This is an extraordinary piece of telly. Utterly damming of the corruption of the last Conservative Government - and of our political and legal systems which have failed even to aspire to holding those chancers to account. Available to watch on ITVX.

Important reporting of the devastating failures of family courts to protect victims of domestic abuse, with am important contribution from @DrProudman.

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked • Prison was

Still waiting for this story to be run by all the major papers in Britain.

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

To give human rights only to those tyranny likes is to destroy their very purpose.

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

"Are we going to abandon people whenever the rightwing press demands it?"

Our Judicial Review of the EHRC: we've published our formal written case - together with that of the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - and they are very much worth a read.

With apologies, we've taken down the blogged update to our judicial review of the EHRC whilst we sort out the links. Will repost shortly.

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?”

🏮 And he asks for an evidence-based approach. This ought to be basic common sense but none of this is evidence based. You can read the letter here:

🏮 He's very concerned about measures which oblige trans people to out themselves publicly and significantly increase their vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence

🏮 He thinks the direction of travel in the UK will breach its human rights obligations in multiple respects - pushing trans people into an 'intermediate zone' and jeopardising their right to be treated with dignity and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life...

Quite a bodying for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe. 🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations) 🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved.

It’s been more than a decade since we learned that car manufacturers like Mercedes and VW were using ‘cheat devices’. Since that time thousands have died prematurely in the UK alone. So why no action? https://t.co/CjUFj1a8L5

Release the Epstein Files. All of them.

Is the Thames Water bailout plan – which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years – lawful? Our director @JolyonMaugham breaks it down. https://t.co/9f2CNFVpsW

Big jump for the Greens, now 2 points behind Labour. I wrote this week for @thenerve_news about what young women like about the Green Party. They talked to me about inequality, protest, and nature. Can the Greens now also reach wider communities of women? 1/2

"'If you’re masculine presenting or butch lesbian, women’s toilets are not a safe space. I’ve been spat on, screamed at and it’s just so sad that this looks likely to get worse,' one UK cis woman reported."

"Regardless of how hard, or demeaning, or frightening it made the lives of an already vulnerable minority. [Labour] would soon demonstrate the true depths of their indifference."