lazyred

It's already likely schools and clinics will be sued in the next few years by damaged chikdren. The Scottish Govt can't ignore the Cass report or the follow up research on adults

I dont think it will be.Rachel Reeves in the Times this morning says Labour will be more pro business than Blair with another hint about watering down the workers rights proposals.

Me too I could decide to travel by train with no notice, I'd know the fare and I could jump on any train that was going my way.

Stonewall have had to correct their lie about the research included in the Cass report. I hope the likes of Billy Bragg Dawn Butler and the Scottish Greens will push the correction as quickly as they pushed the lies.

The whole interview is worth watching. There's more than just bashing the Tories

That might be better. I was coming from having electable leaders but I agree Prime Ministers should not be picked by members without an election.

Its the same for all parties, the members aren't representive of voters. MP's should choose leaders.

The unfinished business includes abolishing the Supreme Court, the human rights act and the OBR.

I think labour Lords said they wouldn't oppose it indefinitely. The govt is in talks with other countries for similar deals: Armenia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Botswana,

Its healthy to check other news sources, you dont have to agree with them. Just reading the Guardian or tailored social media distorts your view of the world. At the moment the Sun has good political reporting and their recent online interviews are worth watching. The Mail is still as bad as you'd expect.

This time it might have been leaked by the witness himself becuase there is bad blood between them. According to the Sunday Times he's Matt Finnegan who used to work for Rayner. He sued her for unfair dismassal and disability discrimination. She paid him off but made him sign an NDA which isn't great. He then wrote a "fictional" novel about a northern female union offical who becomes a senior Labour MP nicknamed the Diva.

The BMJ cover this https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q837 One emerging criticism of the Cass review is that it set the methodological bar too high for research to be included in its analysis and discarded too many studies on the basis of quality. In fact, the reality is different: studies in gender medicine fall woefully short in terms of methodological rigour; the methodological bar for gender medicine studies was set too low, generating research findings that are therefore hard to interpret. The methodological quality of research matters because a drug efficacy study in humans with an inappropriate or no control group is a potential breach of research ethics. Offering treatments without an adequate understanding of benefits and harms is unethical. All of this matters even more when the treatments are not trivial; puberty blockers and hormone therapies are major, life altering interventions. Yet this inconclusive and unacceptable evidence base was used to inform influential clinical guidelines, such as those of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which themselves were cascaded into the development of subsequent guidelines internationally

Just read a possible reason why Rayner reported she lived apart from her husband. She bought the council house at a discount in 2007. If she moved out in 2010 to live with her husband she would have to repay some of the discount. If true its more serious than the tax allegation.

Yep no press coverage at all for Wragg.

The worst thing about this story is how people who rightly call out every Tory scandal are saying Labour shouldn't be scrutinised.