Secret Russian foreign policy document says outcome of their attack on Ukraine will ‘to a great degree determine the outlines of the future world order.’

As I’ve long argued, this is the defining fight in a global struggle between democracy and autocracy
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What a gorgeous story. #learningdsabilities bbc.com/news/articles/…

Terrible when people want to shut down free speech, isn’t it?

Presume Liz Truss and all her fellow liberty crusaders will now take up cudgels against the government’s prohibition of drugs? 👇

There will be a protest outside the Senedd today led by families arguing that Welsh people with learning disabilities and autism need #HomesNotHospitals like all other citizens.

Very much looking forward to all those right-wing Tories claiming a ban on smoking is an affront to liberty making the same arguments over the ban on using drugs. Or are they just hypocrites?

I loathe smoking but oppose the ban. We’ve seen how prohibition of drugs has been such a disastrous failure on so many fronts from spiralling crime to encouraging stronger products. Smoking has been drastically reduced through education and fiscal penalties - and like drug…

These tragic deaths of transgender teenagers with suspected autism expose how real young people are living - and sometimes dying - due to decrepit state services amid a ferocious debate. My ⁦i newspaper⁩ column following the Cass review inews.co.uk/opinion/deaths…

A well written article by ⁦Ian Birrell⁩ 🙏
A rare trans ally and voice of reason in our mainstream media .

“The deaths of three trans teens expose the state of youth mental health provision” liveapp.inews.co.uk/2024/04/16/the…

‘Some Tory ministers with no discernible record of standing up for autistic people or defending mental health services leapt on the report to attack political foes.’

New: London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses.

In fact, London’s 95 golf courses take up more land than the entire borough of Brent.

Here's the case for building on some of them.

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Good question from ⁦Nick Ferrari⁩: 'Why can't the RAF shoot down drones over Ukraine like they do Israel?'

Pitiful answer from David Cameron, underlining why Putin is gaining the upper hand lbc.co.uk/news/david-cam…

‘Some Tory ministers with no discernible record of standing up for autistic people or defending mental health services leapt on the report to attack political foes.’

These tragic deaths of transgender teenagers with suspected autism expose how real young people are living - and sometimes dying - due to decrepit state services amid a ferocious debate. My ⁦i newspaper⁩ column following the Cass review inews.co.uk/opinion/deaths…

Saw the new Alex Garland film ‘Civil War’ last night. First two-thirds great, last bit is ridiculous and ruins it. Strangely, the main reporter character took no notes and did no reporting while the photographers took endless pictures

The government plans to spend £5bn of our money - at a cost of £150,000 per migrant - on its self-serving stunt to send people to Rwanda in order to look tough on immigration telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

‘One year on, there is nothing but mourning’

Powerful piece by Nesrine Malik on the ‘forgotten war’ in Sudan ripping apart her family’s country and yet ignored by the world. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Interesting ⁦The Guardian⁩ article by Rose Cartwright on her personal journey to discover the flaws in the medicalised model of mental health theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Interesting ⁦The Guardian⁩ article by Rose Cartwright on her personal journey to discover the flaws in the medicalised model of mental health theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

There is so little reporting from on the ground in Xinjiang now, that these first hand reports are so valuable - this year's Eid sees shuttered mosques, flag raising ceremonies for the few people who do go to pray and further suppression of Islam in the region.