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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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Truth sometimes comes from our enemies despite their dishonourable motives. Meanwhile, our own ‘tribe’ can fool itself into believing absurdities. The Left and progressives damage their credibility every time they reject the former and succumb to the latter.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social

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If it’s such a ‘gold mine’ why did the 14 year period of the last Conservative government, throughout which it pursued a policy of issuing licenses and maximising oil and gas production, end up being defined by austerity and the worst wage growth since the Napoleonic era?

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@callthistea.bsky.social

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How Many Babies 'Assigned' The Wrong Sex? by @katie-pinns.bsky.social.

A useful overview of sex observation and recording process in UK.

katiepinns.substack.com/p/how-many-babies-assigned-the-wrong

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social

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MAGA pollster drops a fake poll in Hungary the weekend before the election, creating pretense for Orban to claim cheating, contest the results, and refuse to leave power. Putin, Trump tagteaming for Orban. Pro-democracy forces here need to learn from the tactics being tested in Hungary.

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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As a human rights group, how do you pick which group to represent? This tiny one or 51% of the world who also have rights. It's colliding rights. It's the rights of males to identify into women's sports colliding with the rights of females to have fair, safe sport & sporting integrity.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social

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This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

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Rosella Melanson @rosellam.bsky.social

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«as a human rights group, how do you pick which group to represent? The tiny one or 51% of world who also have rights. It's colliding rights. The rights of people who have male advantage to identify into women's sports &rights of females to have fair, safe sport &sporting integrity in their category

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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“Screen-for-SRY & test-for-advantage” is central to protecting women’s sport. In this video, sports scientist, Ross Tucker, cuts through the scaremongering about the new IOC policy. It is insightful & indispensable both for clarifying thinking & addressing confusion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=591HkK0S3zE&t=66s

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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No male advantage in women's sport. This is central to the IOC's policy to protect female sport. But they make a noted exception - CAIS. Ross Tucker looks at this exception, why it may create loopholes, & why clear technical standards are crucial to get it right:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRUIHCTscW4&t=7s

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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A Step by Step guide to fairness & safety in women's sport. Here's how screening for SRY & testing for advantage delivers sporting integrity for women. A short video by Ross Tucker to illustrate what could happen & what sport needs to do to ensure credible outcomes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6VgWn3dCi0&t=3s

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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“Screen-for-SRY & test-for-advantage” is central to protecting women’s sport. In this video, sports scientist, Ross Tucker, cuts through the scaremongering about the new IOC policy. It is insightful & indispensable both for clarifying thinking & addressing confusion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=591HkK0S3zE&t=66s

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com

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Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims ft.trib.al/ltCxjpR

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social

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Palantir now have access to all NHS emails of staff, no permission from staff needed. This will ramp up calls to end the £330m contract with Palantir and its Foundry asap
www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/08/alarm-health-service-palantir-staff-nhs-email-accounts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists

Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right

Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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Modern screening for the SRY gene is very accurate. There is no excuse for anyone to put themselves in for screening without being aware of what the result will be. Screening that benefits women & causes them no harm can not be misogynistic. IOC will be key in ensuring the integrity of the process.

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DeSmog @desmog.com

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🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network

Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social

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Emil Michael, the Trump appointee at DoD who orchestrated the move to cancel Anthropic's contract with DoD in favor of Musk's xAI, made millions by selling his private stake in xAI after it was awarded the DoD contract formerly held by Anthropic.

Grift is the only principle in the Trump Admin.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com

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Also interesting that this reporting – which also includes the claim that Trump's position *on the deal he'd just agreed* changed after speaking with Netanyahu – is coming out of CBS News.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social

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Extraordinary to see the UK PM putting Trump and Putin together like this, and referring to 'Trump' not 'President Trump'. A lot has changed in the last few weeks - this would have been unimaginable six months ago - and I don't see how it changes back. www.politico.eu/article/starmer-likens-trump-to-putin-as-he-laments-soaring-energy-costs/

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social

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Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social

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Increasingly clear that Reform view anyone on benefits as undeserving. Might as well reintroduce the Victorian workhouse and stop beating about the bush

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social

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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

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“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/208799/trump-losing-war-iran-staggering-humiliation?utm_medium=social

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

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TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!”

IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?”

TRUMP: “Deal.”

FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”

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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social

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"... fuck bigots and especially nazirowling with a splintery rolling pin". I don't know who Aida is but that is, unfortunately, a very male response. I hesitate to agree with Aida but I suspect they are right in deciding that a defamation case would go nowhere.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social

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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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@dune1968.bsky.social

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Every single athlete, wanting to compete in the female category will undergo the same test irrespective of race, creed or colour. Every single female will pass the test. How is this a barrier????

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