I mean no disrespect but I can't believe we're still pretending "corporations never cared about Pride" is an interesting thing to say. even during peak corp Pride I think you had to be exceptionally dim to not get what was going on lol like yeah I think I know Chipotle would kill me for a nickel

Does anyone who isn’t a bad faith actor seriously believe there is ‘two tier’ policing in the U.K. that has white people on the bottom tier?

good thread on where the centre right has gone - would also add that the '10-'24 centre-right people have mostly left politics now, as many were always going to do as politics is quite generational, but there just isn't a new generation of post-Cameroons willing to pick up those fights

“New management has instructed me to insert falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story”- also the mention of certain politicians choosing their interviewees, a reference to Benjamin Netanyahu.

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

Quietly, quietly, the UK Supreme Court is embarked on a rollback of the human rights and judicial protections of vulnerable minorities which looks every bit as stark as that of the US Supreme Court.

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.

This is how politicians of the Labour right used to deal with the fash, btw

I despair.

Hard to believe I’m even writing this. Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.

'Dear British Airways, I bought my house on the Heathrow flightpath last week and I demand that you cease flying planes'

Please do not say the sentence "kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book" but also yes they fucking do. One of the best parts of being a kid is reading a book that is just out of your grasp of maturity. Feeling like you're getting an early preview of the world.

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was abused, starved, tortured, and humiliated in Russian captivity. Then they fractured her skull and stabbed her to death.

While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...

Really feel that this proves how functionally anti-feminist transphobes are, because it kind of just signals the death of women’s loos in most venues and is likely to create a lot more opportunity for harassment of women from cisgender straight men in places ranging from nightclubs to hospital wards

The new EHRC guidance is a joke. It defines the protected category of sex by biology and then relies on enforcement based on appearance. The GRC has effectively been nullified. It's involuntary disclosure carries criminal penalties but then requires Anyone having a GRC to constantly out themselves.

Cruel and entirely, entirely impossible to implement. This is going to be an absolute disaster.

Surely they've suffered enough?

Just a reminder that Róisin Murphy is an actual ghoul who needs to get in the bin and stay there

think Polanski and his team will live to regret the approach they took over the last week - he’s either had bad advice or he’s ignored the good advice

Fwiw I don't think protests should be banned. If people are doing illegal things on them they should be arrested under existed laws. Otherwise it's important to protect free speech.

Nadine Dorries has some important* information about heat pumps…

oh, if they do it it's cute, but if *I* fall asleep amongst a dozen bottles of rum & bourbon, I "have a problem"

8. The stuff that Stock complains was silenced was actually on the reading list. You couldn’t make this up:

The "Office for Students" needs to be shut down. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The news I'm getting from the University of Sussex is that the overwhelming majority of the students are delighted and consider it a victory. Maybe the "Office for Students" might like to take the actual students into account.

the only logical response to stepping on something wet while wearing socks is to burn down the planet

Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them. Not top five. Not top three. Top.

Absolutely incredible

The due diligence document released under the humble address clearly refers to Mandelson having stayed at Epstein's New York home while he was deputy PM. So…is McSweeney suggesting he didn't read that really quite short document? That seems inattentive.

New Nesta paper by me and colleagues: How to respond to the energy crisis (and make it the last one ever) We set out three key things the UK government should do: 1) A big push on low cost energy efficiency 2) Electrify, fast! 3) Use the crisis to lock in stable energy bills for the long term

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

The UK government has announced £9,000 subsidies for households with oil and LPG boilers to get a heat pump. This is seriously good deal for rural homes - not only does it lower the upfront cost, a mid-sized home could save over £650 a year by switching from oil to a heat pump at current prices...

Not just the husband of the Foreign Secretary but someone who has his own storied past with Peter Mandelson!

On any given day, you might as well roll a die to predict whether Donald Trump is going to claim total victory; imminent victory; a negotiated ceasefire; an imminent ceasefire; new attacks; crucial negotiations or imminent crucial negotiations. The only certainty is that he’ll be lying.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

your party was a 10 month long sociological experiment conducted by harvard university. the study is now complete, thank you for your time

toasting the end of Orbán - cheers!

Matt Goodwin looking for a new authoritarian regime to simp for

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

never thought I’d see this day for Hungary! 🇭🇺 🙌🏻 🎉 so happy and will look to finally visit Budapest ❤️

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

"The only way to get energy independence is to go even more quickly to renewables because we are not going to get it on the international markets." Here's the full clip of Keir Starmer's interview with ITV News where he discusses UK energy, including renewables and North Sea

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.