I don't really identify with the 'bedroom generation' label as an older gen Z. But I will say the way the news is and how it's thrown at you online is just so damaging now, and young people don't know any different with no perspective.

"I'd be remiss if I didn't also point out, as an American trans person, that Labour's bathroom policy is significantly more bigoted, invasive, and restrictive towards trans people than anything that any American Republican red state has managed to implement."

THIS. Why are we letting people make profits from public services?

There's men with beers on this train

At some point politicians need to realise that they have a responsibility to be honest with the electorate. They have the power to inform people as well as to set the agenda. That responsibility has been totally abdicated in nearly all areas.

Listening to Radio 4 this morning and I am just disgusted. We have Trump style bathroom bans and they're just legitimising it under fluffy legal language. It's despicable. The extremists have won.

Number of universities in the QS Top 100 world ranking by country in 2026 USA = 27 UK = 17 Australia = 8 China = 5 South Korea = 5 A top five UK service sector export (c.£25bn) that we should probably support and champion more if we want to maintain an advantage.

It is *incredibly* shabby that the Green Party cited "family and personal reasons" for their Makerfield candidate dropping out, given it was actually in relation to sharing antisemitic posts. Had a right-wing party done the same, they'd be getting called out loudly here for it. And rightly so.

Brilliant research work here.

This guidance is explicitly discriminatory and unenforceable. Fuck the Labour Party. BBC News - Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really can’t overstate how bad the EHRC guidance is. Trans people are not allowed to use single-sex facilities that align with their gender but are also not allowed to use facilities that align with their sex if their physical appearance there might cause distress. Approach to policing this is 🤷‍♂️

I haven't read the full document, but my word are these sections just nonsense. This is not how you do policy, and unfortunately this government is just actively harming an extremely vulnerable minority.

People with “gender critical beliefs” getting it included in government guidance that you can’t call them horrible transphobic bastards is so wild like I don’t have to spend billions lobbying for legal documents to get people to like me, have you tried being a nice person instead

horrid horrid horrid thread

"Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead"

This is ridiculous. People are ridiculous

New from YouGov today: Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens than to Reform UK in the local elections "Just 46% of 2024 Labour voters who voted in this May’s council elections were loyal to the party, with more switching to the Greens (22%) than Reform UK (6%)"

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

This what appens when the left accept the narratives of the far right. It will never be enough, its stupid to try and chase it. The right will never ever ever be happy with any immigration because without it as an issue there is no political far right. apple.news/A-EZ-V3IWRbu...

Just morally reprehensible

Latest data due tomorrow but your regular reminder: net migration is *plunging* without these plans being enacted.

I’ve made this point before but the developed world approach to Covid vaccines is instructive here

Another one of my Liverpool favourite pubs. The famous Philharmonic.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, superb. At my favourite theatre. I have a cool tote, I’ll post it later. @liveveryplay.bsky.social

I wouldn’t generally post a Telegraph link, but this is a massive issue. It’s awful for staff on the receiving end who are largely unable to defend themselves. It takes up so much time, energy, and resources to deal with. apple.news/Az8JZgVkhTeS...

Much to enjoy about this, but I think the 'you used to be there' hand gesture is my favourite and even more enjoyable than the original 'well, if you're gonna set me up' response.

Everyone is an AI warrior… it’s making everyone’s life worse. Emails to each other, unreasonable demands, over confident expectations. It’s like they removed the human in it all…. Which they literally fucking have! Talk more and AI email less, so many of these issues would resolve themselves.

As long as employers in the best paying sectors expect their employees to have a degree then there will be high demand for university degrees. Unless Milburn's Labour government wants to impose rigid state controls that dismantle market forces.

I've burnt two pieces of toast. I already hate this week.

I've caved and put the heating on. The weather better turn as promised tomorrow it's bloody May!

Guess I'm a socialist

Fuck Reform

As of today Ed Davey's European policy is *less pro European* than the two leading Labour contenders to be Prime Minister. This is an utterly mad bit of positioning. We Liberal Democrats are a pro-European party - so why on earth don't we say that we want to rejoin the EU?

Was not so much a “Ming Vase strategy” as a “mime that you are holding a vase” strategy.

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

Hmmmmm I'm starting to think that maybe not everyone buying 50mph Sur Ron e-bikes in the UK is using them exclusively for their one legal purpose of off-roading on private land???

A Muslim prayer room in Blackburn was fire bombed on Monday. The multifaith centre in Shrewsbury had a swastika spray painted on its door. None of this made the news. None of it gets the attention it deserves from the government or press. Islamophobia is not taken seriously in the UK at all.

Nigel Farage tells The Sun's Harry Cole that Elon Musk offered to give Reform loads of money "if we said certain things" and he refused. "I can't be bought." Two things: 1. This is an allegation of attempted bribery. Very serious. 2. It shows the obvious: donors expect something for their money.

Nice to see Sky News has my old lecturer on big up UOL

Makerfield doesn't look like a sure win...

now Farage is claiming he deserved the £5mn as a reward for achieving Brexit rather different to the line about needing security

And we're off! Finally

Fucking finally

cba getting yelled at on this because life is short but man alive I've not loved this whole strand of "well Polanski isn't as bad as Nigel Farage so any attempt to hold him accountable for any wrongdoings is inherently biased and bad" thinking, that's just not how you should want things to work!