"The Equality Act always discriminated against trans people, we just read it wrong for fifteen years" is right up there with the standards of jurisprudence we're coming to expect from the Anglosphere these days.
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I think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · yesterdaywww.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.
It’s horrible and bleak but it’s also grimly funny that, even as the press have decisively chosen to reimpose Labour vs the Tories as a more manageable system, the Tory leader is underlining that she is so disastrously stupid, she’s incapable of being normal and not embarrassing everybody involved.
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
theguardian.com
I honestly think that most men would rather find out that the artist they admire was a serial killer than a creep to women - the former evokes disgust, the latter..they know it should, but they can't bring themselves to care.
Sue Kirk@suekirk.bsky.social · 3d agoLads, even if you think this, keep it to yourselves.
i like this piece a lot! i'm liable to be a lot harsher on Hank Green by virtue of having put him on a pedestal when i was a child, but that's immaterial to the main points described here
berserk du soleil@aetataureate.bsky.social · 5d agoHank Green should not use LLMs in his work. Working scientists have specific use cases for LLMs, but science communicators like Hank and I do not. They add more vulnerability than value in our field. I laid out some history and background to walk you through the reasons why.
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
Not once in this entire political biography of Phillipson does the Guardian note that she signed off on a society-wide toilet police regime to spite trans people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham appoints Bridget Phillipson as Labour party chair
Former education secretary will take up influential role that puts her at vanguard of Labour’s battle to win next general election
theguardian.com
We can watch the fires come closer every year. Or we can try to stop climate change from getting worse. Choose hope.
Virgin Media News@virginmedianews.bsky.social · 2w agoNearly 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes as devastating wildfires continue to spread across France and Spain. Bordeaux officials are considering a total evacuation of the city if needed, while firefighters in Spain say some blazes are spreading too quickly to tackle head-on.
On Day 2, Andy Burnham allowed a plane to leave a British airbase to drop up to two dozen 2,000-lb bombs or dozens of cruise missiles on Iran, signalling a significant escalation & expansion of the U.S. military campaign. Allowing our bases to be used in this way supports & enables the illegal war.
Declassified UK@declassifieduk.org · 2w agoOn his second day in office (Tuesday), new prime minister Andy Burnham helped the US bomb Iran. www.axios.com/2026/07/23/b...
The fact that being a corporate lobbyist doesn’t automatically disqualify you for any government position is itself a fatal flaw in the UK’s system, which instead seems to constantly reward such backgrounds with even more power
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w agoThe outgoing Environment Secretary, Emma Reynolds, exemplified the problem. She spent her final weeks in office ripping down controls on industrial chicken farming, which destroys our rivers. She did so at the behest of corporate lobbyists. Her job before joining the government? Corporate lobbyist.
Reform voters will never be content with falling immigration because the number of immigrants and decedents-of-immigrants already in the UK is what they consider to be the problem. The only possible way to placate them is mass deportations and camps. If that's too far? Give up.
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2w agoI don’t really think scrapping the most draconian immigration policies of this century is ‘shifting hard to the left’ on cultural issues tbh. And that ‘unite vs divide’ framing is curious, but cultural issues already divide the Labour 2024 coalition - he’s just chosen the conservative side!
In the space of one year (April 24 - April 25) the Times, Guardian, Mail and Telegraph published over 1,000 articles attacking trans people
Josh Gabbatiss@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 2w agoAs Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
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Causeway Pride@causewaypride.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur 2026 fundraiser is live gofund.me/907cb930b
Between "I'm going to give Shabana Mahmood even more power to inflict cruelty on immigrants" and "actually screw the environment, oil rigs go brrrrr"... Andy Burnham seems to think his smile will be enough to bring back Labour -> Green voters even whilst he treats their values with contempt.
The Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration
It really is incredible how many people not in these categories refuse to believe the very basic fact that Starmer has been the worst Prime Minister for racial and LGBTI+ equality thus far this century. We're on race rioting every summer and outright trans eliminationism! It's fuckin grim, lads
No riots for Natasha. None for my two friends who separately had male family members abuse them and both got less than 3 years custodial. One judge said he didn't want to ruin the abusers life as he began the abuse while he was also underage. He was also a cadet.
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨@unaminh.bsky.social · 3w agoCathal Crotty is to be freed from prison next week. Crotty brutally beat Natasha O'Brien and has just served 1 year and seven months of a two-year jail sentence. Crotty beat her unconscious. He boasted about it on socials: "Two to put her down, two to put her out" www.corkbeo.ie/news/ex-sold...
Ten top investors in Israel among EU member countries. Netherlands No. 1. Ireland at No. 5
RollendeRechter@rollenderechter.bsky.social · 3w ago
But I thought identity politics was a left-wing obsession?
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w ago🔴 Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
"what we seem to have is an economy that fails to deliver time and again on fundamental basics... . But at least we’re one of only three countries in the EU where you can frighten a hare to death because you’re bored." - @carlkinsella.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...
Surrealing in the Years: Government deserves little credit for passing the zombified Territories Bill
We’re sacrificing everything at the altar of an economy that doesn’t even work.
thejournal.ie
Important to note that the overwhelming majority of Irish people want services banned too and the government is relying on a bunch of bullshit, constantly changing, and often mutually contradictory arguments to justify how it can't be done (even though they promised to do it a bunch of times)
Been trying to find the right way to say this as I don't want it to sound like I'm diminishing he seriousness of where the Planter scandals ended up. But the nazi tattoo wasn't a "sign". It was itself a disqualifying problem and people still seem unable to accept that basic premise
I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
politico.com