Nancy Kelley

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.

A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

Instead, anyone raising concerns about rising suicidally has been dismissed and monstered. I cannot express the depths of sorrow and of anger I feel about this.

CW suicide

@goodlawproject.bsky.social sharing data from FOIs on trans children and young people in the National Child Mortality Database. It shouldn't take FOI campaigns to highlight this - extremely distressing- data. It should always have been public, and *taken into account* by policymakers 1/2

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One in six autistic pupils in UK have not attended school at all since September Data comes as government prepares to publish plans to overhaul Send system in England

BIG part of the picture is the huge resistance in many schools to actually teaching in a way that works for autistic students

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Its odd. As a parent of an 11 and 14 yo smart phones aren't my worry, access to YouTube across every device is (and is super hard to block). Its just a firehose of hideous content

Coates is always worth reading.

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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

always a lot of panic about right wing young men, the second most progressive demographic in britain

It is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment".

No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About? Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ...

Once again.

Love this 👇

A) get some rest !! B) Love and solidarity, alwaysxx

Huge rise in number of people in England’s A&Es for coughs or hiccups Lack of prompt access to primary care blamed for rise in hospital cases of minor ailments including blocked noses

I hate how these articles get framed. People go to A& E b/c they cant get a GP appointment. I was *sent* twice by 111 because my GP wouldn't see me for months. Im probably recorded in these figures. Cough and breathlessness. It was cancer (and they missed it)

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The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Why is Wes Streeting picking over the number of autism and ADHD diagnoses when he should be focusing on why our systems of work, education and care are still so closed off to the people who get them? Well said ⁦‪@johnharris‬⁩1969.bsky.social
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falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing

just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws

As with government "reviews' into migrants rights, disability support, trans and non-binary individuals etc there is usually a preferred outcome which the government wants to achieve. That is helped by media outlets pushing somewhat misleading reports supporting the preferred outcome. 1/

RAG table showing ratings for 9 public services. It includes the following summaries for progress since the 2024 election: General practice - Progress on salaried GPs, but no steps taken to make partnership more attractive Hospitals - Government has set out high-level ambitions and reduced competing priorities, but no detail of implementation Adult social care - Largely ignored. Ending the care visa route without a workable solution for Fair Pay Agreements could cause workforce shortages Children's social care - Government has set out a clear and ambitious vision for reform and has backed it with relatively generous funding Homelessness - Early signs are encouraging, but government has yet to set out its homelessness strategy Schools - Government's plan to reduce inequalities in schools and tackle teacher shortages are unclear, and the crisis in SEND services casts a long shadow Police - Government has made limited progress in increasing neighbourhood officer numbers and has yet to announce details of planned reforms Criminal Courts - Increasing court sitting days was welcome, if done too late, but the government has yet to announce a longer-term plan Prisons - Rapid action addressed the immediate population crisis, but there has been limited progress towards a longer-term solution

NEW: Labour inherited public services in crisis. Performance had fallen, investment had been cut + spending plans were undeliverable.

It's made some progress, providing stability and positive long-term plans. But it has been undermined by poor prep in opposition and lack of co-ordination in govt 🧵

Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.

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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.

Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities

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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

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Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice Nearly 50 backbenchers write to business secretary over potential costs and legal ‘minefield’ of upcoming guidance

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable.

It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮

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The Westminster chatterati’s perception of Birmingham is so utterly deranged by this point I’m actually sitting here laughing

The way people are talking about it you’d think it was some dystopia from the Hunger Games or something

Go outside, touch grass, come to Birmingham - you’ll be fine 😂