This is an excellent explanation of the Sandie Peggie decision.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Starmer: “Going for a walk on your own and clearing your head, being out there with nature, is something I really enjoy. The peace, quiet, taking in a wider world – I've always loved it,” Also Starmer: "The new common-sense approach doesn’t allow newts or bats to be more important than the homes"

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Alarm is growing in the Lords at a minority using undemocratic tactics to stall the assisted dying Bill. 1,100+ amendments – including a “grotesque” call to film every assisted death – aim to block progress, with risks to Lords reputation if they defy MPs' will. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

This is a sweet little story

Do you think he practices that look in the mirror?

She says again that there is no more money, while bragging we have the lowest tax on big businesses in the G7. At the same time as declaring a fair tax system, claiming that it will magically trickle down... This time. This is more austerity to give big businesses more money.

If you want my books to be free for anyone to just grab off the internet and read, I'm all for that, I'll just be expecting you to get yer arse in gear & start *making* the fuckin sandwiches for *me* to grab whenever I'm hungry, that's called mutual aid, ya wee ancap motherfucker, get in the kitchen

"In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hawai'i's Ed Case, of course, joining Repubs in a meaningless vote to condemn Socialism as Democratic Socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani bowls over DJT at the White House. Good thing primary season's coming.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

1. Trump's Anti-Trans HHS Report authors have been unmasked, and as someone said, "Now we know why they were previously kept anonymous." It's a who's who of hate groups and billionaire-funded anti-trans activists. We detail the names in our latest report. Subscribe to support our journalism.

20 Nov 2025 -- Final iteration of HHS pseudoscience report on care exposes authors: a Who's Who of anti-trans quacks and activists: Leor Sapir (Manhattan Institute), Evgenia Abbruzzes (hate-group SEGM founder), Michael Laidlaw (ADF), Yuan Zhang (SEGM associate) etc. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

I'll say this much, I've had more fun laughing / crying at this mural than almost any Xmas film I've ever seen.

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yes. Next question. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-no1...

I ENTIRELY understand why a party way to the left of Labour needs to exist. I have NO IDEA why it needs to be Your Party, other than ego. The Greens are RIGHT THERE. Corbyn will be 78 at the next election. And it's a shambles. Give up, lads. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I absolutely agree with Sophie - the failure of the Lords Committee to hear from people directly affected by the assisted dying bill is unconscionable. It's easy for me to imagine committee hearings for other bills not having reps from the people the bill will impact b/c it happens All The Time.

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

Good news for once www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...

Let's stop subsidising destruction. This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis. Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼 bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...

On the left, Alan Turing’s 1950 paper introducing the imitation game, where he says that using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent is absurd. On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent. 🧪🤖

It’s going to be interesting to see whether the Republican Supreme Court figures out that their authority flows from perceived legitimacy achieved by following the rule of law. Because, I suspect the Republican Court believes their legitimacy flows from their authority, and boy is that wrong.

In better news: Throw 'em if you got 'em

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Zohran Mamdani, mayor of NYC!!! He ran on policies to help people He did not throw anyone under the bus, including our trans sisters and brothers He ran on politics of HOPE, not hate This is the future. Immigrants. We get the job done #Mamdani #PoliticsOfHope

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Let's make this happen. Together. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...

Today in The Futurist - a headline reading "Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI," followed by an ad for...AI. Maybe AI companies could try using their product to tell them where *not* to place their ads?

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

An old tradition ... Fine Folk or Follow Friday #FF: @treadwells-books.bsky.social @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social @sebbyb.bsky.social @philh.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social @julianneregan.bsky.social @mjpcuervo.bsky.social @lazaruscorporation.co.uk @edkarshner.bsky.social

You all need to see the Clouded Leopard cubs at the Nashville Zoo playing in autumn leaves. No, really. Improve your day! youtube.com/shorts/9e22f...

I guess the next time I'm in Hawai'i and some stranger says "Let me get the door for you, Auntie" I'll just have to slap them for lying.

Nowhere in this article does it say *how* this AI will 'hasten the coming of Christ's return,' but I can't help thinking of Arthur C. Clarke's story, 'The Nine Billion Names of God.' Tread softly, techbro. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

To anyone claiming that science is "boring", I would point them towards this award-winning study from 1939 showing that repeatedly exploding paper bags next to a cat that was standing on the back of a cow caused that cow to produce less milk than normal: academic.oup.com/jas/article-... 1/

The White House belongs to the American people, so if it's okay for him to bulldoze it, we should be able to bulldoze Mar-a-Lago.

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

Just read this Hunter S. Thompson quote from "Kingdom of Fear" (2003), and...yeah: "We are living in dangerously weird times now... The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it."

Oh, look - a mainstream news outlet has finally noticed what we've all been saying FOR YEARS: "The president frequently appears to lose his train of thought." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Thought experiment: • Biden takes a backhoe to the East Wing of the White House. • Obama posts a video of himself wearing a crown, piloting a plane, dumping diarrhea on American protesters. How would it be covered in the press? What would the reaction be like? Now: look at America, 2025.

Self-harm really hurts, actually.

"weirdo” “ridiculous” - these are the playground taunts when you have no political arguments left to make. And just like playground bullies, they come from a place of fear. Because they can see us organising and they don’t know how to respond. join.greenparty.org.uk

"We'd be happy to stay in the ECHR as long as they let us be bigoted and discriminatory against people we think are icky."

So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare. I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups. The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

My local bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk has sold 35 copies of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder - crikey!! They sell my signed copies. It's also in the Quaker Book Centre, Euston Rd, London. Check out this "astonishing feat" "absolute perfection" "fun read" of a novel #books #bookshop #crime

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)