In 2024 I asked Labour voters who said things would be "better under Labour" - "better for who?" Because since 2024 I've been seeing things getting worse for a lot of people I care about. Not by accident, but because of the deliberate choices of this Labour Government. Words and actions both.

The Supreme Court judgement cannot be implemented because it's nonsense that was directly against the way the law has been interpreted and the way its enactors intended for 15 years.

You can change the law! You can change the law! You can change the law!

there's a lot of people saying "are those home office posts real, surely they're a hoax" and i mean have you *met* the home office

For non-Brits: one of these people has for years been held up as a lion of personal courage, bravely standing up to vicious bullies, and the other was denounced at astonishing intensity as a Stalinist thug imposing their crazy beliefs on others by force. Would you like to guess which is which?

The mandatory waiting period should never have been put in place after Repeal and it is high time for its removal.

When Falkner joined the EHRC she talked a lot about ‘evidence’ and ‘balance’ and it soon became abundantly clear that what she meant was that she didn’t like the existing, well-researched and established positions of the Commission, and needed a pretext for reversing those at the top of her list.

Is there any greater proof that the EU is something worthwhile than the richest person in the world calling for its destruction. The EU, imperfect as it is, is one of the very few means in the world to hold people like Musk to account.

Absolutely incredible that despite all other evidence of the trajectory this year, people are talking about "centre-right" figures moving to Reform as if that indicates a professionalising and moderating influence on the latter, rather than a dangerously radicalising influence on the former

He's the literal current Treasurer of the Scottish Conservatives. These "journalists" who are in fact just PR officers for conservative values are incredibly obvious once you work out that they will just lie to your face in the interests of building the narrative they want for the people they want.

Apart from the strangeness of the language - "non-biological people" sounds like a woke term for AIs in Black Mirror - this makes clear that Baroness Falkner came into her job at the EHRC believing that the net amount of human rights in the UK was too high, and that her job was to lower that amount.

if WOC were barred it would be a white women's conference. if queer women were barred it would be a straight women's conference. if you bar any group of women from a women's conference, you do not have a women's conference, you have a conference of female people who are ok with prejudice.

You just know that's going to be hideous

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

An important reminder to the Labour Party that the anti-trans extremists they keep giving almost everything to can never be placated or pandered to sufficiently. They will never be content without the complete eradication of trans people. Nothing else will ever be enough.

The kid in the flat cap singing dirty old town and the girl on roller skates playing the tin whistle has sent me.

This is ART. Someone give the #LateLateToyShow producers a raise.

*Adds Lewis Capaldi to the list of British celebrities that will be allowed to have an Irish passport when it all goes to shit over there.* #ToyShow #LateLateToyShow

if irish politics coheres around calling transphobia west brit nonsense it could save us

Critical support to uhh Fine Gael. Look forward to UK nutters screeching that they’re woke lefties “The sheer nonsense of it”…

It's important to give conservative politicians their dues when they're on the right side of an issue like this, because we want elections to be fought over housing policy and taxes and stuff, not demonising minorities. Make politics boring again!

It's still so funny, like WHYYYY did they make her do this lmao

It's the inherent contradiction of the reactionary mind. They want the Restoration of the Old Regime to feel like a cathartic triumph over their Revolutionary adversaries. But of course, the Old Regime never actually felt like that at the time, so why would it now?

Nikita Hand, who won her civil case against former MMA fighter, Conor McGregor has welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court not to allow a further appeal by Mr McGregor against a High Court jury's finding that he raped her

If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza. This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Claims that Enoch Burke has been "effectively* given a life sentence" are now in heavy circulation online. The framing was first put forward by the Burke family, and has now been amplified by many prominent bad actors on X/Twitter in the UK and US *"Effectively" is a load-bearing stipulation.

Absolutely normal stuff happening here

“Enoch Burke has been sentenced to life in prison for not recognising pronouns” is the latest made up line from the loons that has gone international now

This is awful news, especially as the state continues to throw money at organisations like Ruhama, who do absolutely nothing except spread bullshit

A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Personally I think it shows the deep tolerance of Scotland that it allows so many kids to keep speaking a foreign language like English. Forcing them all to learn Gaelic, Scots or Norn seems a bit much to me.

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

It doesn't matter what language you speak at home, or on your first day at school - if you live in Glasgow, Glasgow is your home. Farage and co think multilingualism is somehow a bad thing. I know, firsthand, that it's a strength.

This is genuinely massive, like earth-shakingly big in terms of pushing back the anti-trans exclusion drive. The anti-trans movement have lost a case they didn't expect to lose and really couldn't afford to. I can't imagine them not appealing (near infinite money) but now the precedent exists.

Hey, you there! eagerly downloading that new Full Cast version of those books by the mouldy bigot lady, this is YOU doing that. This is what you are funding, the needlessly cruel ripping up of trans people's lives

This is like an extra layer of infuriating to me: it is one thing for you to want the law to say something, it is another thing entirely to insist we must believe it says and always has said that despite all evidence to the contrary and the most basic application of logic

It's worth remembering that the government could stop the exclusion of trans people from public life any time they want.

80% of British media spends all day everyday calling trans people predators and freaks, and the remaining 20% say tsk tsk that's a bit much while still arguing they should be banned from even having a fucking hobby and, honestly, would it be so hard for them to just piss before they leave the house?

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

All Starmer had to say was "The law has been interpreted in a way it was not intended and we will legislate to put it right". It was a test of character and he failed.

President Zelenskyy said it is a “great honour for me to stand here today in a country that understand the price of freedom, understands better than many, many in the world and that shares our belief that every voice counts and every nation matters.”

the law is the problem, the government must fix the law, that’s where the responsibility for this lies

for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this

Genuinely look at the number of people - some of them people who I recognise as Big Names In UK Political Commentary Circles - in this thread simply not bothering to check the numbers. Walthamstow (roughly 60:20 Lab:Grn split) is a mad idea, why not *proceed to list other 60:20 options*

Trans children are being faced with a choice, one enforced by legal threats funded by a billionaire to bully the organisations that have included them for so long - get back into the closet or be cut off from society. No one wants this other than those consumed by hatred - backed by extreme wealth.

a small and selected list of some of the many things terfs are against: - rape crisis scotland - the girl guides - the women's institute - a swimming pond - period product charities