Who is willing to to the dirty of an authoritarian regime? A study of the Argentinian secret police found that those who joined "were not the most extreme officers in Argentina’s army. They were the most stuck." Mediocre men whose careers had stalled out. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-secret...

When your brand is so mistrusted that rebranding yourselves as Estate Agents counts as an upgrade

The Spectator, a right wing news magazine owned by Paul Marshall, falsely accused a HOPE not hate journalist of committing a serious criminal offence. They were forced to retract the story and apologise. But instead of stopping there, The Spectator couldn’t resist one more swing.

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

Researchers at the University of East Anglia are recruiting Trans+ adults for an online study exploring access to gender affirming care and quality of life. Participate here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uea/gender... If you have any questions, please contact: [email protected]

The Middle East is on fire, UK military bases are under attack, energy prices are going through the roof and the official opposition is spending its week wanging on about pictures of otters www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

The UK has to put up with this nonsense too with our king, but at least we get a tourism boost out of it - your king puts people off visiting.

I don’t love the boobs thing but it’s utterly trivial compared to abolishing jury trials, holding political prisoners for over a yr without trial, treating migrant care workers like sh*t, holding benefits below liveable level, not renationalising water, wimping out of challengin corporate interests

I’m shocked, stunned etc. Meanwhile, everywhere else around the world assumes Australia has cracked it and are rushing to copy their law.

Apparently both Forstater and Bindel attended TransMission in order to belittle it (and lie about numbers). While thousands of us were having a great time for a good cause, they sat whingeing and being bitter. I really hope someone from NION innocently tried to sign them up 😆

Don’t be too shocked to discover that Reform top the polls for gay/bi men. There’s a long history of gays supporting those who do not support our rights. Margaret Thatcher, whose Government introduced the homophobic Section 28, was voted ‘Woman of the Year’ by Capital Gay readers, at least twice.

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I wonder if Labour have really thought through the implications of creating multiple desperate, persecuted underclasses whilst making it clear the courts will not provide justice and there is no peaceful route to change they will accept.

"Forget Andrew Tate, this is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it," @carolecadwalla

"Just protecting women" by *checks notes* forcing two dozen Women's Institutes to close... Great feminising.

Lots of people questioning whether the King should visit the United States. I think he definitely should; to recolonise it.

I'll be speaking at the US Queer Bibliography conference on why Wales' LGBTQ+ history is constantly ignored in the UK. Free to tune in around 4.15 on Thursday bibsocamer.org/events/calen...

I amazed that they haven’t looked at Reform’s impact on the Tories, and figured out they are in massive danger of being similarly outflanked, but on the left. It’s like they don’t look at British politics at all.

Question to hive mind: Does anyone have access to any information about which people/clinicians were part of i) this NHS England Specialised Commissioning group: www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation... ii) This “Policy Working Group” www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/cl... see screenshots 👇

I think water companies need to be put out of OUR misery more than put out of theirs. Grasping, poisoning bastards.

Astounding stories here - I remember a not particularly likeable Hollywood actor’s even less pleasant manager trying to impress me by name dropping Victoria Hervey once. It didn’t work.

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

The sight of men harassing and attacking a woman in the name of defending women and children is sickening.

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people. I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

Im really sorry Country Joe has died but bringing this song back to into focus in this week is his final gift to the world. youtu.be/eRl6-bHlz-4

This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

We want to hear from all workers who can speak to changes your employer has made to their policies or practices related to trans inclusion following the Supreme Court judgment.

They're so concerned about the plight of Iranians until the ones being persecuted and displaced want somehwere to be.

Like this narrative that the campaigns for equal marriage were a friendly public conversation where everybody respected each other is wild as fuck. It was only about ten years ago and you guys kept implying we wanted to fuck dogs.

Iunno, it's just so weird for me, as somebody who was an out queer in the first couple of decades of this century to see this rewriting of history where the "debate" about gay rights then was this genteel, public spirited conversation. They blamed the gays for hurricanes and earthquakes.

Progressives in the UK who still haven't got the message: the TERFs are now trying to bankrupt the Greens through repeated litigation, with a fresh round dropping now they're demonstrably a credible choice in elections. Join the dots. "Feminist" transphobia is a vassal of fascism.

Senior Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry says her party has “ended up in the wrong place” when it comes to transgender people

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran. Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime. That puts a whole new spin on things. Propagandists in pocket of regime. It's why all the messaging is the same. www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Not fighting fascism is the same as supporting fascism. Vote.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

sorry UK news channels but you are not going to get me to feel sorry for "brits stranded in dubai." these people left the UK to go live in an absolute monarchy built and maintained by literal slave labour so fuck 'em, sorry not sorry.

Watching Labour attack the Greens on drugs just makes me tired. There's a huge evidence base that the Greens are right about decriminalisation, including real life experience in a few states not scared of the US's fixation on demonising drugs. Stop cosplaying as the Daily Mail, Labour.

It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.

Elsewhere, our polling shows how far extreme rhetoric has travelled. Among Reform UK members: • 66% believe a civil war will happen. • 61% have a positive view of Tommy Robinson. • More than half think non-white British citizens born abroad should be removed or encouraged to leave.

Two police officers were suspended on full pay for *four years* over racist, misogynistic, homophobic messages, only to resign ahead of this week's misconduct hearing. Why did it take so long? A lack of available personnel to chair the panel Another great (and alarming) story by Conor

In today's toxic media, this Daily Mail article seems to echo the "extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical "end times"" reportedly used by US military commanders to "justify involvement in the Iran war to troops" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...