Andrew Guilford

Mastodon always seems to work, doesn't it? He/Him

Cardiff, Wales

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2024-09-07 11:11:39

Ever wondered what the Cass Review might have looked like if it had been a genuine attempt to objectively assess trans healthcare, rather than the politically motivated sham it actually is?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-06/gender-affirming-care-still-safe-effective-and-reversible-review/104322428
#AusPol #UKPol #CassReview #SaxReview #TransRightsAreHumanRights

2024-06-26 10:55:43

Cass Review found to be “deeply flawed”
“In light of this, and the report’s poor understanding of transgender identities and experiences, it is vital that academics, healthcare practitioners, policymakers and the public, question the integrity and validity of the review’s recommendations.”
#UKPol #GE2024 #Tories #Labour #CassReview #TransRightsAreHumanRights
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/24/cass-review-working-group-flaws-trans/

2024-05-31 12:33:34

Declassified UK revealed on May 8th the RAF has conducted 200 surveillance flights over Gaza since December 3rd
Since its investigation, the RAF has continued these reconnaissance flights. This included a RAF aircraft flying over Gaza on May 26th, the same day Israel massacred 45 Palestinians in a Rafah refugee camp
#UKPol #Gaza #Rafah #Palestine #Israel
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2024/05/31/uk-spy-planes-israel-gaza/

2024-05-30 09:31:19

As a last roll of the dice before they leave office, the Tories have used emergency powers to ban puberty blockers for trans kids. Here’s a good explainer from Jo Maugham, including why it’s probably not legal
#UKPol #GE2024 #VictoriaAtkins #Tories #TransRightsAreHumanRights
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1796068218466914427.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

2024-05-04 10:09:42

New poll finds 45% of people in Scotland want an elected head of state compared to 34% who want to keep the monarchy
Exclude don’t knows and 57% support an elected head of state versus 43% who want to keep the monarchy
This is the first poll for any country in the UK to show this level of opposition to the monarchy
#ScotPol #UKPol #AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24299181.new-poll-finds-support-monarchy-scotland-falling-rapidly/

2024-04-10 10:14:10

Wes Streeting says Labour will implement the “evidence-led” recommendations of the Cass Review, even if the Tories don’t
The Cass Review ignored 98% of evidence
#UKPol #CassReview #WesStreeting #Labour #Tories #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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2024-03-12 18:41:50

I hope NHS England get sued for this
#UKPol #NHSEngland #PubertyBlockers #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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2024-03-06 10:26:36

I don’t want an extra £450 a year, or however much it is, I want properly funded schools, hospitals and other public services
#UKPol #JeremyHunt #Tories #Labour #LibDems #GreenParty #ReformUK #PlaidCymru #SNP

2024-01-27 16:46:24

There are 13,000 Palestinians working for the UNRWA
The UK and other nations have cut funding to the UNRWA based on Israeli "interrogations" of prisoners that allegedly show 12 staff members (0.092%) were involved in Hamas’ October 7th attacks
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #UNRWA #UKPol

2023-12-31 20:42:15

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2023-12-31 20:31:11

Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #HappyNewYear #BlwyddynNewyddDda
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2023-10-20 15:23:32

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I think the figures were intended as an amusing hypothetical scenario based on a particularly bad by-election result for the Tories
I shared it because I think the Tories are going to do a lot worse than people are expecting (although probably better in a handful seats like Uxbridge) in the General Election. I wasn’t intending it as a comment on the SNP and I doubt the person who sent the original tweet did either

2023-10-20 14:39:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I suspect they’re basing it on a uniform swing. That said it does look similar to actual current Scottish polling
I reckon the SNP will be able to turn things round before the next General Election, but I doubt the Tories can
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2023-10-20 13:01:02

I doubt it would actually happen, but if the swing in the Mid Bedfordshire By-Election was repeated across the UK Labour would have a 310 seat majority, the Lib Dems would be the main opposition, and the Tories would be left with twenty seats
#MidBedfordshire #NadineDorries #Tories #Labour #LibDems #GreenParty #Reform #SNP #PlaidCymru #UKPol
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2023-10-18 01:27:33

Twenty one species have been removed from the US Endangered Species Act
Because they’ve become extinct
#EndangeredSpecies #Extinction #ClimateChange #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/extinct-species-removed-endangered-species-act

2023-10-07 13:39:33

AI isn’t able to produce images that don't reinforce harmful stereotypes, even when explicitly asked to flip the stereotypes
#AI #AIArt #Midjourney #Stereotypes #Doctor #Africa #Giraffe #WhiteSaviour
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-

2023-08-15 08:39:54

The Tory Party is now so unpopular with young people they assume any young person who does express an interest in supporting them must be trying to infiltrate them
#Tories #Labour #GreenParty #ClimateChange #GenZ #UKPol
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2023-08-14 12:06:19

This poster is from 1965
#London #SustainableTransport #PublicTransport #Buses #Cars #ClimateChange #CleanAir #UKPol
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2023-07-02 05:31:23

I suspect once Bluesky is fully up and running pretty much everyone will move there from Twitter. But that still leaves us with a social media platform owned by a billionaire who can pull the plug when they feel like
Social media should be viewed as infrastructure and ideally publicly owned. It would be unthinkable that the internet or all phone lines were owned by one person
#ElonMusk #JackDorsey #Twitter #Bluesky #Mastodon