A UK judge has ruled that Maya Forstater, head honcho of gender critical lobby group "Sex Matters", is NOT an expert on sex and gender. She joins Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, JK Rowling, Rosie Duffield , Joanna Cherry and Sharron Davies as being wholly unfit to pronounce on the trans and non-binary lives of others.

#trans #lgbtq #uk #ukpolitics #nonbinary

Predictive policing is UNJUST.

It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.

With 16 other civil society groups, we say:

BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime.

#SafetyNotSurveillance

➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SafetyNotSurveillance-open-letter-Jul-24.pdf

#AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics

"The problem is our monopolised food system. Think of it as a vast profit machine shaped like an hourglass, with many food producers at the top, millions of consumers at the bottom, and a few dominant firms – such as giant supermarkets or global food traders – clustered at its narrowing neck, siphoning a cut from the passing traffic"
Nicholas Shaxson, co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project

#FoodGiants #Farming #Agriculture #Food #RentierCapitalism #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/22/big-supermarkets-strangling-farmers-shoppers-solution-break-them-up?CMP=GTUK_email

Food giants are strangling Britain’s farmers and consumers. What’s the solution? Break them up

The UK has a huge problem with monopolies – yet taking conglomerates apart is not as hard as you might think, says Nicholas Shaxson, co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project

^{Nicholas Shaxson (The Guardian)}

July 5th, London, UK: "The adults are back in charge!"

July 22nd, London, UK: "The Labour Govt has ordered the Home Office to begin mass deportations of undocumented migrants, detailing 1,000 staff to raid car washes, nail bars and salons."

Change? No change.

#ukpol #ukpolitics #uk

You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/just-stop-oil-tactics-prison-chris-packham

They apparently do in England. Meanwhile their rivers are polluted, the sea around he. country is filthy (and all of their neighbours get the benefits!) At the same time, polluters are allowed to take their dividends and slip off to parts tax avoidable.

English Justice at its best.

#JustStopOil #UkPolitics #Corruption #Suppression

You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison

These protesters are shouting ‘fire’ while the world burns. A society that locks them up cannot be called democratic, say campaigners Chris Packham and Dale Vince

^{Dale Vince (The Guardian)}

So this guy fucks up, thousands die and he gets away with nothing more than being fired and some harsh language, yet some people plot to stop traffic in protest of inaction on Climate Change and they get five years.

Could this be any more blatant?

#UKPOL #Ukpolitics #MattHancock #COVID #JustStopOil

QT for extra tags. Boosting is strongly encouraged.

#Labour #Queer #UKPol #UKPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights https://masto.ai/@transworld/112806200195151420

Five Just Stop Oil activists are being sentenced in Southwark this morning, facing as much as 10 years in prison for walking down the road.
The judge has already indicated that he intended to hand down "long, long sentences", saying that "facing the end of the world is neither here nor there".
The trial was witnessed by UN Special Rapporteur Michael Forst, who had this to say:
https://juststopoil.org/2024/07/11/5-just-stop-oil-supporters-found-guilty-as-un-slams-trial/
This is how the five were met at the court this morning ✊ 🧡

#UKPolitics #ClimateCatastrophe

I'm sure the fact that his son has an AI company has nothing to do with it 🙄 😡

"Former PM Blair pushes AI adoption to save UK public sector billions"

Multiverse: "We were founded in 2016 by Euan Blair ... "

#UKPolitics #Bliar #AI

https://www.techradar.com/pro/blair-pushes-ai-adoption-that-could-save-the-uk-public-sector-billions

https://www.multiverse.io/en-US/about

Former PM Blair pushes AI adoption to save UK public sector billions

Tony Blair urges new Labour government to adopt AI

^{Craig Hale (TechRadar pro)}

Reasons for voting Labour:
"Agree with their policies" 5%. 😬

#UKPolitics #GeneralElectionUK #LabourParty

Hehehe I missed the Star's front page today. I think they've outdone themselves 😂

#UKPolitics #GE2024

The Israel lobby is truly disgusting.
Tanushka Marah is the British Palestinian independent candidate in Hove.
As well as being refused entry to the Jewish hustings, activists - mostly men - stood outside a women of colour literary event last week with printed placards of her name and words including RAPE and BEHEADING.
Today her electoral materials were stolen and the office vandalised.

#UKPolitics #NoVotesForGenocide #GE2024

Absolute scenes in Coatbridge this afternoon as Labour's candidate Frank McNally drives his car into protesters and tries to seize a gentleman's phone.

#DontVoteLabour #ScottishIndependence #UKPolitics

So last week it was Just Stop Oil activists, and this week it's Palestine protesters. Pre-emptive arrest is here to stay, it would seem. Next stop: thought crimes.

#UKPolitics #RightToProtest #FreePalestine

New Blog Post

Why don't any of the political parties with the power to do it want to fix the UK's broken democracy?

It suits them just fine as it is.

#UKElection #GE2024 #UKPolitics

https://thecommongreen.scot/2024/06/29/broken-democracy/

The UK’s Democracy Is Broken – Why Does No-One Want To Fix It?

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker (This is an extended version of an article that previously appeared in Th…

^{The Common Green}