A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

If anyone's irritated at the quantity of my presence on social media today, it's because I'm laid up after a nasty fall last night. Blame gravity (and Trafford Council's standard of paving).

It's genuinely worth a quick check of the advanced moderation settings as there's plenty I'm sure people would like to tweak but aren't aware that they can.

I hate this night. It's like a Purge movie around here tonight

Never start listening to Bruckner at midnight

I'm seeing the Royal British Legion adverts and wondering why the Ministry of Defence, who wreck these people's lives, don't pay to support them for what's left of those lives?

I note Peter Mandelson retains his noble title and remains an unelected legislator for life. Probably the single most malignant figure in British political life for over three decades: should something not be done about him too?

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

Best way to get through the Dark Months.

Public service announcement:

The media only seem to know the names of the Israeli dead. Palestinians have names too.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Honestly sick of the primary mode of politics in this country being to unduly terrify different minority groups in various disgusting and callous ways.

I am genuinely heartbroken. 💔 An absolute legend. She’ll be on that white slimline telephone with automatic redial in the sky. RIP Dame Patricia Routledge, you’ll be the brightest star in the sky tonight, & many nights to come. Thank you for the laughter & the joy you brought to millions.

Just one day without the same repetitive depressing oppressing fucking bullshit, in the world, in the country, on our fucking doorstep, would be really great right about now.

The Far Right: We want to treat people as subhuman. Centrists: Woah there buddy! You can't just- The Far Right: Please. Centrists: Well... As you asked so nicely.

Victoria Derbyshire: "How significant is the fact that Tony Blair's involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?" Ash Sarkar: "Well, I guess it's because Satan was unavailable."

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

"Now" – rather than tens of thousands of innocent deaths ago.

It would be a lot easier to support Your Party if it didn't look like being such an amateurish bloody shambles from the outset.

I wonder how many of those in the left photo thought about those in the right photo, whilst eating their banquet?

Two heads of state meet today. One bully, one coward. Two men trying to silence dissent and stop peaceful protest... youtu.be/ZvnPEMW1jj8?...

Tax these appalling things to oblivion www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Have any of our national politicians said "Elon Musk can go f*** himself" yet? Just checking....

Is it too much to hope that Mandelson may finally be about to enjoy the karma he's been storing up for decades?

Yes murder is bad. Yes political violence is bad. But don't ask me to shed any tears for a man who said executing gay men was "God's perfect law".

There were an approximate additional 1,485 NHS deaths per year associated with Brexit workforce shocks since 2016. Around 34 extra deaths per affected hospital per year. Your local district general hospital has the equivalent of a coach crash’s worth of extra deaths every year

People are exhausted. Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved. Blaming migrants won’t fix this. Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services. #DrawTheLine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A reminder for UK people that there will be an emergency alert broadcast to all mobile phones at 3pm today. If you have need to not have your phone ring for any reason turn your phone off or see if you can turn the alert itself off (see next post): (1/2)

On the same day in the Telegraph:

At the end of it all, there's a very simple term for people like Angela Rayner: class traitor.

I'm genuinely disturbed. I'm living in a country that is passionate about defending the 'free speech' of those who would incite violence against minorities, but equally passionate about arresting people for calling a genocide a genocide.

There is simply no excuse for Wes Streeting.

I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive

Well at least somebody's celebrating the centenary of one of the 20th century's greatest musicians.... youtu.be/gne5nIsFPlE?...

Considering trans rights an appropriate subject for 'debate' rather than a necessary starting point is no different from doing so for other minoritised communities. Transphobes will never be appeased, any more than racists will be, but you will ensure exclusion of most trans people and their allies.

I know we're not supposed to like AI, but really, how could anyone hate this cute little guy?

Fucking idiots. BBC News - Tories pledge to get all oil and gas out of North Sea www.bbc.com/news/article...

You know whose ‘feelings’ I am not remotely interested in? Fascists’. If they don’t want to be called fascist, they can stop being and acting fascist. That involves welcoming refugees and other migrants, respecting human rights, and withdrawing support from Reform, the Tories, and ‘Labour’. Fin.

I'm sure there's something wrong here, but I can't quite put my finger on it ....

I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.

Ah what's wrong little buddy? Why the dirty delete? Big clever dark money think tank boy like you can almost certainly defend the position you came to based on ✨vibes✨ against a bunch of people who have actually read a book one time.

When the history of the rise of fascism in the UK in the 2020s gets written, the complicity of the BBC will require a full volume of its own.

I have complete faith that the members of #YourParty will have the maturity not to vote to call it "Party McPartyface".

I don't know of any writer of English fiction who's as consistently humane as Terry Pratchett, except maybe Dickens and Wodehouse. His love for everything genuinely human radiates from his pages. He should've lived longer and written more, but what he left us will always be one of life's great joys.

There is of course another solution to the ‘asylum seeker problem’. Start thinking of them as human. When you do that, the ‘problem’ kind of melts away.

‘Entartete Kunst’