Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

Following an article by @novaramedia.com we have now shared part one of the timeline of Oxford Health's installation of Oxevision.

The report outlines how the Trust invested millions in a technology its patients described as 'creepy', 'unsafe' and 'spying'

“Creepy, unsafe and spying”: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part one Image from Oxford Health Oxevision pilot. The Oxevision box here does not have the black screen designed to hide the camera as with the current model On 14th January 2026, Stop Oxevision submitted …

“Creepy, unsafe and spying”

This report is written to accompany our complaint to Oxford Health. We are asking questions as to whether personal connections and vested interests may have influenced decisions pertaining to the technology

stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/c...

Recommendations of the Sullivan Review also have wider alarming implications for research: "paring down 'the scope &power of ethics committees’ in various ways, removing ethical oversight from some university-based research, & arguing that [EDI teams] should not issue guidance on data collection."

Adults in the room calling for civility I see. 🤮

Please read this excellent &timely critique of the Sullivan Review out today: it cogently argues that the SR's recommendation of a single binary sex-at-birth model for data collection undermines trans&gender diverse people's (& I'd say, by extension, all participants') self-determination in research

Vital case of University of Sussex vs Office for Students is in the High Court this week. The results will matter for all of us given the OfS's overreach and directions of travel.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

When the ‘news’ doesn’t report news but feeds prejudices people are being actively encouraged to have, then repression follows, with the suspension of civil liberties and rights of protest.

Which is in part how we have ended up with the highest number of arrests for alleged terror-related activity

So glad this piece is finally out: it broadens the reach of the work of Abdaljawad Omar & shows why an engagement with psychic life (& Palestinian reworkings of such) is crucial for understanding both the annihilatory violence of settler colonialism & the force & necessity of Palestinian resistance.

Naturally Palantir working for ICE

Yes. On the other hand I believe that several GCs are now horrified by Gxxxner's disgusting pro-ICE postings. Parting ways with him (if it ends up happening) produces a lovely little alibi though

I think a few. There is some internal schism within the movement (e.g. JCJ and some of the founders of Woman's Place). However I don't believe that this recognition means that these people are likely to move away from GC.

Oh god - should I look?

Flyer. Importance of Public Involvement Research Webinar Series. Webinar 4. This webinar will share findings from two evaluations of young people’s advisory groups (YPAGs), both co-produced with young group members. It will highlight lessons for meaningful and inclusive Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) with children and young people (CYP) and explore practical implications for PPIE professionals, researchers and CYP involved in research. Chaired by Dr Stan Papoulias, PPIE research theme lead at NIHR ARC South London. Facilitated by Dr Elspeth Mathie, Inclusive Involvement in Research theme lead at NIHR ARC East of England. Speakers: Dr Louca-Mai Brady, Reader in Youth Involvement and Health; Dr Helen Abnett and Lauren Denyer, Research Fellows, UH; and young members of the Herts YPAG. Who should attend? Anyone who is interested or involved in CYP’s involvement in research, including young people. Tuesday 17th February, 12:00-13:30. Register now!

📣 @nihrarcs.bsky.social #PPI webinar: Evaluating #PublicInvolvement with children & young people 🌟17/2/26
Presenters incl me, @helenabnett.bsky.social & @hertsypag.bsky.social + hosted by @skourkos.bsky.social & @elspethma.bsky.social

Info & booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/involving-...

This cannot be emphasised enough: the phrase is itself eliminationist as it sets up being trans as pretense/deception and is calculated to pruriently evoke body parts & elicit disgust.

“I am there just to get on with it”: a qualitative study on the labour of the patient and public involvement workforce - Health Research Policy and Systems Background Workers tasked with specific responsibilities around patient and public involvement (PPI) are now routinely part of the organizational landscape for applied health research in the United Ki...

The paper in question- more reflections soon link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Indeed - and this gives more fuel to the work coming after the paper

And this will be very disheartening news to all working to advance PPIE whether funded by NIHR or not. They justify this by saying ‘this activity is everyone’s business’. But guess what: we can all read between the (corporate) lines.

Wow: this morning we hosted an @arc-southlondon.bsky.social event on research inclusion in which @drsoapsub.bsky.social warned us about the current dilution and lack of investment in lived experience involvement. This seems an uncanny confirmation of their words

Freud was ‘misunderstood’ and wasn’t so obsessed with sex, new analysis of work suggests A new edition of his theories on dreams argues that he used ‘sexuality’ to describe any purely pleasureable activity

Yes I remember! Well haven't had the chance to go through the NSRE, but there are some v. worrying remarks here about the 'correct' reading of sexuality (as not sexuality) in Freud, which align with what we know of Solms' other work www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Well except your phrasing positions us as the naughty children acting out. What would you call the act of assuming astonishment, or professing that one has no idea whatsoever to what another might be referring to?

What a dreadful article! 'the jury is still out as to whether psychoanalysis is a cure'??!! Honey, psychoanalysis starts by moving away from the demand for a 'cure'.

A version of self preservation. Everything else can be construed as maladaptive. Which means a hollowed out, normative psychoanalysis. Note: Solms is the editor of the new revised edition of Freud.

An urgent appeal to save the lives of Palestine Action hunger strikers Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action.

An urgent appeal to save the lives of Palestine Action hunger strikers.

Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Follow this brilliant group of activists campaigning to stop Oxevision, the intrusive & dehumanising surveillance system rolled out across large numbers of UK mental health wards. Who benefits from the adoption of such 'innovative' tech? And why have patients been excluded from its implementation?

Thanks @louca-mai.bsky.social - and for the very handy list too. Yes please add me - will think on this.