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Jan 19 6 tweets 3 min read
The end of Covid passes in England is a MONUMENTAL victory for civil liberties & equality 🎉

What separates us from much of the covid-ID-managed West is the principled courage of every Brit who stood up when it mattered, against the odds, & our uniquely strong civil society 👊
Not many countries have had active + impactful civil liberties organisations during the pandemic, & it shows.

Here’s a run down of just *some* of the work we’ve done, thanks to incredible public support, to push back on covid IDs over the past 20 months!

crowdfunder.co.uk/p/join-the-cha…
We’re now pursuing a legal challenge against Covid passes in Wales - a scheme opposed by @WelshConserv & @WelshLibDems too. The case for Covid ID simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

No wonder Welsh ministers won’t let us publish our claim - it’s extremely embarrassing for them.
There are major medical privacy issues outstanding, including vaccine mandates. We’re rapidly assessing what we can do with the resources we have.

Please do get involved, subscribe, and join us if you haven’t already ⬇️

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/join/now/
Campaigning alongside many of you here, and working with some uniquely principled MPs, journalists, campaigners & lawyers has been a vital source of hope and optimism for me during these dark two years. 🙏There’s much more to do, we mustn’t give up! But today is a breakthrough 😅
Above all, the @BigBrotherWatch team is the absolute best 🌎 we’re in safe hands!

@Erl3nd @Mark_AJohnson @JHurfurt and esp @madeleine_st0ne who works on emergency powers day in day out (!) are all working incredibly hard, with determination, courage, compassion & huge skill 👏❤️

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Jan 17
Buckle up 😬

This afternoon, the government’s anti-democracy agenda dominates parliament, with Bills being progressed to criminalise just about any protest, entrench pandemic anti-protest laws that banned the Clapham vigil, and impose mandatory voter ID - a leap to national ID.
This is despite the fact we already have *extensive* laws to deal with protest actions like road blocking, and there are vanishingly few cases of ballot box fraud.

Yet millions stand to be silenced and disenfranchised after this power grab.
These new laws are borne from a profound disrespect for Britain’s democratic traditions.

So we’re grateful to the parliamentarians across all benches defending them ✊from @William_Wragg to @AlexNorrisNN to @labourlewis @CarolineLucas @GreenJennyJones @brianpaddick & many more!
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Oct 30, 2021
Watch @joerogan and @BretWeinstein saying what perhaps the likes of the ACLU should be saying about the unjustified and dangerous dehumanisation of unvaccinated people, who people are now comfortably calling “plague rats”.
Vaccines are mandatory for state workers in New York from Monday.

Officials are panicking about shortages, as 35% fire + 25% police are unvaccinated (but have high levels of natural immunity).

Where’s the left whilst frontline workers are being dehumanised & made destitute?!😬
When the workers protested, someone whose work I’ve followed & admired for years posted this.

People on the left now calling not only for protestors to lose their jobs but frontline workers, who put their lives on the line, because they want sovereignty over their own bodies?!
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Sep 16, 2021
Two bits of news make it now seem certain that the NHS App (NHS Covid Pass) is soon to become a vaccine ID, regardless of whether it's mandated for domestic events.

1. Travel lists are to be replaced with vaccine-based rules

2. Care workers must show vaccine pass to keep jobs
So, soon, it seems test and antibody status are to be removed from the NHS Covid Pass.

Government said it would do this to implement the vaccine passport scheme - but looking at these other policy areas, it's clear, it's happening anyway. Soon.
As expected, this could make travel extremely difficult for unvaccinated people. Countries like Spain had accepted proof of recovery for entry, as an alternative to PCR/vaccine. I am speculating, but that would seem likely to be dropped from the NHS Covid Pass app quite soon.
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Sep 4, 2021
Q: When did Ivermectin go from being a cheap, safe, widely used drug “commonly used to treat parasitic infections” in humans & animals globally, to being “the horse deworming drug”?

A: July 2021

[Disclaimer: I’m not really interested in ivermectin, but am in the spin]

BBC..
The Oxford PRINCIPLE study, which is trialling Ivermectin with Covid patients, describes it quite unlike the BBC as “a safe, broad spectrum antiparasitic drug which is in wide use” that (for Covid) “has shown promising results as a potential treatment in small studies in humans”
But now Ivermectin has been successfully rebranded simply a “cow dewormer”, I hope the Oxford trial participants don’t get a public flogging like this…
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Jul 12, 2021
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill has second reading in the Commons today. And something strange has happened on the Labour front bench… 🧵
There are problems with this Bill. In practice, it could either make no material change (there are existing legal duties to protect free speech in education) or create more authoritative or political interference with what speech is deemed acceptable or not.
It also contradicts the Government’s Prevent duty, which requires educational institutions to take part in counter-terror-spying-lite, usually resulting in undue suspicion of young Muslims & speech-vetting. If they were serious about free speech, this would be first to go.
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Jun 10, 2021
Maya’s case was hard for her & many women, esp @jk_rowling, who defended the right to hold the basic belief that sex should not be conflated w gender identity.

Today’s judgment is a victory for free expression & the women who fought for it ✊@MForstater @anyabike @jodieginsberg
The judgment is rightly mindful of the risks trans people can face at work and the difference between beliefs, expression and harassment.
The abuse & silencing women have faced over recent years for basic expression about sex, gender + sex-based rights has been bullying tactics (mostly male) dressed as moral superiority. As always women overcome -esp thanks to @Womans_Place_UK facilitating debates despite hostility
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