Can’t believe my face is going to be on the telly and iPlayer FOREVER 😳🙈

People still blindly defending Starmer, just because you have always voted Labour: it’s time to wake up. Unless you want Tory (or even Reform) policies, you need to place your vote elsewhere.

Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker. The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”

Meanwhile, Mamdani didn’t back down on his previous assertion that Trump is a fascist. Those people accusing Zamdani of kissing up to Trump are way off. If anything, Trump was kissing up to Mamdani.

The left joins with right against the middle takes on the Trump/Mamdani meeting are way off. There is nothing substantive here. There will be no policy breakthroughs. That’s not what this is about. It’s about a young smart guy who knew how to play an old fool who worships stars.

Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television. I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime

mamdani understood what his assignment was, which was to protect funding to the city of new york.

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

PSA: if you insult me (especially in order to defend Starmer, who has been pandering to fascists ever since he got in power) just know that I will block you. I will also mute weirdos who put words in my mouth. I learned my lesson on Twitter to ignore people like this. Enjoy ranting into the void!

Zohran Mamdani has shown us a brilliant lesson in why you should always stand up to bullies. Nothing good can ever come from giving in to a bully, or kissing a bully’s arse. Starmer, take note.

One thing I really wish for my trans and NB siblings is that they can just live their lives and do normal stuff rather than have to be plugged into batshit hateful discourse every five seconds and make everything about their identities and right to exist as they are.

This has to be rage bait.

I'm not going to share Stock's Unherd article. But here's the important part: "Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes." The ven diagram of the anti-trans & the anti-woman lobby is a circle.

No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”

As we honor this year’s Trans Day of Remembrance, we are reminded of how all our movements for liberation and justice across the world are connected. None of us are free until all of us are free — from here to Palestine.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Imagine NOT thinking that that's the lesson of the Holocaust.

My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.

This comes out next Monday. I’m in episode 3 on the Aztecs, and they used a quote from me here: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Very much this.

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

Journalists, why not reach out to some of the fine people in my replies to ask them how the British Library cyberattack of 2023 has had an impact on their research, their creative work, and their careers? This could make for a powerful piece revealing the human side to the damage this has done.

We didn't HAVE a Small Boats Problem before the Tory Brexiteers fucked EVERYTHING. And we wouldn't have one if 3/4 of the political class didn't insist on keeping it all fucked.

Current status: simultaneously horrified that I just heard my first Christmas song on the radio today (I AM NOT READY!) but also excited because it means that maybe I can start wearing my WHAM! Last Christmas hoodie again…

If I came from a family that has held a seat in House of Lords for 7 generations and used it to protect their vast empire from Tax and Inheritance Tax. I probably wouldn't be complaining about free bus passes for Senior Citizens. You'd look ridiculous.

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

On a mission from God.

Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.

One way to stop sex trafficking rings on private islands is to make sure no one has enough money to buy a private island

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

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I oppose the right-wing media's obsessive transphobia on principle of course but it's also a dead giveaway (see Matthew Syed's column today) that someone is speaking to a small audience of their peers. It is an all-consuming issue for a powerful minority but not a great concern for most people

Cat’s out of the bag, I guess… no, I do not know how to pose for photos, and yes, it was HOT under the lights, hence my bright red face 😂 Was very lovely to see @carolinepennock.bsky.social and meet Elizabeth Baquedano, among other wonderful people who contributed to the show.

Setting off fireworks at gone 11 on a school night is a proper dick move

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Well done, New York

This is a lie. Matt Goodwin doesn’t have any friends.

He could be just known as Andrew Cunt living in a portaloo on the Sandringham estate and we’re still gonna just want him in court answering big ol’ pedo questions. He can keep all his titles and his little medals if he wants, go talk to the police, fucko.

Andrew: “It is almost impossible for me to sweat since I was shot at during the Falkland’s War” Also Andrew, stood next to his daughter, born after the Falkland’s War:

Happy Halloween! We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post! www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...

That Britain has a king, that the king's brother has been involved in serious instances of sexual abuse, that the consequence is for him to be stripped of a handful of abstruse feudal titles and that Britain's elite think this is a fitting punishment, is the mark of a truly fucking weird country.

The wanker formerly known as Prince

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high. SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”. Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers. People need & deserve assistance Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich Be mad about that

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

Edward IV would never

Things like this keep happening.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped