Jolyon Maugham KC
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel.
Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts.
He/him.
goodlawproject.org
- "The fact that - on top of everything else - Palantir's NHS offer is just not very good does make one wonder about the source of Wes Streeting's enthusiasm for it. And why the hapless Keir Starmer was dragged along to endorse them by Peter Mandelson." open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
- Never conclude this Labour Government has hit bottom. It can, and on the evidence it will, get worse.
- Very pleased, over at Instagram, to be collaborating with Ben and Jerry's who are urging their followers to support our litigation to undo the Supreme Court decision.
- Better trade, a place to call your own, decent social care, freedom to live where you want, food security, economic growth, a functioning health service: quite the list of sacrifices we have to make for Labour to try and stay in power. And do nothing again.
- Good of Labour to tell you, if you're struggling to get decent care for your parents, who to blame.
- The BBC is campaigning against measures that make it possible for local people to buy homes. Labour is content for them to do this. I understand neither of these choices. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- The Observer - now under new ownership - is running a week long 'journalism school' for those 18 and over. observer.co.uk/news/interna...
- "Labour polled more than 40% at the start of the campaign but finished with a vote share of 33.7%. Now it is running in the low 20s." observer.co.uk/news/columni...
- Pleased to read yet another scientific paper pointing out how weak is the Cass 'Review'. But what's happening to trans people is about politics. And a choice made in politics won't be unmade with science.
- Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Confronted with a choice of cutting taxes for second homes owners or funding eg youth clubs for working class kids Farage chooses... 👇🏻
