It's the unanimous decision of this court that the terms woman and sex refer to a biological woman and biological sex in the Equality Act 2010, Lord Hodge
I have just invited all MPs to sign this letter urgently calling on the Secretary of State for Health to immediately halt a new trial administering dangerous puberty-blocking drugs to young children.
We cannot allow experimental drugs to be given to confused young boys and girls. We cannot allow twisted ideologies to harm children.
This trial must be shut down - immediately.
If you agree, please ask your MP to sign and we will put as much pressure on in Parliament as possible.
Leave children alone.
@sappholives83 Well perhaps we need a return to the lunatic asylums. Disbanded in the 80s and in many cases rightly so but now it turns out some people are just mad and dangerous. Crocodile man and Calocane just two such people. Not contentious. just true. Community living isnt an option.
A comprehensive win for women. Will the First Minister apologise for the unlawful treatment imposed on female prisoners by his government? @ForWomenScot 👏👏👏
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Due to increased scrutiny at Buckinghamshire council, we've uploaded all of their spending over 500, including their government procurement card spend.
See 941,371 payments totalling over £5bn here
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The Jobs Did Not Disappear. They Were Rented To People Who Cannot Legally Work.
729,000 people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed in Britain between January and March this year. The youth unemployment rate, 16.2 percent, is the highest since early 2015. For the first time since records began in 2000, it is now higher than the EU average. Almost one million young people are not in education, employment or training, the highest figure in more than a decade.
The explanation offered is economic headwinds. The cause is closer to home. Employer National Insurance contributions rose in April last year. The minimum wage rose with it. The sectors that have always absorbed young workers first, retail, hospitality, delivery, became the most expensive sectors to hire into. Job vacancies have fallen seven percent in a year, to their lowest level since April 2021. The pattern is simple. Raise the cost of hiring at the bottom of the market, and the bottom of the market stops hiring first.
But the jobs have not disappeared. Walk down any high street and the delivery riders are still there, in greater numbers than ever. What has changed is who is doing the work, and how.
At the Midland Hotel in Derby, a Grade II listed building housing around two hundred asylum seekers, a whistleblower described the daytime scene. The hotel is not busy, they said, because everyone is out at work. Delil, an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying there, put it plainly. "I work for Deliveroo like a lot of my friends. I want to work, that's why I came to the UK."
This was documented in December 2023. Researchers at Nottingham Trent and Heriot-Watt found migrant couriers earning between £900 and £1,500 a month. The mechanism is a rental market. An account holder with the right to work registers with Deliveroo, Uber Eats or Just Eat, then rents access to that verified identity to someone who does not have it, for £70 to £100 a week. At the time, hundreds of such accounts were available on Facebook Marketplace. In the first quarter of 2025, almost 750 civil penalty notices were issued to companies for immigration breaches, the highest since 2016.
The response came later. Deliveroo told MPs it had removed 105 riders since April 2024 for exactly this. In July 2025, the Home Office began sharing asylum hotel locations with the delivery firms, so they could flag accounts spending unusual time nearby. Asylum seekers are barred from working for their first twelve months. The data-sharing exists because, as Delil already said on the record, many already are.
Robert Jenrick called the substitutes system a driver of illegal immigration that put public safety at risk, because the companies were not carrying out proper checks. He was right, eighteen months before anyone with the power to fix it agreed, and the underlying arrangement, an entry-level job performed by someone the law says cannot hold it, accessed through an identity rented from someone who can, has not gone away. It has simply become harder to spot.
Put the two facts together. A record number of young Britons cannot get a foot on the first rung of the labour market, priced out by costs the government itself imposed. At the same time, the first-rung jobs are being done anyway, documented, named, on the record, by people the system says should not be working at all.
Nobody designed this as a system. Nobody has dismantled it either. Years after the Midland Hotel investigation, the high street looks exactly the same.
"Researchers at Nottingham Trent and Heriot-Watt found migrant couriers earning between £900 and £1,500 a month."
@toadmeister Yes not blue sky with trans activists targeting young people to take drugs and get surgery and who tell them they'll kill themselves if they don't. Its the most harmful of the lot.
Ugh. This is DISGUSTING @LushLtd. Teenage girls love to shop in your stores and here you are happily encouraging them to CUT OFF THEIR HEALTHY BREASTS in the name of trans pride.
This is beyond repulsive. It's dangerous and sick. No parent should allow their child near your stores.
Please share: #BoycottLushNow
🚨🇬🇧 Meanwhile in Harrow, London
“I swear when I’m not in Uniform I’m gonna knock you the F out”
Local friendly council workers engaged with members of the public.
Ask yourself what happens when they become the majority of the Police, stewards, security guards, traffic enforcement etc. it doesn’t end well.
Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of losing him.
It’s unbearable and still so raw.
In an effort to try and think of his legacy it feels appropriate to share details of the major fundraiser for his foundation.
More details of this special evening plus news of very ‘special guests’ to follow.
We would love to see anyone and everyone who wants to join us.
Many who follow me here are not in or near Somerset, and some may not be interested in this aspect of my family; but for anyone who does fancy a trip to the Westcountry; you are most welcome. 💚💛
Tables of 10 can be booked via email: [email protected]
Hello all. A quick update from me.
My sex screen assay is progressing well.
I promised rapid: I can detect SRY from a cheek swab in about 30 minutes. I am currently testing whether I can drop it to 10 minutes without compromising reliability.
I promised cheap: The current cost per assay is about £2. I am currently testing whether I can drop this to below the pound line, and it’s very promising.
I promised accessible: The assay could be run by any grassroots sports coach, school nurse, and my Mum.
I promised on-site: This is where my lab efforts are currently focussed. I’ve always held “from the UK to Uganda” as a principle, and ensuring easy deployment is crucial. I’m currently learning a lot of materials science…
The other main push is setting up various blinded, larger-scale tests. This will require lots of form filling.
If anyone wants to help me hit my final budget target, my crowdfunder is here.
There are over 97,000 asylum seekers in supported accommodation throughout the UK.
They are often housed in hotels, HMOs, private rented accommodation, military sites and others.
But where are they? You can use this interactive map to see how many are in your local authority.