We are subjects in a feudal constitutional monarchy. We can reform the House of Lords (I favour sortition) but the whole system is broken.

Glad I locked in a 18 month energy deal but I am wondering if I should have gone for 2 years.

The SC ruling didn’t even say that trans people had to be excluded from single-sex spaces, only that they could.

This is Lord Sumption’s take on it and he reckons the ruling has been misinterpreted. As a former Supreme Court judge, I’m happy to go along with that as he is an expert on interpreting and writing such judgements.

The speed with which some people have jumped on this and given their own, apparently wrong, reading of the law is worrying. Especially as one of them is Baroness Falkner who is threatening to write up “guidance” based on her misunderstanding of the judgement. Almost seems… opportunistic.

Not as far as I’m aware - The Guardian says it was only officers who trans women with a GRC who were allowed to search those AFAB. So officers couldn’t pick and chose to suit them.

The BTP jumped on this almost instantly as they’d been under fire because trans women on the force could strip search those AFAB.

I’m waiting for next shoe to drop when someone AFAB complains because they get strip searched by a big hairy bloke because he was also AFAB. At no point does anyone seem to have considered the effect this law will have on trans men now having to go into women-only spaces. I don’t think JK Rowling cares about the messy fallout from her War on Trans Women.

The hose clamp is for fixing your undergarments.

Now trans and cis people are going to get harassed for being in the wrong bathrooms by the gender police.

They said on the radio that the changes in bathroom laws in the US have mainly impacted butch lesbians. This is going to get messy.

They want to be able to train AIs on everything without any constraint. So they get to make large amounts of money of other people’s work, while the people actually creating original songs and stories get nothing.

It’s a group funded by JK Rowling, she is laser-focused on trans woman and so intersex people and trans men are an after thought, if they are even given a thought.

FWS, which is partly funded by the writer JK Rowling

“Millionaire spends cash to make people’s lives worse”

They argue that a very clear definition by the court on what a woman is would also help clear up an ambiguity about who qualifies to use women’s services.They argue that a very clear definition by the court on what a woman is would also help clear up an ambiguity about who qualifies to use women’s services.

There doesn’t seem any ambiguity: Do they have a GRC? It’s either either yes or no. Trying to define a woman is difficult and could lead to a lot more ambiguity.

They say people who self-identify as trans but do not have a gender recognition certificate are being allowed to use women-only services and spaces.

Laws are broken all the time, it’s not an argument to change the laws.

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Dorsey left BS a while ago.

Nige has them running scared. A nonaggression pact would be the start of a slippery slope, one that could see Farage running the country. 😱

Under the tariff plan announced Sunday, the products that will now face zero import duties when entering the U.K. also include pasta, canned pineapples, fruit juice, coconut oil, plywood and plastics.

It’s definitely an interesting approach - if Europe and other countries scrapped/lowered tariffs it could help invigorate world trade and keep costs down for ordinary folk. It might also help sideline the US.

About time but not far enough. We sold British Steel for a quid and it is loss making, so we should give them a quid for it.

It depends on the severity.

• If you are touching cloth, then it is a shart and should be relatively well contained. You just need to clean-up and perhaps discreetly dispose of your undercrackers.
• If you are touching socks, then the world has dropped out of your bottom and is pretty disastrous as everything is contaminated. You also have a larger problem as this would suggest you have food poisoning or some kind of illness and this is just the start of your problems. When I was in hospital the guy opposite me got C. difficile and the result was unexpected and borderline volcanic - that wasn’t just a bad day, it was a bad week.

My folks were great and I miss them a lot.

I’m a big fan of the Hong Kong New Wave in cinema. It’s also a handy entrance to wider Chinese films - if you like a director or actor or type of film, there are a lot more to find if you start digging.

Go and see your GP. It wasn’t a heart attack but it was a wake up call and I don’t think jumping to seeing a cardiologist will be that helpful, although a GP can refer you on if they think you need it.

I was in the foothills of heart health problems - high BP, cholesterol creeping up, etc. and the health staff were starting to express concern (suggesting I might need to go on statins). So I turned it around in two years and at my last health check my weight and bloods were all “perfect” according to the nurse. So it is doable.

However, from what you say, mental health issues may be holding you back and making important and sweeping changes to your lifestyle require effort and focus. So the GP may want to get this addressed while starting to monitor your health through regular checks. I found the checks motivating in themselves as the data can really prod you into action because you no longer can say you are probably unhealthy - it is there in stark numbers. I also suspect I was slightly gamifying it as I made beating the numbers a focus and figuring out what I needed to do to adjust each on (as lowering triglyceride levels requires different action to lowering LDL, bad cholesterol). I even made a spreadsheet.