1. 🚨BREAKING: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has paid £187,000 in damages, apologised, and committed to separate changing facilities for male and female staff following the Darlington nurses’ legal case.

In January, the Employment Tribunal had found the nurses suffered harassment and indirect sex discrimination over workplace changing-room arrangement.

The case, brought by seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller, was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, which has provided the nurses with legal, media and pastoral support from the beginning of their ordeal.

The case has become one of the most significant legal challenges in recent years concerning the freedom of female staff to access single-sex spaces in the workplace, with the nurses being compared to the Ford Dagenham workers and being dubbed ‘The Angels of the North.’

In January, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney, ruled that the policy, which had been in place at the Trust for years allowing men who identify as women to access the female staff changing room, had amounted to unlawful discrimination.

Following extensive and at times deeply protracted negotiations, the Trust has now paid out £187,000 in damages to the nurses, which does not include legal costs, which are still to be decided at a further hearing.

This figure also does not include the Trust’s own legal costs of £603,000, and counting, spent on defending its position of allowing men into female changing rooms.

See more on our website and in this🧵to see the Trust's apology and commitments on single-sex spaces....

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2. The apology

As part of the settlement, the Trust has also formally apologised to the nurses. They said in a letter to each nurse:

“we recognise that we have a responsibility to provide a safe, respectful and inclusive working environment for everyone and the Tribunal’s findings make clear that we did not get this right for you, for which the Trust expresses its sincere apologies.”

Furthermore, they say that:

“We also acknowledge that in our decision making, we did not adequately consider your concerns, formally or informally and we sincerely regret that we were unable to get this right. In light of the judgment, we have reviewed our policies and the changes that have already been put in place and will consider what facilities are required to follow the Tribunal’s findings in a way that is respectful to all of our colleagues.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that we support all colleagues and is committed to doing so through our respective policies, procedures and actions as well as learning from the findings of this judgment.

We know that this has been a difficult and distressing experience for you. We also recognise that, at times, your concerns were not fully heard or addressed in a timely or sensitive manner, and we regret the impact this had on you and colleagues who have been affected by this process and subsequent judgment.”

3. The commitments

As part of the settlement, the Trust has now also agreed to:

Provide changing facilities, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences as separate between biological men and biological women.

Continue to provide suitable and sufficient changing facilities, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences in accordance with its obligations under The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and any other legislation and/or guidance that would be applicable at the time.

It has withdrawn its policy known as ‘‘Transitioning in the Workplace policy’’ (v3.0) POL/PD/0060 (and, for the avoidance of doubt, all previous versions of that policy).

Any future policy replacing the “Transitioning in the workplace policy”, or any other policy affecting the Claimants’ right to be provided with single-sex changing, sanitary or washing facilities, will fully comply with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and any other legislation and/or guidance as would be applicable at the time.

It has also agreed to provide suitable training to its management staff based on the lessons learned from the case and the Tribunal judgment, with a view to preventing any repetition of such discrimination or harassment of female staff as the Tribunal has found to have taken place against the Claimants.

The Trust has, however, refused to rule out taking disciplinary action against the nurses for speaking about their case, despite the Tribunal ruling going to the media was ‘a protected act.’

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https://twitter.com/tribunaltweets/status/2069694223230578706

J - with preliminary matters we will give decisions but not extensive reasons. Is that okay?
NC - may depend on the outcome
J - the tribunal will use preferred name and pronouns, C has pc of GRA. As to the Intervenor and witness we understand their position and accept that we

cannot compel witness to use specific pronouns, we ask the Intervenor as far as possible to use gender neutral language, we appreciate that this will be difficult, accidental slips may happen, but deliberate use of the wrong term or misgendering will be seen

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¹ I may not be a "historian of Palestine", but unlike the incompetent, self-congratulatory hack below, I know that real historians verify claims against the underlying sources rather than hide behind hollow appeals to authority.

So here are a few examples of “push the Jews into the sea” rhetoric used by Arab leaders. 🧵

https://x.com/MarkZlochin/status/2069056685939859875

² On April 6, 1948, the Daily Mail reported that Fawzi al-Qawuqji - a former officer in the Nazi-aligned forces during WWII and later field commander of the Arab Liberation Army - 'blasted the Jewish colony of Mishmar Haemek… [and] personally led a major action “to drive the Jews into the sea.” ' ⏬

³ Similarly, on October 6, 1948, the Palestine Post, quoting Cairo Radio, reported:

“The Arab armies are now strong enough to defeat the Jews and push them into the sea, Fawzi Kaukji stated on his arrival in Cairo…” ⏬
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We hope to report today on the employment tribunal of Samantha Tempest & PQ vs DEFRA and the Rural Payments Agency.

It is the first day of hearings so there may well applications or other business for the Tribunal to deal with. Official start time is 10 am.

PQ & Tempest (the claimants or Cs) are claiming discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation on grounds of gender reassignment. Central to the claim is the Sex Equality and Equity Network in the Civil Service (SEEN or IP). SEEN has been granted right to intervene.

🇸🇩🇬🇧THREAD: Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health, testifying before the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee on the government’s failure to act on intelligence and genocide warnings in Sudan:

1/ 🎥 Raymond is asked whether the FCDO did everything possible to prevent the genocide. He answered no — political will was blocked by the UK's unwillingness to confront the UAE, the primary military enabler of the RSF’s massacre in El-Fasher in October 2025.

CHAIR: So to summarize, your evidence is indicating that FCDO decided to take the relationship with the UAE over calling out the mass atrocities that you could document were going on.

RAYMOND: 100%

CHAIR: Why?

RAYMOND: Because it was easier.

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2/ 🎥 The Four Steps The UK Government Failed to Take

Raymond lays out four steps he says the UK should have taken to prevent genocide:
▪️declare an imminent risk,
▪️identify the UAE as the enabler,
▪️build an international coalition, and
▪️use the UN Security Council.

He says the government failed at the first two, including issuing only vague statements while Zamzam camp in North Darfur, fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during a full-scale assault between April 11 and April 13, 2025.

3/ 🎥 UN Resolution 2736: A Window That Was Wasted

Raymond says UN Security Council Resolution 2736 briefly halted the RSF advance. Satellite imagery showed vehicles stopping in their tracks after Abu Dhabi reportedly ordered a pause. But once it became clear there would be no enforcement, the offensive resumed. He argues a rare opportunity to stop further atrocities was lost.

Unpopular opinion: Putin is no longer the absolute ruler of Russia.

He is a hostage to his own security apparatus.

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Putin came out of the KGB — and the KGB's heir is the FSB. Four years of war later, the FSB has seized control of Russian life: not as a spy service, but as a political police with emergency powers that now substitutes for the state itself.

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Start with communications. A law Putin signed in February 2025 lets the FSB order any carrier to cut any connection at its own discretion, with no explanation and no liability to the customer.



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Yesterday at Leinster House for World Whistleblower Day, the conversations afterward turned powerfully to accountability, protections for those who speak out and the gaps that still exist in our institutions.

Follow up discussions quickly moved to the banking crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, very much ongoing today - & whether the full story of decision-making back then has ever been properly confronted.

Those exchanges prompted a closer look at key testimony from the Banking Inquiry that still feels unresolved today.

https://x.com/MLorrM/status/2069527578847670555

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One striking piece came from former AIB Chairman Dermot Gleeson, who recalled the night of the blanket bank guarantee in September 2008.

Gleeson said Finance Minister - the late Brian Lenihan told him he was prepared to let Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide wind down.

Gleeson added that AIB viewed Irish Nationwide as irretrievably broken at that point, and he was surprised by how the broader guarantee unfolded without fuller input from some key players.

Crucially, when Anglo’s Sean Fitzpatrick publicly claimed that all banks were insolvent, Gleeson wrote to him describing those comments as “frankly outrageous”, insisting AIB did not see itself as having a solvency problem on that critical night - contrary to discussions in May 2019 in Finance Committee in which it is openly acknowledged that banks were insolvent.

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Gleeson’s account painted a picture of AIB as somewhat sidelined from the final guarantee decision, learning the details largely through the media the next morning.

He maintained that the focus that evening was heavily on containing the risks from Anglo’s collapse and its potential ripple effects, rather than any immediate crisis of solvency at the larger pillar banks themselves.

This testimony left many wondering how much of the systemic picture was shared openly at the time versus managed behind closed doors.

Excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995). The PRI had massively expanded higher education. These universities were entirely 'free'/self-governing and became locuses of left-wing organizing.

In 1968, security forces fired upon a massive student demonstration/riot against the Olympic Games.

By 1970 Mexico had made enormous progress; the national income increased sixfold while the death rate dropped by half. But Mexico was still struggling with foreign-exchange; the govt pursued import-substitution to improve balance-of-payments.

Last week, Israeli–American journalist @emilykschrader addressed the Oxford Union in opposition to the motion: “This House believes Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine.”

She argued that peace requires mutual recognition of each people’s right to self-determination – and that the Palestinian national movement has too often defined peace not as coexistence with Israel, but as a world without it.

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