Ian McNee

China has eliminated approximately 628,000 tonnes of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in production and usage, accounting for over half of the total that has been phased out by developing countries to date, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on Tuesday.

The First Declaration of Havana In response to the US administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalise Latin American society. The first was delivered to hundreds of thousa...

Today marks the 65th anniversary of the First Declaration of Havana.

Delivered by Fidel Castro in Revolution Square, the speech was a response to US aggression against Cuba and condemned US imperialism across Latin America.

Read Fidel's speech in full. cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...

Imane Khelif appeals to Cas over World Boxing’s genetic sex test decision Imane Khelif has appealed to the court of arbitration for sport over World Boxing’s policy for competitors to take a preliminary genetic sex test

'The court statement said a request to suspend World Boxing’s decision to bar Khelif until the case is heard was dismissed on Monday.'
Good.
Why does Khelif want exemption from World Boxing sex screen?
Only one reason.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

"Retired women in the UK in effect go four months of the year without a pension when their income is compared with that of men, union leaders have warned." theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
@tuc.org.uk
#unionsforwomen
#pensionsforwomen
#pensions

Well in fairness he's a bloke so it is all about him... 😬

Ink painting of two otters as if swimming with curling bodies, playflully, one above the other

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt

Breaking: An Israeli strike on a tent in Shati Camp, Gaza City, killed 5 people — three children (ages 9, 7, and 4) and their parents.

Painting of a stylised standing female figure in a long dress holding flowers under a red sun, all created with dots

Turkish artist Selma Gurbuz, Sun Lonely Bride, 2013 #WomensArt

FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference — FiLiA Book your tickets today to participate in the larges annual feminist conference in Europe. Learn about global feminism and be inspired by the women who are taking down the patriarchy and challenging t...

Last night, we finished the MOTHER of all spreadsheets to be uploaded to the #FiLiA2025 platform!

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I suspect most who withdrew engage with the trans issue in equal depth to Okundaye: the word terf is mentioned, and allusion is made to the handmaid’s tale, then a gut reaction and withdrawal. I wonder what it will take to actually listen to the GCs rather than virtue signaling to identity labels.

Spot on. Well said.

Another juvenile misogynist stamps his feet. The bubble that is the literary world is both captured by and terrified of regressive gender ideology and regularly attempts to burn witches who stand up for women's rights - and those who support them like @johnboynewriter.bsky.social.

Such an essential point:

"Instead of challenging the misogyny aimed at autistic girls, gender clinics reframe their distress as a problem of identity, not oppression. This misinterpretation erases the sexism they face, and redirects support away from addressing their real needs."

There is now a mountain of evidence of events that would be prejudicial against Sandie Peggie in the Trusts investigation: from Dr. Kate "Not An Expert ON Sex" Searle rallying the ED consultants against her to this latest revelation about Theodore Upton's altered notes. Their excuses don't wash.

Trans doctor altered notes after changing room row, tribunal told An IT expert at the Sandie Peggie tribunal against NHS Fife says Dr Beth Upton was ‘trying to mislead’ the hearing over claims of patient safety fears

'Paperwork submitted in evidence for the tribunal case shows that Upton altered phone notes following the altercation, it emerged on Friday. Peggie’s legal team had earlier accused Upton of fabricating the patient safety allegations in an act of revenge.'
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

The most important story in the world right now.

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white young woman with the words 'want' and 'more' tattooed on her knuckles

Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), US photographer known for her documentary photography and portraiture #WomensArt

I think there is hope in the fact that the hard core of swivel-eyed pan-gendered loons is a small minority. There is a large majority who have just gone along with it and, like most youthful fads, will leave it behind when it becomes clear it was nonsense.

Wages always chase prices.... Even in the 70s it was blamed on unions, but unions were responding to the profit inflation of the 70s and wages needing to catch up. They just hated the fact that the competition for talent was high.

The truth about work, single-sex spaces and the law | Michael Foran | The Critic Magazine Last week an Employment Tribunal heard evidence in the case of Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Elizabeth Upton, who is male but identifies as a woman. Sandie Peggie, a nurse of thirty years’ experience…

Michael Foran
"Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...

Starting to look a bit grim for the @rcn.org.uk - there are bound to be more nurses coming forward in the coming days and weeks. Good!

“An incident at the end left me very shaken. One woman said that views like mine were racist; that I was a terf; that exclusionary people like me shouldn’t be given a platform and that my words were a danger to vulnerable people."
Shocking article.
archive.ph/2025.07.22-0...

#Syria: UN experts gravely concerned over alarming reports of targeted abductions, disappearances & gender-based violence against women and girls, particularly from the Alawite community in the different regions of Syria since February 2025.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network: Putting Women at the Heart of the Labour Movement — FiLiA On the anniversary of the Matchwomen's Strike of 1888, we are launching our FiLiA webpage along with an updated sign-up form. This blog explains what we have been doing since our launch in April and w...

Membership of @rcn.org.uk is c90% female. Women make up 58% of trade union membership generally. We are the majority yet too often unions fail us. If you want to make unions work for women join @filiacharity.bsky.social TU Women's Network www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... /2

"[The RCN] have repeatedly failed to exercise their industrial muscle to advocate for female members distressed because they are being deprived of genuine single-sex spaces to dress and undress at work." /1
#UnionsForWomen
#sandiepeggietribunal
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2532591...

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

U.S. Olympic Officials Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Competitions

'The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports'.
At last.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

"The UK govt's continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports." Prof Nick Maynard @medicalaidpal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is Gaza.

Neoliberal centrist Dunt still bellyaching about the dreadful political consequences of the economic project that he backs. And of course Dunt helped to destroy the left political current in Britain that offered an economic alternative and had the backbone to challenge racism.