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Michael Stewart
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@RossPlayle Normally a PM has more important things to do but this is indeed about the level at which this one can be productive.
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There is something really quite humbling about the UK political system from this. You wouldn’t catch many world leader doing the same.
Martin Plaut@martinplaut
Keir Starmer helping get out the vote in Camden: no-one is above a little folding of leaflets in our democracy!
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Michael Stewart retweetledi
Franchement, le terme “racisé”😑 est devenu une prison mentale.
À force de tout voir par le prisme de la couleur de peau, certains finissent par enfermer ceux qu’ils prétendent défendre.
On n’émancipe pas en assignant. On n’élève pas en catégorisant.
Ce discours paternaliste empêche d’avancer, de réussir, de se définir autrement que par une origine.
La République ne reconnaît pas des “racisés”. Elle reconnaît des citoyens. 🇫🇷
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Zack Polanski saw five kicks to a tasered man's head. Instead of performing outrage for cameras, he's doing the harder thing: taking it to the Met Commissioner directly. Social media wants spectacle. Zack wants accountability. That's not weakness — that's maturity. #bbclaurak
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@downbeat63 If you voted Corbyn before then vote Polanski now; if you voted Green before, run a hundred miles and vote anyone but
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The Trevor Philips show and all the guests bar one has just convinced me to vote Green. They are treating Polanski appallingly. He is definitely getting the Corbyn treatment and it's disgraceful. Vote Green.
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@DPJHodges Read Trevor Philips on his experience at United the kingdom March… he was neither intimidated nor threatened
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One thing on the pro-Palestine marches. If you accept they directly intimidate the Jewish community (which they do) then you must also acknowledge the Unite the Kingdom rallies have precisely the same effect on Muslim and other minority communities. We ban both, or neither.
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@TheRealJamieKay Nice and ambivalent Bojo from the front Mothin Ali at the back
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University leaders cannot face the thought of an independent regulatory framework covering their current speaker policies and practice. CAF sets out why their position is so dangerous to academic freedom
Committee for Academic Freedom@ComAcFreedom
STATEMENT: Following the High Court ruling in R (University of Sussex) v Office for Students, Sussex VC Professor Sasha Roseneil is calling for a regulator that “works with the sector”, while also offering to “work with the government” on “better ways to regulate and support” universities. The Office for Students (OfS) is a specialist regulator with a clear statutory remit to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom. Its purpose is not to rubber-stamp institutional preferences or create opportunities for senior leadership to mark its own homework in an atmosphere of backslapping bonhomie. It is to ensure universities meet their statutory duties, including where overreaching EDI policies, misstated harassment codes, mandated “decolonisation” programmes or anonymous micro-aggression reporting portals threaten lawful speech. These examples are not plucked from thin air. At CAF we see the chilling effect they have in our casework. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (HEFSA) was introduced after years of sector-wide failure to address these and similar drivers of campus cancel culture — including at Sussex, where Professor Kathleen Stock was hounded from her post over her gender-critical views amid a sustained campaign against her and a conspicuously passive leadership. The trans inclusion policy at the centre of the High Court’s ruling, which formed part of the OfS investigation that led to Sussex’s legal challenge, required course materials to “positively represent trans people and trans lives”. The OfS concluded, not unreasonably, that such wording risked chilling lawful speech and academic freedom. As the judgment itself makes clear, it was not irrational for the regulator to conclude that the policy, read in isolation, was capable of having a “significant and severe” impact on free speech. This ruling was indeed critical of how the OfS exercised its powers under the then extant legal framework, but we should not allow that to become a pretext for backsliding now that HEFSA is in operation. Professor Roseneil calls for “better ways to regulate and support” universities. The forthcoming OfS free speech complaints scheme, and strengthened free speech conditions, are precisely that: giving the regulator the tools Parliament intended to hold the sector to account — something Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP and Skills Minister @Jacqui_Smith1 should now ensure is delivered without delay. timeshighereducation.com/news/sussex-wi…
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@PeterTatchell @MothinAli You know the answer perfectly well. Mr Ali is a conservative Muslim; his greenery is the green of Islam not the environment
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What are Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali's policies LGBT+ issues?
During his campaign in 2025 for the deputy leadership, Ali declined to express support for LGBT+ rights
To clear the air, @MothinAli needs to make a public statement asap
thepinknews.com/2026/05/01/gre…
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Good of @thetimes to have exposed the sheer antisemitism of an old ambassador. Hitler too indicated that ww2 was the german jews fault and that’s why they got it In the neck. They should have been more careful, eh ‘Sir’ Tony…
Marika Cobbold@Marikacobbold
In his very own Modest Proposal, former ambassador Sir Tony Brenton tells British Jews that if we don't like being firebombed, stabbed and shot, all we need to do is publicly submit to - and pass - his political purity test. Good-oh, Sir Tony.
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@HadleyFreeman @VictoriaPeckham Disingenuous is just the word - see too the long interview with him in ST tomorrow - will not answer a single question except to say that women can have penises (😃) and that all questioning immigration are racists….
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Terrific column by @VictoriaPeckham
Be afraid, be very afraid of disingenuous Zack Polanski
thetimes.com/article/b8e58c…
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@JoPhoenix1 I’ve posted elsewhere about other relevant judgments from Lieven. One about Gillick competence in gender consent.
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I share the sense of shock and bewilderment at the Sussex v Office for Students high court case.
I am also deeply troubled by the "delight" in the win by Sussex - especially given that the evidence in the public domain of how their employees and their students acted does not exactly cover the institution in glory.
jophoenix.substack.com/p/irrelevant-c…
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@MShipworth Utterly unworthy comments from that office - presumably knows that on left Labour there’s plenty of support for such attacks…. The vCs really don’t want anyone interfering in their feudal fiefs…
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Re Sussex vs OfS: Despite the judge finding
"no vitiating apparent bias in respect of Dr Ahmed’s personal role in the decision-making",
VC Roseneil claims that the judgement means Arif Ahmed's position as Director of Free Speech is untenable??
Times Higher Education@timeshighered
University leader questions Arif Ahmed’s position after landmark court case highlights conflict of interest, as others cast doubt on future of regulator's incoming free speech complaints scheme, reports @jgro_the #freespeech #highered ow.ly/nbvO50YSiHb
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She speaks for all the puny vCs who’d rather have the peace and quiet of the ‘let parents decide’ approach to free speech than allowing true freedom on the campus. With luck Lieven will be overturned. But Ahmed also silly to have fined so high first time in…
Abhishek Saha@ObhishekSaha
The VC of Sussex has used yesterday's judgement (on which I'll have much more to say later) to launch an attack on Arif Ahmed and the planned HEFSA provisions. But as I point out to @timeshighered, those provisions are now needed more than ever. timeshighereducation.com/news/free-spee…
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Hiw long will Justice Lieven’s judgment stand?
Professor Alice Sullivan@ProfAliceS
There is much that is troubling in Mrs Justice Lieven's judgment in favour of the University of Sussex, but this stands out. The judge suggests that if someone objects to a 'gender critical feminist lecture' it might be reasonable for the university to demand that the lecture should be read in advance by 'the university'. So lecturers who believe that sex is real should have their lectures vetted by administrators if someone complains in advance of the lecture. This type of incentive is exactly what activists thrive on. And it suggests a regime which strips academics of all autonomy and acadmic freedom. judiciary.uk/judgments/the-…
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This is outrageous. The guy is clearly incapacitated on the ground, having rightfully and thankfully been tased, yet two police officers are repeatedly kicking him in the head.
Who do they think they are: members of the IDF?
BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧@BROKENBRITAIN0
🚨WATCH: Footage shows Golders Green knifeman being TASED, KICKED in the head, and ARRESTED after stabbing two Jewish people 🇬🇧
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@Simon1974_s @hugorifkind PA was banned because core active members used political violence / terror to try to impose their wishes on others. It is v v striking that the terrorism has ceased since PA was banned. As to why grannies want to get arrested for them - they’ve got first world issues: too bored
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@hugorifkind The people arrested didn’t “do” anything. He’s absolutely right. The UK made it illegal to criticise Isreal through supporting Palestine action
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I'm not sure why this is being so widely reposted when it is flatly untrue. I say this as someone who was and is opposed to the banning of P.A. but they were banned for what they did, not what they said. And I've seen zero evidence (or, until now, suggestion) that the Israeli govt demanded it.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
Carlson: "it is a crime for which you can be arrested.. criticising Israel. You say you're for Palestine Action, you can be arrested.." Derbyshire: "That is not true.." "What is not true about that?" "Palestine Action is a proscribed group. It is banned" "Why is it banned?"
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Vote green and vote for Hamas apologists
habibi@habibi_uk
"All I did was chant 'death to the IDF!' and abuse an MP. What's wrong with that? Now I am going to back terrorists, hurl a Nazi slur, and talk rubbish about the media. Oh, and here's another 'death!' chant." Chandni Chopra remains a Green Party candidate in Newcastle.
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@JonathanDenis Malheureusement au Royuame-Uni ils ont présenté un texte inacceptable, très mal rédigé. Le texte n'a pas été suffisamment réfléchi. Ce qui n'est pas le cas en France.
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Ce qui s’est déroulé au Royaume-Uni sur l’aide à mourir ressemble à la mascarade de la droite sénatoriale en France. Quelques conservateurs bloquent la loi par idéologie. Si le texte n’était pas voté d’ici l’été, ce serait une honte absolue démocratique ! lemonde.fr/international/…
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@Madz_Grant Could the students get compensation for having to spend time in the company of that extent of aesthetic nihilism?
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Upsetting to think that St Hilda's college, a great seat of women's learning, set up in the face of opposition and with little financial help in the 19th century, is now a place where a male SCR member can wear insulting 'womanface' to work and basically enact a fetish in public
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