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Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...

The Crank Report basically laid out the methodology for how an evidentiary basis for transphobic policy can be assembled, by cooking the books and being selective with "evidence" for no good reason.

Brilliant explanation. Watch it.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Just to confirm, the piece mentions Katharine Birbalsingh's views on all of us, including children, "suffering from original sin," going in a bit of detail in this podcast as to the implications for education.

Labour MPs not allowed to be briefed on law ahead of slashing right to jury trials In a deeply disturbing move, Labour are accused of blocking MPs from receiving advice on Lammy's plans to do away with jury trials

In a deeply disturbing move, Labour are accused of blocking MPs from receiving advice on Lammy's plans to do away with jury trials

SAY IT WITH US. DEFEND JURY TRIALS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Labour's attempt to remove our right to a jury trial in thousands of cases - including protest related offences - is a serious attack on our civil liberties.

That's why the Green MPs have tabled an amendment to reject it.

The Green Party says no to Labour's toolkit for tyrants.

A bold action for someone with a majority of 693.

Revealed: company behind vape shop fire had not paid business rates...or registered to sell vapes A Ferret investigation has found there was no registration to sell vapes at the Union Street premises in Glasgow where a major fire started - and we can reveal the name of the company behind the shop.

The post above has the wrong link - you can access the full story here - www.theferret.scot/revealed-com...

Farage can u-turn now, but when the call needed to be made he was 100% all in on doing Trump's bidding. He would have had UK servicemen and women following plans developed by pumped-up war criminals like Hegseth. That was the judgement Farage made before he saw the polling. That's what matters.

As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Have you seen those #DWP ads that are everywhere at the moment where some life event happens to a woman*, & then a voice tells you if you don't notify the DWP, they will find you & fine you.

I HATE this govt.

*Both ads feature women.
In one, the start of a relationship.
In another, bereavement.

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

Good news will be the "digital id is not happening" but I guess that's off the table for some reason

In 1983, Ruth Schwartz Cowan published a book called More Work for Mother where she argued that modern household tech (washing machines/vacuums) didn't reduce women's housework time, it just raised standards of domesticity. Household work is never shortened by tech & you can extrapolate that out.

i really regard this as the moment british media decided that even nazi opinions should be voiced in the mainstream.

this brought us to our present.

As an expert on the jury system, I am sceptical about this, and think it will reduce the system's legitimacy.

As a minoritised victim of crime, I would always trust a jury over a judge when it comes to understanding my life and the circumstances in which I have, e.g., been beaten in the street.

Starmer confidently piloting Labour directly towards the world's biggest iceberg. Not content with belligerently chasing away all Labour voters, he's now telling the devolved governments to fuck themselves. If he's not a Tory sleeper agent sent in to destroy the party, they should pay him anyway.

Plaid Cymru have raised this with the First Minister in the Senedd. More updates to follow

The UK Gov has been approached for comment.

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He then adds:

“We should be confident in our ability to deliver directly in those nations, including through direct spending, even when devolved governments may oppose this.”

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BREAKING - Big Story

A memo from Keir Starmer to all members of the UK Gov Cabinet has been leaked.

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Over on the other site, @kodamatales.bsky.social's co-founder announced they will be adding anti-ai used labels to their books.

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Rachel Reeves faces growing calls to ditch fuel tax hike after Iran war Reform UK has set out further detail of how it would cover the cost of scrapping September's planned rise.

So a far-right private company masquerading as a political party just jumps on any passing bandwagon and spouts whatever nonsense they like and the BBC report on it as though it's the answer to all our problems?

Why is that?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors

I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.

But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.

If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I would’ve said: What, even worse than the ones they’ve been actively promoting for about ten years?

Devastating report into trans lives shows we are ‘stronger together’, says Green leader Zack Polanski Green party leader speaks out as devastating report makes clear why many Trans+ people might be feeling powerless right now

“Our report clearly shows the relentless creep of far-right narratives and policies into the UK mainstream – depriving us of healthcare, stripping us of the privacy that comes with self-determination and whipping up harassment and violence against us."

Keira Bell, the OG prominent UK detrans voice, is currently being moved around the UK media outlets arguing against trans healthcare, while online she is a staunch Tommy Robinson fan sharing tweets calling black people "melanated savages" etc.

These people have fallen down Right Wing rabbitholes.