What Rachel Reeves' budget should look like if Labour were serious about transformation: Six policies that address the fiscal gap while funding transformation @garyseconomics.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org @richardjmurphy.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

@goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org @notaphaseorg.bsky.social @transactualuk.bsky.social @helenwebberley.bsky.social

They Chose Yesterday They leaked anti-trans guidance to The Times on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Not the day before. Not the day after. On the day we mourned 281 murdered trans people. "The cruelty isn't incidental. The cruelty is the point." And 1% of the population can't fight this alone.

I wrote something reflecting on today.

A system that diminishes the rights of people fleeing persecution isn't just impractical, it's a failure of our common humanity. Vital that once asylum seekers are granted refugee status, they are able to build their lives with certainty about their future & a sense of welcome.

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.

Labour was elected to do better than the Tories. Instead, Mahmood is racing Reform to the right - 20-year pathways, temporary status, withdrawn support. This won't stop the boats. It will just ensure refugees can never truly belong. @iandunt.bsky.social

Yesterday's Justice Committee report confirms our prison system violates human rights, costs £54k per prisoner/year & produces 80% reoffending. Labour must now follow the evidence towards community justice that actually works @prtuk.bsky.social @thehowardleague.bsky.social @cjalliance.bsky.social

What would protest rights look like if we took liberal values seriously? This isn't about whether you support Palestine Action. It's about what happens when the state can criminalise dissent by labelling it terrorism - and what liberal values actually require when it comes to protest rights.

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

1/ Apparently, the employment tribunal in Darlington has turned into a circus 🎪 yesterday. Jo Phoenix, a criminologist known for targeting trans women in prisons and her links to hate groups, is giving expert evidence. The NHS Trust’s lawyer has just asked her a single question.

Thank you for sharing.

I've been writing a lot lately on my little policy side project... here's my latest piece, written this morning after hearing that the Girl Guides are facing possible legal action over their trans-inclusive policies. ajustsociety.substack.com/p/whos-fundi...

5 years since I bulk bought & distributed to friends & family @iandunt.bsky.social's How To Be A Liberal!

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

1000% this!

You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Every child should start life with the same opportunities. But our state-funded school system is designed in such a way that some children are blocked from their local school simply because of their parents' beliefs. Others are sent to illegal, unregulated schools & denied a proper education.

Apparently 30 years since this was released, but that can't be true because I still feel like I'm 25! youtu.be/CBxYEGLckvQ?...

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

It's good to be on a platform where people express normal human empathy and dismay at the horrific synagogue attack rather than on one where they weaponise it for their grubby, divisive purposes and try to turn a tragedy into an opportunity

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

IT'S HERE. I am legit overjoyed to be unleashing this shit on the world: Origin Story Season 7 has arrived. For the first time, we're doing an entire season as one story. This is the history of socialism, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall linktr.ee/originstoryp...

This is the standard approach through history: The community of the free. We've always had people insist on liberty, but only for their group, typically white men with property. Progressive liberalism was about rolling out those rights for everyone, a process that is now being reversed.

This needs to be followed by action, particularly on protecting trans people, but the rhetoric is extremely welcome www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No words!

I don't know who needs to hear this but in times of a political crisis the solution has never and will never be Jeremy Corbyn.

Hello, this is in October, in the beautiful National Liberal Club. Come inside to escape the misery of the weather and discover an entirely new kind of misery, which is me talking about politics.

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Exciting event coming up: Join me for An Evening with @iandunt.bsky.social at the National Liberal Club on October 7th. More info and to book: events.libdems.org.uk/events/88836...

Profoundly important from @davidallengreen.bsky.social. The lack of meaningful restraints against executing power in our system leaves us utterly exposed in the face of a Reform government. They could do whatever they want. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

Christ above. These pitiful fucking cowards.

UK HAS NO MORE ROOM UK has 280 people per km2 (Holland - 585; Belgium - 385; Germany - 238) IMMIGRANTS ARE STOPPING YOU GETTING A HOME Housing shortage is because of sell off of council homes/failure to build more, and transition from housing for living to housing for profit

UK online safety law in practice.

Money from aristocrats, tech bros, and EU funding are all being channelled into an assault on rights across Europe – advanced by Americans and benefiting Russia. It is a dedicated campaign with long-term implications. Katherine Stewart reports.

This hit home 🥴

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits. share.google/WCAREyAQN5TG...

It's here: An absolute beast of an episode. The story of the worst speech in post-war Britain - how it came to be, what it said, and what happened afterwards.

NEWS: For Women Scotland’s new lawsuit is politics by injunction, and trans people pay the price #transrights #LGBTQ+ https://beatransally.substack.com/p/news-for-women-scotlands-new-lawsuit

I've 'planted' a tree every day for the past year .... simply by watching an advert each day! 🌲🌳🌴 Join me in planting trees for free on Treeapp: thetreeapp.org/referral?cod...

Exactly this!

Op Ed: Say her name, use her pronouns! Respecting a person’s name and pronouns is not ideological. It is basic ethics! 😡 https://beatransally.substack.com/p/op-ed-say-her-name-use-her-pronouns

Good stuff from Starmer today, but it's not enough inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

DEEP DIVE: From Silence to Stigma How the Government Risks Turning Trans People into the New Section 28 https://beatransally.substack.com/p/deep-dive-from-silence-to-stigma

Must read piece here from @iandunt.bsky.social ....coming tomorrow look out for my Be A Trans Rights deep dive on the new RSHE guidance & it's implications for trans kids.