Homosexuality wouldn't have been legalised had it relied on public opinion. The law led and public opinion followed. The religious right usurpers understand this, hence the FWS v Scottish Ministers ruling.

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In England, when water companies dump sewage more frequently than the rules allow, they get hit with massive fines. In Scotland, it seems there are never any consequences for sewage dumping under the SNP. We want to see a Clean Water Act to take the sewage scandal seriously.

We know that she actively wants trans women's lives to be worse, but this clarifies that she expects cis women to conform to gender norms or, if they can't because they're simply too tall, simply stop going outside.

Sometimes you have to be brave. Wendy Alexander was brave. Donald Dewar was brave. There is nobody in UK or Scottish government at present who is interested in having principles and defending them against polling companies and the current equivalents of Brian Souter.

Watch @joshuareynoldssl6.bsky.social GRILL eBay bosses. If Joshua can find banned, unsafe products on eBay with 30 seconds of Googling, why can't eBay identify them and stop them being sold?

Reform tried to bin a council's climate emergency declaration. The vote was delayed... ...because the chamber was too hot. Even reality has started mocking Reform. 🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

This post is about the US, but here in the UK, the same dynamic applies. And it's NOT just LGBT rights that the far right are after; the reason they are attacking the rights of children to receive trans-affirming care is that they want to undermine the concept of Gillick Competence... (1/7)

haven’t seen it this pride month yet so reposting rn, gm all

Always remember who Julie Bindel is: a virulent homophobe, full of hate and self-imposed fear. This is what transphobia does. It absolutely rots your brain.

Exempting broadly-defined "health" services from this bill would be a bit like exempting "fuel" services from a bill about CO2 reduction. There must be no carve-outs or loop holes for abusive practices, in healthcare or otherwise, for this to be anything like what has been promised, for years.

George St - Harbour (Aberdeen) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]: 🎗️ SNP: 33.1% (-9.1) 🌹 LAB: 14.5% (-5.3) 🌍 GRN: 13.2% (-0.7) ➡️ RFM: 10.1% 🔶 LDM: 9.2% (-2.2) 🙋 Ind: 9.2% 🌳 CON: 8.3% (-2.7) 🧑‍🔧 TUSC: 1.8% ✊ ALS: 0.7% No Ind (-1.8) as previous. SNP 'Gain' from Lib Dem - Stage 8. Changes w/ 2022.

Andy Burnham must commit to dropping Labour's harmful red lines on Brexit. It is costing the UK £90bn a year. It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to boost growth, create jobs and keep our country safe.

Public sector bodies are caving in the wake of legal threats and political pressure, reversing decades of work to gain trust of LGBT+ folks. No doubt cash from Christofascist lobbies and certain oligarchs behind this. I expect similar distancing from events of/for other marginalised groups, too.

Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million Brexit reward. When he promised we would be better off, he clearly only meant himself. 10 years on, it's time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe, starting by joining the single market.

See below my latest piece for Lib Dem Voice titled 'One year on, and I’m still finding it hard to feel pride.' Goes into some detail on the complicated feelings I have with pride as a trans person in 2026. See below: www.libdemvoice.org/one-year-on-...

Abject moral cowardice

After ten years of the Conservatives’ Brexit experiment, the British public have had enough. Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million ‘reward’ for the damage he’s caused, while the rest of us are paying for it dearly. It’s time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe.

Let's remember one thing before Starmer goes: this is the man who thought it would be a good idea to risk thousands upon thousands of deaths in poor countries by cutting aid to own the libs. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, mate. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...

I recently caught an STD from a Catholic priest after a Grindr hookup. During treatment it was discovered I had early stage prostate cancer, treated successfully with radiation. Mysterious ways indeed.

For me none of the arguments about the global and national political realities facing this government, Starmer's abilities, political acumen or likeability, or the challenges of the media and political environment lead to a sentence that ends "and that's why we need Andy Burnham".

I love how first past the post delivers such stable governments. This'll now mean 7 prime ministers in 10 years. So stable!

The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of Prime Ministers while nothing really changes. This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country.

Brexit has destroyed our party politics, social media has warped our sense of the world, artificial intelligence is now slowly but surely rotting our brains. Good times.

For many LGBT folk like me, and especially trans folk, Keir Starmer will be remembered in the same way as Margaret Thatcher: with deep contempt for having overseen a deeply hostile, queerphobic government, which rolled back human rights and set society back by at least a decade. Good riddance.

Come help the Lib Dems in Edinburgh. Great jobs in a great city.

Meet one of the LGB Alliance's 'youth ambassadors' who also happens to be boasting about joining up with the far-right Restore party. Funny how this just keeps happening to transphobes - sorry, I mean 'sex realists'... 👀

UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

We don't really have any refineries around major cities anymore in the UK, but maybe the equivalent would be the Shell London Gateway terminal going kaboom and being seen all over London. Surely, 'ordinary' Russians must know something is spectacularly wrong now!?

No child has gotten a gender dysphoria diagnosis in the past 2 years- this is part of a practice of denying young peoples identity long term and questioning people ARE NOT protected by the equality act. You cant get treatment if you can't get diagnosed. emiliabeckers.substack.com/p/how-the-nh...

Sir Ian McKellen.

Starmer’s proposed social media ban will harm trans kids even more. For many trans young people, online spaces aren’t optional - they’re where they first find people like themselves. ⬇️ Continued

Absolutely staggering stuff. We've known for a long time that Russia-aligned groups were fomenting far right violence in the UK. We now have absolute proof.

Let’s go further: totally child free society. You don’t come onto the mainland until you’re 16.

Q: Why do Norwegian, Swedish and Danish warships have barcodes on them? A: Because they Scan-da-navy-in 😉

Can we finally get an apology from all the oh so sensible commentators who have spent the past ten years insisting Nigel Farage isn't part of the far-right

It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.

I accidentally ended up watching #ViennaPride today. At many Prides “Diplomats at Pride” march together. Immediately before them today, there was a message reminding how badly the UK is viewed these days because of government transphobia.

Did you see the sign today about hobbies?

We don't half know how to crack down on protests when it suits us

"Remigration" is a clean word for an ugly idea: ethnic cleansing. Last month several hundred of Europe's far right gathered in a hotel near Porto, Portugal, to turn it into policy. We went inside. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/06/11/r...

Badenoch condemned by Lib Dems after she suggests Tories under her would prop up minority Reform UK government - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

All through the 1930s the far right started riots all over Germany blaming minorities for the unrest so Hitler and the Nazis could say we need fascist laws and a dictator to restore law and order ...

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

“What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

This is one of the things that makes me most persuaded of the argument that the government (and its MPs) should get off X. I don’t see how you end up going down this line of thinking other than by X having warped your perceptions of where public opinion sits.