Publication announcement! 🚨📚 "Sex, Lies and Statistics: Why We Need Evidence-Based Policy on Sex and Gender" "Sex, Lies and Statistics" documents the missteps society has made by turning its back on evidence when it comes to sex and gender, and shows that accurate data is vital in providing a path to evidence-based policy. Pre-order your copy now. amazon.co.uk/Sex-Lies-Statis… @politybooks #Gender #PublicPolicy #Statistics #Data #Sociology

Ludicrous appointment -- next up is a wealthy mafioso Frankie “The Accountant” Lombardo has been made Professor at top UK University University said he brought “extensive experience of resolving disputes” The appointments committee was unanimous lbc.co.uk/article/newcastle-…

Sex Matters brought a legal challenge against @CPSUK over guidance on deception as to sex. Today the High Court handed down judgment dismissing our claim that the guidance is unlawful, but making stinging criticism of the CPS, calling the guidance overly sympathetic to transgender suspects in rape cases. sex-matters.org/posts/update…

George Edwards, MP for South Norfolk (1920-22, 23-24), started his working life at the age of 6 as a scarecrow. He worked all day long, and never went to school. His father was sent to prison for stealing turnips from a field to feed his family, and George was sent to a workhouse during that time. He returned to agricultural labour, and Edwards later said 'the turnip-field' was his school. At 19, he converted to Methodism. Illiterate, he memorised Bible passages from listening to others recite them. He married a fellow Methodist who taught him to read so that he could read the Bible, and he became a Methodist lay preacher. Edwards was active in the first agricultural unions in Norfolk and eventually founded the National Agricultural Labourers and Rural Workers Union. In 1920, at the age of 70, he won a by-election to Parliament, becoming the first Labour MP in rural East Anglia. Edwards won the seat again in the 1923 general election and was one of the Labour backbench MPs during the first Labour government. He was a major advocate for the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act 1924, which restored agricultural wages committees (that had been abolished after the liberalisation of the economy following WWI). He continued to argue passionately for the cause of rural workers, and refused to retire from his union responsibilities, even when doctors told him to do so, cycling through the roads of rural Norfolk to support agricultural workers. He died from a heart attack in 1933 at the age of 83.

This includes an account of @lnmackenzie1 's evidence on her appalling treatment by the Royal College of Nursing, which deserves to be more widely known.

“The task of a professionally conducted internal inquiry is to unearth a great mass of no evidence” (Sir Humphrey Appleby) The whole purpose of any internal university investigation is to produce administratively defensible conclusions nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…

Lucy makes an important point here. The UK Statistics Code of Practice highlights the principle of integrity: 'Building confidence in the people and organisations that produce statistics and data to show you are trustworthy'. 'Do present and use data and statistics objectively, being impartial and professional'. This matters because trustworthiness matters. If people assume that statistics producers are partisan, they will be less likely to trust statistics in general. They may also be less likely to take part in polling and research. Yougov's comments on the responses to this survey appear rather dismissive of the views of respondents. @YouGov is a reputable and important polling organisation, and I hope they will take a look at this with a view to editing the text to ensure an impartial stance. @TweetMRS

Lads, the women are saying “NO”… That’s your cue to sod off. It’s really simple. What kind of socialist protests against women organising collectively within their own political party?

De hoogste tijd voor een boek over "Sex, lies and Statistics: Why we need evidence-based policy on sex and gender". Richard Dawkins beveelt het aan. Hoop dat @2eKamertweets @EersteKamer @RaadvanState @HogeRaad @MinisterJenV @MinisterVWS dit lézen! Ander land, zelfde problemen.

This may be the first book that many of you will buy which has the word "statistics" in the title. It will certainly be my first.

You got a book group? Here you go, this'll be a cracker of a read. Congratulations, @ProfAliceS

Trailblazing feminist sociologist Ann Oakley captures my fondest wish for the book! amazon.co.uk/Sex-Lies-Statis…

Obviously just one poll, but looking at the rolling average it's a similar picture albeit with Labour ahead among women on the rolling average, the Tories just behind, while men is a split between Labour and Reform and the Tories lagging with men.

CAF has instructed a leading employment law firm to act for an Emeritus Professor after the University of Sunderland warned him to “reflect carefully” on his lawful online interventions on assisted dying — leaving him fearing that further public comment on an issue directly related to his academic expertise could put his institutional status at risk. Read the full story: afcomm.org.uk/2026/08/29/caf…