Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinNancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This government has made life dramatically harder for trans children and their families. The human costs are enormous. Cal is not the first parent I know that has made the gut wrenching decision to leave the country. Read this then start fighting for a world where trans kids can live and thrive. 215359
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026£72m to Reform isn’t a ‘show of force’. It’s a supermarket sweep of the UK electoral system. A healthy media environment wouldn’t simply raise its eyebrows and sigh. 935595
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I was just interviewed by BBC Radio 5 live about the abuse Wes Streeting is facing as defence secretary. Talked about the historical and contemporary media landscape that creates this. From 1hr52bbc.co.ukNicky Campbell - With Rima Ahmed. What's happening in Nepal? - BBC SoundsWhat's happening in Nepal? Rima Ahmed speaks to experts and takes your calls. 110
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters: 422251480
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent 172688470
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/08/2026A key element in the mainstreaming of reactionary politics was to get mainstream actors to engage with reactionary ideas as if they were legitimate debates Mainstream actors fell for it as they generally "won" the argument but by engaging at all they legitimised the reactionary position 1/ 7366129
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinSpook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Let's do some categorisation. I see people referring to the persecution of Jason Arday as a 'mob', or as comparable to a social media pile-on. It was actually an elite campaign carried out by media actors with huge power and reach. 221981
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The defence seems to be that this was legitimate journalism. Of those 250 articles, most were written after Dr Arday resigned (public interest fell away) and all but a handful were commentary. Of the serious investigations - half a dozen — there are some key failings. More anon 3467
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A very important article to read, the death of Jason Arday was caused by far right attempts to take over UK universities.bylinetimes.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason ArdayThe media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network 419284
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinBaby octopus @mancalled.horse · 19/08/2026The Labour government publishing this just two weeks after bringing in a nationwide toilet ban for trans people and two weeks before their trans section 28 comes into effect in English schools was certainly a fucking choice petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... 14646203
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinKat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Thinking a lot about Jason Arday. Our time at Roehampton overlapped but I didn't meet him. However, I do know his former colleagues and they are deeply grieving. At the heart of this is a man - perhaps a flawed man, but a deeply human one. I don't want to lose sight of his humanity 1/ 1177
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Until very recently, the word “woke” conveyed something beautiful: political awakening in the context of the African-American liberation struggle. The way it has been forcibly stripped from that context and transformed into a ubiquitous term of derision is shockingly cruel & inherently anti-black 1/ 5669222
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 15/08/2026So why is the UK Like This when it comes to trans people? 1) It's far more centralised and its elite is much more highly concentrated; they get the same brainworms quickly, then use the central government to do awful things quickly. 2) The elite are very aristocratic. >> 8513100
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Check out @transmediawatch.bsky.social ‘s explainer on what has gone wrong with press regulation in the UK 000
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Media Murder: my (angry) analysis of the death of Jason Arday.the-quiet-part.ghost.ioMedia Murder: The Time of MonstersArguably Emile Durkheim's most valuable contribution to sociology was his book Suicide. In it he explains very clearly that suicide is not a personal or individual matter. Suicide is always affected b... 06315
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinSneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Also, there IS a crisis in British universities. It has nothing to do with EDI or allegations of plagiarism. The Higher Ed sector is heaving under the weight of managerialism, and brilliant institutions like Exeter, Nottingham, Sussex, are being gutted. Can we get 53 articles about that in 16 days? 211839
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinMadeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Probably goes without saying that a press which openly declares that it can't ever be considered responsible for anything that happens is one that is incapable of self-regulation. 015620
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinKeyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Press regulation now. It shouldn't take more people losing their lives to dehumanisation and vilification in the 'news', not because their stories or misdeeds warranted it but because it gave ammunition for the pet panics of a reactionary media that's lost touch with reality. 041
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinDr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 15/08/2026Regulate columnists 1163
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I 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 121691451
Reposted by Dr Charlotte Galpinjane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Today's story is about Jason Arday. It is a story of seemingly remorseless racism and harassment, coupled with an utter lack of empathy on the part of the uk media. 817845
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Perhaps we ought to take a moment to reflect on how many white male cishet privately educated non disabled men have been given jobs and promoted without question based on fabricated CVs, unfounded self-confidence and an embellished life story & whether we’ve even heard of them. 19567126
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinNatasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 14/08/2026While this was all happening, friends and I were literally listing off senior white men who were still in post despite not being able to work with students because they're actual sex offenders. 10671169
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Let’s not forget about the failure of universities. Ever since I was targeted by the Daily Express in 2017 as a result of doing my job I have been asking my university how they are going to protect me and almost a decade later the response is still woefully inadequate. They have no answer. 152
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 14/08/2026Before they all quickly forget their role in this predictable tragedy, the issue is about the rightwing media only, it's about the media as a whole in a system in service of white patriarchal cis able supremacy 210232
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17355932065
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I genuinely don't know how Britain can move forward as a society with our toxic press culture dragging us down at every step, poisoning everything. 7551162
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinMarty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 14/08/2026It’s just so wrong. We need to revisit the need for a public inquiry into press standards. No one should have to endure the hounding that Jason Arday experienced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found deadJason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said. 11462100
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinSteve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Cunts, the lot of them. It's been utterly relentless and clearly wouldn't have ended because he'd resigned. Like me, I'm sure you've encountered plenty of people on nationals doing sport, features, columns etc, who would distance themselves from the front pages. No sorry, you're just as culpable. 110315
Reposted by Dr Charlotte Galpinalyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Always remembering Lucy Meadows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o... 9661150
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/07/2026Not only is the uk's media completely ungovernable and free to target anyone they please, true or not, they also refuse to report on the wrongs of a major section of society that is tearing it apart. As I've said for years, until the UK media changes, nothing else will. 314636
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinFran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Congrats to the UK media for hounding a Black man to death. It wasn't enough even that he resigned, they had to keep at it. Grotesque 1124
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Horrific news. There is literally a trail of bodies stretching back years that result from despicable hounding by the press in this country. When will we finally get a government that doesn’t something about it 061
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...brokenbottleboy.substack.comLiddle to be celebratedAn honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. 62713255
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinIan Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people. 130873
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If your memorialisation of Rod Liddell doesn’t start and end with his violence against women, paedophilia, racism, and transphobia then I don’t want to read it and I will be judging you. 191
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A lot of euphemisms in here to describe someone who made a career out of racist, ableist, misogynistic, transphobic and Islamophobia hate speech. “Uncompromising”, “fearless”, “provocative”, “wonderful way with words” “challenged comventional thinking” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNewspaper columnist and broadcaster Rod Liddle dies aged 66The columnist died in hospital in Middlsbrough on Sunday. 040
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinShoo away! What you're doing IS fascism @sahrataylor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026As the Equalities Minister she authorised the EHRC code Widely known in human rights and genocide prevention circles as a GENOCIDAL DOCUMENT that segregates and 'third spaces' trans people to facilitate their persecution This is considered unimportant for The Guardian, or potential Labour voters.. 042
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/07/2026I really don't know how we can message this in a way which cuts through, but we really need to try and figure it out, because the vast majority of people are appalled when they actually understand what's going on. 12516126
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note. 65110893394
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Worrth remembering that Andy Burnham has a long record of being anti-immigration. He's kept Shabana Mahmood in place because he agrees with her 44783328
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/07/2026Thing is, it would have been so, so easy to wash this stink off. Trans people and & progressives are desperate for hope. I think people would have been very willing to give him a chance to start fixing this, and quite a lot of grace in the meantime. But apparently, even a symbolic change too much. 12503160
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...goodlawproject.org‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law ProjectThe equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back 401424566
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/07/2026New: the EHRC’s code of practice is set to come into effect on 5th August, after the minister made a commencement order that has now been published. More to follow. www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/78...legislation.gov.ukThe Equality Act 2010 (Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations) (Commencement) Order 2026This instrument brings into force the Commission for Equality and Human Rights’ Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations (“the 2026 Code of Practice”). 1517182
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinRichard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Which part of UK has outperformed the rest since Brexit? Northern Ireland of course, as it has effectively stayed in the EU’s single market! 14633260
Reposted by Dr Charlotte GalpinPaul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Tenth anniversary of Cameron announcing his resignation - possibly the worst UK PM - Johnson for all his venality and Truss for ideological idiocy don’t come close to the long term damage that resulted from Cameron’s Brexit referendum gamble for party management reasons. Truly terrible judgement… 1931662
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Our special issue of Memory Studies Review on 'Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond' has been published! brill.com/view/journal...brill.com 110