Kieran Lowe

Met arrested woman after Facebook posts about ex-partner – a serving officer London force sent three officers at 4.45am, who put her in the back of a van and seized her phone and computer

I'd like to live in a city where the cops took bike theft as seriously as they take "being rude to your cop ex-boyfriend". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

the Equality Act was a 2005 Labour manifesto commitment passed by Harriet Harman under Gordon Brown’s premiership

yes, I meant Johnson-era, but it was actually Truss who did it as the Minister

so even after the Johnson-appointed bigot Falkner goes, the Government’s politicisation of the EHRC and its war on trans people will continue apace, over the objections of two committees of MPs. Seems a lot like Labour trashing its own Equality Act legacy to me

President Trump has left the door open to pardoning a woman who sexually abused and trafficked underage girls for more than a decade.

tough call for the press reporting on the Trump/Starmer meeting - focus on the majority inanity and personal attacks which comprise Trump's vocal output or normalise his behaviour by only focusing on the occasional coherent sentence

If I were a Pakistani woman I am not sure I would feel particularly safe with Sandie Peggie as my nurse. Yet it's the trans woman doctor in this case who is being painted as a threat to women and girls.

EXCLUSIVE: NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie mocked victims of Pakistan floods in series of racist posts The offensive messages, detailed below, emerged in an evidence bundle seen by The Courier at the tribunal in Dundee.

The Courier reports on Sandie Peggie's racist posts, where she used the term "p*kis" and said that, following devistating floods, Pakistan looked like a "giant bowl of coco pops".

Sandie Peggie is supported in her case by Sex Matters.

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Gender row nurse ‘wanted to post bacon through mosque letterbox’, tribunal told Nurse Sandie Peggie was suspended after she complained about having to share a changing room with a transgender medic

Scratch a transphobe ...
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I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

I hope at least one person attends with a camera of some kind so we all know which gay men to avoid for the rest of our lives.

Incredible saves from Hampton got us this 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🎉

*Agyemang breathes*

Frappert: 😡😡😡

very special to march in trans pride with my cousin this year ✊🏻 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

I never want to hear that expensive climate change mitigation is too expensive. Look at the exponential growth in climate related disaster costs

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

The rest of the comments are an open expression of ethnic cleansing. They are confirmation of a war crime.

Jubilee brainstorming Surrounded videos

i'm sorry but the knowledge that ozzy osbourne admitted to shooting cats for fun during lockdown is eating away at me like the crack ate away at his brain

I have a long-standing interest in this kind of dark patterns work from my time at the @cmagovuk.bsky.social - so has been interesting to see these worrying insights from my BIT colleagues

A pre-Online Safety Act behavioural audit of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X and YouTube by @bitglobal.bsky.social for @ofcom.bsky.social found they sometimes prioritise continuous engagement over user well-being - and minimal differences between child and adult accounts around safety

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

It is very hard to see how the UK government can sign this statement, which makes it absolutely clear that it recognises that Israel is committing - as a matter of state policy - deliberate and systematic war crimes, without at a minimum cutting all military cooperation with Israel.

- Israeli forces bomb a kindergarten - Israeli forces attack World Health Organization buildings, stripping and tying up staff and family members, taking some hostage - Reporters from AFP, world’s oldest news agency, announce this is the first time in their entire history that their colleagues may die from starvation - United Nations staff say they will stay at their humanitarian hub in central Gaza, despite Israeli displacement orders - Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strook says war on Gaza must expand, even if that endangers the hostages - Israeli soldiers arrested in Belgium due to accusations of war crimes - 28 nations, including the UK, Canada, Japan, Spain, and France, condemn Israel’s blocking of aid & killing of people seeking food and water; demands Israel to not block aid and not ethnically cleanse Palestinians - The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide – demands world leaders: - "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

Today:

Gaza is officially in IPC Phase 5, the final, stage of hunger.

They are literally starving to death.

Tonnes of aid sits at the border, deliberately blockaded by Israel

If people don’t care now, they never will.

In the fullness of time no one will understand how anybody could be OK with this.

Very cute - congrats Arthur X

ait Borsay: "Do you think climate change exists?" Andrea: "I've said for a long time, we need to ditch net zero and actually focus on economic growth. A million percent." Kait: "But then how do you tackle climate change? And do you believe that climate change exists?" Andrea: "Do I believe that climate change exists? No." Kait: "Okay. So you are not a believer in climate, you know, despite rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, despite all of that evidence?" Andrea: "It depends. It depends what evidence you look at.... I think it's a way to actually make money." Kait: "Okay. But you don't believe climate change exists. And so that's why there is no need for net zero, in your opinion." Andrea: "Absolutely. And I think it's harming industry. I think it's a money making racket where certain businesses and individuals are making money out of it."

Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns tells Times Radio that she doesn’t believe climate change exists, and that it’s just a “racket” for some people to make money. If Reform win the next election, the UK could become a very different place quite quickly.

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

This is abominable and everyone involved in the series of events which led to it, from the Home Office to the police, should be ashamed of themselves.

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Text from London Centric newsletter - including, “air conditioning has been pretty much actively discouraged by the UK government until now”, Andrew Sissons said

Text from London Centric newsletter - including “In Scandinavia, which is the heat pump capital of Europe, they use air-to-air heat pumps. It’s mystifying that Britain hasn’t gone down this route, it’s really good technology and it’s really affordable” said Andrew Sissons

Text from London Centric newsletter - including, “there was a worry that if everyone gets air con the grid would collapse, [but] with more solar on hot days you’ve got quite a bit of extra capacity in the system” said Andrew Sissons

Londoners shouldn’t worry about air conditioning being bad for the grid, solar power is providing additional summer capacity - and air-to-air heat pumps could be the answer to summer air con worries, @acjsissons.bsky.social keeps us informed in @londoncentric.media open.substack.com/pub/londonce...