Matilda Fitzmaurice

What a fantastic painting

There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.

I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.

For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

This is fantasising at this point

What was it Rebecca Solnit said - don't mourn someone who isn't dead?

This is an astute analysis

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especially as it means he's now joined the Telegraph's shitlist

I do now as well lol

Gary Neville showing more capacity for critical thinking about the Union flag than the actual government

This is good, peer reviewed backed up with peer reviewed sources.

The current UK study (pathways Horizon) to complete in 2030 & possibly extended after that.

Trans Children will have to wait until after that point before possibly being allowed access to care dependent on the results.

greta ily what an outfit

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Reading Room | Bishopsgate Institute The Reading Room is separate to the Researchers’ Service, so if you’d like to look at our special collections and archives, you’ll need this instead https:

Somewhere free, quiet, and right next to Liverpool Street? 👀

Whether you’ve got a deadline looming, are polishing off a chapter on your lunch break, or hunting for a calm spot to do some work, our new Reading Room is open to you.

👋 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activity/reading-room/

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

I'm on Day 3 of listening to the Kylie Tension Tour live album and I'm feeling bad for my neighbours

UCU statement on Manchester synagogue attack UCU said it is horrified by the appalling attack at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur.

#ucu: statement from @drjogrady.bsky.social on the Manchester synagogue attack: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421...

I have spent way too long fiddling with electronic reading lists today

on TBR pile!

They couldn't care less what anyone's views are or how they live their lives.

A reminder that fascists do not distinguish between the 'good' members of [insert minority group here] and the 'bad' ones.

Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96 She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played BBC One's crime-busting Hetty Wainthropp.

Hyacinth finally kicks the bucket, sorry, buckét

RIP Patricia, you brought so much laughter into our family home

This moving and brilliant reporting from Manchester's own paper is the best antidote to hate you could read today 👇

Jewish London: a celebration in 13 places a very non-impartial, non-comprehensive guide to some stuff I like

took a break from blocking people on social media to write a post about some places in Jewish London that I love:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

just because you know. it is nice to think about some lovely parts of my culture and heritage.

Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.

“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...

#housing #debt

We've been watching the live-streamed destruction of whole families for 2 years. Palestinians have all lost people/know people who have lost people. Disgraceful but predictable of the British State to use one outrage to suppress dissent against another. The hierarchy of human life on full show.

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Now it looks like two of the Slater women are going to have a scrap over Branning, just for extra Slater chaos points

At no time in the whole history of soap operas has there ever been a man to punch above his weight as much as Max Branning

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Just the university sector functioning perfectly well, nothing to see here