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The offence for which she was jailed falls under Section 19(1) of the Public Order Act 1986. The PM at the time that law was passed - a certain Margaret Thatcher

They are not "Jewish ambulances". Hatzalah is a volunteer emergency medical service set up by Jewish communities around the world. They offer treatment to everyone equally. Just like other similar services in the UK like St. John Ambulance, which is not a "Christian ambulance"

How much more are women expected to put up with? Because appointing a man who identifies as a woman to represent people suffering from endometriosis is not inclusion, it is disrespect. At best, it is tone-deaf. In reality, it's outright misogyny dressed up as progress. A man representing women with endometriosis. Think about that for a moment. Women fought for decades to get this disease recognised, treated, researched and taken seriously. Now they are told to step aside and let a man represent them. Call it inclusion if you like. Many women will call it something else. If women can’t even speak for women’s health anymore, what exactly are women allowed to speak for? Endometriosis is not an abstract identity. It is a painful, often debilitating medical condition that affects women because they have female reproductive systems. One in ten women in the UK suffer from it. Many spend years being ignored by doctors, misdiagnosed, or told the pain is “normal”. Women have fought for decades just to have this condition taken seriously. And now, after all that, they are told a man will represent them. You could not design a more insulting situation if you tried. Novelist Amanda Craig, who has personally suffered from acute endometriosis, said the appointment was “absolutely ridiculous” and compared it to a white person claiming to speak for black people. It is a harsh comparison, but you can understand the point she is making: representation should come from lived experience, not political fashion. This is the problem with identity politics when it loses all connection to material reality. Women are told to be quiet, be kind, be inclusive, and accept that even their own medical conditions are no longer theirs to speak about. So again, the question stands: How much more are women expected to put up with? Because when women cannot even speak about women’s health without being told to step aside for a man, that is not equality. That is erasure. And dressing erasure up as progress does not make it progress. It just makes it harder to challenge. #WomenMatter

Dedicated to #WomansHour 's tribute to #JenniMurray

“Based on what Jared Kushner told me, I thought Iran would attack us.” Not his intelligence agencies. His fucking son-in-law. Video credit ~ @PamphletsY

Well, they did. @UKLabour MPs placed unthinking tribalism ahead of evidence and principle. They fell for the untruths and misdirections, the cynical emotive rhetoric and the lazy, cowardly refusal of the government to debate on the facts. We deserve better politicians.

Since the Labour govt's bill curtailing jury trial has passed the first vote in the House of Commons, going to re-up this essay I wrote on the "Strange Death of English Justice" via @Quillette

Whether or not the Israeli war against Iran is justified, whether or not it is smart, whether or not it achieves its goals - one thing is certain: it is smoke-screening increasing atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank.

“How are you going to pay for Medicare for All?"  I don't know, how did we pay for a war in Iran that costs $1 billion a day? Weird how the money is always there for bombs and never there for hospitals.

@TrisOsborneMP It's not juries causing the backlog

I can not look victims of crime in the eye in constituency surgeries with court waiting times of 3-4 years for justice to be delivered. Why I back Court Reforms, investment in more court days and better buildings and processes.

Sir Chris Whitty says ‘too many’ non-experts involved in puberty blocker debate independent.co.uk/news/health/ch…

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

A woman was accused of 'cop-shopping' by police because she'd been to 2 different police stations to report her ex-husband for stalking and threatening her. They told Kelly she needed to ‘cool off’ and to 'give him a break’. He stabbed her and burned her to death just days later. share.google/Iw2BLHMAeeLDOZ…

Dear #NottinghamInquiry The P in #AMHP stands for Professional ✔️ Approved Mental Health Professional Not Practitioner✔️ #JustSayLike

The three people most mentioned in the Epstein files are Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump. One of them died in prison, one of them is in prison now, and one of them is president. But sure, let’s depose Hillary Clinton.

@nottspolice Junction Hucknall Rd Haydn Rd, temporary traffic light fail, massive queue, tempers fraying, can you help

@NottmTravelwise Hucknall Road haydn road junction temporary traffic lights fail. Massive queue towards the city

This one hits hard.

Ok, ok I’m going to be THAT person. Correct, a British passports doesn’t MAKE you British - it’s one of the best ways of documenting the fact that you ARE British. Millions of Brits don’t have a passport. Being British is a legal status - held by all British passport holders.

Casting Jewish people as 'hyper-privileged' is not just incorrect and antisemitism in and of itself. It also misunderstands the basic operating mechanisms of antisemitism, as distinct from other racisms. It belies a shocking level of ignorance on the subject