What’s that, Skippy? Mindlessly aping the rhetoric and policies of the radical right raises the salience of their pet issues while giving you no electoral benefit? Labour’s seat share is where? In a mineshaft?

left-wing voters when you offer them a vaguely progressive economic platform in exchange for immigration crackdowns and the rollback of LGBT rights

Can’t understand why Shabana Mahmood telling white liberals to fuck off didn’t shame them all into voting Labour.

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

It is of course *very* early days and while it looks, as I expected, like a bad night for Labour, we should keep an eye on the Tories. If results like this, in London, are any indication they are in very big trouble indeed.

People did not elect a massive Labour majority in 2024 in the expectation of receiving a continuity Tory government, and Starmer believing - or at least acting like - they did is the original sin of this shambles of an administration.

Not exactly scientific, but every liberal I know went to the polls reluctantly, irritably, and without hope. So it's not exactly surprising to me that differential turnout favours Reform.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

Congrats Morgan

“Labour will always back you” says man who has already demonstrated the contempt & hatred in which he holds you, your disabled child, your trans sibling, your migrant partner, your Palestinian friends, your nan & your job-seeking parent. Fuck off.

Labour retained a Tory appointee in charge of UK Equality Law for 18 months who is now openly calling for the gutting and scrapping of UK Equality Law in its entirety.

As an example of everything deficient with the “focussed on winning” Starmer project, there are so many to choose from. But today’s is that they went into their first set of local elections with first past the post still in place for mayorals and went into the second with voterID still in place.

Equality Commission Northern Ireland: Welcomes the Dillon judgment; says Article 2 of the Windsor Framework has direct effect in domestic law in a wide set of circumstances; will now be considering the implications of the judgment to the application of FWS in NI.

All you need to know about the UK Supreme Court's reasoning in Dillon. A result-oriented hot mess served up by a Court that struggles to process rights restrictions unless there is a direct authority from Strasbourg to follow:

The media and government will be telling you that the BMA review was 100% supportive of the Cass Report. This is what it actually says 👇

Interesting. Although the Secretary of State wins the appeal, the Supreme Court suggests that the article 2(1) of the Windsor Framework may give rise to direct effect with respect to the 6 non-discrimination directives listed at annex I of the agreement. (Image from press summary)

The Dillon judgement is out. Press summary: supremecourt.uk/cases/press-...

Keir Starmer as Prime Minister has maintained the Section 35 block on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill which was passed with cross-parliamentary support by the Scottish Parliament. Labour doesn't believe that Scotland should be able to make its own laws. I hope they get annihilated.

Was Starmer audibly muttering “sneak sneak sneak” under his breath when he submitted Gauke to the sneaky knighting committee? I think we should be told… First class pettiness on display from Kemi here.

and another thing: im mad. please put in the newspaper that i got mad

Wild though that he’s running the “moment of great global instability” line. I don’t think the IRGC care who run my local bins, Keir. And anyway, I thought your candidates were telling us we shouldn’t vote on national issues…

Starmerism - the absolute failure to even acknowledge trade-offs in government, still less to suggest some priorities that require difficult decisions. bsky.app/profile/simo...

“Labour will always back you” says the man who wants to purge people like me from civil society organisations. A squalid amoral bigot whose resignation cannot come soon enough.

To be perfectly honest, while it's awful that Reform may be the second largest party at Holyrood, it would be awful for Labour to be the same. Between them, Reform and Labour seem to be offering slightly different flavours of the same racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.

To challenge the Greens, Labour attacks the Greens. To challenge Reform, Labour copies Reform.

6 May marks the anniversary of the ransacking of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. Over 20,000 books, many of which contained unique insights into transgender history and medicine, were burnt in Opernplatz Square. Link: online exhibition about queer lives in Germany, 1900-1950.

'Labour’s lurch to the right was motivated by a desire to lure white working-class voters back from Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK. Polling suggests this strategy has failed very badly. People on the left have been turned off and those on the right appear to be staying put'

This is true. The Corby, Lee and (most crucially for antisemitism) Miller "protected belief" cases are all essentially downwind of Forstater being a terrible decision.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

This is what is striking about Keir Starmer’s “whole society” approach: it really just is the parts of society he is intellectually comfortable talking about. Nothing on online hate, nothing really on hatred driven by religious differences in the UK.

Dear TERFs, being trans is a legally protected characteristic under UK law, as it should be. Please sod off with the miserable inner squalor you live in. Good luck to @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social dealing with these vapid ghouls. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Many politicians and columnists represent the worst of England and refuse to acknowledge the millions of compassionate people who live here - Keir “island of strangers” Starmer among them

Telling immigrants they misunderstood Starmer’s Island of Strangers speech. Telling disabled people the policies towards them are fair and balanced. It’s not a good look.

The government can't stop posting on Twitter, the LOTO doesn't think Tommy Robinson intimidates Jews, the leading party is campaigning for where they'll put detention camps, and it's likely the only response to the attempted murder of two Jews will be restrictions on pro-palestinian protests.

Judge Brian Cregan said Enoch Burke could be released from prison at any stage if he committed to staying away from Wilson's Hospital School www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

I do have to question how genuine Labour’s commitment to tackling bigotry is, when, yeah, they’re currently spending £7 million pounds on tackling antisemitism in universities, but they’re also trying to fine universities half a million pounds for not being actively transphobic.

Pretty much an instant downgrade to a some-of-society approach, then

So: imagine that Miller's colleagues organised opposing lectures in protest, wrote an open-letter denouncing antisemitism etc. I think if we follow the logic of the OfS, Phoenix tribunal decision etc, the colleagues would be harassing Miller for his "legally protected beliefs".

I wonder if, with all the newfound zeal for dealing with antisemitism in universities, we'll see any reflection on whether Forstater, Higgs v Farmor's School etc were rightly decided.

How are transgender parents currently registered on their children’s birth certificates in the UK? We are supporting the TransReg study, conducted by researchers at the University of Zurich and KU Leuven, to gather anonymous data on the birth registration process for trans parents.

This one is really key, and anyone treating those two things as a worthwhile trade-off should never be listened to again

Reminder that just two weeks ago the Government was boasting about its plans to encourage bigotry and intolerance on university campuses in the name of protecting free speech. Starmer is not credible.

This week we mark Trans+ History Week and recognise the millennia-old history of transgender non-binary gender-diverse & intersex people🏳️‍⚧️

His government literally passed a law watering down the police’s ability to record hate incidents just last week and he’s planning a post election crackdown on trans people. But by all means tell us that you care about bigotry and intolerance, Starmer.

I’m not some clever political pundit or anything, but it seems to me that if you spend 18 months telling *your own side* to feck off, then you shouldn’t be that surprised if people don’t vote for you ☺️

The lesson here, if any local authorities are capable of learning it, is that attempting to defuse controversy over traffic management by making big concessions to local motor lobbyists DOES NOT WORK: instead it just empowers & emboldens them to dig in & fight you for even more regressive outcomes

Labour made my friends and family unwelcome in the UK. It suggested my wife's cohort had caused 'incalculable' damage to the UK. It wants people like her not to be allowed into the UK. Can you imagine what that feels like? Try harder.

Trans+ History Week 2026 is here! 🏳️‍⚧️ To the hate and headlines, our history answers loud and clear... We’ve always been here. Always will be.

Natasha Devon, "When these appalling attacks happen to the Jewish communities we have the correct response" "When it happens to other communities: women, LGBT, black people, Muslims, not the same urgency is applied"