The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

Great to read that Southwark is one of the London boroughs piloting "Donate to Educate"'s school uniform recycling and donation to not only reduce waste but ensure every child is clothed this new school year. tinyurl.com/yjhys6mm All clothes are new and donated by retailers! So much waste averted! 💚

100% all of Ellie's points.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · last wk.

❌ Ellie Chowns: "We now have less strong protection for our environment. Socially, politically, culturally, Brexit has been poisonous." "It's catalyzed a toxic political debate, polarization, the proliferation of disinformation, short-termism in politics, a discounting of rights and opportunities"

📉 Between 2022 and 2024, Brexit cost the British creative industry over £200 million and over 2,000 jobs. 🌍 Britain's ability to project its culture abroad is weakened, our hugely talented musicians held back, and for what? 🇪🇺 We must seek EU membership to regain the opportunities we have lost.

Government Must Find Practical Solutions to EU Touring Barriers says UK Music Chief, as Report Finds Brexit Red Tape Costs UK Touring Sector £208m

02.09.2026: New research from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), underpinned by PRS for Music

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Not so populist ... "‘Racist’ & ‘liar’ top descriptions of Farage as voters brand Reform untrustworthy & extreme" 'Reform spent a year on PR as Britain’s coming political force. New YouGov research says the public is increasingly seeing something very different' www.reformwatch.org/news/racist-...

‘Racist’ and ‘liar’ top descriptions of Farage as voters brand Reform untrustworthy and extreme - Reform Watch

Reform spent a year presenting itself as Britain’s coming political force. New YouGov research suggests the public is increasingly seeing something very different.

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Films for Action The Conspiracists Friday, September 18th 7.0 PM, doors open 6.30pm St Paul's Church, 182 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7UE A road trip with 'patriots' Free, donations welcome Panel discussion after break Refreshments, stalls, Fair Trade Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-conspi...

I forgot this was a thing! Looked at my old twitter profile and found the Horrible Therapist comic generator by @theoatmeal.bsky.social from 2023 Caution: results often NSWF! Sometimes we just need to laugh even if I know how awful things are or our sanity will fray. theoatmeal.com/pages/horrib...

You have to choose. You can't be nice to everyone. Appeasing corporations and billionaires means abandoning everyone else. When it comes to policy, it's us or them. And for far too long political leaders in this country have sided with them. If Burnham is to survive, this is what he needs to change.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Honestly, why would Navratilova even get to say who plays.. *checks* BASKETBALL? 🏀 Is she playing against them? No. Is she a regulator or governor of the sport? No. Is she spreading hate and misinformation using her position as a historic player of a completely different sport? Yes.

Aliza Adi (she/her)@alizaadi.bsky.social · last wk.

Exactly, Martina, you transphobic crank. You have no way of knowing whether there are Trans women playing in the WNBA, because: - Women's bodies vary enormously - There are cis women who are bigger and stronger than many Trans women - Trans women are women - All of this is perfectly normal

While Ofcom deliberates over its belated investigations into GB News and Talk TV, these toxic channels continue pumping out bile demonising refugees – even after this summer’s racist violence in Belfast and Thetford: stopfundinghate.info/2026/08/27/w...

Why we’re campaigning on Ofcom – and what we’ve learned so far – Stop Funding Hate

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On Jason Arday "We believe that real change comes from removing structural barriers and using redistribution of resources to correct ongoing injustices" You can't change dismantle structural racism by including token minority voices as "proof" you're not racist. #BlackLivesMatter shorturl.at/nuWdp

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 2w ago

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

A new record has been set for the number of children living in temporary accommodation. A total disgrace. We need new council housing and FAST. The PM must fund councils to buy the supply of existing homes, and get these 177,530 children settled and safe. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Fund Councils to Buy the Supply of Council Homes

We urgently need to replenish our decimated council housing stock, and part of the answer is real funding for councils to Buy the Supply. Over 169,000 children are homeless and living in overcrowded…

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The *least* surprising Guardian headline of the day.... of course he didn't own them all. I always thought they were rentals. Almost all of them are, people posing with them especially. Influencer and obscene wealth culture are just lies to pretend your life is worth something. Hollow inside.

My decades long friend, Jeff, whose band The Last Dance I first saw live in 1997, is having acute painful dental issues, but also lives in the medical hellscape that is the USA. gofund.me/4ccf64a28 As someone whose also struggled with dental issues, I can totally empathise. #goth #gothrock 🦷 #ouch

Human rights should be something we champion for all, not for "one side". Feminism isn't about excluding men, it's not a way to flatten our world into a binary challenge between "us" and "them" when we're actually *all* living under oppressive capitalist structures that exploit and erase suffering.

Feminist Greens (GPEW)@feministgreens.bsky.social · 2w ago

The deadline to submit your rankings for the Autumn Conference motion prioritisation ballot is this Thursday 27th August. We’ve highlighted a few motions here that might be of interest to Feminist Greens members, but this isn’t a comprehensive list, so please do read the full proposals.

Spider-Man punched White Supremacist Nazi Jake Lang yesterday in Minneapolis. Of course the cops arrested Spider-Man. Jake Lang is an agitator that shows up at protests to start crap with people.

The most disapproving rabbit since Cinammon! Please do support Merrymac with their hay drive. A truly wholesome cause - and Pebbles disapproves of pretty much everything except some kind offers of hay! A few pennies from you goes a long way to appease this gorgeous bunny! 🐰😜🫣🐰🤣💚 #startmondaykindly

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary@merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pebbles is cozy in her Oxbow Timothy Hay box. We’re in the home stretch of our Hay Drive, one of our largest annual fundraisers. It helps us plan and place orders for the year ahead- your donation goes directly to hay and feed #bunday #bunny 🦋💛🙏 donorbox.org/mmfs-2026-ha...

When promised social care services are not provided, chronically ill people end up in a state of overwhelm and an acute event on top can completely destroy their ability to cope. Suddenly nothing is possible because it all has taken a severe toll. #fundraiser gofund.me/d39fb3f87 #health💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #ND #GPEW

Donate to help us keep our home, organized by Ezra-Storme Paar

Bend, don't break. This is what I told myself when I was sat crying outside the hospi… Ezra-Storme Paar needs your support for help us keep our home

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I can think of other ways to create 3500 jobs than fossil fuel extraction! Maybe set up more solar panel and mini water turbine factories? Glad Robert Smith is also calling this out - #TheCure have been a fave band of mine for 40 years now shorturl.at/tndYb My teen existential angst is back! 💚😭

Thom Yorke, Romy and Brian Eno among 200 musicians urging PM to reject new North Sea drilling

Robert Smith, Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma also among signatories to letter saying exploitation of Rosebank and Jackdaw fields defies climate reality

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Not sure what to make of @newscord.org but their server promises to write our individual complaints to the press whose alarmist headlines published in the days leading up to Jason Arday's death and how this relentless bullying was a-factual, distorting and egregious. newscord.org/action/jason...

The Mail printed a psychiatrist's guess at Jason Arday's mind. Hours later he was found dead.

A diagnosis-shaped headline at 1:01am on the day he died. His childhood disability interrogated one minute before the ambulance call. A mockery column deleted without a word. File five IPSO complaints...

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Why am I absolutely and utterly unsurprised that #Palantir is avoiding taxes whilst profiting hugely from all the government contracts it is hoovering up across Europe and the UK? #saynotoPalantir cictar.org/all-research...

Who Pays for the Surveillance State? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research

Who pays for the surveillance state?

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My mission for the rest of August is to watch approx one lecture a day (85mins each) of this new public series. As he rightly says, we must learn history before we write policy that affects the future. The adage that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it still hold true.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...

It's horrific to see the head of a state mischaracterise the UK in this way. I expect it from Trump - but for the leader of a country with 18%+ Muslim citizens? Not that he's not a genocidal maniac but I hope more of his own citizens realise this rampant Islamophobic racist hates his own people too.

Mothin Ali@mothinali.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social Our ally here. If you can pull yourself away from videos about snacks for a moment, care to tell us when you’re going to stop arming this racist butcher

The US imposed sanctions on Shelbit, a crypto firm founded in Georgia by an Iranian national, for allegedly being part of a covert network supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and evading sanctions. Georgia’s National Bank has said the firm is not a regulated entity under Georgian law.

US sanctions Tbilisi-based bitcoin firm over Iran links

The firm is allegedly part of a network aiding the IRGC in evading sanctions.

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OK so are we all taking an electron microscope to check people's chromosomes or will it be based on how those act in tandem gene expression and that effect on actual development and physical presentation. How is it "obvious" except by stereotyping? Then you get what happend at the Olympics! #EHRCBS

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · last mo.

This idea that visual and vocal checks sort everything out, is all they have. And Stephenson coming out with a statement, similar to this👇to the Committee, makes it clear that she still continues to inhabit the same GC echo chambers.

Years ago when I was in an environment policy course, as the official spokesperson for "none of this will work" I suggested that carbon sequestering could be vulnerable to ideologically motivated arson in a discussion. The class had a chuckle at my expense. Where are we on the ridiculous scale now?

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · last mo.

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...

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