.social @political-economy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What the hell is wrong with them?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Do Labour realise that if Reform buy our democracy we won’t be able to buy it back?
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