Louise Knights-McCudden

Interesting piece. But it's not just about channels, it's about a larger crisis in government comms - and in society - which is not a new thing and goes back perhaps 15 years. Put simply, the Whitehall comms machine has lost the ability to win arguments.

How can we read the full piece?

A conservative Christian group that helped overturn the right to abortion in the US is now attacking UK abortion rights.

With the same tactics used to overturn #RoevWade, they're attacking abortion clinic buffer zones and gestational limits.

@bradleyjane.bsky.social & Elizabeth Dias report ⬇️

ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.

"Eicke listed ways... the court changed the UK. This included the abolition of birching in the 1970s, helping to expose the thalidomide scandal, lifting the ban on homosexual people in the armed forces and being responsible for the Hillsborough public inquiry reopening." share.google/hn2s3u5k419c...

Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights be rolled back? More than 100 women are believed to have been arrested on suspicion of abortion over the last five years in England and Wales.

“I think it’s very powerful as a message to send to the world that parliamentarians in this country have voted to defend the right to choose."

In @bigissue.com, @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke about the UK's move towards full decriminalisation of abortion.

www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

where do people like this think creativity happens? it happens IN the transitions, it happens in navigating through all the difficult bits; the pleasure of creating is inextricable from the difficulty, it's all one cloth. you deliberately conflate that with rote productivity then you have no soul

They imagine ideas emerge from the ether, bolts of lightening disconnected from our hearts. They imagine the process is an obstacle not the whole damn point. The idea of being stuck and having something just hand you some...solution, is so off putting to me as an artist.

God this is so depressing

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Does "gold standard" apprenticeships mean anything at all, or is that just to make it sound better?

"That's not the language I would have used" is not an acceptable response to this at all. Journalists need to make sure that this line repeatedly gets the response it deserves

Tice's quote is fake.

Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”

Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents.

It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.

Ofcom should rule

uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...

It is disgusting, horrifying, and heartbreaking that this even needs to be said. But sadly it does.

What tf is wrong with you

I'm so sorry. This is so devastating to read.

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.

One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

A great read!

“On Safe Abortion Day, we need to continue to fight for reproductive justice in the UK” “While we can’t be complacent, we also shouldn’t be defeatist.”

We've been featured in Stylist this #InternationalSafeAbortionDay 🌟

"We need to consider what fighting for reproductive justice might look like in a global political climate which is more hostile to human rights and equality." - @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social

www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...

One of the ironies in the age of micro-targeting is that a single unifying narrative/message is more important than ever.

A great new project.

The heuristic of 'if you couldn't make a decent stab at writing their obituary without further reporting, you shouldn't write a thinkpiece about their thoughts reveal about our times' remains very strong.

Our response to President Trump’s announcement on Tylenol and vaccines Our response to President Trump’s announcement on Tylenol and vaccines

“Understandably, autistic people will be dismayed and frightened by this... We urge our Govt and NHS to stand by autistic people and condemn this misinformation.

"We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations."

www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...

Good piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social on probability compression, relativism, and the idea of media balance

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Happy birthday! I hope your day is fabulous 🤩

A "marketplace of ideas" isn't going to be any less distorted by money and power and corruption and imperfect information and negative externalities (or the free speech equivalent) than actual markets

Also other parties and politicians do plenty of things that could be considered attention seeking stunts...! The Lib Dem ones are more harmless and silly and don't involve bonkers policy proposals

I can explain the term "the woke right." The logic:

1) I denounced "wokeness" for years, proclaiming it dire threat to free speech, a civilizational danger
2) This fascism I was downplaying while focused on wokeness seems actually bad
3) Since I am by definition never wrong, the fascism is wokeness