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Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but for American politics, and it’s just filled with obvious advice like “have a candidate that people like,” and “actually engage with the voters instead of just saying vote for me or you get the other guy.”

Govt still deliberately ignoring they have European Convention duties and obligations and the EHRC which is similarly bound isn't doing its job properly.

Not a surprise but shows how willfully blind and bigoted they are. I'm left wondering if a full impact assessment would show them up.

To Chief Executive Equality and Human Rights Commission Arndale House, Manchester 5 November 2025 Dear John Kirkpatrick, I write further to the proposed judicial review in May and to make an intervention in relation to the Commission’s latest work on the production of a draft Code of Practice. It is regrettable that the Commission chose not to issue an apology for the risk that the Interim Update posed to the safety and wellbeing of the trans community. Instead, the Commission withdrew it, apparently with the intention of avoiding judicial review of its underlying legal and policy position. Namely, that the provision of trans-inclusive gendered services or facilities might be unlawful. The Minister has instructed the Commission to carry out a Regulatory Impact Assessment. As a businesswoman who is also trans, I welcome this requirement. It ensures that you cannot again place me in the position of being advised to act in a manner that would amount to discrimination against myself, only for that advice to be later withdrawn. You are reminded of your legal duty to act in accordance with the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2006. Attention is also drawn to the remarks of Michael O’Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, who emphasised the need for clear guidance on ensuring the inclusion of trans people across all areas of society, and for limiting any exclusion to circumstances that are strictly necessary and proportionate under the European Convention on Human Rights. You are further reminded that this approach is consistent with the equivalent tests set out in domestic law under the Equality Act 2010. Interference by the State with civil liberties can never be based on a mere technicality, nor can it be imposed without objective justification.

The shock-and-awe tactics underpinning the false claim that businesses must either oppress trans people or incur costs to modify facilities and services must end. The Commission must take decisive and unequivocal action to bring this debate to an end. I look forward to the outcome of the Regulatory Impact Assessment and to your evaluation of the practical options, such as providing gender-neutral facilities or services as a form of exempted, limited provision under Schedule 3 of the Equality Act 2010 for those who require it, while trans-inclusive arrangements and gender mainstreaming policies remain in place. Yours sincerely, Ashley Lee

Here’s my open letter to the EHRC.

I hope we can believe in this ceasefire in Gaza.

The scars of the last 2 years will run for many decades.

Incalculable generational trauma.

How is it ever going to be possible to more forwards positively from these horrific events?

Nigel Farage says Tony Blair 'not my choice' to help govern Gaza but understands Donald Trump's logic Donald Trump has said former Labour prime minister Sir Tony Blair would head up a "Board of Peace" in Gaza.

So rather than ask @eddavey.libdems.org.uk heading a 72 MP Party what he thinks about Blair governing Gaza

Sky asks Farage who has a total of (checks notes as the number keeps changing).. currently just 5 MPs what he thinks

Yet another example of not MSM promoting the toxic turd over others❗️😡

Yup. That's exactly what I suspected.

The allance years are much maligned beacuse of what many see as overdone austerity - not sure it was that true in 2010, but it was clearly extended way too far later. And the oscial achievements of the LibDems in coalition are just never talked about somehow.

It was an alliance government and they probably did it to appease the LibDems?

5/ I once described the Supreme Court judgment in Scottish Ministers (and its fallout) as “borders on the illogical, pushes past irrationality”.

Expecting the courts to act rationally, then, may be asking too much.

Using the UK Supreme Court definitions , if the man proceeds to have sex with the woman voluntarily, he is transparently not a homosexual, making the question moot?

I dare you - post this in Russian on vk.com/chiitan_offi...

You will probably get banned but you'll go out in a blaze of glory

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.

The current climate is especially accelerating this.

Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

Sadly. music is not always something that brings people together, because love/hate on styles is a thing even if you exclude the brittle debate on fleeting personalities.

Seen that a lot.

I wonder what you think of the movie "Fear and Trembling". A take on this exact issue. I'm certainly not knowledgeable enough to judge it.

okay this one makes no sense, alright she's a fan of Maggie Thatcher, what monarch did Maggie Thatcher serve under...

Why does the old-school Anglophilia fail in this one case, I wonder?

Whatever about social media: are the *pupils* saying anything? I'd expect at least some learners of English to be interested?

That party name baffled me for months, would one really asociate the historical Shinsengumi with progressivism?

Then I realized it was about the role famously played by the party's founder apparently, and it clicked (I could imagine an exact Russian analogy).

Alt text: Screenshot of a press release titled “Genspect Calls for Re-Psychopathologization of Transgender Identification.” Subheading: “Statement for Immediate Release” by Genspect, dated 27th September 2025. Below the title is an abstract graphic of a stylized “G” composed of textured shapes in teal, purple, and pink. The text beneath reads: “On day one of the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, Mia Hughes announced the official launch of Genspect’s Re-psychopathologization campaign in her talk defining transgender identities as extreme overvalued beliefs.”

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization.

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A whole Royal Commission is needed to investigate the whole war on trans in the UK. It's a hate campaign which involves the destruction of institutions just to go after one small group of people which sets a dangerous precedent for everyone.

Always love to point out that the numbers of people who regret HP related tattoos is a LOT higher than those who regret gender affirming care

In my view, "deep research" is one AI feature positively, unquestionably useful for even in a university context; it it to using a search engine what using a search engine is to using a paper catalog of a library. Much denser set of sources, faster, a chance to get what one could have missed.

AI can't *teach* passion and curiousity, but it can actually help in those; for the non-technically-minded, the main tool for that is "Deep Research", available in both ChatGPT and Gemini. It's a brilliant source search, just don't rely on its summaries too much.

This is perfect! There's a potential continuation in that AI is a pretty interesting subject of learning itself - it's applied linguistics at least as much as data science; so one can bridge to that by asking *why* GPT wrote what it wrote.

This thing is a "symantic cloud explorer".

The fight against section 28 took LGBTQIA+ rights to equal marriage and beyond.

The fight against the Transphobic Moral Panic needs to take us further towards equality for everyone.

But right now?

Safety. Healthcare. Protection from discrimination. Human rights.

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon: "This nation is for us and our posterity. It's not for Hindus. Its not for Muslims. And it's not for Jews. It belongs to Christians."

Delta basically dropped the ball on this, though. There isn't a real love triangle there, Mirage never stood a chance. (Unless you count Mikumo/Freyja as a side?)

Pedimos sanciones formales y ejemplares y poder empezar a desarrollar nuestra autonomía tecnológica. Y a Musk y Zuckerberg, si no os gustan las leyes europeas, os podéis ir con vuestros saludos nazis y vuestra masculinidad.

Nuestra democracia no está en venta. ¡Viva Europa!🇪🇺✊🏼

Europe has a message for Elmo.