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David Halliday retweeted
“We will not be frightened into silence.”
A man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to murder the Darlington nurses and “whoever doesn’t support trans rights”.
The email identified Darlington Memorial Hospital and included an image of a large knife.
Three nurses had to be escorted from their workplace by security, and all seven have remained unable to return to work.
Despite the seriousness of the threat, police forces spent days passing responsibility between one another.
North Yorkshire Police acted only after media intervention.
Bethany Hutchison, President of the Darlington Nursing Union, said:
“We are relieved but deeply shocked that the police took so long to take action on this, and only did after the media contacted them.
“This is not merely offensive online abuse. It is a specific and terrifying threat against a group of identifiable women at a named location which included an image of a large knife. Three of our nurses had to be escorted from their workplace by security, and seven nurses have been unable to return to their jobs.
“We reported the threat immediately and supplied the police with the correspondence. Yet days later, we were left facing uncertainty while police forces passed responsibility between one another.
"Other police forces must take note, especially as White Ribbon Day approaches, and many of these forces have firm commitments to ending violence against women and girls. Protecting us needs to be more than a slogan.
“The apparent trigger for this abuse was that we thanked J.K. Rowling for supporting us after our successful campaign for lawful single-sex changing facilities. Whatever a person’s beliefs, threatening to murder women because they uphold biological reality is utterly unacceptable.
“We will not be frightened into silence. We fought for three years for dignity, privacy and safety at work, and we will not surrender those principles to intimidation or violence.
“To women watching this unfold, our message is simple: stand together, speak the truth and do not allow threats to drive you out of public life. We remain unbowed.”
The suspect has been released on bail with conditions prohibiting him from approaching the hospital or the nurses.
The investigation continues.
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David Halliday retweeted
🇬🇧 After 25 years treating patients suffering from gender-related distress, psychotherapist @Doctor_Az_ says he has largely abandoned the field over fears of being accused of conversion therapy. Now he is warning that Labour’s proposed Conversion Practices Bill will only make matters worse.
“Questioning is at the very heart of psychotherapy. Yet I believe we are training a generation of doctors who believe that asking a patient to explain their feelings might somehow be forbidden.”
Read more in @Independent ⬇️
David Halliday retweeted
Legislation is designed to create specific legal realities, around the key ideas of what you MAY do, what you MUST do, and what you MUST NOT do. - Permission, Obligations, Prohibitions.
And it should do so with practical clarity - "leave it to the courts" is NEVER a good answer.
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The guy who was arrested yesterday outside the Palestine Action court case for pausing too long while singing “In the UK it’s illegal to say I support Palestine Action” has predictably been released without charge. xitter.gq/airbyart/status/211813…
David Halliday retweeted
Porn is an unpopular thing to defend. Yet although England’s stricter rules will please moralists, they should alarm anyone who cares about freedom of speech or government overreach economist.com/leaders/2026/1…
David Halliday retweeted
Now Russell Brand's been convicted of rape, we need to talk about Sylvie Berki. Because she can't speak for herself.
In 2014, Ms Berki said she'd been assaulted by Russell Brand.
But if she talks about it, even now, she risks jail.
David Halliday retweeted
The most hilarious story from the midterms, one that many didn’t hear about.
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MI5 will not face contempt of court charges despite admitting its evidence was a lie bbc.in/4AcqK4Y
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Former barrister Tim Crosland was arrested at the Supreme Court for quoting Sarah Helm, the wife of the govt’s National Security Adviser
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Outside the Supreme Court, where the Palestine Action appeal hearing closed for the day, a man was arrested for saying, "In the UK, it's a crime to say, I support Palestine Action".
Police reportedly said it was due to the length of the pause between "crime to say" and "I support.."
David Halliday retweeted
Britain now has a speech kill switch, and as of Monday it’s armed. Large platforms must keep a crisis censorship plan they don’t have to publish, ready to fire the moment speech regulator Ofcom’s definition of a crisis is merely “likely.” That definition covers local events, regional events, and even events overseas.
The content in scope includes “foreign interference,” which can apply to information that is entirely true if it’s presented the wrong way. Ofcom admits political speech will get caught and calls the extra false positives “proportionate.” Police get a dedicated line to the platforms, and they don’t need a court order to use it. The reviews afterwards happen in private too...
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UK speech regulator Ofcom asked Meta, WhatsApp, X and TikTok for ongoing data on what people in Britain post, who sees it, how much gets taken down, and how fast, all broken down by age.
The companies asked why. The UK High Court has now ruled that Ofcom doesn’t have to say. The platforms, on the other hand, had to prove in detail that complying would be a burden. X said it would cost millions of pounds and hundreds of hours of work. The court said that wasn’t detailed enough.
Data sorted by age requires the platforms to know every user’s age, and a regulator that can demand it on a whim is laying the groundwork for digital ID one request at a time.
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"Act of war": sending tanks streaming across the north German plain (arch.); posting memes on Facebook; melting our Magnums, probably.
Our politicians need to stop treating us like children and be straight with us. Britain simply must increase its defence budget to whatever it takes to regularly patch the software in Aldi's freezers.
David Halliday retweeted
ARRESTED WITH SARAH HELM'S WORDS
A woman has just been arrested outside the US Embassy in London for holding a sign with words mirroring the ones that the National Security Advisor's wife tweeted, and for which @metpoliceuk declared "did not meet the criminal threshold".
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This is the statement issued by the Met Police about the Defend Our Juries demonstration today. Commander Adam Slonecki, from Scotland Yard, said: “All those intending on coming to this event know that supporting a proscribed organisation is unlawful – they are essentially meeting to purposefully commit a crime.” This is a remarkable contrual of the law and extent of police powers. Surely it cannot be right that someone protesting against the Government’s decision to proscribe an organisation is automatically interpreted by the Met Police as supporting that organisation and is therefore committing an arrest-able offence. This is especially the case when the proscription is being challenged in the courts. I believe the government and parliament made the wrong decision in proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and I continue to call for its deproscription by the government. If the people turning up today to demonstrate against the proscription of Palestine Action are to be arrested for simply turning up, are we all to be criminalised for suggesting the government got this wrong?
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It’s seriously wild that Parliament has heard detailed statements on, amongst other things: the Holocaust, the Omagh bombing, Hillsborough, Aberfan, & the 7/7 terrorist attacks.
But the only time in 200 years they’ve needed a trigger warning was @Jebadoo2 pitching up to tell them it was wrong to sterilise autistic gay teenagers.
I've got a great idea for a new game show! We make half a group of celebrities wear green underpants and the rest have to guess who they are. For reasons which will always be unclear, the celebs will turn into a group of tearful and indignant Miss Marples. It'll be riveting!
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Mark Carney on Elon Musk throttling Starlink: "I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression."
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A schoolteacher responds to Parliament's Online Safety Act Inquiry. He writes that it has made "literally no difference" to safety, censored the Internet for adults, "terrible" for user privacy, and is easily circumvented - by children - with no effort.
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