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Oct 3, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
I see Nick Cohen is again complaining in one of his newspaper columns about the cancellation of transphobes.
Barely a day passes in which one national newspaper or another does not carry a piece decrying how trans people have rendered voiceless the writer or their friends.
Meanwhile, when @GoodLawProject brings litigation asserting that trans people too are entitled to benefit from the foundational NHS promise of universal healthcare there is literally not one national newspaper we trust to carry the story fairly.
Meanwhile, I'd be very happy to hear from women who have worked with Nick whether he is the champion they would choose for women's rights in the workplace. Happy to keep your name confidential, if you prefer.

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Feb 20
Since putting up this crowdfunding page, the Daily Mail has sent us, through their lawyers (RPC), two defamation threats.

A few points about them. 🧵goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/da…
One or both were marked “private and confidential - not for publication”.

We have long (👇) deplored the practice of making threats which you say are confidential to try and stop your critics from telling the world you are trying to silence them. goodlawproject.org/they-want-to-s…
Neither letter pretends to be a formal letter under the pre-action protocol for defamation claims - a necessary precondition to suing. Yet each is pregnant with threat.

To intimate you have a legal claim which you don’t actually have also feels to us like a misuse of the law.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 20
Cass Review.

New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal". Image
I will share some extracts from it but tl;dr it is highly critical. It "transgresses medical law, policy and practice... deviates from pharmaceutical regulatory standards in the UK. And if it had been published in the United States... it would have violated federal law." Image
It calls for "evidentiary standards... that are not applied elsewhere in pediatric medicine... [and] are not applied to cisgender young people receiving gender-affirming care." Image
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Nov 14, 2024
Labour caving to some of the richest people in the country - whilst raising the tax burden on employing the low paid - has been described as the "lobbying coup of the decade."

But how bad is it? 🧵 Image
Well, we know that Labour promised to raise £565m per annum from taxing private equity properly. But, after lobbying, agreed only to raise 14% of that or £80m. Image
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But in fact, it's worse that that (or better, if you are amongst that mega rich class).

For a particular type of carried interest Labour actually proposes to *cut* tax rates...
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Oct 31, 2024
Three reasons why inheritance tax on farmland is a good thing (beyond the obvious - that it will raise money). 🧵
First, farmland being subject to inheritance tax will reduce the value it has as a token to pass wealth down tax free between generations, so that farmland is cheaper and farming more profitable.
Second, farmland being subject to inheritance tax will reduce the number of people who hold it as a token to pass wealth down tax free between generations so it is instead held by people who hold it to farm it so it is more efficiently used.
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Jul 19, 2024
I see my tweets about the effects of Wes Streeting's ban on puberty blockers on younger trans people have been criticised by the DHSC’s adviser on suicides. 🧵
1. What is undoubtedly true is that Victoria Atkins was warned by her own civil servants about the ban on puberty blockers posing “a high risk of self-harm and suicide” and Wes Streeting followed his predecessor in ignoring that advice.
2. Before publishing my thread (below) we went to the Tavistock and Portman with these numbers for a response. Other journalists went to NHS England for a response. Neither denied the numbers and both declined to comment.
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Jul 17, 2024
It is a bit odd that the Covid Corruption Commissioner is missing from the King's Speech.

This (from Rachel Reeves' speech) suggests the role would require legislation... /1 Image
And the Speech introduces another Commissioner (which will require legislation). /2 Image
And the Briefing Notes make mention of legislation to strengthen the powers of the Victims' Commissioner.

But they contain no mention of a Covid Corruption Commissioner. /3 Image
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