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SHE WORKED IN THE NHS FOR 40 YEARS. NHS FIRED HER FOR TRYING TO SAVE PATIENTS. Linda Fairhall started as an NHS nurse in 1979. By the time North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust (@NTeesHpoolNHSFT) sacked her, she was managing a team of 50 district nurses in County Durham with an unblemished record and a personal commendation from the Care Quality Commission @CareQualityComm. In 2015 she raised the alarm. A new council requirement had dumped roughly 1,000 extra visits a month onto her team with zero extra resources. She flagged patient safety risks. She raised concerns about staff stress and burnout. She mentioned a death she believed might have been preventable. The Trust's response was to suspend her and launch a disciplinary investigation. The tribunal later found the investigation was rigged from the start. Questions were designed to produce answers that damaged her. No allegations were put to her with any precision. The timing of her suspension, right after her last protected disclosure, was noted by the judge as far from coincidental. She fought for four years. She got cancer. She lost her partner. The Trust appealed the original finding against them, and a judge responded by calling the original decision "unimpeachable" and cranking the compensation up further. In June 2022, Linda Fairhall was awarded £462,000 by an employment tribunal. One of the largest whistleblowing payouts in NHS nursing history. The Trust said it had "continued to learn lessons." Forty years of service. A career the NHS should have celebrated. Instead it took four years of litigation, a cancer diagnosis, and the death of her partner for her to be told, officially and expensively, that she was right all along. Linda Fairhall said she wanted other nurses to know the law does protect you. The law eventually did. The Trust made sure it was as slow and painful as possible. Source: Personnel Today @personneltoday | The Lowdown | Protect @WhistleUK |

Excellent response to Sir Tony Brenton ..

This image was posted in February by Tina Ion under her Anne Frank moniker. Look at the image and the text She is still a candidate for @TheGreenParty in Newcastle Is she fit to stand for public office? Why won’t Polanski disown & condemn her? Cc @ChronicleLive @BBCTees

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1/ In January 2008, PC Neil Sampson walked towards a man with a knife. He took seven stab wounds doing it. His dog Anya, already bleeding, kept hold of the attacker so her handler could live. That same man, Essa Suleiman stabbed two people yesterday in a terror attack in Golders Green. Here’s what happened next. 🧵

@NoLongerTheFuzz PC Neil Sampson and Anya

The terror threat in the UK has been raised to “severe” - which means terror attacks are likely. Thank goodness we do not have a wide open border allowing terrorists, Islamists & murderers in at free will & a political class that’s terrified of even mentioning the word Islamism.

This is the problem with the "dress how you want" sentiment. It doesn't take into account the mentally ill men who get sexual arrousal from wearing fetish gear in public. No one should be forcefully subjected to witness the manifestations of a pervert's kink. It's obscene.

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@gillies_robert Expect you to care too, I expect

@Scribberlings New Yorkers don’t tell you. They expect you to know.

People from London really need to let everyone know they're from London, don't they? Bloke today asked me where the post office was, told me he didn't know where it was because he was from London. Wow sir, thanks for letting me know 🫡

@davidebrady Lol yeah

@Scribberlings London, the waiting room for Europe

To reduce the physiological and psychological symptoms of stress, calming the nervous system will indeed help. But! If the nervous system keeps getting reactivated by stressful events over a prolonged period of time.... you're cooked. Sorry Stanford psychologist, but the only way to stop stress killing you is to experience very little of it👍

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I hope everyone who shamed and cancelled @roisinmurphy - music critics, radio DJs etc - just because she said (correctly!) confused kids shouldn't be given puberty blockers will now read this and understand that *they* are the bad guys and the bullies. But of course, they won't

These are THE BEST WOMEN!!!! @roisinmurphy @RosieDuffield1 @suzanne_moore and the incredible co-author of The New Boycott Crisis Report @JoPhoenix1 all together in WESTMINSTER for the launch of @Freedom_in_Arts report and Art Beyond Boycott Toolkit!! (with thanks to @HuddlestonNigel)

@davidebrady Sometimes I've given my commiserations 🤣 Many moons ago I would ask what London was like, and when they'd given a reply I'd say something like "yes, I don't know London well, I only pass through it on my way to Paris" 🤣 They NEVER got the joke.

@davidebrady 🤣🤣🤣🫡

@davidebrady I mean, what is it they want? Are we supposed to applaud them or give then a reward or something??

@Scribberlings Had a woman in a burka ask me where to shop for milk, she said she didn't know...because she was from London.

But to point out that women who spend time and effort getting validation from strangers for their appearance, do not do it to get a sexual kick. You do. Some women might enjoy the thought of turning others on, but that's a very different thing. In addition, it might surprise you to learn that often women who enjoy make-up, fashion, playing with hairstyles etc are doing it with and for other women. Despite what academia might have to say about the patriarchy, this expression of femininity is often a bonding experience amongst women. Not every woman wants to be part of it, but those that do find a communal expression of femininity uplifting. Your sexual need to dress in a feminine way in public, is in no way similar to why women do it.

@benryanwriter What is it about typical women that necessitates constantly posting filtered selfies on instagram and seeking validation from strangers about their appearance? If you can answer that, you can figure out some of the same psychological drivers underlying why AGPs enjoy attention.

As some have predicted, trying to repress my AGP has not worked, even with the Catholicism. It has been a constant struggle. I'm tired of battling my own desires. I want to go back to integration and crossdressing. I don't know how to square this with my faith. But I don't care anymore. Repression doesn't work. It just led to endless binge/purge cycles. I gave repression my absolute best shot. But I cannot do it anymore. AGP is a core part of me. There's obviously the sexual kinky side, which I enjoy, but there's also the side of me that just genuinely enjoys more "feminine" interests like women's fashion, makeup, beauty, skincare, etc., and wants to openly incorporate these interests into my life and how I present myself, whereas as a "conservative Catholic detrans man" those forms of expression were not available to me. I have no interest in re-transitioning via a gender identity or adopting new pronouns again or anything like that. I am firm in my knowledge of being a man. Been there done that. Neverthless, I see a future where I am free to crossdress to my heart's content and embrace my sexuality. I simply love women's clothing and fashion too much. My whole life I've loved women's clothes. I don't know why. Can't explain it. But a future deprived of that seems bleak to me. I know some of my more GC oriented followers are going to bristle at the thought of me once again bringing my fetish "out of the bedroom." But I don't really care what GCs think anymore. My once hardline GC position has somewhat softened, especially insofar as it concerns AGPs expressing themselves publicly. I don't really care if it's considered "shameful" or "perverted" by some. Moreover, I still believe in common sense. Haven't changed my mind on sports, child transition, basic reality, etc. But I feel like I am reverting back to a more "liberal" position of letting people express themselves so long as other people's rights are being protected, even if there is a degree of "ick" from male sexuality. And I've come to realize 99% of the philosophical debate around "are trans women women" is verbal dispute, like almost all philosophical debate over the meaning of words. It obviously has real-world implications that are important, but the philosophical debate itself doesn't interest me anymore. Nor do I feel myself aligned with GCs against trans as this all-encompassing civilization-ending boogeyman that sucks up all my time and energy. I've grown tired of the whole GC debate. Some will say this is now just obviously self-serving. But, again, I have stopped caring about what GCs think. Last, I want to address the accusation that I am a flip-flopping, flighty, unstable zealot who goes from one extreme thing to the next looking for an emotional crutch. Yeah, pretty much, lol. I got called out accurately. Everyone who predicted Catholicism was a temporary crutch to cope with my gender feelings can now feel vindicated. However, I do want to say that my faith beliefs were genuine. It was all genuine. It really was a struggle. It really was a beautiful journey. And I still consider myself Catholic. I still believe in God. Obviously, I don't know how to square my newfound liberal convictions with conservative Catholicism. But I will square that circle later (somehow, maybe).