"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK" *clears throat* I HAVE OPINIONS metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...

In London today. When I have to be in London I always get my clothes out the night before - less to think about! This morning I got dressed, put my hand in my trouser pocket...to discover Maya the puppy had eaten all the way through to the outside of the trousers making a large ragged hole!

2. In the last year, many pseudoscientific organizations and anti-transgender activists have worked to prop up misleading claims to imply that gender-affirming care is ineffective or dangerous. Now, a new study completely contradicts that narrative - it actually saves lives.

Man who harmed whole country, says: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So shattered - tried to have a nap at lunch but bladder wouldn't let me, so settling for coffee and cake instead! Not a good start on a Monday!!

I haven't run focus groups on films, but I'm told traitors is popular so that

I really wish 'gender critical' activists would grasp that we're not too scared to agree with them. We think they're malicious idiots. if anything, we're scared to publicly *disagree* with them, because they harass, bully and dox women who don't buy into their cultist nonsense.

For sure! #twinninghusbands

Welcome to your 50’s. You’re sleepy but you have insomnia

wes streeting conducting trials on puberty blockers is no different from robert kennedy jnr conducting research in to links between autism and vaccinations. it's a pantomime and a sham with predetermined outcomes designed to push a bigoted narrative.

“The Supreme Court is wrong” Fin.

This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...

Not sure how Starmer dare call anyone, even Farage, spineless! Government by focus group and Daily Mail headline doesn't suggest a strong leader. The man is a jellyfish www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

"Let's go over this one more time." "I know what-" "ONE MORE TIME." "Fine." "What is it you're looking for?" "A garbage bag." "In which room?" "The kitchen." "What do you do when you find it?" "Bring it to you here." "I'm counting on you, Tim."

It is 7 degrees in my garden office. I am wearing all the clothes plus a heated gillet, bobble hat and electric blanket. Come *on* little electric heater!

When I arrive at the party

What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be. It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

2 very full days at work, then have promised to take my mum Christmas shopping tomorrow. On my knees again. Love this job, but not sure I have the energy. :(

Amusing conversation with a lawyer advising civil society organizations about how to deal with the chaos created by For Some Women, Scotland: "I tell them 'either you can be sued by JK Rowling or you can be sued by Jolyon Maugham.'"

Autistic rest isn’t laziness. It’s recalibration. Everything in your system works harder. Of course recovery takes longer. Honor that.

this is fucking new, i think im gonna be sick how tf am i supposed to get an old birth cert if it was fucking sealed by the state oh but religious records are valid dw

They rowed back on income tax rises cos the backbenchers were upset, and they thought they could get this past them. Do you even politics, bro?!

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"

The overton window now seems to be one of those little arrow slits in a castle turret (with the exception of the Greens)

I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.” If they support them they will too.

What about any gold they might have in their teeth?

Extremely 80s Conservative voice: "Maybe the only way to stop modern slavery is to nationalise it!"

@eastmidsrailway.bsky.social Thanks to your staff for pushing me into a meltdown on my journey back from London. Shouted at by 3 staff before we left the platform. No info, everyone confused re what train to be on and told I was "rude" for asking someone to repeat themselves #ActuallyAutistic

First time Brompton commuting and I've made it to my train, but I definitely allow more time, cos that was stressful! Trouble is, if you are ADHD any extra time you allow just becomes more time in bed/time to get something else done. Time blindness is real!!! #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic

Stewart Lee at he's scathing best

I do tax for a living. I'm an autistic tax geek. And even *I* am suffering from Budget fatigue this year. I just opened the (online) paper with the words "How's she broken tax today?"

Feel like @patrickmaguire.bsky.social gets it in this piece! Despite the world's challenges - joining the Green Party right now is one of the most joyous things you can do! 💚 Join.greenparty.org.uk maguirepatrick.substack.com/p/what-zack-...

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

I've managed so little exercise recently (covid, cold, cold) that Garmin now thinks I'm overreaching because I've walked park run!!

Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This shopping is sponsored by "I've had some form of respiratory virus after another since the end of August and something needs to fucking change!!"

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My NHS employer has just confirmed redundancies are coming. For the second time in my 16 year NHS career tens of thousands of NHS staff, many with decades of experience will be thrown on the scrap heap. Many worked on the frontline (including me) in the pandemic. This is Streeting's reward for us.

A short story in ADHD: Me and my daughter trying to take dog to the Vet today: Get to door - forgot dog. Go back for dog - realise I haven't got phone Go back for phone, get to car - have forgotten dog again Get in car with dog and phone, get to Vet, have forgotten dog lead.

Damn! I guess their are on to me as I use my vpn all day during the week to...do my fucking job - wtf guys are you someone's nan?!

Sorry to moan, but I have been ill now (with covid and colds) since the last week of August and it's not funny. I would just like to wake up feeling half well sometime in the next month please and thank you

Too tired even to knit tonight. telly, wine, bed!

Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #Cop30 @guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

My new job has a cycle to work scheme - amazed how quickly I got the voucher, I applied last week! Even better my new brompton should be here tomorrow!!! No more tubes for me, baby!!