Death to America

Here it is, the cover of the paperback edition of my book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters. Now featuring some snazzy quotes! It’s out on August 27. geni.us/BreakingMicWright

It's so exciting being a freelancer in the arts & ents industry (one of the UK's biggest industries) bc about once a month the gvt have a new proposal to kick you in the head & you have to fill in a dry consultation form explaining why kicking you in the head would be bad for business, not good

Evergreen tbh

Cooper Gallery, under the leadership of Sophia Hao, has brought a critically diverse programme of artists and other cultural practitioners to Dundee. Her work is essential to the cultural fabric of the city — impossible to imagine without the university gallery.

this is also why you can't appease the right on this issue. bans on trans people in sports are the camel's nose under the tent for the entire suite of right-wing gender politics, including but not limited to bans on gay marriage, abortion, and birth control

Fuck off Oasis

this has the potential to be the funniest half of football of all time, easily beating the current record held by the first half of this same match

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three years ago brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/no-one-lef...

No Oasis and no Three fucking Lions in public ever again, sorry lads but I don't make the rules. Wall-to-wall Skepta and Factory Floor for World Cup 2030

Got blocked by N*ck C*hen for replying to his "free speech" bollocks with this, but he won't be able to block us from calling our team No-One Promotes the Octopus Podcast when he comes to the same pub quiz as us

You do hear occasional references to the party’s useless soft left being aggrieved at being ignored or insulted by Sir Keir’s handlers, I don’t get much acknowledgement that the Starmer project was in large part those people being relentlessly forced to eat shit and embarrass themselves on TV.

ex-Reform deputy leader Ben Habib claims the 2019 election was a stitch-up; that there was a financial deal between Johnson and Farage for Farage to stand down his Brexit party candidates In return – Habib said – Harborne gave them £1m a piece

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

Politicians, whatever their views on trans rights, should be concerned about this. A small group of dedicated & influential campaigners, bankrolled by a billionaire, are aggressively going after the rights of a minority group, & after anyone who dares question their actions. Wildly anti-democratic

The latest film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi asks urgent questions about atonement and cycles of terror — its success countering a wider chill against politicised cinema. Read here: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/acci... Visit tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe to subscribe!

can you see why when starmer talks about ‘leaving the country in a better way’ people want to throttle him

Saw it on Twitter, saw it on Facebook - I have never seen one trans person in the public eye (myself included) who hasn't been pelted with bullshit by other trans people once reaching a certain level of (usually small) influence. Not criticism, but bullshit. It saps your strength.

“Reactionary zillionaire crank assails human rights NGO” is a story that requires no explanation, and that’s exactly why it has required a decade of screaming all-channels hate and incitement to give it a much more favourable context.

The Times has been trying to fuck up Amnesty International as badly as possible for *at least* twenty years. One of their allied celebrity crackpots throwing her zillions of pounds against them is birthdays and Christmas, to them.

The England fans are to blame. They were given a perfectly serviceable New Order song with some nice Italo piano and John Barnes rapping over the top. What do the estate agents dressed as crusaders choose to sing? Wonderwall and Three Lions.

From: The Tale of the Fox (1937), dir. Ladislaw Starewicz and Irène Starewicz

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

In another round of "we fucking told you it wasn't about fairness in sports"

Yes: lots of trans & non-binary people in the UK in the late 2000s decided to work on the media because it was doing us immense damage. It was as bad then, if not worse - just easier to ignore if you didn't have a stake in trans representation, in a less 24-7/always online media environment

I think a lot of people have not fully grasped the extent to which this government has openly committed to reorienting the whole of society around providing for the military.

If England don't win the World Cup, no-one is ever allowed to play Britpop in public ever again

I fucking guarantee you that this was a burglary gone wrong because no anarchist thinks there is a strategic value to murdering a 78 year old minor politician, but that doesn't matter, cos now Psycho Baz from 2 Para and Dave the Racist are on Facebook planning to nailbomb my local social centre.

Are we more likely to finally leave The Fucking Nineties if England win the World Cup, or if they don't?

Starmer plays and watches football every week and yet whenever he brings it up, it sounds like it's his first day on Earth

How is it possible that a guy who apparently sincerely loves football doesn't understand the first fucking thing about it? Fuck off Keith, the welsh and the scotch should be cheering on Messi. Then, when they play someone good we get to do the Plucky Old Scotland condescension. That is how it works.

Not the most salient thing in Simpson's tweet but British people describing football teams in the singular does my head in, embarrassing Yank bullshit

Comic book bad guy stuff at this point. And entirely making the point that Amnesty did in their report (which is good and you should read it).

Lmao why do people never ever learn that retreating and apologising never works when you're dealing with terfs

Two new episodes of the @suite212.bsky.social Sessions this week, with film artists Imran Perretta (UK) and Oleksiy Radynski (Ukraine). If you like the show, please subscribe at www.patreon.com/c/suite212 - every episode requires lots of research, recording and editing time and support really helps!

Watching Israeli genocide apologists latch on to the attack on Amnesty International really shows how these struggles are intertwined.

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there can be no mainstreaming of far-right politics without the active complicity of the mainstream elite The rise of the far right is therefore not irresistible, inexplicable or people-driven but carefully orchestrated in a top down manner

Yup. This World Cup has been tainted from the off

A great paradox of Brit politics is that trans people are apparently so unpopular that no mainstream politician dare voice support for their rights but also there are no transphobes and it is effectively illegal to suggest any individual or group is actively hostile to trans women or their rights

One of my favourite novels, not least for Svejk's response to hearing of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which comes to mind whenever I hear of someone terrible getting it in the neck

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

It's class how British libel laws basically mean that you can get anyone to retract anything they say about you or anything you're involved with ever as long as you are rich enough. This is free speech, to me

The entire British political is just lies about lies about lies - its mainstream media infrastructures are a panopticon of bullshit that feels increasingly difficult to infilitrate, avoid or destroy

I want to do a Suite (212) about what's been going on in Glasgow in recent years, with arts venues closing and/or mysteriously burning down. Who might be a good guest?

Fair play, very funny thing to say in defence of a party whose primary campaigning strategy is to wait for a horrific tragedy to befall a town, community or even individual family, and then roll up and go, "We sure hope nobody burns down a mosque over this—though we'd sure understand if they did!"

Look I tried going on the internet and recommending lots of cool underground art and no-one was interested, alright

Gametegate

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.