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22 February 2021

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‘Three threats to academic freedom: casualisation in academia, the student as “consumer & the corporate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda - Shereen Benjamin on why it’s time for a left wing defence of academic freedom ...

February 22nd @ 3:41 pm |

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RT @womensaid: New chair @ApsanaBegumMP and new vice-chair @BertinGabby of the all-party parliamentary group on #domesticabuse call on the government, House of Lords, and experts on domestic abuse to work together to ensure the response to domestic ...

February 22nd @ 3:37 pm |

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RT @MaternityAction: Excellent point by @BaronessGale in today's House of Lords debate on the #MoMABill "The Government have done the right thing by the Attorney-General. I hope they will put things right for the rest of the pregnant women in the ...

February 22nd @ 3:37 pm |

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RT @mintyylamb: @LabWomenDec @LordPhilofBrum Bravo, this was great to hear and I was particularly pleased to hear someone standing up for Rosie Duffield and highlighting just how appallingly she has been let down. Well said @LordPhilofBrum 👏👏👏

February 22nd @ 3:25 pm |

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RT @kevin_ovenden: This is such a strong piece. It is tightly focused upon academic freedom, rather than upon generic "freedom of speech". It is all the stronger for that, in my view, in outlining a position that the left ought to adopt in the face ...

February 22nd @ 2:41 pm |

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RT @MaternityAction: The sole purpose of the legislation in question - the #MoMABill - is to enable one *woman* (Attorney General Suella Braverman) to take maternity leave. So there is no need or justification for the Bill's gender neutral language. ...

February 22nd @ 2:34 pm |

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RT @zeno001: @lnmackenzie1 @LordPhilofBrum @janeclarejones @Womans_Place_UK Thank you for that superb speech, @LordPhilofBrum. You talked about organisations misunderstanding or misinterpreting the Equality Act. Here's my evidence of 325 of them ...

February 22nd @ 2:33 pm |

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We are so glad that the hard copies of the Political Erasure of Sex that we printed and posted to UK political representatives are being read and used to inform debate and policy making. Please check if your MP/MSP/MS has read the report ...

February 22nd @ 1:33 pm |

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RT @lnmackenzie1: Very grateful to @LordPhilofBrum for his kind words about the report I wrote with @janeclarejones, copies of which were sent to all MPs, MSPs, MSs and some peers last week by @Womans_Place_UK https://t.co/EFtZCN...

February 22nd @ 1:20 pm |

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RT @mbmpolicy: Whilst Lucy was giving evidence in @ScotParl on the #HateCrimeBill, a report co-authored by MBM's @lnmackenzie1 (with @janeclarejones) on 'The Political Erasure of Sex: Sex and the Census' was referred to by @LordPhilofBrum in a House ...

February 22nd @ 1:20 pm |

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RT @mbmpolicy: Thank-you to everyone who has supported us to work on the Hate Crime Bill. We could never have done this much work on it without the financial cushion you gave us. And to thank people who can only manage moral support, too. We take our ...

February 22nd @ 12:00 pm |

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Thank you @LucyHunterB of @mbmpolicy for alerting @scotgov Justice Committee to concerns women have about Hate Crime & Public Order Bill and how late it is to be discussing content of a Bill of this importance. https://t.co/UY3NI5...

February 22nd @ 10:21 am |

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Brenda Fisher (1927) Grimsby born, Fisher was third person ever to complete the Lake Ontario swim (Niagara to Toronto), in less than 19hrs. In a second attempt to beat her previous record she had to abandon swim after 12hrs due to a thunderstorm that ...

February 22nd @ 7:49 am |

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Brenda Fisher (1927) Grimsby born, Fisher was third person ever to complete the Lake Ontario swim (Niagara to Toronto), in less than 19hrs. In a second attempt to beat her previous record she had to abandon swim after 12hrs due to a thunderstorm that ...

February 22nd @ 7:45 am |

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Today the Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament meet to discuss amendments on Freedom of Expression (Hate Crime & Public Order Bill). There will be a roundtable of the committee lasting 90 minutes with 25 witnesses.

February 22nd @ 5:23 am |

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Thread. Today the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee meet to discuss the @scotgov draft amendments to the Hate Crime Bill on freedom of expression. It’s a 90 minute round table with 25 witnesses... We have submitted evidence which we will share ...

February 22nd @ 2:39 am |