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Fiona Sheil @fionasheil.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I absolutely agree with Esther Rantzen’s point that MPs aren’t being honest about how religion shapes their opposition to assisted dying. This is dishonest, especially when hidden under other supposed concerns. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Rantzen accused of being ‘disrespectful’ as MPs debate assisted dying bill – UK politics live

About 150 changes have been made to the bill since MPs voted on it last year

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Geth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Wow, what an incredible archival resource. Huge thanks to @inquest-org.bsky.social for compiling and making it publicly available.

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Fiona Sheil @fionasheil.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bid writing is TERRIBLE and STUPID in its level of waste and irrelevance. And I say this as someone who writes for a living.

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Rhi Faux @rhifaux.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher. Regulate vehicle size now.

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'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'

Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

does CPS really have nothing better to do than prosecuting a woman for 'illegally taking abortion pills' during the lockdown /// despite the fact that the crown's own estimate is that the foetus was around 22 weeks and termination is legal up to the 23rd week www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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UK woman accused of using pills for illegal abortion during Covid lockdown

Nicola Packer, 44, was arrested at a London hospital after reporting a miscarriage in 2020, court told

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"Starmer takes a lot of flak for lacking a clear animating purpose ... But on clean energy & climate action he has been ...much more ambitious than he is given credit for". Interesting & encouraging piece by @james-bg.bsky.social of @businessgreen.bsky.social. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Today, on #LesbianVisibilityDay, join us to celebrate the strength, courage and resilience of our Rainbow Sisters. 🏳️‍🌈 ⁣ Rainbow Sisters is our vibrant, supportive community for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary individuals who are seeking safety in the UK.⁣ 1/🧵

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The energy at the edges - a new post with some thoughts on the vitality at the edges of the system. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

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The energy at the edges

The system is dying from the middle, but there’s vitality at the periphery

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

We must challenge the growing power of the super rich over our politics and stop them blocking the changes we need for a just, sustainable future. Donate today to our #ExtremeWealthLine campaign and your donation will be doubled thanks to the Big Give. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Text: We're raising £20,000 to build the extreme wealth line, a new tool to tackle the harm caused by the super rich.

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Action for Race Equality @are-official.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“In adult prisons, Pava spray is deployed disproportionately — particularly against Black and Muslim men.” —Meka Beresford, ARE Head of Policy Due to a surge in violence in #YouthOffender Institutions, the gov’t will now trial PAVA spray on children as young as 14.

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Pepper spray to be used in youth custody after surge in assaults

Youth offender institutions, whose inmates are as young as 14, are the most violent part of the prison system

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Women & Equalities Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk · 25/04/2025

On Tuesday we will be holding a session looking into misogyny in young men and boys. Witnesses include executive producers of @netflix.com show Adolescence Jack Thorne and Emily Feller, as well as experts working in education and on gender equality. Full details below 👇 [1/3]

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Campaign for Freedom of Information @campaignfoi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

📢FOI in the News! Thousands of trafficking victims reject government support for fear of deportation according to new FOI data obtained by the Observer and anti-slavery charity After Exploitation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #Refugees #HomeOffice #joinCFOI #accountability

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Trafficking victims rejecting UK government support because they fear being deported

Nearly 6,000 victims of modern slavery chose not to be referred for help last year, new data shows

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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My plans for some of our key missions and goals in the next years of @giwlkings.bsky.social

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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I think the funniest thing that happened after the Drump Tariff stupidity is how chinese factories are now unveiling how the American middle men have been taking a huge cut on your goods and persuading Americans to buy directly from China. I am not even sure what to call this...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

UK regulator to investigate Ernst & Young 2015-18 audits of the Post Office. Despite public evidence of failures, it did nothing. Now responding to pressure in parliament. Why only 2015-18? Flawed accounting system resulted in false accounts & postmaster prosecutions years before. Token inquiry?

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Investigation regarding the audits of Post Office Limited by Ernst & Young LLP

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

UK median wage, £29,628. Net pay, £24,852; barely enough to survive. Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Bottom 50% less than 5%. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Workers need higher share of GDP. Progressive taxation.

ons.gov.uk

Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics

Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.

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Rahila Gupta @rahilag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My co-written book with @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social will be launched on 3rd July in Central London. To book your place, go to bit.ly/PlanetPatria...

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

£5bn disability benefit cuts will push 250,000 into poverty. Women—especially Disabled women and unpaid carers—will be hardest hit. Why target the most vulnerable? WBG Director @maryannstephenson.bsky.social sets out the case for fairer choices: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...

opendemocracy.net

Women will suffer most from cuts to disability benefits

Cuts will push hundreds of thousands of women into poverty or force them out of workforce

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

NEW: The Equality and Human Right Commission is investigating Labour’s benefits cuts for potentially breaching the Equality Act. Spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.

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A screenshot from The Telegraph’s website features a headline reading: “Labour benefit cuts may breach equality law, says human rights watchdog.” The subheading states: “Equality commission to consider how Liz Kendall’s £5b welfare reforms will impact disabled people.” Below the headline is a photo of Liz Kendall speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons. She is wearing large glasses and a dark blue suit, with a serious expression as MPs look on in the background.

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Fiona Sheil @fionasheil.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This feels like a good analogy for VAWG public policy. Supposedly it wants to keep women and girls safe, but drives roughshod over their choices and realities to get there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

On Wednesday I urged the Government to support my amendment to the ER Bill to extend the ban on NDAs in cases of harassment to the entire workforce. This could be the Government that ends these abuses of NDAs for good. Victims continue to be hurt day after day. Now is the time to sort this out.

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Louise Murphy @louisemurphy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Interested in working for a think tank? Join our online webinar on Wednesday to find out more about applying for jobs in the sector, and to hear about what life is like working in a policy/research job More info here -> www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/worki...

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Working in the think tank sector • Resolution Foundation

Think tanks are research organisations that develop ideas and suggestions for action on a whole range of subjects affecting society. Using research, analysis and commentary, we aim to inform and influ...

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Women & Equalities Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk · 03/03/2025

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Women & Equalities Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk · 03/03/2025

At 2.20pm on 5 March, we'll look into the prevalence and impact of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK. We'll scrutinise the Government's work in preventing FGM and addressing the health consequences of survivors of FGM. committees.parliament.uk/event/23291/... Thread ⬇️

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷‍♀️ So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it. 1/

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Let’s talk about rent controls. @zoegarbett.bsky.social, London Assembly Member and Dalston Green Party Councillor has been a tireless advocate for London’s two million renters. It’s time for action.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Wednesday’s @theguardian.com front page: PM cuts overseas aid to increase defence budget in ‘fight for peace’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"What made me very cross was when [Defence Minister] Luke Pollard keeps saying 'this was a hard decision'" The Green Party's Caroline Lucas responds to the Government's decision to cut foreign aid to fund an increase in defence spending. #Newsnight

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Marks and Spencer must take a stance against the misogyny, racism, abelism, homophobia, transphobia, and islamophobia gushing out of gbnews 👇🏼👇🏼

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Misogyny is off the charts generally at the moment. So many tv news clips showing groups of men deciding the future of countries and people they do not represent. 🤷‍♀️ It’s so important to call this out - make a start on M&S and their advertising on GB News. Link to @hopenothate.org.uk campaign 👇 👇

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Andrew Phillips @andrewphillips.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My @labourlist.bsky.social piece summarising a new @demos-uk.bsky.social paper. A mission to halve knife crime is very different to a mission to a put a man on the moon. We think that means government needs lean into cross-sectoral 'mobilisation' around missions. labourlist.org/2025/02/labo...

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‘Labour must mobilise the whole country around its missions – or risk failure’ - LabourList

In December, Keir Starmer confirmed that ‘mission-led government’ remains at the centre of Labour’s programme. This is welcome,…

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Southall Black Sisters (SBS) @sbsisters.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yesterday, we spoke at a panel for the play Lynn Faces which powerfully engages with themes of coercive control. Our Head of Policy Hannana Siddiqui discussed the structural barriers to support for Black, minoritised & migrant women, and the value of specialist community-based 'by & for' services.

L-R: Laura Horton (Lynn Faces Playwright), Estelle Du Boulay (Director of Rights of Women), Hannana Siddiqui (Head of Policy, Campaigns and Research at Southall Black Sisters), and Madeleine MacMahon (Actress).

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Number crunching: Fine handed to Barclays by FCA over ‘reckless’ fundraising in the 2008 financial crisis v bonus pool shared by Barclays’ bankers in 2024.

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London’s Victims’ Commissioner @ldnvictimscomm.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today I'm launching a survey to support research I'm doing with MOPAC on when and why victims withdraw from the criminal justice system. If you reported to the police but then decided (or felt pushed) to drop out / disengage, have your voice heard 👇 londonvoice.org.uk/victimattrition

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WooooOoOooOendy 👻 @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This podcast is incredible and another brilliant reminder that we are so exposed these days. Our lives play out online. It makes it easy to lose control of our identity. She says, on social media. Anyway! Listen to this astonishing podcast.

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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“This is a really dangerous time for women” says Sophie Mortimer of the Revenge Porn Helpline. It truly is. Yet there seems so little appetite to do much about it. Instead we see an intensification of misogyny online. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Online forums being used to trade explicit images of local women, says charity

Revenge Porn Helpline says ‘deep-seated misogyny’ behind exchange of photos on apps such as Telegram

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