NHS announces biological sex IS a fact and that it matters, sometimes very precisely, in physical care. From 1pm LBC I’ll be asking how a supposedly advanced nation ever disputed this.

Good piece from Isabel Hardman

‘You can't force yourself to be mentally well enough to work - I tried’ inews.co.uk/opinion/cant-f…

Special school pupils ‘tortured’ in calming rooms, BBC investigation finds bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

The third bullet point in this report…..seriously? bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

Ooft. Stephen Flynn MP tells Andrew Marr on LBC he was 'quite happy' at the ending of the Bute House Agreement & says Green criticism of council tax freeze was a 'bitter pill to swallow' When Marr says the Scottish Greens are 'polling at 1%' Flynn says 'are they that high?'

Even beginning to think about this before we've sorted out social care is insane

💥Stephen Flynn is backing John Swinney for the SNP leadership

SNP Westminster leader tells The News Agents: 'there's only one person with the experience to do the job, one person to unite the party... I like to think that person is Swinney, I encourage him to stand'

Excellent thread 👇

In which I get quite grumpy explaining how govt announced increase in defence spending of £75bn at cost of £4.4bn.

Misleading, inconsistent & opaque way of describing an important policy.

Labour are no better - promise to reach 2.5% of GDP 'when conditions allow' is meaningless

Bit of news 👇

Thrilled to say I’ll be presenting a new flagship Sunday morning politics show for LBC 10-12

‘Sunday with Lewis Goodall’ will have the best political interviews, top analysis on UK, US elections (& more) plus exclusive on-the-ground reporting.

Starts this week!

If I were a cynic, I'd say this looks awfully like a government that's run out of ideas desperately trying to show it hasn't run out of ideas. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

BBC Gaza correspondent: My struggle to keep family safe while covering the war - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

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On Monday, Rishi Sunak mentioned a seven year old girl who died last month trying to reach Britain from Northern France.

This week I went to Calais for The Sunday Times to find out what happened to Rola Al Mayali.

thetimes.co.uk/article/drowne…

Sunshine ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

Timed to impact local elections. Lives, justice, dignity traded for our votes. The instrumentalisation of everything. The trade in lives for power.

Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Great review of the excellent Harriet Wistrich book in the Observer today:
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Scrapping this is an exceptionally dumb idea.

‘Almost beyond belief’: axing of UK teacher recruitment scheme will worsen crisis, say critics

theguardian.com/education/2024…

NEW: Latest The News Agents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children

Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

What an opening paragraph