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Suzanne Gannon

@meandmarmalade.bsky.social
880 followers 1.3K following 243 posts

UK-based (West Yorkshire) politically homeless socialist feminist; sex≠gender; fully paid up member of the Anti-Growth Coalition & Tofu-Eating Wokerati; vegan; gardening

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent by @sonia-sodha.bsky.social "Instead of taking time to reflect on how the nature of their own campaign cost them their opportunity to legalise assisted dying, campaigners have reacted angrily threatening to bring the issue back at the first opportunity." substack.com/inbox/post/2...
substack.com
What the assisted dying debate reveals about Parliament
The best of the Commons, the worst of the Commons
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Someone has added me to a starter pack that, from what I can ascertain, is an antithesis of anything I care about. Is there a way of getting yourself removed from these sorts of lists? The list is called Blue Stuff Crew #4. The guy curating it is an alphabet "ally" & I think a US democrat.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Of course this must be an aberration. No genuine peer reviewed academic journal would ever publish nonsense like this, especially not in the sacred field of gender studies .... archive.skeptic.com/archive/read...
archive.skeptic.com
The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies
“The conceptual penis as a social construct:” a Sokal-style hoax on gender studies by @peterboghossian and @GodDoesnt.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So the authoritarian so-called progressive "Left" now are in favour of censorship. I guess it makes sense as they have no problem cancelling those they disagree with. But I don't think they've thought this one out fully ...
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Kenneth John @kenhepburn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m entirely onside with the general BlueSky condemnations of black clad, Balaclava-wearing, menacing men as a mob rather than protestors, but can’t remember the same judgement being applied to these lovely chaps (or other similars) on here.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well worth a read. cartrarian.substack.com/p/jason-arda... "The people who spent years talking about misinformation, institutional accountability, lived experience and speaking truth to power were presented with an almost perfect test of those principles. They failed."
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Ingenious name @ingeniousname.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Other than misogyny, I can’t understand why so many self proclaimed progressive men are so desperate to force trans identified males into women’s spaces unless they are simply uncomfortable with feminine presenting males in theirs. True progressive position after all is to protect women’s rights.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Arday could have started a lucrative second career by declaring that his entire first career was ... an exposé to put the “Grievance studies” hoax to shame — an attempt to see how far he could climb by telling the “correct” stories to white liberal gatekeepers." www.chronicle.com/article/jaso...
chronicle.com
Opinion | Jason Arday and Me
Getting canceled is a fast track to despair and anomie.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A very reasonable article by Helen Lewis. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Jason Arday Truthers
The concerted effort to airbrush the late fabulist’s life
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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Arday's Law' isn't just impossible, it's a crackdown on press freedom, it's an open goal for the far right, an opportunity for increased government powers. I can't quite fathom how anyone, liberal or left, could sign the petition. Doing so reveals only a lack of understanding of media power.
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WooooOoOooOendy 👻 @wednesdaygj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Why on earth is she being supporting by an ethnic minority charity and how can she access legal aid. None of this is right
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Kim Willsher @kimwillsher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Very good piece on the Jason Arday tragedy by Kathleen Stock. unherd.com/2026/08/the-...
unherd.com
The Jason Arday delusion
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"his main contribution to that body of knowledge [social science] will be as a case study, about a community that elevated a flawed man to a position exalted beyond his ability, without knowing or caring that they were actually offering him as a human sacrifice." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"everyone loves free speech until a reporter is in their face or up their backside. In few other realms of public life is the gap between theory and practice so very wide. Actually, of course, what people really love is speech for themselves but not for others." www.thetimes.com/article/591c...
thetimes.com
Free speech is universal or it’s worth nothing
Those who want to police the press appear to like the idea of freedom of expression for themselves but not for others
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Rachel Hewitt has experienced the tragic aftermath that happens when a serial liar becomes publicly exposed. "The public persona becomes invested, by onlookers and by the individual themselves, with the qualities of a saint." rachelhewitt.substack.com/p/paywall-li...
rachelhewitt.substack.com
PAYWALL LIFTED: What happened to Jason Arday shows how social media has warped us all. Sadly, I have first-hand experience of this.
My husband died in similar circumstances to Arday. Social media has made it almost impossible for people whose lies are exposed online to imagine any form of future.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A sensitive consideration by Jenny Lindsay, who knows a thing or two about being hounded and cancelled socially, professionally and financially and the personal costs that inflicts. jennylindsaywriter.substack.com/p/early-depa...
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Early Departures
I wonder how many of us have thought about it.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
An analysis of the JA debacle that focuses on "how the system incentivizes people to present a more impressive version of themselves... and how we can make the entire system more honest". beyondtheabstract.substack.com/p/analyzing-...
beyondtheabstract.substack.com
Analyzing the rise of Jason Arday
How extraordinary claims, institutional trust, and prestige created a self-reinforcing academic success story
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"When you are Black, some people will open the door for you far wider than they should. And when that door abruptly comes swinging shut, you will be offered no second chances." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
The Truths That Failed Jason Arday
Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Many things can be true at once: The targeting of Jason Arday had a racist motivation. Arday lied about many aspects of his life and experience. Cambridge was desperate to publicise his appointment as proof of its success in diversifying its academic workforce."
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Another post on the Jason Arday saga, this one focusing on how it's positioned within the current perilous state of HE. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc... archive.is/CFoby
newstatesman.com
Who’s to blame for Jason Arday?
Arday isn’t a victim or a crook, but the product of a broken system
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press. Journalists asked to write anti regulation articles after the Grenfell fire. Anything not for sale to super rich and corporations - political parties, press, think-tanks ... Who checks corruption?
theguardian.com
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"This is what “suicidal empathy” looks like: demanding the world ignore biology, culture, and tradeoffs, then acting shocked when reality pushes back." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Gay Cruise
The dangerous things I think out loud
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
2 photos of the arctic both taken in the summer more than 70 years apart show the dramatic change in the continent ice cover. There is no time to waste. No planet B. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #phaseoutfossilfuels #renewables #GreenNewDeal pic via @ChristianAslund
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Yet for years now, Amnesty has displayed an astonishing contradiction in its own understanding of human rights by singling out British women as hatemongers for standing up for their dignity and rights, while supporting women in Africa arguing for exactly the same thing." archive.is/4S4pU
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Debate and reasoning are “transphobic” and if you want to keep your job you declare your pronouns and keep quiet." Scathing anatomy of Amnesty's position of sex and gender by Maya Forstater. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20769...
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Thread by @MForstater on Thread Reader App
@MForstater: Amnesty have written to people saying “We regret ‘A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK’ briefing was uploaded to our website without going through the established internal...
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"It’s one thing to be unfairly maligned, but when it is based on such an illiterate interpretation of one’s actual beliefs it’s fucking infuriating." jennylindsaywriter.substack.com/p/mildreds-w...
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Mildred's World
(a response to Amnesty International's 'anti-rights' report)
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Taking the piss: Gender Surgery's Incontinence Problem. A new study tells us what gender clinics won't. genderblog.net/gender-surge...
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Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem
“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” Elaine Miller One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment conce…
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"The consequences of replacing sex with gender identity in law, thereby enabling any man to claim access to female-only spaces and resources, just weren’t a thing back then. How could those amending legislation possibly be expected to consider the impact of doing so?" thecritic.co.uk/what-is-wron...
thecritic.co.uk
What is wrong now was wrong before | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine
The past is not the same as the present. This startling insight was delivered by former Australian PM Julia Gillard during a recent lecture at the University of Manchester, in response to a question…
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An excellent substack by a talented artist and author. Well worth a read.
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It is utterly mystifying that Scope (a disability charity which you would hope would know a thing or two about discrimination) has proactively decided to unlawfully discriminate against a group of supporters because one of them has publicly stated you can’t change sex. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...
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London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views
A choir has been told by a disability charity that it will not be welcome at Sunday's London Marathon because its founder holds gender-critical views.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"The lazy lumping together of women’s liberation with anything to do with liberation from gendered expectations has led to a situation in which women are expected to be grateful to men who challenge the most superficial of gender norms while reinforcing the most damaging ones."
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Just one week to go to apply for a fully funded PhD with me on autism and gender dysphoria #psychology #phdfunding
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"Nor will he know how frightening it is to realise that her trade union will ignore all of this and side with him, leaving her to fight alone." The captured Trade Unions and "the left" in general don't realise the extent to which this cancerous ideology is killing them.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Curse of Private Equity US evidence shows: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed. Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
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When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care
Peer-reviewed studies link private equity takeovers to more deaths and medical complications in nearly every corner of healthcare.
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Made stuffed tofu pockets topped with pickled radish to go with a bok choy and gluten puffs stir fry this evening. They were interesting and tasty and complemented the stir fry.
black bean noodles topped with bok choi and mushroom stir fry with gluten puffstofu filled with shitake and carrot, topped with pickled radish green
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"There is a profound ethical difference between respecting someone’s identity and being compelled to participate in it. ... Our reality is negotiable. Our boundaries are negotiable. Our safety is negotiable. But someone else’s self‑concept is sacred."
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The "progressives" in Your Party and elsewhere should take note of this scathing analysis: "You’ll grudgingly consider you could have made your point better, but at heart the assumption remains that the stupid normies misunderstood you, not that they understood you perfectly well."
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Suzanne Gannon @meandmarmalade.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
These surgeons are ghouls. This is the "life saving!" path the paused puberty "trial" will put children on. None of it is ethical. None of these children can ever give informed consent to any of it. And it's completely unnecessary.
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Protect the dolls
That’s become the rallying-cry of those who think the Supreme Court stole the rights of trans people when it held in For Women Scotland that sex in the Equality Act bears its natural, biological meani...
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James O'Flynn @jamesoflynn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is mad & ethically incomprehensible. On what metrics did they decide who should pay more or less for the same thing? 'Dynamic pricing' has always been a thing, even on food. We expect a local 24hr shop to cost more than a supermarket we travel to. But not on same item, same time, same place.
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Alan Falconer @alanfalconer.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"When not in Government, Wes Streeting berated then PM Rishi Sunak for using strike action to blame doctors for the parlous state of the NHS. Now HE is responsible, he’s doing the same.... You have the power to end the threat of industrial action Mr Streeting. Sort it out." - The Daily Politik
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
www.holyrood.com/editors-colu...
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The Sandie Peggie tribunal has ridden roughshod over the Supreme Court ruling
Judge Sandy Kemp's ruling has muddied the waters and allowed for nonsense commentary
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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Your Party is officially dead. It just voted to constantly prioritise trans identifying men. It seeks to obliterate women's rights. 'Left wing' politics in this country is an absolute mess.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2025
For anyone who cares about ensuring their loved ones can die with comfort & dignity, it makes for singularly depressing reading – key findings summarised in pics below. But perhaps most depressing of all is the government’s response to the report, this glib one-liner from a spokesperson:
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 27/11/2025
PFI didn’t just burden NHS trusts with huge debt, it trapped them in decades of overpriced maintenance contracts. One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous. And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’. Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint" Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
bigissue.com
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
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