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1. 🚨BREAKING: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has paid £187,000 in damages, apologised, and committed to separate changing facilities for male and female staff following the Darlington nurses’ legal case.
In January, the Employment Tribunal had found the nurses suffered harassment and indirect sex discrimination over workplace changing-room arrangement.
The case, brought by seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller, was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, which has provided the nurses with legal, media and pastoral support from the beginning of their ordeal.
The case has become one of the most significant legal challenges in recent years concerning the freedom of female staff to access single-sex spaces in the workplace, with the nurses being compared to the Ford Dagenham workers and being dubbed ‘The Angels of the North.’
In January, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney, ruled that the policy, which had been in place at the Trust for years allowing men who identify as women to access the female staff changing room, had amounted to unlawful discrimination.
Following extensive and at times deeply protracted negotiations, the Trust has now paid out £187,000 in damages to the nurses, which does not include legal costs, which are still to be decided at a further hearing.
This figure also does not include the Trust’s own legal costs of £603,000, and counting, spent on defending its position of allowing men into female changing rooms.
See more on our website and in this🧵to see the Trust's apology and commitments on single-sex spaces....
christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease…
In January, the Employment Tribunal had found the nurses suffered harassment and indirect sex discrimination over workplace changing-room arrangement.
The case, brought by seven nurses at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Karen Danson, Tracy Hooper, Annice Grundy, Carly Hoy and Jane Peveller, was supported by the Christian Legal Centre, which has provided the nurses with legal, media and pastoral support from the beginning of their ordeal.
The case has become one of the most significant legal challenges in recent years concerning the freedom of female staff to access single-sex spaces in the workplace, with the nurses being compared to the Ford Dagenham workers and being dubbed ‘The Angels of the North.’
In January, Employment Judge Seamus Sweeney, ruled that the policy, which had been in place at the Trust for years allowing men who identify as women to access the female staff changing room, had amounted to unlawful discrimination.
Following extensive and at times deeply protracted negotiations, the Trust has now paid out £187,000 in damages to the nurses, which does not include legal costs, which are still to be decided at a further hearing.
This figure also does not include the Trust’s own legal costs of £603,000, and counting, spent on defending its position of allowing men into female changing rooms.
See more on our website and in this🧵to see the Trust's apology and commitments on single-sex spaces....
christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease…
2. The apology
As part of the settlement, the Trust has also formally apologised to the nurses. They said in a letter to each nurse:
“we recognise that we have a responsibility to provide a safe, respectful and inclusive working environment for everyone and the Tribunal’s findings make clear that we did not get this right for you, for which the Trust expresses its sincere apologies.”
Furthermore, they say that:
“We also acknowledge that in our decision making, we did not adequately consider your concerns, formally or informally and we sincerely regret that we were unable to get this right. In light of the judgment, we have reviewed our policies and the changes that have already been put in place and will consider what facilities are required to follow the Tribunal’s findings in a way that is respectful to all of our colleagues.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that we support all colleagues and is committed to doing so through our respective policies, procedures and actions as well as learning from the findings of this judgment.
We know that this has been a difficult and distressing experience for you. We also recognise that, at times, your concerns were not fully heard or addressed in a timely or sensitive manner, and we regret the impact this had on you and colleagues who have been affected by this process and subsequent judgment.”
As part of the settlement, the Trust has also formally apologised to the nurses. They said in a letter to each nurse:
“we recognise that we have a responsibility to provide a safe, respectful and inclusive working environment for everyone and the Tribunal’s findings make clear that we did not get this right for you, for which the Trust expresses its sincere apologies.”
Furthermore, they say that:
“We also acknowledge that in our decision making, we did not adequately consider your concerns, formally or informally and we sincerely regret that we were unable to get this right. In light of the judgment, we have reviewed our policies and the changes that have already been put in place and will consider what facilities are required to follow the Tribunal’s findings in a way that is respectful to all of our colleagues.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that we support all colleagues and is committed to doing so through our respective policies, procedures and actions as well as learning from the findings of this judgment.
We know that this has been a difficult and distressing experience for you. We also recognise that, at times, your concerns were not fully heard or addressed in a timely or sensitive manner, and we regret the impact this had on you and colleagues who have been affected by this process and subsequent judgment.”
3. The commitments
As part of the settlement, the Trust has now also agreed to:
Provide changing facilities, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences as separate between biological men and biological women.
Continue to provide suitable and sufficient changing facilities, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences in accordance with its obligations under The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and any other legislation and/or guidance that would be applicable at the time.
It has withdrawn its policy known as ‘‘Transitioning in the Workplace policy’’ (v3.0) POL/PD/0060 (and, for the avoidance of doubt, all previous versions of that policy).
Any future policy replacing the “Transitioning in the workplace policy”, or any other policy affecting the Claimants’ right to be provided with single-sex changing, sanitary or washing facilities, will fully comply with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and any other legislation and/or guidance as would be applicable at the time.
It has also agreed to provide suitable training to its management staff based on the lessons learned from the case and the Tribunal judgment, with a view to preventing any repetition of such discrimination or harassment of female staff as the Tribunal has found to have taken place against the Claimants.
The Trust has, however, refused to rule out taking disciplinary action against the nurses for speaking about their case, despite the Tribunal ruling going to the media was ‘a protected act.’
As part of the settlement, the Trust has now also agreed to:
Provide changing facilities, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences as separate between biological men and biological women.
Continue to provide suitable and sufficient changing facilities, washing facilities and sanitary conveniences in accordance with its obligations under The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and any other legislation and/or guidance that would be applicable at the time.
It has withdrawn its policy known as ‘‘Transitioning in the Workplace policy’’ (v3.0) POL/PD/0060 (and, for the avoidance of doubt, all previous versions of that policy).
Any future policy replacing the “Transitioning in the workplace policy”, or any other policy affecting the Claimants’ right to be provided with single-sex changing, sanitary or washing facilities, will fully comply with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and any other legislation and/or guidance as would be applicable at the time.
It has also agreed to provide suitable training to its management staff based on the lessons learned from the case and the Tribunal judgment, with a view to preventing any repetition of such discrimination or harassment of female staff as the Tribunal has found to have taken place against the Claimants.
The Trust has, however, refused to rule out taking disciplinary action against the nurses for speaking about their case, despite the Tribunal ruling going to the media was ‘a protected act.’
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Want to turn any webcam into a real-time dance game in your browser? Meet MotionPlay Web — AI that watches your moves and scores them instantly. No downloads. Pure fun + tech. Try it here →
#WebML #WebDance #TensorFlow
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#WebML #WebDance #TensorFlow
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🤖 Tech Spec: Built with TensorFlow.js pose detection (MoveNet/BlazePose). Everything runs client-side. Tracks your body in real time and gives instant feedback. Perfect mix of gameplay + machine learning demo.
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We hope to report today on the employment tribunal of Samantha Tempest & PQ vs DEFRA and the Rural Payments Agency.
It is the first day of hearings so there may well applications or other business for the Tribunal to deal with. Official start time is 10 am.
PQ & Tempest (the claimants or Cs) are claiming discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation on grounds of gender reassignment. Central to the claim is the Sex Equality and Equity Network in the Civil Service (SEEN or IP). SEEN has been granted right to intervene.
Unpopular opinion: Putin is no longer the absolute ruler of Russia.
He is a hostage to his own security apparatus.
(🧵Read on — 1/13)
He is a hostage to his own security apparatus.
(🧵Read on — 1/13)
Putin came out of the KGB — and the KGB's heir is the FSB. Four years of war later, the FSB has seized control of Russian life: not as a spy service, but as a political police with emergency powers that now substitutes for the state itself.
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Start with communications. A law Putin signed in February 2025 lets the FSB order any carrier to cut any connection at its own discretion, with no explanation and no liability to the customer.
[3/13]cpj.org/2026/01/russia…
[3/13]cpj.org/2026/01/russia…
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Yesterday at Leinster House for World Whistleblower Day, the conversations afterward turned powerfully to accountability, protections for those who speak out and the gaps that still exist in our institutions.
Follow up discussions quickly moved to the banking crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, very much ongoing today - & whether the full story of decision-making back then has ever been properly confronted.
Those exchanges prompted a closer look at key testimony from the Banking Inquiry that still feels unresolved today.
Yesterday at Leinster House for World Whistleblower Day, the conversations afterward turned powerfully to accountability, protections for those who speak out and the gaps that still exist in our institutions.
Follow up discussions quickly moved to the banking crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, very much ongoing today - & whether the full story of decision-making back then has ever been properly confronted.
Those exchanges prompted a closer look at key testimony from the Banking Inquiry that still feels unresolved today.
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One striking piece came from former AIB Chairman Dermot Gleeson, who recalled the night of the blanket bank guarantee in September 2008.
Gleeson said Finance Minister - the late Brian Lenihan told him he was prepared to let Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide wind down.
Gleeson added that AIB viewed Irish Nationwide as irretrievably broken at that point, and he was surprised by how the broader guarantee unfolded without fuller input from some key players.
Crucially, when Anglo’s Sean Fitzpatrick publicly claimed that all banks were insolvent, Gleeson wrote to him describing those comments as “frankly outrageous”, insisting AIB did not see itself as having a solvency problem on that critical night - contrary to discussions in May 2019 in Finance Committee in which it is openly acknowledged that banks were insolvent.
One striking piece came from former AIB Chairman Dermot Gleeson, who recalled the night of the blanket bank guarantee in September 2008.
Gleeson said Finance Minister - the late Brian Lenihan told him he was prepared to let Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide wind down.
Gleeson added that AIB viewed Irish Nationwide as irretrievably broken at that point, and he was surprised by how the broader guarantee unfolded without fuller input from some key players.
Crucially, when Anglo’s Sean Fitzpatrick publicly claimed that all banks were insolvent, Gleeson wrote to him describing those comments as “frankly outrageous”, insisting AIB did not see itself as having a solvency problem on that critical night - contrary to discussions in May 2019 in Finance Committee in which it is openly acknowledged that banks were insolvent.
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Gleeson’s account painted a picture of AIB as somewhat sidelined from the final guarantee decision, learning the details largely through the media the next morning.
He maintained that the focus that evening was heavily on containing the risks from Anglo’s collapse and its potential ripple effects, rather than any immediate crisis of solvency at the larger pillar banks themselves.
This testimony left many wondering how much of the systemic picture was shared openly at the time versus managed behind closed doors.
Gleeson’s account painted a picture of AIB as somewhat sidelined from the final guarantee decision, learning the details largely through the media the next morning.
He maintained that the focus that evening was heavily on containing the risks from Anglo’s collapse and its potential ripple effects, rather than any immediate crisis of solvency at the larger pillar banks themselves.
This testimony left many wondering how much of the systemic picture was shared openly at the time versus managed behind closed doors.
Excerpts from TR Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1995). The PRI had massively expanded higher education. These universities were entirely 'free'/self-governing and became locuses of left-wing organizing.
In 1968, security forces fired upon a massive student demonstration/riot against the Olympic Games.
By 1970 Mexico had made enormous progress; the national income increased sixfold while the death rate dropped by half. But Mexico was still struggling with foreign-exchange; the govt pursued import-substitution to improve balance-of-payments.
Last week, Israeli–American journalist @emilykschrader addressed the Oxford Union in opposition to the motion: “This House believes Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine.”
She argued that peace requires mutual recognition of each people’s right to self-determination – and that the Palestinian national movement has too often defined peace not as coexistence with Israel, but as a world without it.
Swipe through for selected excerpts > > >
She argued that peace requires mutual recognition of each people’s right to self-determination – and that the Palestinian national movement has too often defined peace not as coexistence with Israel, but as a world without it.
Swipe through for selected excerpts > > >
@emilykschrader
@emilykschrader
SitRep - 23/06/26 - Lots of attacks in occupied Crimea
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Overnight, Ukraine attacked Port Kavkaz, the Kerch oil terminal, substations and many logistic lines in occupied Crimea.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Overnight, Ukraine attacked Port Kavkaz, the Kerch oil terminal, substations and many logistic lines in occupied Crimea.
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Missed the latest?
As usual we start with Russian losses
The government bans social media for U16s, then lowers age limits to this trial from mhra recommendation of 14 to 11 for girls,12 for boys?! Most of the panic is because children have been told a lie that pbs are the answer. Most will desist naturally.1/3
How can children understand what they are consenting to?Fertility preservation - is that even possible at 11 or 12?Some of the questions are shocking for children and why has the NHS gone quiet on the data linkage study-9k there to follow up who have been through this?2/3
I really do not understand as the evidence to this all is crashing around us why we are not turning 360 here and stopping this trial. Facing up to the activism that has manipulated so much and harmed so many. Vulnerable children need adults in the room here. 3/3
1/11 Lp(a) - Friend or Foe ?
Lp(a) is usually labeled “atherogenic,” but if you look at the biology, there’s a more nuanced story that may intersect with Alzheimer’s pathways.
Lp(a) is basically LDL + apolipoprotein(a), and apo(a) looks a lot like plasminogen. /2
Lp(a) is usually labeled “atherogenic,” but if you look at the biology, there’s a more nuanced story that may intersect with Alzheimer’s pathways.
Lp(a) is basically LDL + apolipoprotein(a), and apo(a) looks a lot like plasminogen. /2
2/11 That matters because plasminogen is part of the fibrin breakdown system, and fibrin isn’t just about blood clots in the body, it also shows up in brain microvasculature and has been found in association with amyloid-β deposits.
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3/11 Amyloid-β & fibrin actually interact: Amyloid can make fibrin clots more resistant to breakdown. That creates a loop where impaired fibrinolysis ➡️ more persistent fibrin deposits ➡️ more vascular stress and inflammation ➡️ worse clearance of amyloid from brain tissue.
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1/ Zimbabwe’s pension funds hold US$1.16 BILLION in property.
It earns just 3.7% a year.
Money here needs to earn 12.4%.
That’s a loss on 44% of the nation’s retirement savings — every single year.
A thread on the quietest risk in your pension 🧵
It earns just 3.7% a year.
Money here needs to earn 12.4%.
That’s a loss on 44% of the nation’s retirement savings — every single year.
A thread on the quietest risk in your pension 🧵
2/ For 2 years, that loss was hidden.
In 2024, 79% of pension “income” wasn’t rent or dividends.
It was paper gains from marking property UP.
When the currency steadied in 2025, the magic stopped — total pension income fell 78.7%.
In 2024, 79% of pension “income” wasn’t rent or dividends.
It was paper gains from marking property UP.
When the currency steadied in 2025, the magic stopped — total pension income fell 78.7%.
3/ The property is still on the books at full value.
Re-price it to what it actually earns:
• −US$383m at a generous 6%
• −US$702m at the full hurdle
That’s up to 26.7% of ALL pension assets
Re-price it to what it actually earns:
• −US$383m at a generous 6%
• −US$702m at the full hurdle
That’s up to 26.7% of ALL pension assets
