The UK has no intention of banning Conversion Therapy. They've been talking of a ban for 10 years now, and we're still no closer. I fear that's just how Labour like it.

New: On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command." www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Oh so now multi-tasking is bad??! /s

Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right. We can't let this be normalised. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

Your case is definitely going well when you represent yourself, the judge calls you "ridiculous", then has you (and three of your family) removed from court for disruption. 🤡

Enoch Burke back in court today. His family were removed after disrupting the court again. Judge will consider jailing him, he's back in court on 12th Nov. Then with a view to judgment on the 19th Nov. Just lock him up to give the school some peace. www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...

Remember when the BBC wrote an article implying trans women are rapists, interviewed an alleged rapist that called for the lynching of trans people, lied about there being no pro-trans voices because none came forward for an interview etc.? Apparently they're too pro-trans now

Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.

When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

SGR joined 253 organisations in calling on the Prime Minister to stop Rosebank oil field. Read the full list of signatories: www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/zack... 🧪

Pinning this again: Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water.. Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses. Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.

Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors

Oh for sure.

Labour suspended 7 MPs for calling for removal of the two-child cap last year

Yes, yes, I know you aren't meant to respond to someone, finally, moving in a positive direction with "about bloody time", but seriously. They had the chance to do this in July last year. How many children have suffered under this policy since then?

“Everyone with car insurance needs to go and wreck their car or at least have it stolen” is some dumb take

Mind you, Richard Tice would have lost when he threatened to sue the BBC for calling Reform Far Right. But still the BBC caved: it's strong with the weak and weak with the strong.

I have. Just for writing an article explaining that the prefix "cis" is not a slur. (And probably would have got a lot more on Twitter if I hadn't blocked tens of thousands of hateful accounts) medium.com/@davidallsop...

These threats are grim, disgusting and unacceptable. They’re really common among anti-trans obsessives. Which is why they were banned so often from social networks. It wasn’t censorship, it was standards. Removing those rules has only emboldened hate: metro.co.uk/2025/11/08/d...

It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...

Is this a good time to recall this 1960 case on defamation?

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Incredible shit here: the man who provided the template for stomping on the BBC when it displeases malicious actors in politics, complaining that malicious actors in politics are using his template for stomping on the BBC for displeasing them.

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

I can draw this cartoon for you, using as few lines as possible. www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...

The Olympics had allowed trans women to compete since the 2004 games. Out of 10s of thousands of competitors, only one trans woman ever qualified. She came last. Zero medals. Zero. Zero. Yet the far right has convinced elites they were dominating.

"you can add a laser engraver module to this machine!" ok cool does it have an enclosure that will filter out the laser wavelength and does it have an interlock "no what for" ..... aight that's a report written for the EU Consumer Safety Gateway on the sale of dangerous goods

It’s not just me writing those reports. In general, you regulators don’t have time to go looking for trouble but they do need to respond to reports. They really appreciate it when you do most of the work for them.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain? MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.

Trump is literally repeating the Dunning-Kruger Times 😂

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I think BBC need to hold themselves to the highest possible standards but this is nonsense. Trump categorically encouraged January 6th. So what if he added ‘peacefully and patriotically’ as his little caveat. He knows how to whistle the mob, that’s what he does www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The eplusm scale is an interesting take on the old log-scale chestnut. It is logarithmic for the landmark steps (1, 10, 100), but linear in between. Crazy idea, but according to user studies, it seems to work pretty well in some settings! github.com/jdfekete/d3-...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

Autumn colours #thelittlethings

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

This is very much the wrong reason for Tim Davie to go, but he has been an utterly terrible DG of the BBC. I hold no hope that his successor will be any better and quite a lot of fear that they will be much worse.

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

"Cambridge University bans trans rowers from Women’s Boat Race in spite of protest from Trans Liberation Cambridge" www.scenemag.co.uk/cambridge-un...

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Turned on the BBC News at 10 and the presenter was this guy?

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.