www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/health/... When bigoted people feel empowered there's no limit on their cruelty or on the things they'll say to harm their chosen victim. I feel for Rose Henderson and what she's going through because of these disgraceful people..

Reform really is the party for the cruellest, most stupid, destructive and unhappy people.

To assist both the morons at the BBC and the idiot installed as the Daily Telegraph’s executive editor, here’s Wikipedia with a handy definition of democratic socialism … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...

“That is what makes it so morally bewildering to me that these culture war clowns are supposed to be a bastion of women’s rights. While they try to strip the dignity from a marginalised minority, frontline women’s services are on the verge of collapse.” 👉 archive.ph/ivFo2

I’m an atheist, so I don’t believe in an afterlife, but the US SC judges who came up with this nonsensical justification for allowing the Trump ban on correct markers in trans people’s passports probably do. If so, they are headed for a very hot place… 🔥 🔥 🔥

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Extraordinary that someone at the BBC wants further complaints. Only those who oppose the human rights of trans people use "trans ideology". Trans people don't and neither do serious academics or medics because there is no "ideology". Just people who'd like to keep their rights and live in peace.

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/... Children on suicide watch as lifesaving medication taken away without discussion or appeal. GPs threatened with shutdown for supporting their patients. A health authority making up the law as they feel like it. I strongly urge you to read this.

‘The poppy has been hijacked by the far-right. I can no longer wear it’ I’ve always worn a poppy to commemorate my family who fought and died defending democracy against Nazism. Not anymore now Nazis claim the symbol My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

As the BBC carries anecdotal claims from a disgruntled former BBC staffer that it has a pro trans bias here is *actual* polling about trans people's level of trust in the BBC. (The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)

Terrific news for the Green Party.

Bridget Philipson, minister for women and equalities, here claims she's largely ignorant of US politics. Yet vast sums of money from the US far right has been flowing into the UK for several years with the aim of changing UK equality law on abortion and trans rights. Her ministerial beat.

Just over two weeks to go until 'We Can't Keep Waiting', a day of action and collaboration to push for trans healthcare in Scotland. We're collaborating with some incredible community organisations and groups - sign up for your ticket here! www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/...

Good news. Although it won't stop them putting their talking heads on Question Time or into the copy of political editors.

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

The reality for trans people in the UK is that life has become many times more unsafe and difficult than it was. This frightening change is now being driven by the government and Supreme Court. Trans people are losing health care and human rights. If it was you, would you want to stay?

Very interesting on where Canada is now after months of US threats and tariffs.

Truly Trump is, as the Sunday Times described him, a "feminist champion" and "making America normal again."

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

I see The Times is now just straightforwardly lying about what the Supreme Court ruled. Pathetic and desperate because trans people's human rights aren't being stripped away quickly enough for them. www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious. Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Teenvogue has been an extraordinary and necessary voice in journalism when so much mainstream media has failed to speak truth. A billionaire didn't like what it was saying or something about the people saying it.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

i know trans people who think about trans people less often than some broadsheet columnists

EHRC confirms AI in use for consultation about segregating Trans+ people from UK bathrooms 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-confirms-ai-in-use-for-consultation-about-segregating-trans-people-from-uk-bathrooms/

observer.co.uk/news/politic... "Our NHS is crumbling, our rents are obscene and our rivers are open sewers. And all those in power can do is blame the boats… I call bullshit." Polanski articulates very clearly what most people know - things are badly wrong and need fixing urgently.

Listen to what Prof. John Curtice discussed with @ronniebarbour.bsky.social about the latest political polling and what it means to us in Scotland.

"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

The penny didn't drop until yesterday that Bean, of Boggis, Bunce & Bean in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox, is Rupert Murdoch. But it is.

While there is no denying that the enshitification of everything is supercharged by the Internet, I do like very much that I can watch my son play basketball a thousand miles away in another country, live, on YouTube.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... An enormous scandal. Every child has the right to be safe. These children were in the care of the UK state. If ever head should roll it is this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... It is utterly humiliating for The Times to fail so severely to do journalism. The thing is that associate editor Ian Brunskill knows very well that the Times has been lying and fabricating material about trans people for ten years.

🤝 We believe women’s rights and trans rights are intertwined. The same forces that threaten one threaten us all. So throughout #TransgenderAwarenessMonth and beyond, we stand alongside our trans siblings in solidarity, in love, and in action.

The ones in the hats were the fattest of cats, and their honks and their hoots Would grow in cahoots In a place they all called Maralago! Till the orange skinned fellow Or it could have been yellow Would bend at the knees And release his foul breeze In a curse he had cursed at Chicago

Night after night. For years. One of the most extraordinary defensive air battles ever fought.

Played a gig tonight for the first time in a couple of years. On the plus side, I got through Minor Swing without fucking up. On the minus side, the experiment with the Trio 'band in a box' was more of a vibe killer than an asset. Won't be using it again. You live and learn.

goodlawproject.org/the-writing-... This piece should shame every politician, regulatir, judge, journalist and NHS leader who has brought us here. The UK has become a place that people have to flee in order to be safe and have a life. It was unimaginable. Now it is routine.

A wise move. Microsoft's upgrade price gouging and obsession with AI that nobody wants has cooked it.

What do you think the conversation is at No.10? Amongst Labour MPs troubled by their party's rightwards lurch? Oh, there will be those saying it's just a blip and things will turn around. But everyone knows really it's a disaster and there's no coming back under Starmer/McSweeney and crew.

Human rights groups call for UK regulator to be downgraded over "disturbing" single-sex spaces guidance A number of groups have launched formal proceedings claiming that the regulator is not "fit for purpose". gcn.ie/ehrc-downgra...

Dogs are the best. That's all I have to say.

We believe Policy Exchange's anti-trans campaigning is in breach of charity law. So we've complained to the charity commission 👇 goodlawproject.org/policy-excha...

Glamour Magazine just named “the dolls” their women of the year so I’m reupping this essay

Handing editorial control to the Murdochs with a right-wing proprietor-pleasing Editor like Gallagher was always going to be a disaster for The Times. Hiring Conklin says it all. This is not journalism. It's misinformation as a weapon. Any journalist still trying to do their job is compromised.

Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR. They're not just for a privileged few They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US