Yesterday Farage resigned his seat, calling the impending by-election "the people vs the establishment." The people of Clacton, one of the most deprived towns in England vs a man kept in Chelsea townhouses and chauffeured Land Rovers. Which side is the establishment again?

Just learned Amazon Prime in the UK is now showing the 'Pendragon Cycle' fantasy series, so in case anyone stumbles into watching it by mistake, know that it was made by far-right Trumpists at the Daily Wire, explicitly as violent right-wing Christian propaganda (this is a tweet by its creator)

When asked to give an example of the Murdoch press punching down on ordinary people, the co author of this new book, Getting Murdoched, goes straight to their attacks on trans people open.spotify.com/episode/2rtJ...

Perhaps politics should be somewhat less insulting to the public’s intelligence

There's research on how British broadcast media covers Reform. What it found explains a lot about the last few years of British politics. Full episode out now! 🎧 #ReformUK #MediaBias #UKPolitics #BBCNews

Trans lives have long been turned into political “threats” to justify attacks on rights. This new Global LGBTI+ Rights Commission paper traces that history and what it means for today’s struggles. Read the report: kaleidoscopetrust.com/research/man...

Liberal minded people, members of a minority or not, urgently need to get our heads round the fact that there is ALWAYS a reaction against gains in equality and not get allowed to ourselves to be seduced by the idea that it wouldn’t have happened if the less privileged group had been more discreet.

Brexit has failed on every single metric Anton Spisak, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform: “The more important cost of Brexit is the opportunity cost. That is, all the things that have not happened because of Brexit.”

Hilary Cass going to the Jordan Peterson conference with climate denial, racist, anti-abortion, anti-woke c**ts? Sounds like a crank in her natural habitat?

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

It really doesn’t matter who Reform uses to do their vetting. They can only ever choose dickheads because only dickheads would apply. No one credible or decent would touch this hideous clownshow with a bargepole. Choosing Paul Nuttall is sublime though. (Private Eye)

That Musk is on a daylong crashout over this is an indication that somewhere in his little bird brain is the realization that, no matter what else he does, one of the first lines in his obituary is going to be about how he directly oversaw the circumstances for millions of excess deaths globally

Many “gender critical” groups are funded by right-wing actors who are pushing legal attacks on abortion, drag queens in public, sex education, etc. This is why it’s painfully ridiculous that such groups claim they aim to protect women’s or gay rights — GC groups are fuelled by those opposed to both.

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

The European press can say it like it is, even if ours cannot. El Pais - Spanish centre left paper - states that the UK has endured “the ten years of Brexit that installed misgovernment in the United Kingdom.”

Shibden Hall, the home of Anne Lister, Britain’s first modern lesbian and a global LGBTQ+ icon, can’t fly a Pride flag during Pride Month… because it “only represents some people”? Hear more about Anne Lister with writer, Jennifer Van Gessel in our Proudcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/0Lxb...

After Norfolk County Council stopped flying the Progress Pride flag, staff have responded with quiet, powerful resistance. Badges on lanyards, rainbow screens in meetings, and a whole lot of pride on display inside County Hall.

I don't have to pretend I like beer when the photo is for the Telegraph. When I'm not performing for the gullible oiks, I go for cigars and G&T.

Given the way Elon Musk speaks of nonwhites, particularly from Africa, I would argue we should view his actions at DOGE to destroy USAID—which has led to the deaths of 600,000 and the millions more to come—as intentional acts.

Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Most of these petitions are useless. This one isn’t. I’ve signed and anyone in the UK who follows me and gives a toss about trans people should do the same NOW. Please.

I've been told on good authority that the Northern Ireland civil service will be withdrawing from NI Pride. This seems to be the result of lawfare targeting a number of institutions in England although I've been told they are claiming it is to do with the Executive parties being banned from Pride.

#TodayInQueerHistory June 20 (1890) READ QUEER BOOKS! Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is 1st printed in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The overt homoeroticism sparked scandal, forcing edits for the 1891 version. The "perverted novel" was used as evidence against Wilde at trial in 1895.

This is great research but it’s always been plainly obvious that being hit square in the torso by a SUV instead of in the legs by a standard saloon car is going to hurt more

Once again, it’s not the vetting that’s the problem. It’s Reform’s DNA that’s the problem. It’s a racist, misogynistic, far right party, led by a corrupt egomaniac funded by crypto/fossil fuel billionaires and christofascists. No one remotely decent would sign up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Labour Politicians continuously bleat “Dignity and Respect”. Treating trans women as anything other than women is not *dignity*. It is a metaphorical pink triangle. The ONLY way to *respect* trans women is by treating us as women. Anything else is as disrespectful as it is possible to be.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

This is quite major that an equalities minister who worked under Starmer as recently as last year has signed a motion to reject the code of practice. If this was a different policy area, it would be rightly be seen as big news.

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

Russia isn't just spreading lies online. It is paying people to bring chaos, fear and violence to our streets. We're demanding a full public inquiry.

@rufflemuffin.bsky.social sorry, got my geography mixed up...

More than a thousand people have signed up to join us inside Parliament next Thursday. We need to demand better. Will you join us and ask your friends? www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

A town’s first Black Mayor felt compelled to hire security guards to protect himself following racist threats made to him in advance of an annual historic ceremony ✍️Martin Shipton

this thread is hilarious and terrifying. these ppl should not be setting government policy but they are. it’s madness.

Who wins as a result of the EHRC trans code? Nobody. Nobody at all. None of this has any meaning whatsoever. It is just a needless act of administrative bother and political self-harm. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Leicestershire County Council has found that JCB's pothole machine is not economically viable. I think they will find that it becomes viable when you look at JCB's £200,000 donation to Reform rather than at the extra cost to council tax payers.

For anyone not as close to it, a good explainer on what’s happened with the EHRC code, and why it’s unworkable. Like the social media ban, I’m concerned we are running with policy that’s performative not practical.

Over a quarter (and approaching a third) if you discount the 160 odd ministers and PPSs that generally don’t sign EDMs.

On social media is kids found communities be they LGBTQ, disabled, neurodivergent, Black or brown and combinations of all these things and found their own language to talk about themselves when their parents ranged from not being an expert to openly hostile. Of course they don’t like that

The judge banning Palestine Action says they're nothing like the suffragettes. Yes - the suffragettes' actions were far more extreme: www.owenjones.news/p/palestine-...

Thousands of pro-Europeans will march through central London on Saturday 20 June to call for the UK to rejoin the European Union, marking ten years since the 2016 EU vote. The National Rejoin March will assemble at Temple station from noon before marching to Parliament Square. Rally from 2.30pm.

Brianna Ghey found safety online. She found acceptance and support, and reasons to go on living. She was murdered by her actual classmates, who hated her for existing in her own body. Anything else is a lie.

The guidance could be better, but the only way we’ll truly square this circle is to fix the law. More than a thousand people have already signed up to join us on 25th June inside Parliament, have you? www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

Literally there are conversion therapy manuals that start with isolating your child from all potential sources of safeguarding and supportive information and cutting them off from unmonitored internet access so they can find the number for ChildLine while you're not watching is right up there.

It’s crazy how this is happening in a country currently being governed by Turbo Thatcher Girl Hitler

Has anyone actually asked the police how they feel about this? Because it also means women officers would have to strip search trans men. And in a lot of cases, unless you have a cooperative suspect, it’s a hell of a guessing game with a potential civil case for assault if you guess wrong.

Let’s hear it for recruitment of the necessary non-binary police force then.