And stop with the ‘he’s a decent man’ garbage. A decent man would not have appointed Mandelson. A decent man would not have given the Island of Strangers speech. A decent man would not have refused to say that Israel did not have the right to cut off power and water from Gaza. And so on.

Also ❌ criminalisation of legitimate protest ❌ endorsement of war crimes and genocide

Look, will the money he makes for JK Rowling go to hurting and killing real people? Sure. Will Rowling stop with trans people? Of course not - it'll be autistic people next. Is anti-trans sentiment a key point of 21st century fascism? Definitely. But: he gets to play Dimply Dungus the Farting Ogre.

We recently did an episode about the EHRC guidance with Juliet Jacques and speculated that part of the guidance being Bad IS to let a thousand oddly well-funded lawsuits bloom and further lawfare against trans rights: FREE: www.patreon.com/posts/160571...

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

it doesn't begin to make up for all the other stuff but i do support donald trump destroying part of the white house and covering the rest of it in tacky nonsense

Today we remember the 72 people burned to death in their own homes in one of the richest areas of one of the richest cities in the world. Every individual and organisation linked to the catastrophic failures that led to this tragedy must face the full force of the law. If it was full of White People

Full fascism by the British state. Destroying weaponry being used to commit genocide is an act of humanity, not terrorism. All solitary with the Filton 4 and their families 🇵🇸

Liberalism really is dead and buried in this country, isn’t it. Not a shred of principle remaining.

hard to imagine a more obscene travesty of justice. a disgusting undemocratic stitch up, carried out in defence of the most barbaric war crimes of my lifetime. this judge and this government are the lowest of the low

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

We're spoiling you this week, with two new Sessions! First, Juliet talks to Jill Westwood about her 1980s art career amidst Sheffield's industrial music and London's queer/fetish clubs, her inclusion in Women in Revolt, and her art psychotherapy practice. www.patreon.com/suite212/pos...

great episode, brilliant to have some more suite (212)

🚨 Sheltered Episode Alert 🚨 Juliet Jacques is back to talk about EHRC guidance and what it means for trans people in the UK, but also there's a big treat of survivalist bunker dipshits being mad at their landlord. This pod is a land of contrasts! FREE: www.patreon.com/posts/e428-d...

ICYMI - @trillingual.bsky.social on the rise of the UK far-right and how Britain's establishment institutions normalised ideas and policies that were once considered fringe and extreme:

A new timely exhibition remembers the anti-fascist Artists’ International Association, exploring the role of culture in counteracting oppression.

NEW EPISODE: Juliet talks to author/academic Dr David Hesmondhalgh about Labour's culture policies since 2024 - and how the government's obsession with 'creative industries' should be replaced with an understanding of the intrinsic value of the arts. www.patreon.com/posts/160246...

ICYMI: In a new episode, Juliet talks to author/academic Dr David Hesmondhalgh about Labour's culture policies since 2024 - and how the government's obsession with 'creative industries' should be replaced with an understanding of the intrinsic value of the arts. www.patreon.com/posts/160246...

With less than a week to go before the 2026 World Cup, we’ve unlocked this classic bonus episode on the iconic 1990 tournament. @kmilb.bsky.social joined us to talk about the cultural impact of Italia 90. www.patreon.com/posts/italia...

NEW EPISODE: Juliet talks to author/academic Dr David Hesmondhalgh about Labour's culture policies since 2024 - and how the government's obsession with 'creative industries' should be replaced with an understanding of the intrinsic value of the arts. www.patreon.com/posts/160246...

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

Dooneen is published today. Many thanks to all the lovely people of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for their care. I like this book. I hope you will too. Available now off the shelf or to order in all the great bookshops of these islands.

Oh no 🥺 The French-Iranian artist, comic book author and director Marjane Satrapi, who became world-renowned with the graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56. She also directed Chicken with Plums (2011), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2019), Dear Paris (2024)...

And if you truly can't get enough Mandy, the latest episode of our subscriber-only podcast EXTRA BAD GAYS aded @piercepenniless.bsky.social and Juliet Jacques of Suite 212 to the conversation for a personal discussion of New Labour and its effects on queer people. www.patreon.com/posts/extra-...

PRS 2025/26 season wrap-up show and World Cup thoughts 2025/26 season review www.patreon.com/posts/2025-2...

The only thing I've actually learned in five years of Queer Writing is that there's tremendous pressure on queer writers to produce healthful, positive content and pretend we've got it together, but if you write out all the messy, shitty, un-together stuff, queer readers connect with it 100x more.

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

Struggling to know what to read or do following the announcement of the UK's anti-trans segregation regime? I've created a basic set of information, resources, and actions - in the form of an auto-reply sent to every single person who emails me at work.

The decision to ban Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from the UK marks further escalation in the clampdown on critics of Israel.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder #botd 1945

Juliet Jacques on Labour's Section 28: "Civil disobedience and trans organisation will flush this contemptible code down the toilet of history, and we can push for a full inquiry into how the EHRC became captured by transphobic fanatics and ask how we can safeguard such bodies [...] in future."

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

🚨Emergency episode🚨 The League Table of Genocide Complicity The final standings in Premier League have been settled, but an alternative league table brings shame upon all twenty clubs. @neilsammonds.bsky.social explains. www.patreon.com/posts/league...

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

We began a new series of Suite (212) this week, with an episode where Juliet and Owen Hatherley asked what it means to focus, as Brecht put it, on the bad new things rather than the good old ones. Find the episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/new-ho... And subscribe for as little as £3 per month!

Suite (212) is back! To open series 5, Juliet and Owen Hatherley talked about why the programme returns, what's changed since 2021, the artistic climate under Starmer's Labour, the rise of the far-right, AI, Gaza, the decline of American culture, and more. Listen at www.patreon.com/posts/new-ho...

This is the rich, overlooked history of trans activism in Britain Deviants and Trailblazers is OUT NOW: www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Pioneering feminist artist VALIE EXPORT has died age 85. artreview.com/valie-export...

Palestinian musicians have called for a boycott of #Eurovision over its platforming of Israel while the genocide continues in Gaza.

I absolutely promise you all that Suite (212) will never pivot to video, unless we get the rights to talk over footage of weird Romanian video art

Great to see Gaza: Doctors Under Attack win a Bafta... my piece from last year for @equatormag.bsky.social on what was going on behind the scenes at the BBC after 7 October 2023. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

In the aftermath of the “rally against antisemitism” in London this weekend, to which Zack Polanski was not invited, read the interview with Barnaby Raine published a few days ago in @equatormag.bsky.social

We are recording the first episode of series 6 next week, about our return and the current cultural climate. For the second episode, we want to discuss Labour's cultural policies since July 2024. Any recommendations for who might be best to interview?

The Rio, the beloved picture house on Kingsland High Street, is celebrating 50 years as a community-run enterprise. But as Britain’s oldest continuously operating cinema, its roots go even deeper, writes Damian Thompson