💔 RIP, Catherine O'Hara. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.

Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667

Keep your eyes on the Neo-Cons Vote out every Republican!

Disgusting.

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"A man treating service members to our country, dedicating his life to serving Americans Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law" AOC

What an amazing job. This is such a lovely read. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Reform’s new London mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham, was undone by a rare GB News miracle: a good question. Asked why a party that says the Tories are terrible keeps hiring so many of them, the ex-Tory herself had a rock-solid response: "I can’t answer that."🤨

Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.

Cheers for libraries! @illibraryassoc.bsky.social

Here is a copy of the complaint, which describes how Epstein threatened to “burn her house down”

Today is International Human Solidarity Day, a day to highlight the importance of unity and cooperation in tackling global challenges. Whilst our challenges may be different, they often have the same roots. United we stand, divided we fall. #InternationalHumanSolidarityDay #Solidarity

We are failing our kids

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

The psychological impacts of academic precarity linger long after permanent employment is secured. Find out more about precarity's long term effects here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

It's not like Nigel Farage to be a Hypocrite.

There are 37.4m UK taxpayers. Mansion tax will affect just 165,000 of them. Several of them, it would seem, own and edit newspapers and other media outlets. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This Year’s theme is Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress. We stand in solidarity with disabled people and communities and celebrate our disabled team members, supporters and siblings! #DisabilityAwareness

Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK Transgender girls deserve a safe, nurturing space where they can learn, grow, and contribute to the community, just like anyone else. Sign the petition... 👇

Such a privilege and joy to see my research on the weaponization of the PhD being used by the ABC to understand the treatment of women in our doctoral programmes. It was tough - dark - research. I am so thankful it has been useful... #skyphd - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Working in the field of fraud and financial crime? 🚔💰💻 We have the below call for papers open for a special issue in the journal Area. 🖊 Abstracts due 1st December. Please share with anyone you think might be interested!

As winter descends on the UK it might help to know that there's still floral colour to be found throughout the winter. There are a small group of plants that lift my spirits between now & February-here are a few of them (& my illustrations alongside):

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

New blocks! #blockprinting

According to multiple sources this afternoon, in Parliament, Liz Kendall will announce ‘concessions’ on the welfare bill. Do not clap. These aren’t concessions. This isn’t compassion. It’s a PR fudge to mask cuts that will devastate lives. #DisabilityRights #TakingThePIP

STOP. One of the THREE reasons the reasoned amendment exists is because Labour MPs didn’t consult with disabled people. Don’t “fix” this by making DIFFERENT decisions about us without consulting us. That’s literally doing the same thing twice. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Good.

Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter

If you care about children and other human beings, there is really no argument

It was sobering to catch up with Debbie from St Ann's Advice Centre last week. We discussed the devasting impact that disability benefit cuts would have on our community. Hearing the harrowing stories of disabled service users underlined why these cuts must be opposed.

Beyond parody.

7/ TL;DR: 🔴 The EHRC has opened an unusually short public consultation on its upcoming statutory guidance about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act. 🔴 Meanwhile, the UN has warned of the human rights risks relating to the ruling.

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Noting that the UK has previously been found in violation of European human rights law, the panel also suggested that the UK could be the target of further international legal challenges if it does not take steps to resolve the risks done to Trans+ people’s human rights as a result of this ruling.

The panel said it was “deeply concerned” that the ruling would “lead to increased discrimination and exclusion of transgender women in various sectors”.

5/ International Reaction Two days after the consultation opened, a panel of independent human rights experts convened by the UN issued a warning about the implications of the ruling and the ways it’s being interpreted by the EHRC, government and public bodies. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

4/ This appears to contrast its other public messaging around the ruling, which has focused on the “clarity” it claims the Supreme Court has brought to the matter. goodlawproject.org/the-wheels-a...

3/ The EHRC has been sending mixed messages about the complexity of the work it is undertaking. In an email seen by the @goodlawproject.bsky.social, which is leading a legal challenge against the body’s interim guidance, the EHRC said the challenge raised “significant and complex issues”.

1/ Topline The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has opened a public consultation on updates to its Code of Practice that relate to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-opens-s...