Louise Knights-McCudden
@louknightsmccudden.bsky.social
Writer, politics & public policy analysis nerd, reproductive justice advocate, intuitive eater. Sapphic. Wife. She/her. 🌈 UK Head of External Affairs at MSI Reproductive Choices but views my own.
Royal British Legion warns political activists against hijacking Faversham’s Remembrance Day parade share.google/EawQ7ntWTWfV...
Royal British Legion urges activists not to hijack Remembrance Day parade
Royal British Legion bosses are urging political activists not to hijack Remembrance Sunday this weekend.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"We need to remain firm against anyone who works to roll back our hard-won rights.”
On the anniversary of Safe Access Zones last Friday, our Head of External Affairs @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke to Stylist on the state of UK abortion rights.
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On the anniversary of Safe Access Zones last Friday, our Head of External Affairs @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke to Stylist on the state of UK abortion rights.
Read it here: www.stylist.co.uk/news/abortio...
“It’s one year since abortion safe access zones were introduced – but more still need to be done”
Reproductive rights in the UK remain under attack.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"We need to remain firm against anyone who works to roll back our hard-won rights.”
On the anniversary of Safe Access Zones last Friday, our Head of External Affairs @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke to Stylist on the state of UK abortion rights.
Read it here: www.stylist.co.uk/news/abortio...
On the anniversary of Safe Access Zones last Friday, our Head of External Affairs @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke to Stylist on the state of UK abortion rights.
Read it here: www.stylist.co.uk/news/abortio...
What's this sudden obsession with hobbits from the ethnonationalists?
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What's this sudden obsession with hobbits from the ethnonationalists?
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
"But then in 2000 The Blind Assassin won the Booker prize. Whew, I thought. I no longer have to deal with reporters asking me why I didn’t win it, only with the ones who’ll be saying why I shouldn’t have."
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From (finally) being given the Booker prize to the day her partner died: an exclusive extract from Margaret Atwood’s new memoir
The novelist reflects on being struck by loss in the middle of a press tour
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November 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"But then in 2000 The Blind Assassin won the Booker prize. Whew, I thought. I no longer have to deal with reporters asking me why I didn’t win it, only with the ones who’ll be saying why I shouldn’t have."
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I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired
October 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired
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On Threads, the AP promoted this story with the caption: “Anti-abortion pregnancy centers offer much more than free ultrasounds and diapers. Here's why they're expanding as Planned Parenthood clinics close.” Do better @apnews.com
Once again, this kind of “both sides” coverage of crisis pregnancy centers is simply not going to cut it, because on one “side” we have medical and scientific consensus—and basic facts—and on the other “side” we have disinformation. Giving these perspectives equal weight is journalistic malpractice
Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are looking to offer much more than ultrasounds and diapers
More anti-abortion pregnancy centers have been offering medical services such as testing for sexually transmitted infections.
apnews.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On Threads, the AP promoted this story with the caption: “Anti-abortion pregnancy centers offer much more than free ultrasounds and diapers. Here's why they're expanding as Planned Parenthood clinics close.” Do better @apnews.com
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Interesting piece. But it's not just about channels, it's about a larger crisis in government comms - and in society - which is not a new thing and goes back perhaps 15 years. Put simply, the Whitehall comms machine has lost the ability to win arguments.
The AI minister says the digital ID announcement is an e.g of where gov must up its online comms game:
“To be able to make sure that when a significant thing is happening, like an announcement on digital ID, we're winning the battle of ideas and arguments…” he tells @zoecrowther.bsky.social
“To be able to make sure that when a significant thing is happening, like an announcement on digital ID, we're winning the battle of ideas and arguments…” he tells @zoecrowther.bsky.social
Government Must Do 'A Lot More' To Sell Its Policies Online, Says AI Minister
The minister for artificial intelligence has said the government needs to do “a lot more to win the battle of content online”.
www.politicshome.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Interesting piece. But it's not just about channels, it's about a larger crisis in government comms - and in society - which is not a new thing and goes back perhaps 15 years. Put simply, the Whitehall comms machine has lost the ability to win arguments.
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A conservative Christian group that helped overturn the right to abortion in the US is now attacking UK abortion rights.
With the same tactics used to overturn #RoevWade, they're attacking abortion clinic buffer zones and gestational limits.
@bradleyjane.bsky.social & Elizabeth Dias report ⬇️
With the same tactics used to overturn #RoevWade, they're attacking abortion clinic buffer zones and gestational limits.
@bradleyjane.bsky.social & Elizabeth Dias report ⬇️
A conservative Christian group helped end the constitutional right to an abortion in the U.S. Now, it has taken its playbook to Britain. Here's how the Alliance Defending Freedom became an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and the Reform U.K. party. nyti.ms/3KLqGol
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and Britain’s ascendant Reform U.K. party.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
A conservative Christian group that helped overturn the right to abortion in the US is now attacking UK abortion rights.
With the same tactics used to overturn #RoevWade, they're attacking abortion clinic buffer zones and gestational limits.
@bradleyjane.bsky.social & Elizabeth Dias report ⬇️
With the same tactics used to overturn #RoevWade, they're attacking abortion clinic buffer zones and gestational limits.
@bradleyjane.bsky.social & Elizabeth Dias report ⬇️
"Eicke listed ways... the court changed the UK. This included the abolition of birching in the 1970s, helping to expose the thalidomide scandal, lifting the ban on homosexual people in the armed forces and being responsible for the Hillsborough public inquiry reopening." share.google/hn2s3u5k419c...
ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge
Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Eicke listed ways... the court changed the UK. This included the abolition of birching in the 1970s, helping to expose the thalidomide scandal, lifting the ban on homosexual people in the armed forces and being responsible for the Hillsborough public inquiry reopening." share.google/hn2s3u5k419c...
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“I think it’s very powerful as a message to send to the world that parliamentarians in this country have voted to defend the right to choose."
In @bigissue.com, @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke about the UK's move towards full decriminalisation of abortion.
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In @bigissue.com, @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke about the UK's move towards full decriminalisation of abortion.
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Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights be rolled back?
More than 100 women are believed to have been arrested on suspicion of abortion over the last five years in England and Wales.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“I think it’s very powerful as a message to send to the world that parliamentarians in this country have voted to defend the right to choose."
In @bigissue.com, @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke about the UK's move towards full decriminalisation of abortion.
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In @bigissue.com, @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social spoke about the UK's move towards full decriminalisation of abortion.
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First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...
RIP, to a legend and style icon.
RIP, to a legend and style icon.
October 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...
RIP, to a legend and style icon.
RIP, to a legend and style icon.
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where do people like this think creativity happens? it happens IN the transitions, it happens in navigating through all the difficult bits; the pleasure of creating is inextricable from the difficulty, it's all one cloth. you deliberately conflate that with rote productivity then you have no soul
October 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
where do people like this think creativity happens? it happens IN the transitions, it happens in navigating through all the difficult bits; the pleasure of creating is inextricable from the difficulty, it's all one cloth. you deliberately conflate that with rote productivity then you have no soul
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They imagine ideas emerge from the ether, bolts of lightening disconnected from our hearts. They imagine the process is an obstacle not the whole damn point. The idea of being stuck and having something just hand you some...solution, is so off putting to me as an artist.
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
They imagine ideas emerge from the ether, bolts of lightening disconnected from our hearts. They imagine the process is an obstacle not the whole damn point. The idea of being stuck and having something just hand you some...solution, is so off putting to me as an artist.
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People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.
"That's not the language I would have used" is not an acceptable response to this at all. Journalists need to make sure that this line repeatedly gets the response it deserves
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"That's not the language I would have used" is not an acceptable response to this at all. Journalists need to make sure that this line repeatedly gets the response it deserves
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Tice's quote is fake.
Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”
Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”
October 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Tice's quote is fake.
Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”
Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”
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Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents.
It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.
Ofcom should rule
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It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.
Ofcom should rule
uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...
October 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents.
It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.
Ofcom should rule
uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...
It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text.
Ofcom should rule
uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...
It is disgusting, horrifying, and heartbreaking that this even needs to be said. But sadly it does.
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It is disgusting, horrifying, and heartbreaking that this even needs to be said. But sadly it does.
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I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
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We've been featured in Stylist this #InternationalSafeAbortionDay 🌟
"We need to consider what fighting for reproductive justice might look like in a global political climate which is more hostile to human rights and equality." - @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social
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"We need to consider what fighting for reproductive justice might look like in a global political climate which is more hostile to human rights and equality." - @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social
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“On Safe Abortion Day, we need to continue to fight for reproductive justice in the UK”
“While we can’t be complacent, we also shouldn’t be defeatist.”
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September 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We've been featured in Stylist this #InternationalSafeAbortionDay 🌟
"We need to consider what fighting for reproductive justice might look like in a global political climate which is more hostile to human rights and equality." - @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social
www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...
"We need to consider what fighting for reproductive justice might look like in a global political climate which is more hostile to human rights and equality." - @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social
www.stylist.co.uk/news/politic...
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One of the ironies in the age of micro-targeting is that a single unifying narrative/message is more important than ever.
We don't live in a world anymore where you can do one piece for the Telegraph and an interview with the Guardian + appeal to two different audiences with different messages. Anyone interested can see what you're doing.
September 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One of the ironies in the age of micro-targeting is that a single unifying narrative/message is more important than ever.
A great new project.
Delighted to be launching the Feminist Miscarriage Project! Please see our new website and we'll be updating on news and events soon: feministmiscarriageproject.org
The Feminist Miscarriage Project
A new collaboration led by two feminist academics, Victoria Browne and Susie Kilshaw, promoting intersectional approaches to miscarriage, grounded in bodily autonomy, social justice, and solidarity ac...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A great new project.
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The heuristic of 'if you couldn't make a decent stab at writing their obituary without further reporting, you shouldn't write a thinkpiece about their thoughts reveal about our times' remains very strong.
These people absolutely exist and they’re nuts, and I can even understand doing a story on them, but it’s really quite pathetic to frame it as “Wow, just like 2020!” when it’s a bunch of random people online and not, like, *the candidate themselves and the overwhelming majority of elected officials*
After Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, Republicans used dubious arguments to say he had been cheated. Now the left is dabbling in some of those same questionable theories to claim that Kamala Harris really won last year’s election, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.
September 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The heuristic of 'if you couldn't make a decent stab at writing their obituary without further reporting, you shouldn't write a thinkpiece about their thoughts reveal about our times' remains very strong.
“Understandably, autistic people will be dismayed and frightened by this... We urge our Govt and NHS to stand by autistic people and condemn this misinformation.
"We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations."
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"We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations."
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Our response to President Trump’s announcement on Tylenol and vaccines
Our response to President Trump’s announcement on Tylenol and vaccines
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September 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“Understandably, autistic people will be dismayed and frightened by this... We urge our Govt and NHS to stand by autistic people and condemn this misinformation.
"We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations."
www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...
"We urge anyone looking for information about autism to visit websites from trusted organisations."
www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...