Kathleen Stock
@Docstockk
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Contributing editor @unherd. Podcasts @project_lesbian. Books: MATERIAL GIRLS(2021); DO NOT GO GENTLE (2026). Agent: @littlehardman. No longer a prof.
Beyond the redbrick wall
Joined June 2015
Manuscript submitted today. Out next April, whatever happens in the House of Lords. https://t.co/P9cdRqOyNE
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Unusual and interesting in multiple ways - his background, the teachers who were crucial to him, getting to Oxford to read Philosophy & Theology & then dropping out. AND talking to Microsoft Co-Pilot as he drives home from work every day, including for emotional support
LATEST EPISODE - the Brit at the helm of AI for one of the biggest of Big Tech.. listen here š½
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I cannot understand why knowing whether the person asking for assisted death is pregnant has become the go-to example of ātime-wastingā. It seems pretty obvious that there are a number of reasons why this would be important to know. Therefore, it should be debated.
@ProfMarkTaubert @spikedonline Iām getting a lot of push back for tabling this. It was not debated in the commons so that is why Iām tabling it
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A cracking read here! That so much of the analysis of that interview has been infinitely more interesting and stimulating is telling.
I watched Piers Morgan vs Nick Fuentes: the idea Morgan "won" the bout is delusional. I did, however, see the final extinction of the Big Confrontational Interview format. Wrote about it for @unherd
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The world of the 2020s is strange enough as it is. We confuse ourselves further when we try to explain it via conspiracy theories and laboured historical analogies. My debut article for @unherd.
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I watched Piers Morgan vs Nick Fuentes: the idea Morgan "won" the bout is delusional. I did, however, see the final extinction of the Big Confrontational Interview format. Wrote about it for @unherd
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āThe idea that Fuentesā groyper following is going to be put off by some inconsistency in his various statements seems to me totally naĆÆve.ā āOn the contrary,ā writes @docstockk, āI think they will applaud him for his trickster slipperiness.ā š https://t.co/vbqACzJrJc
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20% off 'Sex and Gender: A contemporary reader' at the moment. šš
š With contributions from @selina_todd @FondOfBeetles @SwipeWright @Docstockk @sophiescott @janeclarejones @kathmurray1 @lnmackenzie1 @calliehburt @LisaLittman1 @cathydevine56 @JoPhoenix1 and more.
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Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a much-needed exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity. Its multidisciplinary approach provides fascinating perspectives from...
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Words of one of the most courageous survivor activists I have ever met: https://t.co/vnF79QJHiv
What was the point in fighting 11 years for justice? When at every turn we just face being let down and disappointed and brick walls from every one supposed to protect us and keep us safe instead going above and beyond trying to cover over the rape, torture, murder of children.
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A tour de force
In which I have a go at disentangling and codifying the radical jurisprudence of Kit Malthouse | a doodle
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Channelled my irritation at the covert use of AI into a column for @thetimes. What will "writing" be like when they are ubiquitous and undetectable? https://t.co/3RjjVynZwd
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Writing is an act of communication between two minds but a chatbot simply churns out words with no thinking involved
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It's sobering that some MPs have such a flawed understanding of how the Parliament in which they sit actually works. There is no constitutional principle of the 'primacy' of the Commons in the sense that @kitmalthouse asserts. Repeatedly asserting otherwise does not make it so.
Youāre asking primacy to be absolute in order to exist, but constitutional principles are hierarchical not binary. They require only that, at the point of ultimate conflict, the mandate of the Commons takes precedence. Statutory and conventional limits simply give effect to that.
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Join us live for 'The slop-ification of literature' as Substackās @edwest, The Timesā @j_amesmarriott and UnHerdās @Docstockk come together to discuss the twilight of literary culture and the dark dawn of scrolling culture.
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A rebuttal to Jonathan Dimbleby's emotional blackmail of the Lords for doing their job scrutinising the Assisted Suicide bill, from a doctor who has cared for thousands of dying people, including many with lfielong disability and many who died with motor neurone disease š§µ
Assisted dyingās disgraceful delay While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer By Jonathan Dimbleby
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This article in the Sunday Times fundamentally misstates the constitutional role of the Lordsābased, it seems, on an equally misleading open letter from former Cabinet Secretaries and others who ought to know better. The correct position is set out here:
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The Assisted Dying Bill has been approved by the House of Commons. But unless the Parliament Act is invokved, it also needs the approval of the House of Lords if it is to become law. What constitutā¦
A bizarre article in the Sunday Times: āAny attempt by the Lords to block a bill backed by the Commons would breach long-established constitutional conventionsā. But there are no applicable conventions here. Lords are free to vote down this Bill.
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Nov 2023: now-leaked Labour strategy doc proposes āprivate memberāsā bill where govt ācontrols the parametersā by āworking with advocacy groupsā¦to draft the legislationā. Jan 2025: Leadbeater reacts with fury after Danny Kruger claims the bill was āwritten by a campaign groupā.
This is maybe the biggest smoking gun in the leak (to mix metaphors). Itās a plan for how to ācontrolā legislation, partly through āadvocacy groupsā, without the difficulties of consulting the electorate and the Labour party.
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To Say Goodbye Again By Jac Winters October 7, 2017 You lost them all in a blink, left standing, not knowing what to think. The only one leftāit just isnāt fair, your mind heavy with the burden. āIāll lift it, dear child, itās not yours to share.ā You want to take their place,
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And I speak as someone who once wrote an entire REF submission. There are no clean hands here.
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I love The Rest is History, mainly for the content but also for morality tale it offers universities. So much pointless effort expended on achieving public "impact". And the secret turns out to be: show enthusiasm, don't guilt-trip the audience, tell a rattling good yarn.
Let's hear it for The Rest is History Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story By Robert Colls
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Now that I can see it, I think I hate posts written by chatbots more than I hate ones with no capitalisation (and thatās a lot.) Itās really obvious when you get your eye in, and it undermines the gravity of the message. Write it yourself!
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I keep hearing that England is looking for a new mythos. So what about the tale of Sycamore Gap? Wrote about it for @unherd
https://t.co/MNC91cVuuT
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Morning all. Will be tweeting the Lords committee on the assisted suicide bill. The background to today's session: an increasingly fractious debate on the role of the Lords, and this week's revelations about the possible origins of the bill:
EXC - I've seen a leaked policy document from Labour in opposition which sets out how to approach assisted dying. The document sets out how it could be introduced as a private memberās bill, suggesting that would still allow āheavy influenceā for the government in the process
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