I've never felt Clement Atlee's words about charity ("a cold, grey, loveless thing") more

It's always lovely to see people supporting the LGBT+ community. Someone needs to tell London Labour Assembly Members who all abstained this week on a motion standing up for trans rights and challenging the EHRC. Why abstain on people's human rights and then "celebrate" Pride?

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

Hear me out: The Poseidon Adventure, but it's Patti Lupone on an Atlantis cruise

I suppose IHG is fine with hosting fashfest

And if you want to learn more about Labour’s new anti-nature regulations which could also leave home owners liable for developer damages you can read more here... open.substack.com/pub/danicapr...

We need to talk about poor journalism and blatant misinformation. Tom Howard published this article in The Times today with the rage bait title ‘Scrap newt and bat rules to ease London housing crisis ministers told’ which is more than just bad journalism, it’s actually an embarrassing mistake🧵

Wouldn't it be good if the media occasionally asked "should we report this?" before uncritically repeating every idiotic bit of paranoid nonsense that dribbles from rich white guy mouths

Senator Palpetine also being tipped for an advisory role, I hear

So OK it's about time but not even a unified government policy, just one person breaking rank. Must we now witness the long parade of ministers claiming the moral highground for being dragged kicking and screaming to the obvious conclusion?

There is a colonel of truth to this in that the media gave them a completely free ride in the general election. It was less a campaign than a coronation. They didn't have to explain or defend shit. So yeah, they werren't up to the job when it fell in their lap.

new data showing (as i expected) labour's share of the lgb* vote has continued to crater 42% at the last election, 18% now

They published the same tedious piece by the same tedious (type of) tedious asshole last year. "Waaah, you can't even say gay anymore" yes you can, no one cares.

Keir Starmer has done a trade deal with Donald Trump that could end up costing our NHS £45 billion - and, experts say, cause more Britons to die than Covid. So why is hardly anyone talking about it? My column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think you have to do all the arguments at once - it’s both a terrible assault on trans people’s dignity and also a practical nightmare for employers and service providers!

The chair of the EHRC, our national human rights institution, centring arguments around polling and political popularity on a human rights issue seems… Not good www.politicshome.com/news/article...

At some point, the public are going to notice we have given companies linked to America’s idiot gangster president awe-inspiring sums of money in return for very little that’s of any use to the average punter, except maybe for cracking down on em. Politicians are going to be asked why they did that.

This looks great

If their best argumemt for bunging a couple extra billion to Lockheed Martin is Russia might invade then I can only presume it's bullshit all the way to the bottom

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

The Canada in Eurovision thing is weird. Even if I wasn't disgusted with the EBU over the ongoing participation of Israel, I'm not sure how I'd feel. Australia was already a stretch, but they feel sort-of British anyway.

The daily drip-feed of these policy announcements feels especially malevolent, like they intend to max out the cruelty

There isn't a hell hot enough for this lying bastard: “I want to be clear that all lesbians, all gay, all bi and trans people - that this government will defend your rights,” he said. “We have to stand against the politics of division.”

Lord Collins, the new UK Envoy to champion LGBT+ rights, is, of course, against trans rights. This appointment is another hiring like Mary-Ann Stephenson as head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, despite her being against equality and human rights for trans people.

This is top-tier entertainment 🤣 We should do the 3-month transition thing so we get a lot more of this.

lmao oh honey

The state of this. God save us from the unshakable smugness of LGBTQ Labour.

Yeah it's time to block him and just deny him the space to do shit like this

The running theme among Britain's regulators - Ofcom, Ofgem, Ofwat, EHRC - is a complete unwillingness to go against the wishes of the establishment. It's a disgrace that they should have to be dragged into court just to get them to do their jobs.

Wow can't believe Starmer's managed to find £15bn down the back of the sofa on the way out for war. Almost as if we can always find the money for that, but mysteriously our pockets are empty for the things we actually need.

lol

I mean, we explained this over ten years ago, lads: they are in politics to do crackdowns, fuck flags, agree policy with donors offscreen, do belligerent war speeches, shake hands with the US President and then get a sweet post-politics gig at Facebook or Palantir. It was so in 2015; it still is now

"What are you in politics *for*?" is a hugely undervalued question that every politician should be forced to answer in great detail and at frequent intervals imo.

Establishment Dems rocking up to the 2026 moral panic 3 years late would track tbh

The lack of self-awareness from these smug bastards is breathtaking

Badenoch is the purest encapsulation of Naomi Klein's getting the facts wrong but the feelings right. She's a conspirscist cosplaying as a politician.

Do we think this means: A. Fix council tax and reverse 16 years of austerity B. Return to office

"Give him a chance" No

Do they get a uniform? Maybe something with a black shirt?

Public procurement is pretty much a racket, a continuing series. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is hiarious. They are addicted to the drama.

Reading this in the same week I discovered we have shelved plans to cover car parks with solar panels is genuinely radicalising

I assume it’s for the same reason why Britain has been so acutely vulnerable to every major global shock of the 21st century: a fifty year ideological project of selling off as much state capacity as possible, explicitly to put it outside democratic control, to shore up the country’s oligarchy.

This is a grest idea from Greenpeace: a free email course on protecting pollinators: act.gp/3FZOwu4

I note that the reverse - scything spending on the public realm and benefits to pay Lockheed Martin for lots of missiles - is regarded as non-negotiable and obviously correct by everyone except for the public, who have made it clear anyone who actually does it will be voted out of office.

The Soviet system - but only for toothpaste

Having a Joker moment in front of the bafflingly large selection of toothpaste in Sainsbury's. Why can't they just put all the ingredients *in one tube*?

Civil servants can't attend pride, nurses can't wear a Palestine badge, but Hillary Cass can speak at Jordan Peterson's conference 👍

we love liza and it’s about her bad gays she is impeccable and immaculate

Happy Pride! Our present: a brand new special episode about the one and only Liza Minnelli, told through the stories of the bad gays in her life. Special guest @todayisok.bsky.social joins Ben for a conversation about the gay Kwisatz Haderach. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...