What an icon and beautiful human. You will be missed Dolly!

I’m still not Nick Ferrari. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Ben Jacobs@jacobsben.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

This is exactly why we have Pride. Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows. We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Rewind back to an interview between Zack Polanski & the Day Time TV presenter known as "Ed Balls" who took exception to Polanski calling him a “Labour politician” and accusing him of bias. "I lost my seat in 2015 & I’ve not been a Labour politician for 10 years" lamented soon to be Labour Lord Ed.

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 2mo ago

Makerfield MP Andy Burnham is being tipped to appoint two senior Blairite figures to the House of Lords – amid growing speculation that Ed Balls could soon join David Miliband on the red benches 🔴 Exclusive from Caroline Wheeler & Kitty Donaldson Read more: trib.al/EFNVWWm

The UK government is engaged in conversion practices through forced detransition of some young trans folk while it obstructs gender affirming care. Conversion “therapy” is predicated on the assumption that being trans is “broken.” So how/why is the government going to ban what it is actively doing?

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EXCL: Hearing from multiple sources tonight that the government is moving at pace to announce the long-promised ban on so-called conversion therapy in the coming days. The ban was first pledged by Theresa May but got caught up in complexities with regards to gender identity.

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.

Well that's definitely one way to solve bisexual invisibility

Teegan@teegan.dog · 3mo ago

bisexual final boss

🚨EXC with Lara Spirit & @dominichauschild.bsky.social Govt to slash NHS capital budget by £580m as part of cross Govt plan to pay for the defence investment plan... Meanwhile there are hospitals with roofs being propped up and a £16bn maintenance backlog: www.thetimes.com/article/cc86...

Keir Starmer eyes £6bn cuts to fund defence

The PM is in eleventh-hour talks over plans to target net zero, transport and capital spending across government

thetimes.com

In the first quarter of 2026, Reform received more than double the donations that both Labour and the Conservatives did. A certain Christopher Harborne had another huge donation for Nigel Farage's party as well...

Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @rachelmillward.bsky.social responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.

This is crazy. This country is losing its mind.

Oliver Lewis@droliverlewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...

The UK Supreme Court has abolished the ‘acid test’ to see if a disabled person is deprived of their liberty. Here’s a short video explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=bojH...

UK Supreme Court abolishes the 'acid test'

YouTube video by Oliver Lewis

youtube.com

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

This is gross on so many levels. Smacks of a desperate attempt to get a beard as well.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 5mo ago

I'm sorry, what???

To all those who are saying "I did not vote for this, this is not what I voted for when I voted for him!" - Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. We told you. We warned you. You didn't listen.

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

independent.co.uk

The figures here also show that 7% of all child suicides were trans children. That compares with trans children making up only 1% of the population. Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 7mo ago

LGBTQ+ children make up 16.6 per cent of the children recorded as dying by suicide in England, QueerAF can reveal 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...

Festive afternoon tea. Age old question…what’s the right way to eat scones?

I passed out before this happened. Watching it now, groggy and teary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKco...

‘Hope Is Alive’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech After Toppling a NYC Dynasty

YouTube video by Zeteo

youtube.com

Another Dick down! #Chaney

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Agree. Can’t believe it took so long.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Fantastic news this. There is, however, a "but." Andrew should have been stripped of his titles, his privilege and his place in the pecking order years ago. This is the Firm desperately and ruthlessly distancing itself from its most obviously toxic member... because it has to in order to survive.

It’s time! Final concert of our summer of music. Scissor Sisters✅ Kylie✅ Beyoncé✅ Diana Ross✅ Dua Lipa✅ Coldplay✅ ABBA Voyage✅ Lady Gaga✅ @gazfinnerty.bsky.social

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

‘When our outrage translates into withholding our consumer dollars, a big corporation like Disney is forced to listen – and respond. Next time you’re feeling powerless, remember this.’ - Robert Reich

Jimmy Kimmel is coming back. It’s proof that you still have power | Robert Reich

Disney saw hurricane-level blowback over the talkshow host’s suspension, thanks in large part to consumers

theguardian.com

Sounds like Labour now!

Marcus Chown@marcuschown.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When the LibDems got into power after 100 years, they went back on every promise they had ever made and helped the Tories inflict the suffering of austerity on ordinary people for the recklessness of the banks. Never forget that. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

“Free speech is an inalienable right.” Unless you want to protest genocide, refer to someone with their correct pronouns, criticise someone for being a bigot, boycott an organisation for their human rights abuses, etc. Then politicians aggressively try to regulate and police speech. It’s perverse.