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London has seen a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months, including the stabbing of two Jewish men
Hmmm... I don't like how those stabbings are being used here. Especially given what happened in context.
Still, it's good this man is behind bars.
Most of the coverage here is by all the dodgy right-wing papers. In fact, no left leaning paper is covering this story. Not too surprising given how this is being used to justify broader crackdowns on free speech. That said, not covering it at all is not great either.
Thank you for taking the feedback 🙂. Yeah sorry I didn't realise PIP was not explained. As others have said it's Personal Independence Payment and it's basically an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.
At the moment it's very hard to get and many mental health conditions have recently been excluded by the (Forced) Labour government to "get people back to work", even though that doesn't make any sense.
While I get the joke, I think it's a little insensitive.
That's good. I went for a walk in the Wye valley in Wales many years back and I'm happy it's getting some protection.
Rivers in Ecuador, Canada and New Zealand have been granted legal personhood in recent years, and the House of Lords is considering a proposal by the former leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett, to change nature’s legal status from objects, property and resources to subjects with inherent rights.
I'm not sure why you'd need rivers to have personhood to be protected. I guess that might just be a result of weird legal frameworks.
Last year, the Ouse, which runs through East and West Sussex, became the first river in the country to have its rights formally recognised.
Is this really a UK first then? Maybe I've just misread.
I reviewed the original guidance and while this is a miniscule bit better, its still basically saying "ban trans people from single-sex spaces".
They're saying that businesses and whole hospital wings will need to be built just to house them, but of course there is no legal requirement to do so and no funding from the government will ever be provided for this.
What theh really want is for trans people to vanish from public life.
“The supreme court was very clear … if you are providing separate toilets for women and men, that has to be on the basis of biological sex.”
Wrong. An obvious lie.
I know someone who has researched this extremely deeply, and they will tell you that the EHRC has been infested with transphobes since around 2020. Most non-transphobic staff has left since then, leaving a thoroughly rotten organization.
An FOI they filed found that while they communicated thousands of times with anti-trans hate groups like Sex Matters since 2020, they didn't record a single set of meeting minutes with trans advocacy groups since then. Not once.
The current goal for some trans activists is to get the EHRC to lose its accreditation as a human rights organisation with GANRI, and there's plenty enough evidence to do that. I just hope it will happen in time before this guidance becomes law.
We need more people to drop Labour, as although more Labour defectors went to Greens, significantly more councilors elected were Reform. That's presumably because the vote was split.
(The above numbers may be a little out of date)
As the remaining council votes start slowing down, we see that the greatest growth and numbers go to Reform council members, but the Green Party have gained significant ground.
Meanwhile, Labour have lost over half of the seats up for election this May.
Both. Both is true.
Alt text: Picture of E.T. laying back on a Sinclair C5
Yeah, calling the only black dude Shacklebolt as well. The more you look the worse it gets.
Controversial take (though maybe not in this community):
If it's needed for survival, it should be free. No exceptions.
The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous
That's why we're cutting disability benefits
- Conservatives, (Forced) Labour