few tweets have so perfectly encapsulated up the attitude of british politico/journalist contempt towards normal people as this

Andy burnham is going to set up committees to examine how to do all the good things in 2035 but also bring change faster

there was a major national debate over this in the early 1990s, a time when all of a sudden half your friends were on antidepressants! there was even an extremely famous and controversial book in 1994 about this very subject! GAH

This is why I just laugh when people talk about the threat of British Trumpism. Lads, our entire political/media class put their heads together seven years ago and the best idea they could come up with was “let’s just shitehouse Boris Johnson into power, and worry about the details later”.

Not yet! When a full bathroom ban comes to the US, it should be called a "Starmer UK style bathroom ban"

This sign is from nearly 30 years ago but there are people out there right now trying to convince you that ‘Transgender’ is a hyper modern addition that doesn’t belong

I wonder if the "friend", "ally" and "adviser" mentioned in this dreck are actually all the same person. I must say though, the idea that Starmer's lasting legacy ("big stuff") will be the reactionary trivia of a ban on social media for kids is fitting. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

So the U.K. has gone from, in 2022/23: “Should trans women with GRCs be considered for all women lists?” to, last week: “Trans women who are just existing in the same room as you, could be considered as discrimination against you.”

Absolutely howling at a gender critical UN special rapporteur name searching and @ing me about her opposition to trans rights in Scotland. Don’t you have some more pressing matters hun, like actual human rights violations?

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social - Minister for Women & Equalities - appointed an obsessive transphobe with a history of lobbying for anti-abortion legislation as the new EHRC Scotland Chair. Slow… f*cking… handclap! 😣😖

Best hope is pete hegseth installs grok on every pentagon computer and we convince it that the only winning move is not to play

Trevor Phillips! This is what he says about that period now, and what is in the guidance he wrote based on the national bathroom bill 2010 the year after

The Independent are already asking cisgender wheelchair users to explain why trans people should have no access to toilet facilities rather than asking anyone who is trans and disabled about how it affects them

Stuff like this goes on because Britain has what looks like an internationally remarkable system called “briefing”: basically a formalised process that allows politicians and party hacks to anonymously bullshit the public and wreck, defame, insult and undermine their colleagues.

Peck’s presenting this as sleight of hand, a creative technicality that you can imagine Oxbridge twats thinking is very clever, but then you get to “a spin doctor will be quoted as a cabinet minister” which is just straight-up fraud

The fact Labour would rather enable the racist illiberal right if it means locking the liberal anti-racist left out certainly clarifies the type of party Labour is for anyone who might still be unsure

Good that it is official so all the wHy Won't tHe GrEens ForM aN aLlIANce people can shut the fuck up

"Yglesias democrats"

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

UK journalists when one of their mates has a mental health or substance abuse issue: sending love, you are so brave, an inspiration to us all UK journalists when anyone else does: lazy scum, faking it, take some responsibility

"At first contact with re-entry into national politics, the great hope of the soft left has capitulated across the board"

Croydon's GIGO 'economy' stops people paying Council Tax insidecroydon.com/2026/05/22/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #CouncilTax @privateeyenews.bsky.social

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

nobody here will be surprised to see that Burnham, presented with the prospect of the Big Boy Chair, is just as much of a total fucking cunt as any reform candidate you care to name

Great to remember that what Burnham’s doing now is designed to prove a concept of how he’d behave in government. Not my words, Lynne, words briefed to and written up by the Guardian’s deputy political editor.

Orwell would approve of this dude heading the Equality and Human Rights Watchdog. Orwell and Trump.

"I'd be remiss if I didn't also point out, as an American trans person, that Labour's bathroom policy is significantly more bigoted, invasive, and restrictive towards trans people than anything that any American Republican red state has managed to implement."

Abandon all hope, ye who placed your hopes in this chancer

At some point people are going to need to come to terms with the fact that the aim of Labour Together was to restore and solidify the party as a fiefdom for pigs, slobs and worms; that it succeeded fully in that goal; and that every person who remains in or affiliated with the party is irredeemable.

when a journalist asserts that burnham has moved left, ask for specifics

Trans people: I want to be able to have a wee. Transphobes: I want trans people to not be able to have a wee. Burnham: Let's stop trans people from having a wee NICELY & never talk about trans people not being able to have a wee again - I'm looking at you, trans people - so we can all get along. 🤗

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

Well, he's certainly showing he's more than a match for Starmer in the "say nothing of substance but still manage to annoy everyone" stakes.

hi @peterwalker99.bsky.social just checking in

Cute little guy

The bit about 'rerunning argument's is genuinely rather sinister despite it's inanity. When a minority groups rights are removed, we have to 'stop arguing' and... accept it?!

ah journalism bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/t...

True story: The media kept undercounting attendance at anti Gulf War rallies at the Federal Building in LA, that organizers did a sign in sheet so they could prove there were more people there than claimed. The media (LA Times) then decided to stop discussing crowd sizes.

anyway, congratulations to politicians whose moral cowardice means one side is laughing like fuck and will never respect them and the other will viscerally despise them forever

Apart from the trans ones, who you want dead

Starmer was elected on promises of improving a country in shambles, and what he has proceeded to do is ignore the most pressing concerns to instead fixate on a petty, cruel, and fundamentally inhuman agenda of scapegoating immigrants, policing bathrooms, and tearing away support from the vulnerable.

The discourse daily, [Guy walks on stage, rubs feces all over himself, pulls out his dick, fucks a chicken, guy is actually the politics editor of a major paper]: i am very concerned about the incivility of rude posters

I've similarly had numerous vexatious complaints to employers, along with a years-long harassment campaign targeting me, lead by senior philosophers, because I said anti-trans philosophers made universities unsafe for trans colleagues and students, thus demonstrating my point. I soon left academia

other people have said this, but you aren't an "ally" if you are chummy with transphobes or are friendly with other journalists who work at the racism factories. expressing mild displeasure in a tweet does not absolve you.

the US and the UK are similar in that if 100 bigoted right wingers show up to a protest it can be top of the hour/front page/rolling cable news coverage. if 50,000 people do a left-coded protest they all ignore it

there are no good labour MPs. if they were good they would quit the paty

I regret that leaving Monkey Cage was necessary, but I will never regret leaving people who considered siding with hatred was more important than siding with our many non binary and trans listeners - each day I see the further empowerment of hate , the more I realise there was no other option

I dunno man, it seems like the desired outcome here is "everyone gets to be shitty to trans people and you can't stop them," and this feels perfectly designed to enable that.

Jake Sullivan is at Harvard, Blinken is on CAP board, Jack Lew is at Columbia, McGurk is on CNN, Goldenberg is at J-Street, Gordon is advising half the 2028 field. No mea culpas, no apologies, no boycott, no censure, nothing nada zilch zero.