So just weeks after getting rid of its only trans reporter (me), PinkNews commissions an op-ed from Wes Streeting. Good grief...

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

False framing, outright lies and stomach-churning faux concern. I will say this as clearly as possible: Streeting has the blood of trans kids on his hands. I hope to live long enough to see him pay for it. Also, fuck Pink News for publishing this.

Nobody left at The Times to say no to this shit.

NEW - I got to interview Dominic Cummings earlier this week. Britain's 16-bit Shaman. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Larry Ellison, the money behind the Tony Blair Institute, with his dream of an extreme surveillance state. This is some of the most dangerous, deranged thinking out there. And nowadays that's saying a lot.

This is something that saves the government no money, catches no cases of fraud, and otherwise adds nothing to any definition of the public good. it's just performative cruelty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just remember, if you are loyal to Donald Trump and debase yourself and perjure yourself and make yourself complicit in many many horrible crimes against humanity for his sake, Donald Trump will be fiercely loyal to you until it is slightly inconvenient for him.

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The NHS already looked into ADHD and the results were published in November last year (www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...). Wes Streeting didn’t like the results, which is why he commissioned his own review, prejudiced from the beginning by him linking diagnoses to the claiming of benefits.

From 2021

Give us what we want or else. JP Morgan, with net income of $57.05bn in 2025, demands £1bn to £1.6bn cut in business rates as a condition of investing in the UK. Govt to capitulate. How will it resist other corporations? People will pay higher taxes or forego services. archive.ph/mQOIU

"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new technology. They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.”

Here’s the government’s current anti-extremism expert. I urge you to note that his definition of “extremism” includes Scottish nationalism, gender recognition and talking about history in ways he doesn’t like. Do we think these clowns swarmed into government and media about two weeks ago?

don't think I ever posted this one, it's from 2021

Later today will be a post on the extraordinary Afghan war crimes inquiry and the fascinating and worrying documents it has placed into the public domain. The inquiry regards alleged "extrajudicial killings" (murders) by UK special forces in Afghanistan in 2011-12. >

new video of the burrito method just dropped

Fair play from the Mail. I said what I said.

This probably isn't going to change people's minds, but sometimes it is easier to evoke sympathy for dogs than it is to evoke sympathy for trans folks. Giving money to J.K.Rowling is the same as giving money to eradicate transgender people.

Very good article, on the nexus created by media coverage of legal cases in the UK. Nicely maps some of the ways that a broadly trans-inclusive society got reshaped into one of the most trans exclusionary places in Europe.

Dishonest transphobic hypocrite Phillipson and the rest of the Starmer government have said puberty-blockers should be banned because “we don’t know” whether they are harmful or not, despite my research clearly demonstrating that banning them definitely IS harmful…. 1/2

Cops have twice raided Quaker meeting houses to arrest people- and seize their phones/laptops - without so far charging anyone. Are we seeing pre-emptive policing to make the very idea of protest impossible? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...

‘The CIA kept my client in a coffin for 11 days in Guantanamo, then waterboarded him until he died’ I talk to Scotland’s leading human rights lawyer about British complicity in US torture, and how the behaviour of the west led to the collapse of human rights globally In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

“They are professional oddballs paid to emphasise the most extreme views of their bosses & donors.” The Telegraph school for junior contrarians - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

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Had a teacher that would launch things at kids who got answers wrong or were too slow answering. Pens, dusters, anything he had to hand. He'd also walk through the corridors swiping his walking stick through the air like he was chopping vines with a machete. Nothing ever happened.

"... sending them back to be murdered is the only way we can defeat Reform. I'm sure if you think about it carefully you can see that."

THREAD The performance of cruelty to refugees is now such a feature of Labour policy that they are entirely indistinguishable from the far-right.

The idea of "abuse of visas" in general is a well trodden right wing conspiracy theory. Reality is that situations change, and the very act of seeking an education can in a lot of cases, particularly when it comes it women, lead to those changes, which then require someone to claim asylum. 4/

Meta targeting teenage girls when they are feeling most vulnerable. This, and other predatory behaviour, needs to be stopped, globally: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

Nothing but love for the trans people in my family, in my life, and out there in the world. The future will look back on this era in horror, but unfortunately we don’t live in the future. I encourage every cis person I know to speak up, say “not in my name”, to fight for the lives of our loved ones

woodcraft.org.uk/further-stat... If you're looking for moral courage, there's always The Woodcraft Folk. And Quakers. You can trust Quakers.

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma... Highly recommended reading.

LGBTQ conversion practices are abuse. They are ineffective, unscientific and inflict actual harm. Four (almost) successive PMs committed to ending conversion practices yet we are still waiting on legislation. This Government now has only a month to honour their commitment. #BanConversionPractices

Badenoch & 4 family members spent 6 days at a residence owned by Neil Record, who chairs Net Zero Watch, is life vice-president of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and sits on the advisory board of the Prosperity Institute, a think tank founded by the Legatum Group, the firm that co-owns GB News.

You love books. Your house is full of them and you would *never* shelve them in that back-to-front way that is periodically fashionable but never forgiveable. Allow me to direct you to the UK's *only* books TV show: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #booksky

🚨🚨Breaking and welcome news: #wikipedia bans #AI-generated content. 🧵 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The only way to respond to Reform is to point and laugh. Mock them mercilessly. Don’t show them you’re outraged or offended. That just gives them power. Laughter and mockery robs them of power and reduces them to what they really are: absurd, pathetic clowns. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

LGBTQIA+ people across Scotland are living with increasingly hostile language and attacks on our lives, rights, and dignity. Malcolm Offord's 2018 "joke" only reinforces that Scottish politics has become a hostile place for LGBTQIA+ people, ethnic minorities and marginalised people.

Call handler: Is the person who threw it in the Thames in the room with you now? Caller: Yes.

The Times' Great Leap to the Far Right has been a disaster. Witherow and Gallagher (with actual editor in chief R Murdoch) traded quality, factual reporting for political leverage and utterly fucked it.

There are many worries, stresses and practical difficulties to surmount every day when you are a 24/7 carer for a loved one with dementia or indeed any illness. This is my eighth year. I think I hit the wall just after the pandemic, yet here we are. Today is a bad stress day so I'm baking.

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Trans people are so often excluded from decisions made about them. I am concerned the puberty blockers trial has been paused not for clinical reasons, nor because govt listened to trans people's constructive concerns about how it will be run, but as a political decision...