Tagged “UK politics”
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In reporting about Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage, the BBC used offensive language to describe the 17-year-old victim of this crime
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The government has announced another transphobe as their preferred candidate to lead the “Equalities and Human Rights Commission”…
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Less than 6 months ago it was puberty blockers, now it’s the Supreme Court with some outrageous bullshit. So I’ve written to my MP again.
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The Northern Ireland executive has permanently banned the use of puberty-blockers to provide gender affirming care to trans adolescents. So I’ve written to my MP again.
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I’ve seen this original tweet a lot in the last few days and it has brought me joy every time.
For two reasons. Firstly, Wickes didn’t need to go all-in like this with corporate allyship — and then to back it up with a LinkedIn post from their COO.
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NHS England is consulting on the provision of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV; the consultation ends next Friday (23 September 2016).
The team at United for PrEP, a collection of HIV/AIDS charities and service organisations, put together a response guide to help people reply to the consultation. My answers below are heavily based on their guide; you can provide your own response using their online form.
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UK politics
surveillance
Last week, the Home Secretary Theresa May announced in Parliament that she was introducing emergency legislation to require companies to store metadata about our communications — our phone calls, text messages and Internet use. That legislation — the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill — is due to be rushed through Parliament, with cross-party support, this week. It’s not an emergency and this DRIP bill is neither business-as-usual nor uncontentious
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HIV and AIDS
UK politics
open letter
Here in the United Kingdom, our Parliament is currently debating an Immigration Bill. It left the House of Commons last week, but not before a group of 18 Conservative MPs attempted to amend the bill to prevent the entry into the UK of people infected with HIV or hepatitis B. As my own MP was one of the cosponsors of the amendment, I figured I should write to him, in an attempt to educate him further.
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surveillance
UK politics
European politics
I shared a blogpost to Facebook entitled “Dear ICO: This is why web developers hate you” with the comment
Excellent rant explaining why the EU Privacy Directive (the “Cookie law”) may well suck … but it’s the ICO who’ve made the Internet industry’s lives hell of late. Sheer simple incompetence.
A friend’s comment prompted me finally to get round to blogging about my thoughts on the EU “Cookie Directive”, why I think it’s such a terrible piece of legislation and why I believe the ICO handled the situation shamefully incompetently.
