Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Or indeed UKIP, who use this logo. Clearly a more progressive choice than the Greens 0130
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I’m sad to say that one seems to be real. At least, the full photo of it shows an address and phone number that match a genuine business 100
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Mine is a very odd shape. But not a surprise, except perhaps the drift. 100
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026No, don’t you see, it’s just being “framed” as right-wing pathology. In reality, despite being a Tory who became a neo-Nazi and is now back to being a Tory it’s actually all the fault of the radical left. I am very smart and definitely not a crank 3183
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The worst I’ve had is the protein/supplements company Bulk. Six emails in nine days! 020
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Another former Labour MP could teach him the same lesson 011
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Yeah, it’s a meme of sorts, I think this photo edit is the original 090
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Well, at least the union president can be assured that inviting far-right speakers for publicity won't spoil their chances of a mainstream political career www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/... 130
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Similarly I recently took this screenshot (actually literally took a photo of the TV) and am itching for an opportunity to use it 041
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 03/04/2026A side note, I was interested to see this paragraph. Do they include something similar every time they write about John Woodcock, I wonder? Minus the part about being cleared of course 120
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Also the M in IMD means similarly ranked places can be deprived in quite different ways. Eg Tottenham and Clacton, both in the top decile: 100
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Name: Tom Williams Specialist subject: Barbara Castle Occupation: 160
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Always worth remembering the judgment of the employment tribunal in Fraser v UCU. 160
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Are you somewhere that would be easy to work out if included in a rebus in a puzzle magazine? 140
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 17/12/2025As also bizarrely seen on the menu of a cafe named for Mozart 020
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I've not checked the actual source on this, but it looks about right. Eliding over the enormous increase in the early 90s by citing a figure from over a decade earlier, as if it hadn't changed, is remarkable sophistry 140
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 09/11/2025No, but this seems to go beyond reasonable edits. It's splicing together a single sentence from two phrases, which changes the context of the latter. I've not seen the actual video - if anyone can link to it I'd be interested - but if that was done without making the cut clear, that's misleading 210
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2025What’s worrying is he is meant to be their expert on this stuff! Either he doesn’t understand what he wrote a book about or he is REALLY bad at trying to explain it to people who aren’t already immersed in it 140
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This is how I picture you whenever you post something this excitedly x 110
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Seeing Wes in this context always reminds me of this time he baselessly accused an often-abused black woman MP of seeking to discredit the EHRC because the Labour manifesto said it needed to be given a bigger budget and made properly independent of government 140
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I pointed out that they would be the one throwing the other person under the bus in this image - analogous to the classic trolley problem, as I'm sure you know - and got immediately blocked :) 140
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 17/07/2025So you're the one pushing the other guy off the bridge in this picture, right? I mean, I know you're happy to throw minorities under the bus, I just didn't think we were talking so literally 100
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 29/04/2025And anyone who enjoys that may also like this similar American letter-and-reply which is less well known in the UK 312514
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Finally got around to writing to my MP about the Supreme Court decision and EHRC draft guidance - I have no idea what his starting point is so my approach is very much aimed at a standard Labour-brain MP. Sharing in case any of it is useful to anyone who hasn't got around to writing to theirs yet 3152
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The Labour manifestoes under Corbyn’s leadership proposed to give the EHRC genuine independence from the government. Guess who baselessly* suggested this was about preventing it tackling antisemitism… 141
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 09/01/2025There’s a winner’s premium involved. In fact it looks very similar to this one, up to a certain point, and we know what happened next… 110
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 01/01/2025HNY, everyone. This year’s lemon pig is particularly messy - I forgot about it till the last minute and only had a really dry leathery one to hand. Hopefully not an omen for the year to come 080
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 31/12/2024The Simpsons did almost exactly the same joke in s5 100
Tom W @thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 24/12/2024I assumed the yellow group was a red herring, which held me up briefly. But still: 110
![Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
The whole thing, as first person account of "anti-Zionism" blending with paranoid antisemitic conspiracy theory, is grimlyfamiliar from radical left although reporting of him as ex neo-Nazi frames it as rightwing pathology. [link to “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite - and How I Escaped It” on The Crewkerne Man website]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sm5e43pxf5ktw5k5hqvdyw6k/bafkreifgkwtaoa2buatb76vxshs6bgiuobbv4qalymw6dvupxwhdg6eliy)
![Before the Equality Act, trans people still had rights against discrimination. At the European Court of Human Rights, Goodwin v UK established the UK's obligations, which led to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 [GRA] providing that "Where a full gender recognition certificate [GRC] is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes *for all purposes* the acquired gender". Even before the GRA, it was held by the Court of Appeal in Croft v Royal Mail that "a permanent refusal to permit someone presenting as a woman from using female facilities could be an act of discrimination even if the person had not undergone final surgical intervention," meaning neither a GRC nor surgical transition was necessary for a trans person to be treated equally with someone else of their gender and use the appropriate facilities. It is also worth noting that the GRA requires that someone has "lived in the acquired gender throughout the period of two years" to be eligible for a GRC, and in practice this often means things like using the toilets and other facilities appropriate to that gender.
The effect of the Supreme Court judgement and the EHRC guidance are to say that far from being a forward-thinking and progressive piece of legislation, the purpose of the Equality Act was to strip protections from trans people, hollow out the Gender Recognition Act, and introduce a "bathroom ban" on trans people who had been using the appropriate facilities for decades - _and that no one realised or implemented this for over a decade_. If this had truly been the intention of the legislation, why did the government in the years immediately following this implement it in the opposite way?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sm5e43pxf5ktw5k5hqvdyw6k/bafkreibiilbhsv2u2xuvk5yu344tv2xpyv32io4iltf7nhl77gpmynvbqu)
