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Feb 4, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Randox is every VIP. Civil servants were told by Ministers - explicitly or implicitly - to give them contracts or else. bylinetimes.com/2022/02/03/gov…
VIPs knew it. Baroness Mone was "incandescent with rage" and going to Michael Gove and Matt Hancock.
Civil servants knew it. Here is a civil servant worrying about Andrew Mills kicking off if he doesn't get a contract.
Matt Hancock has repeatedly said he didn't have anything to do with the award of contracts.
But here he is bullying civil servants into giving special treatment to Randox for which former Tory MP Owen Paterson worked as a highly paid consultant (bylinetimes.com/2022/02/03/gov…).
And here he is helping out a bid supported by another disgraced former Tory MP, Brooks Newmark (independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…).
The catastrophic and corrupt process for pandemic procurement meant that our of every £13 we spent on PPE £10 was wasted: more than £10bn in total.

We don't yet know how much of the £37bn spent on Test and Trace was wasted. goodlawproject.org/news/ppe-to-go…

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Apr 19
The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." Image
This was reflected in the Explanatory Notes to the Gender Recognition Act when it was published. Image
The Supreme Court dismissed the explanatory notes as not indicating Parliament's intention.

But it seems entirely unaware of the speech of the Minister introducing the Bill, who made it perfectly clear that it was intended to extend the protections beyond biological sex. Image
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Apr 17
I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵
In this piece, which I am proud of and I stand by every word, I make two serious criticisms of the procedure that the Supreme Court adopted. goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-co…
The first is that in a case which is fundamentally about the rights of trans people with gender recognition certificates the Supreme Court excluded all trans voices and added in the voices of those opposed to the right and dignities of trans people.
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Apr 10
Good Law Project holds a copy of new NHS Guidance published yesterday and it is clear that Wes Streeting is continuing his war on trans people.

Remarkably the national health service is now directing GPs to cause harm to the community. 🧵
Background: the UK is a serious international outlier in how it approaches healthcare for young trans people. All over the world Governments are declining to follow the policy based evidence making of the Cass report. I believe we now have the most hostile regime anywhere.
Families in the UK who want to follow best medical practice - rather than pleasing Wes Streeting's true electorate (right wing media barons) - obtain puberty blockers (criminalised in the UK) from regulated prescribers in eg France or Netherlands or Switzerland. Image
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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.
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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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