wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world

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If Jeremy Corbyn had said what Badenoch has said today, it would be leading every TV and radio broadcast and all of tomorrow's front pages.

I'll be honest: I'd buy this a lot more if his main outlet wasn't abusively attacking opposition politicians via AI slop in ways which obviously nod to other forms of prejudice.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 10h ago

ConservativeHome has always been a critical friend of the Conservative Party, and a place for all of its wings and views to debate and discuss. So in addition to the above editorial, Bonehill-Paine is also in today’s Comment section making his own case conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/j...

This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning

The modern Conservative Party, where Net Zero gets you out and Neo Nazism gets you in

Water? From the sky? Doesn't it know there's a hosepipe ban

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

🚨🚨Today the EHRC Code of Practice goes live. Our voices have been ignored. We will not stand for this. We will not stop until our rights are restored. The CoP does not change the law. Inclusion can happen. The vast majority of the public do not want this. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT 🏳️‍⚧️✊♥️

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 20h ago

From @greenparty.org.uk

Agreed that this place shouldn't be a leftist bubble, but the problem is that the Right has radicalised so much that there are simply fewer rightwingers who could come here and be trusted not to post discriminatory things (that thanks to X they've come to believe are normal discourse)

If you've had a post immortalised by an account like the Bluesky Louvre or BMT you've gone pretty wrong somewhere

Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · yesterday

AI-generated scam ads are becoming quite a pest on the old YouTube eh

I haven't seen any scrutiny of the below yet. I'd really love to hear the full details about how Bonehill-Paine has supposedly gone "white hat" (unfortunate term) and is now educating as a counter-extremism expert. Can we see his "training" in action? What has he said about his Damacene conversion?

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterday

Kemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.

Quite happy in saying anyone who behaves like this towards NHS staff should be refused help until they accept the staff they're given, or told to go private if they think they can find a hospital who'll accommodate them

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

In the hopefully unlikely event of both a RN win next year and a Reform win in 2029, presumably Pochin would be a minister—and how do they think these comments are going to go down? Do they think other countries' potential future far right governments will play nice with them after stuff like this?

Rob Jacques@knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is profoundly upsetting

A party that was actually anti-racist would be kicking this person out, not allowing them to run for the Governing Committee. There are many decent Greens who will be disgusted by this and I wish them all power fighting back against it. We know from experiance how hard that is.

"He deliberately offended plenty of other people, but never me or people like me, and that's all that matters"

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Labour MPs need to continue trying everything in their power to get their PM and government off the fash website where they're swimming in right-wing content that they're disproportionately likely to engage with

Reform seems to be suffering a kind of simultaneous two-way split of ex-Tories (back to the Tories) and committed fash (to Restore)

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh no - if I can't hang onto thick racists like Lucy, what else have I got?

Perhaps it's the cynic in me but I suspect she's deliberately fishing for a whip removal so she can kick up a stink against Burnham as she did with Starmer prior to GE2024

Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 4d ago

Diane Abbott here speaking at a Stop Some Wars rally, calling Putin's continuing brutal war against Ukraine "the NATO campaign against Russia". FFS. youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...

Actually no, there's pretty broad public support for ending illegal crossings, which do more than probably anything else to lower public support for legal migration and recruit more people to the far right

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Looking back at March 2020 in retrospect it's very easy to argue about whether lockdowns were too harsh based on the societal effects years down the line but forgetting the spiralling daily death figures we were all looking at at the time

One has to wonder if Lewis Goodall dabbling with Long Covid trutherism and being genuinely surprised by the reaction here is yet another example of what happens when you spend every day on X

Ever increasingly coming to the view that humanity will only progress once wild west social media is destroyed

Sally Davies@allthingsbarna.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sixty-seven people have died as a result of a campaign of misinformation on social media. That's the story here.

Incredible to remember that all of these supposed "radical gender ideology" asks were simply the status quo plus what *a Conservative government* was proposing and consulting on under a decade ago

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d ago

What I want for trans + people in the UK. The puberty blocker ban lifted. The toilet ban scrapped. Supreme Court ruling overtuned/made ineffective. An informed consent model for gender affirming care. Self ID. Non-Binary people legaly recognised. No trans + censorship in schools.

Interesting. I suppose we'll see now whether the new Manchester mayor will help pull Burnham back to his 2022 position and get us out of this mess

Rivers@finl3y.bsky.social · 5d ago

Not to split hairs but Bev Craig is close to Burnham so wouldn’t it be great if she could have a word about this because Manchester and trans rights will be in conflict after 5th August. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Looking forward to yet another informative and societally beneficial round of "experts v cranks debate club, who's right, you decide"

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d ago

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”