Ben Knight
@benjamin-knight.com
He/him Nerd Ex-care kid. State school oik Legal 500 Barrister (chambers in Manchester and London) Politics snarker Cat dad 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇫🇷 Music maker Podcaster/Writer Joined October 2023r 1st UK Law podcaster Unexpected Paul Heaton impersonator centralchambers.co.uk
“The arguments made by the claimants weren’t really rooted in concerns about ethics, safety, or efficacy. But decisions about healthcare should be made by young trans people and their clinicians – not by anti-trans campaigners.” goodlaw.social/vw87
High Court rejects challenge to puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
Anti-trans activists’ bid to limit healthcare for young trans people stumbles in court
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Nigel Farage: the controversies A chronology of claims, contradictions and crookedness.
At the London vigil honouring the victims of the attack on Berlin’s Christopher Street Parade. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, leads the crowd in a literal clapback against a heckler. We will not be afraid. We will not be silenced. We are proud, defiant and united against hate.
Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices https://theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-facebook-completely-out-of-touch-1819579007/
My band's Facebook had been doing great for 12 months. No hatred. Nothing negative. We played a Pride event and posted a snippet from our set. And then it began. Hate comments on that. Then they suddenly spread to other posts of ours. Social media is the means of metastasis for hate-mongering filth.
'Condenses thousands of years into an accessible survey … Groom's combination of pace and scope has the advantage of letting us see a massive swath of history in time lapse.' Review of THESE ISLES in the @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/a9c3...
Bloody hell.
Pete Apps@peteapps.bsky.social · 2w agoIn November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nope. Me neither. Well, two of them. But I don't and wouldn't.
Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 2w agoToday's GB News TV advertisers include *Shopify *Sky *Haltonlifts *WeFixLondon *Boxt *AllClearTravel *UnibankTM *Sonorizon *TrailFinders *Powerjetpro *BridgnorthWindows *HarringtonAndByrne *Burlingtons *YourUnbelievaBowl *WNLPrinting *TechnicalDrive *Tufferman www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-...
@paulheatonsolo.bsky.social Hi, comrade! I thought I'd see what you made of our tribute promo images here (and hopefully it's not a cease and desist!). thebeautifulmancs.co.uk/band.html
Meet the Band - The Beautiful Mancs
Meet the musicians behind The Beautiful Mancs - the Manchester tribute to Paul Heaton, The Beautiful South and The Housemartins.
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BBC News - Burnham pulls back on suggestion to increase income tax allowance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Totally confected story. BBC's looking a little desperate here.
Burnham pulls back on suggestion to increase tax-free personal allowance
The new prime minister previously said voters were frustrated over the freeze in tax-free personal allowance.
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“donation of £30,000 to Reform UK in the form of private flights was – contrary to what was recorded in official filings – funded by a ‘credit’ from the air firm’s owner….question whether the true source of the donation was hidden by Nigel Farage’s party.” bylinetimes.com/2026/07/21/r...
Reform UK's £30,000 Donation in Private Flights was Secretly Funded by Owner's 'Credit'
A Byline Times investigation raises questions about whether the true source of the money went undeclared by Nigel Farage's party
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Andrew and Tristan Tate now face a total of 59 criminal charges.
The UK media really is trash. Hackery and laziness. Ad/click chasing dressed up as journalism. Rage-bait and reality-TV-ification of politics and serious events, just to grow podcast stats and socials numbers. Gross.
Has Burnham fixed poverty, fixed immigration in a way that pleases both left and right, and returned us to the EU whilst also having a better deal than the one immediately before Brexit so that everyone can be happy with it? WHY NOT? HE'S HAD ALMOST A DAY!!! Time for a new PM. #BUrNHamOuuT!
Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not
Well, that was a busy weekend! Playing Rock N Stroll for second year was nice. And Field of Gold Festival was just superb. Crikey, I'm tired though! @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social makes is look so easy!
L7 bassist Jennifer Finch dead at 59 | Louder share.google/5dL7ZBRBBuXs... 🙁 Sad.
L7 bassist Jennifer Finch dead at 59
The L7 bassist recently announced that she had been diagnosed with brain cancer
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Source: BBC share.google/6CGY8n34IT7C... Far right Christian extremists and grift money can't buy everything, after all!
Tribunal rules woman not unlawfully discriminated against over beliefs
Sara Morrison claimed she was forced out of her job at Belfast Film Festival for her views on sex and gender.
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It makes me sad that about 80% of live music posters for pubs and clubs are literally the stock, basic, right off the shelf with not even an attempt to change it up, bog standard, shitty AI posters. It's the default you'd get if you asked GPT to make you a poster for X playing at Y on date. Eurgh.
Well, blow me! Badenoch actually nailed a joke. Probably not difficult to write or deliver. But it was on point. Credit where due. She's still awful in every way, mind.
I don't use companies who use Evri for delivery as it is a sure sign that the business in no way values its customers. I vote with my purchasing decisions. It's why I no longer use Amazon. Rarely, Evri are used without notice. EVERY TIME, they shit the bed. So... Suits Direct now on my shit list.
Amnesty reveals the true nature of anti-rights gender criticals. J.K. Rowling goes ballistic. transgenderreport.co... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA 1/2
Amnesty reveals the true nature of anti-rights gender criticals. J.K. Rowling goes ballistic. - Transgender Report
Amnesty International recently published a report on what they call the “anti-rights movement” in the UK, which also includes gender critical activism. It did not take long before the gender critical TERFs – which normally think of themselves as defenders of free speech – forced Amnesty to take the report down. Amnesty is now reviewing […]
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When you play a Pride event (as a gay man in a tribute act to a performer and band known to be allies, socially liberal, and anti-populist BS) and you get this on your socials from somebody who engages positively on every other post... Homophobic prick. Off you fuck!
