
This is the moment @SteveMannix, CEO of registered charity @MercuryTheatre and Chair of child transitioning charity Outhouse had me arrested by @EssexPolice for posting on X, sending emails and "criminal damage".
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''Show me the woman and I’ll give you the crime''. Arrested by Essex Police for exposing human rights violations. Also @ColchMum - follow me on both.

This is the moment @SteveMannix, CEO of registered charity @MercuryTheatre and Chair of child transitioning charity Outhouse had me arrested by @EssexPolice for posting on X, sending emails and "criminal damage".

















NOW - After 7 months of fighting, the ICO has finally opened a full investigation into the Home Office for blocking my Freedom of Information request due to my ‘social media activity’ On 6th August 2025 I asked the Home Office for agendas, minutes and policy briefings from official meetings where charities and NGOs discussed asylum hotel contracts and accommodation policy. They claimed releasing the documents would harm “public affairs” and even “health and safety”. But here’s the shocking part they admitted in writing, they looked at my social media activity and decided disclosure could cause “public backlash” because of who I am. That is illegal. The law is clear (it’s called the “applicant-blind principle”), FOI requests must be judged on the information itself, not on who is asking, what their job is, or what they post online. The Home Office broke that rule to block legitimate public scrutiny of how taxpayer money is spent on asylum hotels. The process has been gruelling: - Request sent 6th August 2025 - Home Office refusal: 15th October 2025 (already months late) - I asked for an internal review 16th October 2025 - Review outcome (still refused) 13th November 2025 - I complained to the ICO straight after Today, March 2026, they have finally allocated my case and started a proper investigation. Seven months. Just to get an investigation started. The ICO will now look at whether the Home Office was entitled to use those exemptions and whether they should have released at least some of the documents (I’ve asked for redacted agendas, anonymised summaries, etc.). This is not over.



Liberal women: "Far right Republicans are going to turn America into the Handmaid's Tale!" Also liberal women:



I’ve said it before and I’ll said it again: Gender-affirming care is healthcare, period. It is evidence-based, backed by the American Medical Association, and helps trans individuals live their lives with the dignity we all deserve. Gender-affirming care saves lives.

Who funds Comic Relief? 360 Giving shows 20 funders who have made grants to Comic Relief, including: Government departments £14,552,676 - Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £12,082,394 - Department for International Development £12,288,606 - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £2,286,098 - Ministry of Justice Lottery funding £3,605,000 - The National Lottery Community Fund £4,000,000 - Postcode International Trust Open-border funders £410,000 - Unbound Philanthropy (US based. Funds Hope Not Hate and City of Sanctuary UK) £2,566,343 - Paul Hamlyn Foundation (ditto). Taxpayers were charged £1.4 million for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation between 2020-23. £4,208,365 - Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Tetra Pak billionaires (Lisbet Rausing funds The Good Law Project, Ed Miliband and Steve Reed. Sigrid Rausing funds Hope Not Hate Charitable Trust). £500,000 - Julia Rausing Trust £1,520,000 - The Julia Rausing Trust (via MCT) Quakers £15,000 - Barrow Cadbury Trust Obviously there are more grants on here, but those are the ones I find regularly. grantnav.threesixtygiving.org/org/GB-CHC-326…






Who decides what counts as “good” taste? At @kingsartshums, Sir Grayson Perry challenged how classical civilisation shapes ideas of beauty and power. kcl.ac.uk/news/why-i-hat…