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26 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Well played the media for tone-policing @AngelaRayner whilst ignoring that what she said about the actual Prime Minister is basically true.
And where's the scrutiny of @michaelgove - who attacked not one single politician but the whole "cruel, dirty, toothless face" of the North?
Politics is a tricky business. Anyone who says they know the answers is a fool. But I'm pretty sure they don't include taking advice from those who want you to fail.
Particularly slow drum roll for those whose position in life means they get to care more about the tone of political discourse than poverty and bigotry.

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23 Sep
Some extraordinary stories emerging about what's happening in schools.

More than 100,000 with Covid. theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
Warnings of more from Chris Whitty. theguardian.com/society/2021/s…
But only three weeks ago Public Health England, who we are supposed to be able to trust, was insisting "schools are not the drivers and not the hubs of infection". bbc.com/news/uk-584187…
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19 Sep
The Sunday Times is right to point to the relationship between your place in society's screwed up pecking order and the amount of abuse you attract online. THREAD
1. But the thing about pecking orders is that everyone sits in a power relationship to everyone else. So it can be true both that the group 'women' gets more abuse than 'men' and that other groups get more abuse than women.
That you are not at the top of the pecking order doesn't mean you are at the bottom. If you don't like pecking orders - if they don't sit with your ideas about equality - then make sure you always peck up - never peck down.
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18 Sep
Iinteresting story about the judge ("J") who is widely believed to have written the appalling Bell decision. J used to be a hero to many around me for heroically despatching Paul Conrathe (who acted for Ms Bell) in a case he brought attacking abortion rights.
I spoke to someone I trust who had watched the hearing. They said that they had been shocked at J's treatment of Conrathe's client in that case. They didn't think the conduct of the case had been remotely fair - and that J had been bullying.
Anyway. It was a reminder to me, and perhaps to you, to care more about the independence of the law and of judges generally. It's never right - even when convenient to you - for judges to bring their personal politics into the courtroom.
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17 Sep
So the (truly awful) Bell decision has been overturned on appeal. Some headline points. THREAD.
The most damaging part of the decision of the Divisional Court was the centering in a place of notional authority (the Court) of marginal opinions about how to help gender dysphoric kids. The CA is critical of the Court below for making findings based on that evidence.
This is the second intervention (both successful) of @GoodLawProject in the space - the interveners were @BrookCharity, @Genderintell and @TheEndoSociety - and the Court of Appeal also endorsed the first. (Outlined here goodlawproject.org/news/tavistock…).
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16 Sep
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Keira Bell's case will be released tomorrow at 2pm. Image
You can read my interview with @graceelavery about the Bell decision here. grace.substack.com/p/the-division…
I also gave this interview to the marvellous @RubyJLL of @VICE. vice.com/en/article/qjp…
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9 Sep
You'll have read a lot of clever people over the last few days telling you that raising NICs is "progressive".

Here's why that's misleading - or wrong. THREAD.
Look at the features of NICs.

It's not chargeable (or now chargeable at a lower rate) on the types of income that rich people tend to have and poor people don't - like dividends or rents or income. /1
And it is charged at a flat rate (unlike income tax) with a 'step down' - ie it's charged at a lower rate - on earnings above c £50k pa.

Those are its relevant features. So how can it be claimed to be "progressive"? /2
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