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@prestigeflowers Picture 1 ordered, picture 2 delivered. Refund denied, delivery of missing flowers denied. Paltry £10 future credit offered. I quoted statutory rights they state that by agreeing to their terms and conditions that they can refuse refund. 9364906

@motea_shop Attention all UK bikers. Ordered from motea.UK site. Note-UK. UPS arrived today and asked for £60 import taxes. At no point in the order process did it state was arriving from abroad. I have refused delivery and await full refund, including delivery.

@QcWynter @Alisdisgrace The poor data isn’t always from poor recording but from ability to extract data. Patient records aren’t entered on extractable formats, excel. They are in unique individual electronic records. Software overhaul to allow this would be £££ with confidentiality consideration.

@Alisdisgrace Who in medicine and/or science keeps poor records? Why do they keep poor records? The answers to those two simple questions probably reveal more than enough for us to know what to do with this new study.

Correct. Instead of ignoring Keira Bell and treating her as a medical pariah, sit her down and talk to her. Listen to her. Write down what she says. Learn. Repeat with the other hundreds of Keira Bells. They are the "experiment". It has happened. Find them. Talk to them. Sorted.

@west_response Maybe cos you emigrated to the East?

@CopMoustache Yonder?

First person who correctly names where I’m heading and I’ll donate £10 to a charity of your choice 😊👍

@history99917180 Hopetoun horse trials?

Guess where we are.

@WoodlandNomad Looks like the Whumping tree in Harry Potter.

A fantastic tree and view 😃#TreeClub🌳

@boswelltoday @Echinops2025 When it is due to finish? I hope there’s not another extension.

@Echinops2025 I'm part of the same chamber, but I think it is an easy win given the SC ruling mood music.

Day 7 | PM Session | Peggie v NHS Fife & Dr Upton 👄“Words as Violence - But Whose?”: Peggie Tribunal Exposes the Hypocrisy of NHS Fife’s Language Doctrine Day 7 of the Peggie tribunal didn’t just put NHS Fife’s policies on trial - it put its vocabulary under cross-examination. For months, the board has cast Sandie Peggie’s use of male pronouns for Dr Upton as an act of symbolic violence: the verbal equivalent of exclusion, even aggression. But this afternoon’s testimony exposed the hypocrisy beneath that charge - and asked a harder question: if misnaming someone is a harm, why did NHS staff do it themselves? Angela Glancy, the lead investigator into Peggie’s conduct, was back in the witness box. Calm and methodical, Naomi Cunningham led her through the institutional theatre of pronoun discipline. “You weren’t confused,” she asked, after Glancy admitted to slipping into male pronouns when Cunningham used them in questioning. “No,” Glancy replied. She simply reverted to her trained pattern. The spell of compelled speech, it turned out, could be broken with a single unapproved utterance. That moment, measured and factual, was enough to tie opposing counsel Jane Russell in procedural knots. She objected to the use of “exercised” as too loaded, the pronouns as too confusing, the tone as unprofessional. Yet all the while, her argument rested on a belief system that demanded linguistic compliance from Peggie, but showed little concern for the shifting syntax of its own witnesses. Her discomfort, it seemed, was not with incivility, but with clarity. It was Glancy’s agreement with a hypothetical that set the real terms of the debate. Cunningham posited a man named Pete - broad, masculine, bearded - entering the women’s changing room as Peggie undressed. Would Peggie be right to object? “Yes,” said Glancy. But Dr Upton, biologically male, had walked into the same room. What made one situation inappropriate and the other inviolable? The answer lay not in appearances or facts - but in words. Pete said nothing. Upton said, “I’m a woman.” That, apparently, changed everything. Then came Anne Hamilton, the HR adviser who supported the investigation. Under pressure, Hamilton revealed that the original draft of the report on Peggie referred to Upton using “they/them” - and, in places, “he/him.” Only in later versions were these replaced with “she/her.” Peggie, meanwhile, stood accused of misgendering. Cunningham didn’t need to editorialise. The tribunal could see it plainly: NHS Fife had disciplined a woman for saying what the board itself had once written. Even more striking was the revelation that Upton had met privately with the investigator, Angela Glancy, to “adjust” the notes from their interview - without any record, without a second party present, without transparency. Peggie was never offered the same. Hamilton tried to frame it as policy-compliant, then admitted it was “not ideal.” The tribunal heard the subtext: editing the record was allowed, as long as the edits affirmed the right narrative. Throughout, the evidence pointed to an unstated rule: words only wound when spoken by unbelievers. Peggie’s language, rooted in sex-based reality, was framed as hostility. Upton’s assertions - about identity, entitlement, and access - were treated not only as valid but as sacred. The board’s own shifting vocabulary became a litmus test: speak the right words and you were protected; speak the wrong ones and you became a disciplinary target. By the end of the session, the tribunal was no longer hearing about pronouns as a linguistic preference. It was seeing them as a mechanism of control. Peggie’s “he” was not a slip, nor a slur - it was a refusal to participate in a belief system she did not share. And for that refusal, she faced what can only be described as institutional reprisal. Meanwhile, the very agents of that reprisal - managers, investigators, HR staff - used the same “misgendering” language themselves, without consequence, until it became administratively inconvenient. If this afternoon proved anything, it’s that the real violence wasn’t Peggie’s use of male pronouns. It was the system’s attempt to dictate what words she was allowed to say - and to punish her for saying what was once, and still is, undeniably true.

@ornowitza @MrMalky That’s the one that got me too. An absolute highlight.😂😂

@MrMalky Or KS Beth has every right to use the facilities she wants under the GRA. NC What did u look at to satisfy yrself? 🚨KS If u google it there's many refs for trans ppl and CR🚨

@tribunaltweets Did NHS have to answer their petulant statement? Was sit discussed at the hearing?

The fourth day of the July hearing of Peggie vs NHS Fife & Dr B Upton is due to start at 10am. We anticipate a discussion regarding NHS Fife's statement of 18.7.2025 before the next witness, Charlotte Myles, is called.

@Fyrishsunset I am an RCN member and have been since 1985. Shortly to retire. I want her to sue them to H and back.

Day of reckoning for the RCN … Sandie Peggie, a fully paid up member for some 30 years, is suing her trade union, claiming it failed to support her because of her gender-critical beliefs. heraldscotland.com/news/25325910.…

@nhsfife YES you CAN!

@treesey Yep, emailed 20 consultants. Disgusting. With subsequent discussions as how he should phrase/rephrase his comments.

‘Dr Searle, who is Dr Upton's boss, sent out an email to his colleagues "setting out Beth's side of the story." scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/…

@QcWynter Delighted about the disciplinary outcome. I really hope she is issued a profound apology from that avenue, distinct from settlement from the legal process. I suspect not so hopefully the humiliation of NHSfife disciplinary process management & HR team will be recompense enough

I have no idea what is taking place behind the scenes in Dundee in Peggie v NHS Fife but after the legs have been swiped from under one's case in way that the disciplinary has done to Fife's defence, talk typically turns to settlement. Everything goes quiet until an announcement.

@ThistlePc @ScotsPolFed Bloody hell.

@Peroda813 @ScotsPolFed On some occasions the same officers are having to transport them home

How increasing violence towards officers, plummeting morale and mounting workloads lead to stress and other mental health problems in our members: dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-… #PoliceWellbeing

@ThistlePc @ScotsPolFed That is so fundamentally unacceptable 😡

@ScotsPolFed Any idea what percentage of Police assaults result in custody cases? Assault a cop and you’re usually home before they are!

@carol_catsx7 @AshReganMSP So, I’ll bite. A click bait or a bot. Work in the NHS, 30 years, bare minimum effort, you WILL get a complaint. We are expected to go above and beyond as the new bare minimum. Every. Single. Day.

@AshReganMSP Nobody forced her to go to an employment tribunal plus you have no way of knowing whether she was dedicated to the job or did the bare minimum.

I stand with Sandie Peggie - a nurse of unblemished record for 30 years. Her employer NHS Fife should have been celebrating such dedication and service, yet Sandie has been forced to take them to an employment tribunal. 1/9

@joannaccherry Will we not hear confirmation or otherwise of appointment until November?

Oh and they don’t even have the intellectual honesty to say that the real reason for their opposition to her appointment is that she has stood up for the rights of women and lesbians. Parliament is shamed by this. thetimes.com/article/5cc666…

@LozzaFox What on Earth car do you drive?!

Can someone explain to me why another year of safe driving and no claims bonus costs £166 extra a month in Britain? I thought you got rewarded for not crashing your car. Seems not.

There is nothing to rush here. If your policies are compliant with the law as clarified by the Supreme Court ruling then you have nothing to do. If they’re not, then you’re liable right now. You’re either exposed to significant risk for liability or you’re not, right now.