What is happening now is the inevitable conclusion of political weakness, cosying up to Reform, banging on about small boats, making no effort to confront others' lies - it was always going to lead here, as they were warned repeatedly by so many people.

“We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare & hospitality sectors. We don't want this to be used to divide people/fuel hostility." Why is it being left to affected families to say this while politicians talk about "legitimate concerns"?

You're not going to believe this but I think Anas Sarwar should resign. The best time for him to resign was immediately after losing a second Holyroor election after running a presidential campaigm. The second best time is now, after "legitimate concerns"ing race riots.

Oh, sure, blow up the Anglo-Irish treaties and the GFA, why not

Shocking interview w/ DUP’s Carla Lockhart on BBC Radio 4 rnow Refuses to describe the violence in Belfast as thuggery, then attacks media for being asked about why she was standing next to masked loyalists the other day. Ends by whipping everything up some more No wonder we’re in such a mess

Quite aside from Spanner unmasking his/herself as a bigot, this is all factually wrong - MSPs *have* to engage (there's literally a section in the code of conduct called "Engaging with Constituents"), and bigots have Reform speaking on their behalf in parliament, including the bigot Senga Beresford.

seen multiple versions of this today and can we not? do you know how many entirely friendly people have been issued visas by *all* the home secretaries? my wife was issued a visa by theresa may. you get where this talking point will end up when the people doing the rioting see it, right?

Sick of "legitimate concerns". "I'm scared of black people" isn't a "legitimate," it's just racism. "LGBT people make me irrationally angry" isn't "legitimate," you just fear difference. It's not legitimate to wish you lived in a country with only people who are exactly like you.

Yes. That's fucking right. Not a single letter about "legitimate concerns," this is how you do it.

Elon Musk is paying fascists to riot and attack minorities in our cities. Some he is paying, others he doesn't need to, the X algorithm and revenue program do the rest. The UK's leading nazi thug is posting from a Moscow hotel room right now. We need to wake up to foreign money and the far right.

There is a remarkable scale of the celebration, glorification and excited encouragement of violence on the X platform. It is probable that most of it is not incitement in law [though there will be examples that are] but the nature + pace of dissemination makes it a major national security risk

the fascist attack will always have a paramilitary arm this is that

X is entirely as expected about Belfast, massive amount of incitement to violence and thousands of likes on posts of pure hatred, don't understand why anyone even vaguely normal is still posting there

Shit. Britain and the Ivory Coast are uniting to rule Northern Ireland. And the guy on the right has a weird backwards hand. He should get that seen to if he's planning to go fight immigrants.

This is a scandal equivalent of a hypothetical situation wherein the Chair of the UK EHRC followed neo-Nazi accounts and ‘race realists’, but the UK media won’t touch it because trans people in the UK are considered to be a minority that must be oppressed and subjugated by the state

This was a particularly revealing moment. Stephenson says that it’s not on service providers to police toilets but Kirkpatrick says that service providers have the obligation to uphold the law - when Sarah Owen presses them on how those things are reconcilable they just flounder.

finally moving away from "sex-based rights" to "voice-pitch-based rights", as the crafts of the Equality Act so perfectly envisaged those many years ago

In every instance where the chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission uses "commonsense" she effectively means "prejudice". That's not really what the job is about, is it? "Use prejudice to uphold rights" is hardly the sort of rallying cry anyone should be using.

of course starmer's policy is to punish the users, not the providers

Why cant any fkin journo just in response ask the obvious question: and how would You go about proving your sex?

Stephen King's editor:

I can He's a racist piece of shit who can't be trusted

Just circling back to this odious individual who was at the racist riots yesterday. Someone who for years after she called for all trans men to be sterilised, as well as reams of other violent repulsive transphobia was praised and fawned over by JK Rowling, the NS and other 'centre left feminists'

1/5 The way the right talk about George Floyd as if it were some sort of moment of victory for ethnic minorities is so twisted His murder was traumatic because almost every black family in the UK has experienced or been fearful of police harassment or police brutality from a young age

To be clear, when this guy says he ‘wants people to have more sex’, what he actually means is ‘our Catholic white women need to breed like cattle or we’ll be overwhelmed by a tide of immigrants’. #SpeirGorm

Crying

They’re really going to insult our intelligence with this bollocks aren’t they lol

Apparently it's keep Anas Sarwar in place for the whole term because the Scottish public are going to be given one more chance to apologise for voting incorrectly and finally give him the keys to Bute House, as he deserves and as they have unjustly denied him this year

I don't know what other way of reading this there is other than a single man's personal hostility to Human Rights' law, and power over the Supreme Court's entire makeup, has succeeded in crushing any dissent to his personal belief that the Human Rights Act needs to be neutered.

So we have a Supreme Court that is actively hostile to the Human Right's Act with a President who openly boasts about how he blocks the appointment of any member who doesn't fully accept his conservative hostility to the Act. Perfect. Wonderful. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/06/l...

operation branchform has been in the news for about 5 years. this is about the funniest attempt to dredge it i have seen yet.

There are questions the police should be asked about how they handled the Henry Nowak’s case, but most of them have to do with how they understand their duty of care towards suspects*. Farage and Lowe aren’t asking them, they’re stirring up hate. *Nowak was innocent but it wasn’t clear at the time

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

Ask ChatGPT to do this, ask Claude to do that, we're becoming reliant on technology that is inherently unreliable at the cost of traditional systems that worked. At least when you asked the fairies there was a good chance they'd steal your neighbour's butter

If you give James Watt your money again, you deserve to end up walking the streets wearing a barrel

Those fucking racists who’ve spent the last fifteen years demonising Poles, complaining about Polski Skleps on high streets, demanding their deportation, now trying to use the murder of Henry Nowak for their own racist purposes can fuck right off.

Key word of course being "can": been very disinclined to legislate to correct bad judgements, in part because "the Supreme Court is Very Wise And Separate from Partisan Politics" has become a surprisingly powerful notion (or, cynically, get out clause) in a country that has Parliamentary Sovereignty

We're long past the point of needing a complete overhaul and clear out of the BBC. Manifestly unsuited to the moment.

Listen, when he said “tomorrow belongs to me”, he was referring to promising upcoming local elections,

Thank you to @kirstysnp.bsky.social, the SNP's Chief Whip at Westminster, for signing this motion to reject the draft EHRC Code of Practice. The motion was only tabled last night and these things take a bit of time to update, so we're hoping to see more SNP MPs on the list soon.

I’ll go you one further: Farage is himself the creation of British media outlets. Without their dedicated support and cooperation he’d still be addressing rotary clubs, and he only feels like a fixture because maybe four newspapers recruited him to troll the Tories from the right so long ago.

I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.

Well, whatever this stuff - during last year’s flag-festooning far right social media bullshit campaign - was meant to achieve, I think we can say it hasn’t worked. It hasn’t even worked in the sense of “just ignore it and hope it goes away”.

The fact that the supposedly centre-left Government cannot stand up and say a foreign billionaire is deliberately funding white supremacist parties in the UK because he is a massive racist weirdo is an indictment on our body politic.

Crucially not the main point in all this trans EHRC stuff but it’s crazy that Labour’s “solution” largely seems to be make underpaid and under respected retail staff play as gender police in their culture war.

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

maybe this worked once upon a time (maybe not - we didn't best the Nazis in a battle of ideas, we shot them in the face), but it seems recklessly naive to think that the power of debate will save us in a world of far- right billionaire thumbs on the scales of rage-filled social media algorithms

Now I bet you Ian Murray, the Saviour of Scottish Labour would never have been caught in this web, further showing how unjust it was he was sacked *30 seconds later* Ah, well, nevertheless

This👇shows just how nasty and vindictive Rowling and Bindel are. The two of them have been having a go at Nicola Sturgeon after her TV appearance. Regardless of what you may think of Sturgeon’s current predicament, she’s never worn a T-shirt calling another woman a ‘scab’.