I'd also lay odds that the category of "sex education" includes LGBT support sites. So you're also cutting off some of the most vulnerable kids from vital support.

This better BBC report on Trump's speech simply notes it is a false claim. Why has that false claim been turned into a BBC news headline? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are the BBC just trolling the whole country now?

Truly facile, awful analysis by Nick Robinson normalising hate speech by 'ordinary people' and equating it with free speech. The boiling point is too many of Britain's commentators unthinkingly wading in the toxic swamp of X and believing it is what passes as normal.

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

This is Oxford Street, completely transformed & traffic-free. It was fantastic to see community spirit in the heart of the West End. By removing traffic, this created the space to stride, stroll and explore. This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.

Accusing us of being socialists is now passé. They’ve graduated to calling us communists. That’s what we’re back to. And apparently refusing to dehumanize trans kids is now communism. Miller is deranged but the kind of deranged that’s running the country.

So I hear there's something happening down on Oxford St... But good to see Heath St in Hampstead part of #CarFreeDay. Attended by mayor & deputy mayor of Camden Eddie and Tricia & mayoral charity I Can Dance; assisted by the Everyman who showed an Attenborough film; & organised by local cllr Linda 🌿

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Pleased to report that @camdenlabour.bsky.social's cabinet tonight agreed to move ahead with 500 new lamp column electric vehicle chargers in the borough. We're working with Islington to roll these out thanks to government funding ⚡

Community energy allows local people to produce, consume and own energy where they live, together. It is incredibly positive to see community energy continue to feature so prominently in the delivery of the Clean Power Mission.

In London, hate will never win.

The trend over the last year in Nigel Farage's public approval suggests the media live on a slightly different plant to the public

Plans for Aids memorial at South Crescent revealed | @fitzrovianews.com fitzrovianews.com/2025/09/15/p...

Pics from a few of our recent local doorknocking sessions in our ward – with fellow councillors Sabrina Francis and Rishi Madlani, plus volunteers, including @matt-cooper.bsky.social! 🌹 @camdenlabour.bsky.social

Greater sanctions pressure could finally bring Moscow to the negotiating table. @agathedemarais.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/04/r...

The way the Times has taken every opportunity to bully an already put-upon minority is nothing short of disgusting. Everybody involved should be deeply ashamed of themselves, as well as embarrassed at what they have become.

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

The only way anyone could possibly read this as suggesting “trans ideology” is if they were predetermined to reach that conclusion. Which suggests pressure to conform ideologically is making law enforcement worse at their jobs.

Campaign for People to Learn "unchartered" Does Not Mean "uncharted" 😵‍💫

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

Our proposals for London's pedicabs include: - safer vehicles - fairer fares - insurance - criminal record checks Find out more & have your say: tfl.gov.uk/info-for/tax...

It's well known that Bowheads live to be 200+ years old but here's a bonkers thing that we didn't realize until we had Nick on the pod - that means a whale alive today could potentially have been alive before whaling started AND they lived through the decades of whaling & the century of recovery🤯

This breathless headline and article sums up what’s gone so badly wrong with the BBC’s treatment of Reform. Of course they should be covered, but where is the scrutiny here? Where is policy interrogated? Why no mention of their one dismal “achievement”, Brexit? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Didn't he suggest punching trans people? Would this be acceptable if it was another group of people?

This is a very good point. Meanwhile, people should not be inciting violence against other people – this seems to need saying.

Super bored of journalists at a certain outlet still plugging their own description of the coalition of the willing as "COW". Think they've never heard of Match of the Day.

Well, not entirely: senior Democrat committee member Jamie Raskin asks why they are hearing from Farage and not from people who have suffered real censorship in Russia or China. He also links Reform UK to the AfD and National Rally. Farage won't like that.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

And has any politician or commentator ever - as in EVER - opined that right wingers and conservatives should “reach out to” or “try to address the concerns of” liberals and progressives? Seriously, has that EVER happened? Why is it always us who need to “understand” them and never vice versa?

Lenin was shot and wounded today in 1918 by Fanny Kaplan, a socialist furious that the Bolsheviks had declared one party rule and betrayed the revolution. She was executed. He never fully recovered. In the aftermath he "opened the jaws of state terror."

Bears repeating that Lowe's position on remigration is to the right of the BNP in the 2000s. And the Telegraph is giving him softball interviews.

I would say "So it begins", but in fact it's "So it continues" now. #BannedBooks #HandmaidsTale www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The reason I quit listening to Today is at it again

Anything released by the murky think tank Policy Exchange should be ritually burnt and then buried in quicklime. Anyone who is part of the organisation should be jeered and heckled.

As Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social points out in his letter ⤵️ - does this party want to make Camden a better place or just sow discord and cynicism? 🤔 @camdenlabour.bsky.social councillors want to serve residents, not score political points. 🗳️ #Vote Francesca Reynolds #VoteLabour🌹 on Thurs 28 Aug

As of 11am on Friday, al fresco dining has come to St Martin's Lane in the West End, with Rupert Street market arriving in Soho later that day. It's a huge step towards making our city more people-friendly. This street is now free of general motor traffic 11am-11pm daily until end of October 1/

We've installed another three new simple zebra crossings, this time near Edgware Road. Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%. (Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)

what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder if broadcast journalists could account for the balance of coverage between a (clearly newsworthy) 14,000 rise in asylum claims, and a lack of fall in asylum hotels, compared to almost zero interest in a 400,000 drop in immigration visas. (A 400k rise would be enormously newsworthy, obvs)

Good to canvass for our @camdenlabour.bsky.social candidate Francesca Reynolds in the West Hampstead by-election! Residents raised the need to secure the funding for lifts at West Hampstead station–and were aware this is one of Francesca's local priorities. 🌹 Oh and here's a friendly cat!

Great to see the new improved pedestrian crossings and cycle lanes at Crowndale Road (between Mornington Crescent and St Pancras) now open! Thanks to @london.gov.uk Future Neighbourhoods funding for Somers Town which supported this 🌳 @metecoban92.bsky.social @camdenlabour.bsky.social

US-funded activists targeting UK abortion access isn't about free speech; it's a strategic effort to roll back women's rights and freedom of choice. Let women be free from harrassment. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Yet another retrospective triumph for Cameron and Osborne.

Police tell North London Lib Dems to stop using leaflet showing candidate posing with officer >> West Hampstead Liberal Democrats showing a cavalier disregard for the rules 😒 www.mylondon.news/news/north-l...

Strong statement from the European leaders, including keeping NATO membership for Ukraine on the table. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The scheduled luncheon between the U.S. and Russian delegations has been also cancelled after no deal was reached.