Males have a significant physical advantage over females. That is just science. No hormones or surgery can negate the advantage. #TruthIsNotACrime #TruthIsNotAHateCrime #FactIsNotHate #MenAreNotWomen #WomenAreNotMen

This is the ugly face of nationalism: ‘England get out of Scotland’. Scotland is home to hundreds of thousands of people born in England. They are our neighbours, friends and families — not an occupying enemy.”

Commercial surrogacy is flourishing in Britain, despite being illegal. Why? Because commercial agencies come and go with impunity, people go abroad to buy babies, and Govt doesn’t stop them. To send an email to your MP objecting, click here: surrogacyconcern.uk/take-act…

Agree...keeping boys out of girls’ sport isn’t bigotry, it’s the Equality Act working as it should. The Equality and Human Rights Commission draft still frames too many ordinary sex-based rules as suspect. We’ve said where it fails and what to fix in our easy guide, the🚨 deadline is midnight on 30 September to tell the EHRC what you think. protectandteach.org/the-equa…

We laid flowers and paid respects at the final resting places in Cardonald Cemetery, Glasgow, of 4 sailors from the Merchant Navy, who were killed when a U-Boat struck the S.S Ashantian, on 26th September, 1940 Lest we Forget these brave men 🇦🇺 🇳🇬 🇸🇱 🇿🇦

This footage is absolutely shocking. Watch the man (father??) carrying the small child and then deserting the child to get on the boat. Impossible to comprehend.

DID YOU KNOW? No. 13 is part of our series looking at why sex-specific language and sex-disaggregated data matter in healthcare, research, education and public policy. From dementia and heart disease to blood tests, screening, maternal health and medical research, identifying women and men accurately can reveal differences in risk, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. 📣 Parliament petition 779105: Require sex-specific language in government, NHS, education and public bodies. petition.parliament.uk/petit… The petition asks the Government to require public bodies to use clear sex-specific language where sex is relevant. Women need to be named. Sex needs to be recorded. Good evidence depends on knowing who we are talking about. Petition 779105 closes 9 March 2027.

26th September 1818: THE DAY ONE HUMAN GAVE BLOOD TO ANOTHER ❤️ More than 200 years ago today, an extraordinary experiment in London helped begin a branch of medicine that would eventually save millions of lives. On 26th September 1818, British obstetrician Dr James Blundell carried out one of the great landmarks in medical history: an early documented human-to-human blood transfusion. The reason Blundell had become interested in transfusion was particularly poignant. As an obstetrician, he had watched women die from catastrophic postpartum haemorrhage after childbirth. At a time when doctors had very little they could do to replace massive blood loss, he began experimenting with the possibility of replacing the blood that had been lost. Earlier attempts at transfusion had even involved transferring animal blood into humans, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Blundell's experiments led him towards a crucial principle:🩸 Human beings needed human blood. On this day in 1818, Blundell and his colleagues transfused blood donated by several people into a gravely ill man named Brazier. The patient temporarily improved, although sadly he died around 56 hours later from his underlying illness. Nevertheless, the experiment demonstrated that human blood could be transferred from one person to another and helped open the way towards clinical transfusion medicine. Blundell continued his work. Over the following years, transfusion began to be used particularly in desperate cases of haemorrhage; including women bleeding after childbirth. Blundell also developed equipment specifically designed to make transfusion possible....and just think what they didn't know. There was no knowledge of the ABO blood groups. No modern cross-matching. No refrigerated blood banks. No disposable sterile blood bags. No modern understanding of transfusion reactions. All of that would come later. But Blundell and the other pioneers had begun something extraordinary. This one is personal for me. I have von Willebrand disease, a bleeding disorder, and have needed blood transfusions... So when I write about the history of blood transfusion, this isn't simply an interesting medical anniversary to me. Someone I will probably never meet gave their blood and that blood helped save my life. They didn't know who would receive it. They didn't know my name. They simply rolled up their sleeve and donated. More than two centuries after James Blundell experimented with transferring one person's blood into another, people still quietly walk into blood-donation centres every day and do something quite remarkable. They give a little bit of themselves so that a complete stranger might live. NHS Blood and Transplant says around 825,000 people volunteer to give blood each year, with donations saving and improving thousands of lives. So on this particular On This Day, I'd simply like to say: 🩸 Thank you to James Blundell and all those who pioneered transfusion medicine. 🩸 Thank you to the scientists, doctors, nurses and healthcare staff who turned those early experiments into modern medicine. But most of all... ❤️ Thank you to every person who gives blood. You may never know whose life your donation changes.... But people like me do.... and sometimes, quite literally, we wouldn't be here without you.🩸❤️

🇬🇧🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIR BARNES WALLIS 🎂🇬🇧 Born 26th September 1887. A posthumous happy birthday today to one of Britain's great engineers and inventors; Sir Barnes Neville Wallis. Most of us know his name because of one extraordinary invention: the “bouncing bomb”. During the Second World War, Wallis faced what seemed an almost impossible engineering problem. Germany's strategically important dams were immense structures, protected against conventional attack and underwater torpedoes. Wallis developed Upkeep; technically a mine rather than an ordinary bomb, designed to be dropped from a Lancaster at extremely low altitude with backspin. It would skip across the water, pass over defensive nets, strike the dam and sink down its face before exploding underwater. And the idea wasn't born from some enormous computer simulation. Wallis experimented with objects skipping across water, including trials with marbles in a garden water tank, gradually working out the physics that would ultimately be translated into a full-sized weapon. ✈️ Then came the Dambusters On the night of 16–17 May 1943, the specially formed RAF 617 Squadron, commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, flew Operation Chastise against the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams. Nineteen Lancasters took part. 🇬🇧 And there's a little piece of that history in Derbyshire… The crews practised their extraordinary low-level flying and bomb-aiming techniques at Derwent Dam, chosen because of its resemblance to the German dams. Today a memorial there commemorates 617 Squadron and Barnes Wallis's invention, with the rather wonderful inscription: “THEY PAID FOR OUR FREEDOM.” Wallis was awarded £10,000 for his war work from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. His grief at the loss of so many airmen in the dams raid was such that Wallis donated the entire sum to his alma mater Christ's Hospital School in 1951 to allow them to set up the RAF Foundationers' Trust, assisting the children of RAF personnel killed or injured in action to attend the school. And Wallis's story didn't end with the Dambusters. He was an aircraft designer, structural engineer and aviation pioneer whose work stretched from airships and the Wellington bomber to Tallboy, Grand Slam and later ideas for advanced aircraft and high-speed flight. 🇬🇧 And here's a less well-known part of his story… Long before the Dambusters, Barnes Wallis himself wore uniform during the First World War. In 1915, after briefly serving with the Artists Rifles, his engineering expertise saw him brought back to Britain's developing military airship programme. He received a temporary commission as a Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR, serving with the Royal Naval Air Service. His name even appears in the London Gazette of 14 September 1915 among the newly appointed Sub-Lieutenants. Rather wonderfully, the young naval officer photographed in uniform in 1915 would, nearly three decades later, become one of the engineers most closely associated with the RAF's most famous wartime operations. He died in 1979, aged 92. So today, 139 years after his birth, a posthumous happy birthday to…🎂 Sir Barnes Wallis. Engineer. Inventor. Problem-solver. And the man who looked at a stone skipping across water and helped turn the principle behind it into one of the most remarkable engineering stories of the Second World War. 🇬🇧✈️

🐰🌿 A LITTLE BUNNY TAIL… OR SHOULD THAT BE TALE? 🌿🐰 Once upon a time, at the bottom of a very British garden, there lived a small rabbit with enormous ears, a twitchy nose and an extremely fluffy bottom. His name was Bramble... Bramble's days were terribly busy. At dawn, there was grass to nibble. By breakfast, there were dandelions requiring urgent attention. At eleven, a particularly suspicious-looking leaf needed investigating. Then came the important business of digging a hole for absolutely no apparent reason. After lunch, Bramble performed several high-speed laps of the lawn, frightened himself with a watering can, and retired beneath the hedge for a well-earned snooze. It was, frankly, exhausting being a rabbit.... But Bramble had one tiny complaint. Humans kept looking at his little white bobtail and saying: “Awwww!” Bramble considered this deeply undignified. He was, after all, a serious wild animal. A descendant of generations of expert burrowers. A master of camouflage. A creature capable of reaching remarkable speeds when required. Then someone produced a carrot. Bramble immediately abandoned his principles. 🥕 🐇 Happy International Rabbit Day! Today is a celebration of those wonderful long-eared, nose-twitching, binky-performing little creatures we rather casually call bunnies. And behind the cuteness is an important message. Rabbits are intelligent and highly social animals. Domestic rabbits need space, enrichment and appropriate companionship; they're not simply pets to be left alone in a little hutch at the bottom of the garden. So today, spare a thought for the rabbits… Wild ones racing across our fields. 🌿 Rescue rabbits waiting for homes. 🏡 Pampered house rabbits rearranging the furniture. 😂 And every bunny in between. Because sometimes the happiest stories really do have… fluffy little tails. 🐰🤍 #InternationalRabbitDay

Today we remember Lance Corporal Ronald Griffin, 11th Parachute Battalion, who died on the 25–26 September 1944, aged 25 During the final hours of the Battle of Arnhem, the exhausted remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division were ordered to withdraw across the River Rhine. Among them was Lance Corporal Ronald Griffin of Fazeley, Staffordshire. Having previously served with the North Staffordshire Regiment and 156 Parachute Battalion, Ronald returned to the airborne forces and deployed to Arnhem with the 11th Parachute Battalion. He is believed to have lost his life while attempting the dangerous river crossing to safety. His body was recovered from the Rhine in early October 1944. Ronald rests in Rhenen General Cemetery in the Netherlands and is also commemorated near his Staffordshire home. We Will Remember Them "𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖓𝖔 𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘, 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖆 𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝖑𝖆𝖞 𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖘." #WeWillRememberThem #LestWeForget #ASACharity #BritishArmedForces asauk.org ASA Charity NIC108368

Doctors need to know the sex of their patients. Patients deserve to know the sex of the doctors and other people looking after them.

Make hospice funding a national priority: Now on the verge of 100,000 signatures. More than 1.1 million views. Around 40,000 shares. More than 300 comments. But those numbers only tell part of the story. YOU did this ❤️ 100,000 voices are heading to No.10 c.org/9yFSDdvHrT via @UKChange

Ofsted is consulting on major changes to how it inspects children’s social care in England. Protect and Teach has reviewed the proposals through a safeguarding lens...will they make it easier to spot when children are unsafe? 👇Consultation closes at 11:59pm on 28 September 2026. Read Protect and Teach’s safeguarding analysis, then respond in your own words. Link and model answers in the post protectandteach.org/ofsted-i…

Ofsted is consulting on how it inspects children’s social care (local authorities, children’s homes, fostering and more). @ProtectTeach have put together a clear guide that explains the proposals, flags the safeguarding issues and gives model answers so anyone can respond in their own words... You don’t need to be an expert. Consultation closes 28 September. Have your say (These opportunities matter!)

25th September 1997... A British car. A British driver. Two jet engines. And 714.144 mph. 🏎️🔥 On this day in 1997, RAF pilot Andy Green climbed into Thrust SSC in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and did something no driver had ever officially done before. He drove a car at more than 700 miles per hour. The official record: 714.144 mph. Roughly 1,149 km/h. The Thrust SSC was hardly a conventional car... It was powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines; the type of engine developed for jet aircraft, and the project was led by British entrepreneur and former land-speed-record holder Richard Noble. Green was not merely pressing an accelerator and hoping for the best. At those speeds, tiny changes in steering, aerodynamic behaviour and the desert surface mattered enormously. And 714 mph was not even the end of the story. Just 20 days later, on 15th October 1997, Green and Thrust SSC returned to Black Rock Desert. This time they achieved 763.035 mph over the measured mile. And history was made again... Thrust SSC became the first car officially to break the sound barrier on land. The achievement was particularly satisfying for British engineering because Britain already had an extraordinary tradition in the pursuit of the land-speed record; from Malcolm Campbell and his Blue Birds to John Cobb, Donald Campbell and Richard Noble. But Thrust SSC took that tradition somewhere entirely new. A machine weighing more than ten tonnes was travelling across the ground faster than sound. Here is perhaps the most extraordinary part: Nearly three decades later, the record still stands. Thrust SSC remains the only car ever to have achieved an officially recognised supersonic land-speed record. There are moments in British engineering history when the sensible question appears to be: “Why on earth would anyone attempt that?” And the equally British answer seems to be: “Well, somebody has to.” 🇬🇧❤️🫡

What did the SNP ever do for you? Well they gave you the: 💥Worst alcohol death rate in the UK 💥Worst homeless death rate in the UK 💥Worst child mortality rate in the UK 💥Worst life expectancy in Europe 💥Worst drug death rate in Europe 💥Worst cancer survival rate in Europe 💥Worst obesity level in the UK