It's really funny how Starmer was billed as the man to defend our precious norms ahead of the 2024 election

I'm truly not sure which is worse. If Keir Starmer was informed and is lying about it or that he is so absent as PM that important decisions are taken for him by officials. At least lying about what he knew, while intolerable, would show there is someone in charge and taking an interest.

In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

This "investigation" is straight-up incitement against people seking asylum, especially LGBTQ+ people. No acknowledgement that LGB asylum claims are LESS LIKELY to succeed than other claims. No acknowlegement that the dodgy lawyers are CLEARLY scamming their clients www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The deadliest acts of mass violence in the UK in recent years have not been declared terror attacks because, like Southport, they don't meet the legal definition of advancing a cause The impact of that definition ripples from the bottom to the top of Britain's policing and intelligence structures

NEW: British tech entrepreneur Chris Kenna says he has built cutting-edge AI data centres across the UK We can’t find them... www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

This map from Al Jadeed TV shows where Israel has bombed Lebanon This is since last night only

This isn't a conflict that would invite nuclear retaliation to the United States; Iran lacks missiles that can reach the territory and thanks to the JCPOA and the late Khamenei's personal opposition to them lacks nuclear warheads. The immediate harm will fall on civilians in a nation of 90 million.

Disabled Folks Are Being Pushed Into Poverty🧵 Two tier support for disabled people is now a reality in the UK and it should upset anyone who believes in fairness and equality. I receive LCWRA because I cannot work. That hasn’t changed. It won’t. 1/9 #DisabilityRights #LCWRA #CostOfLiving

“Deception as to sex” has the same impact as a Trans+ Panic clause – and has embedded transphobia into the law @sasha98.bsky.social ✍️ 

And the equally baffling following sentence...

This is a sentence that Wes Streeting has genuinely written and I have to ask, is he living in some parallel universe? Completely, totally unmoored from reality.

ICYMI: An amendment to a bill meant to protect Trans+ rights has stripped legal gender recognition from one in five of the world’s Trans+ people Read more: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

“A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime.”

An absolutely brilliant piece from @wearequeeraf.com featuring equally brilliant scholarship from @alexsharpe.bsky.social 'Sex by Deception' cases in the UK have a frightening history, but the treatment of trans woman Chiara Watkin is a terrifying new development

Trans+ people can be convicted for sexual assault in the UK, just for not coming out before any form of intimacy. @sasha98.bsky.social explores how under CPS 'deception as to sex' guidance, Trans+ panic has made its way onto UK law books 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/come-out-bef...

"A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime." My latest for @wearequeeraf.com www.wearequeeraf.com/come-out-bef...

"Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded." [Times front page]

Everything from Camden Market to the Admiral Duncan pub and central London Harry Potter stores are owned by shell companies in tax havens. For years, they hid the identities of their real owners. Today, @andrewkersley.bsky.social pulls back the curtain.

In any case, I think all the stories that are going to frame this as being about trans athletes are, at best, a bit misleading. Trans women already weren't competing at the Olympics, with one exception in 20 years. Here's the real 🚨🚨🚨:

“Deception as to sex” has the same impact as a Trans+ Panic clause – and has embedded transphobia into the law In the next edition of Milestones, @sasha98.bsky.social traces the history behind it and why it matters today  Get it here 👉 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/milestones/

Today my students discussed whether and to what extent Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism play a similar structural role in Europe to the role antisemitism played in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then the Israeli Foreign Ministry just goes and tweets out an Islamophobic octopus.

We don't know who did this attack or what their specific motivations were, though it of course seems likely that there was antisemitic intent. That said, I have a theory about why someone would target an ambulance 🧵

Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again. The fate of the books remains to be seen. @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

[CN: Conversion therapy, abuse, discusses trans youth suicide, seriously, this is potentially very upsetting stuff] This is an excellent summary of the historical background and current day reality of conversion practices in the UK. Would def recommend as a primer to anybody not familiar.

Queer journalists should be writing our news, which needs better justice than short, lacking in nuance social media captions – in a world where our rights are under attack. PinkNews have now confirmed the redundancy consultation to @wearequeeraf.com, and this divestment in news is concerning 👇

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

How the fuck do you have a reporter free news room?

Did an anon Labour source tell the FT that the party now has fewer members than the Greens under @zackpolanski.bsky.social? www.ft.com/content/49fe...

The Tories' Shadow Justice Secretary is stoking hatred toward Muslims for praying in public. His comments are completely beyond the pale and if the Tories had a single shred of decency, they would sack him.

From when I arrived as a child up until the last six years, living in London meant black snot, black mucus - never even noticed it as out of the ordinary unless you went on holiday. Ten years ago I lived just off the A23 in Stockwell - when you coughed, it was grey. This is PHENOMENAL progress

Frankly this whole notion of 'biological sex' is a trendy fad that only started in the 00s and I refuse to indulge it.

They really sat down and said: how can we make trans people even less comfortable reporting crimes to the police?

Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢 #data #gender #trans #police #Scotland

The very definition of courage—

Not to be that guy constantly whining about the state of British press but... it is kind of astounding that there have been so many news articles about Bayswater's lawfare and I haven't seen even one of them mention the group's history of abuse.

The trial, by design, requires the ban. 113 youth will be told they get blockers. 113 youth will be told NO blockers, but you still have to do all the tests & questions as we watch you go through puberty. Without a total criminal ban, many of the 113 no-blocker youth will try to access privately

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot. w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2

While this is a positive development, it's not even the bare minimum. The government needs to create an easily enforceable financial remedy for the creative works that have already been stolen to train AI models.

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

More than 30 MPs are calling on the government to tighten up the enforcement of employment tribunal awards, following our investigation into the thousands of companies that have ignored tribunal decisions. Without proper enforcement, tribunals are worthless. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Except it was Wes Streeting who halted the trial, and did so off the back of a letter whose author has now been recused due to impartiality concerns. goodlawproject.org/biased-lette...

Horrifying to refuse UK visas to people *because* – not in spite of the fact – they are fleeing a genocide: specifically, a genocide that Britain continues to fuel through its supply of arms to the UAE

5. The opinion outright says that states can legally ban transgender adult care after applying Skrmetti to adults.

🔴 EXC by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: 360 race-related complaints made to a pair of police forces after they declared themselves 'institutionally racist' did not result in a single officer being sacked in two years. The data has only been released to us after an 8-month transparency battle.

#spycops officer Carlo Soracchi took a woman he deceived into a relationship for 2 days in Venice, paid for by police expenses. He says it was legit as he was going to make links with Italian Trotskyists but admits he didn't make contact with any. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...