Abolish the EHRC and start from the ground up, I’m so serious. It’s beyond saving, it has no legitimate authority and is little more than an institution for transphobia.

Brigitte Empire@brigitteempire.bsky.social · 3h ago

Completely untenable to have someone who talks about a minority group like this in charge of anything, let alone being the final say in matters of equality and human rights

Academics should be in solidarity with all the staff at Ghent who stood against Cofnas all along and not assume they are not only embarrassed but probably sickened and even unwell.

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 10h ago

The Cofnas ramblings above are simply mad nonsense. ‘Shrewd’? IQ200 loser?? If I was a colleague or student in a dept where a scholar wrote this type of pappycack I would be deeply embarrassed.

I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.

New Balls ??

Just in that screenshot we have two Tory MPs saying things that 15 years ago would have led to them losing the whip.

So many banks closing citing the availability of post offices that remained to do in person banking.... What now?

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h ago

Post Office closing 52 offices across the UK. Most are in Morrisons shops, which are closing as its private equity owner makes cuts. More will close as private equity owned TG Jones (previously WH Smith) makes cuts. Swathes of towns/Districts without banks and post offices.

One of the things that a Trump has revealed is how natavist and exceptionalise many American liberals also are. They really dont accept other countriea exist, contain real pepple and have agency

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13h ago

I do not like how Navalnist some American libs are getting about our neighbors. It's a dark path, and they have absolutely no idea where it leads

www.gov.uk/government/p... Labour rejected zonal tariffs for Scottish electricity consumers, but discounts for Scottish AI data centres have been approved. This is wrong on so many levels. Scotland is treated as a region to be plundered of all resources, with no benefit to its citizens.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d ago

The UK power system is stuck between a rock and a hard place ft.trib.al/eNff59W | opinion

Carney was right to shutdown trade negotiations with the states It's actually insane they tried to get us to stop trading with other nations

This could easily happen in other parties (looking at the SNP and Kate Forbes here) if they're not careful.

Andrew Hickey@andrewhickey.500songs.com · 22h ago

The Lib Dems admitted to religious discrimination in the hope he'd shut up and go away, even though religious discrimination is not, at all, what happened.

Truly a fitting punishment for Fraser Nelson. Compelled by his own inner demons to try, vainly, to use facts/evidence to argue with an openly racist Conservative MP, who was probably originally radicalised by Nelson's own Spectator.

I think we still underplay how much this has to do with X. It remains the main platform used by politicians, commentators and journalists, it was bought by Musk precisely for this purpose, and it's worked

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2d ago

I know it’s not very cool and I-told-you-so of me, but I never thought we’d see this level of open racism in the dead mainstream of the UK in my lifetime. Of course we were aware of The Warning From History and stuff, but it’s so jarring to see it unfold.

any book worth banning is a book worth reading

Student accommodation has got FFing ridiculous! Last year my son was paying £185 a week. Bills were included in that but still….£185 a f’ing week! And it was a 12 month contract. Loans don’t even cover that let alone food etc. Absolutely ridiculous. That generation is being let down on all fronts.

I wish Ken Paxton would protect puppies the way he protects pedophiles.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d ago

Unearthed documents just revealed Ken Paxton, as Attorney General, protected a research lab that tortured 400 puppies. Paxton was also one of the only Texas lawmakers to vote against a bill to hold animal abusers accountable.

Andrew Tate: " For the amount of global influence I have, I am grateful to god for the very small amount of suffering I must endure." Buddy, then why do you complain daily? Be grateful for the long years in jail ahead.

The Scottish Greens being protected from Stats for Lefties-isation by the fact that everyone of that tendency jumped ship to Your Party is very funny, I have to say.

Wings Over Scotland now repeatedly tweeting in support of white supremacist Nathan Cofnas - himself sacked for academic fraud - and his preposterous fantasy that the Jason Arday vigil was a threat on his life. Note even the lack of the usual "oh, he's a racist but he's right about this" disavowal.

Reform UK Alyn, Deeside and Wrexham, everybody.

As you all know, I am not a fan of the Home Secretary. But this is ridiculous. If we're going down this route, we should demand the prior marks for every Home Secretary, not just the current brown one. 1/

I’m old enough to remember when huge swathes of media were suggesting that all mental health diagnoses were fake and ppl only thought they were mentally ill because we were talking about it. They’re now repeating this playbook with ADHD.

You have to have a heart of stone to read this and not laugh www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Massive Trump merchandise store goes out of business - because nobody is shopping

‘We’re not busy anymore,’ one employee of the Trump store admitted

independent.co.uk

Marina Purkiss, "188 articles on this man, Jason Arday, who was not a public figure, over 9 days" "It was a blood sport for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator" "They have blood on their hands for this man"

Yeah threaten the country that just about everyone in the world has good relations with 🤦‍♂️

obviously Kathleen Stock is making an odious argument here but it’s also very funny to call to the eradication of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia from Academia, the Neurodivergence Factory

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 7d ago

Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?

Reform UK: 'We must look after our own first - unless you need looking after'

Not the official opposition, less than 10 seats in Parliament, not even ahead in every poll anymore, but no it's fine for our publicly funded national broadcaster to act as a mouthpiece for them while they would NEVER give that kind of coverage to parties like the Greens or Lib Dems. Vile.

You should be asking that question of BBC and Sky News. Rump company with only 8MPs are given Saturation coverage

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from me on my Political Sandbox Substack: Where Are the Lib Dems? In 2010, 23% of the vote bought them 57 seats. In 2024, 12% bought them 72. They finally cracked the code of first past the post. The prize was silence. https://politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/where-are-the-lib-dems-ca7

A former director of BBC News speaks:

Richard Sambrook@sambrook.eurosky.social · last wk.

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

"This is not generosity. It is suicidal empathy" writes Robert Jenrick (Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...) quotes in para 3 of the BBC report, with a link. "Suicidal empathy" is also the core phrase Elon Musk wants to popularise to promote remigration, political violence + civil war