The only army on the continent that knows how to shoot at the invaders is the Ukrainian army. Give us weapons. Give us decent financial support, proper guarantees for the wounded and the families of the fallen — and you will forget about russia forever.

Fun will be had, though probably not by any MP the party somehow manages to get elected.

Too bloody right he is. "Smith, who is a trans woman, used phrases including 'a person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose' and 'bullets will be flying around'", so a bit of time inside and a restraining order are not over-reactions.

Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” is a capitulation to Russia that would hand Putin a strategic advantage and hobble European security. European leaders must wake up to the reality that we cannot rely on the US, and must write our own destiny. My latest for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

The territories Ukraine holds are Ukraine, you absolute genocidal maniac

A thoroughly depressing article. “Ethical trials require a clear intent to answer a scientific and clinical question that can inform future treatment decisions. It is hard to see what that question is.” www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...

100% this. I am still hacked off that my authors were ripped off despite copyright notices.

Byron called her mother, Annabelle Milbanke, his “Princess of Parallelograms”. She was an abolitionist & philanthropist. She endured a lot while married to him - including the realisation he was sleeping with his half-sister, she believed. Anna passed on her mathematical talents to her daughter.

May have to delay cocoa and bed socks for this.

Rebecca Paul’s speech was strong and clear: "Inclusion trumping safety, ideology winning out over reality, the feelings of a man holding more weight than the fears of many women."

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"A woman’s right to prioritise her perception of herself, refusing to allow it to be overridden by male fantasy, is never a luxury." thecritic.co.uk/does-it-real...

Lesson 2 - from the "lost month", as Baroness Hallett so vividly describes it - February 2020: If you can't be arsed to do your job even as a deadly pandemic grips the world, you certainly don't deserve to be within a thousand miles of Downing Street. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keep in mind that Trump stopped intelligence sharing w Ukraine and reversed course. Also, it'd be absurd to refuse to sell American weapons to Ukraine through Europe. He's bluffing. His leverage and commitment to applying it to punish Ukraine if it politely declines the "deal" aren't convincing.

The Irish State is dumping €450 million of wind energy a year, despite 29% of households suffering fuel poverty, because 'there's no market'. If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism. share.google/k9gHug8xaazA...

I hate that no one said a word

It's an odd-shaped image, but let's see if this works.

Just stunning.

Indeed. The multiple award-winning @newjournal.bsky.social has published some fine letters on this issue in the last couple of weeks.

Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour, he asked the Court to put TW into special administration. Blatant attempt to silence MPs. TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures. Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.

This is what journalists said after women were openly beaten up by men at the Olympic Games. Not only were the women forced to tolerate this, they were also forced to apologize if they questioned it. Yet, it was precisely the journalists' responsibility to ask the critical questions.

"The snipers [..] would pick off people on the streets, including children, at random, as if it was a video game or a safari." These utterly corrupted people should not be at liberty.

And people criticise Labour for the poor comms, for not telling us about their successes. Yet day after day, the Labour team do the media rounds ready to talk all about what they are doing and the media don't let them and take the conversations off in other directions.

The Biological sex and trans gender section is the most damning. It describes a deliberate and systemic bias applied to gender issues and is backed with verifiable evidence. It's telling that so many commentators are giving this section a miss.

Because this is Bluesky, very little commentary on the BBC's disgraceful capitulation to Transactivism over the past decade. Senior figures either too afraid, or too cowardly to stand up to the post-modernist censorious bullies. This is a far greater scandal than the Trump editing nonsense.

"[Junior LGBT] people were treated as experts simply because they were believers in the idea of gender identity [..] so they’re allowed to spout this gobbledegook and they’re treated as experts when it comes to which language to use." With luck, the Red Guard will now be reined in.

Sanction evasion incl by way of Russia's trading partners (i.e. India, Caucasus, Central Asia) has plagued the West since the war began - Germany and Bulgaria conducted raids in the summer against firms who were evading. Incredibly embarrassing for the UK, most vocal in this, to be failing too.

Great look at how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social “pie in the sky” proposals are just normal in the developed world. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brava!

In a shocking development, Cycling UK's 100 Women in Cycling is open only to women, as defined by the not-so-recent Supreme Court decision. The comments under the Cycling Weekly article are strongly supportive of Cycling UK's decision.

This shouldn't be difficult. Females use female only spaces. Males use male only spaces. There! I just sorted it for you.

Pusillanimous and very, very short-sighted.

'It would be a grave mistake if ministers were to acquiesce in the watering down, or subversion, of a ruling that is as right as it is clear.' 'The law is the law. Sir Keir Starmer of all people should beware of the consequences of bringing it into disrepute.' www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

Awww, bless…

Fine, passionate speech that states what should bleeding obvious: occupation ain’t peace, in Ukraine or elsewhere.

The ECB is obeying the law. If the Good Law Project want to change the law they need to lobby parliament but that would mean open public debate about the rationale of allowing biological men to play in women's teams. Legal action against the ECB will inevitably fail and is a waste of time and money.

She is using her energy and money very effectively to stand up for women's rights, numpty. Deal with it.

“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.” Incredibly grim

standing up for women is not diminishing anyone. pointing out that men are not women is not diminishing them, it is describing reality.

Do these clowns even know what the term "dolls" refers to? I presume you do, Cyndicate, but for anyone else reading this "Dolls" is a term used to distinguish the small minority of trans-identified men who "pass" as women from the "bricks", who obviously don't. The distinction is rather grotesque.

I agree with all this! "At its core, gender identity is regressive. It drags us backwards into sexist clichés that feminism fought to dismantle. It tells us that to be a man or a woman is to conform to a script of clothes, behaviours, and roles."

Palace pussies on the prowl. www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/ista...

Splendid thread on union history.

”legislators across so many states are suddenly deciding that biological sex [..] is a relic of the past to be discarded like phrenology or geocentrism”. Mad as a box of frogs, these lads.

Retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner: "The deployments we’re currently seeing inside American cities…are not only un-American and wrong, they’re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-helped-l...

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

Crockett: You have a president who consistently is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the house, I don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it.