Chance of a Zeppelin raid rated very low. Everyone can relax.

no grandpa, you can’t call it’s “sparkling grape juice” - these days, that’s a schloer

We really are a nation that loves animals and hates children. These figures are so shameful (via @natacha.bsky.social).

It feels like we’re in some weird sci-fi advent calendar, where every few hours an alleged abuser or sex offender comes tantalisingly closer to being held accountable.

I wrote this open letter to my fellow science journalists, but it could very easily be adapted to address @jay.bsky.team and the rest of the bsky team galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/o...

After a couple of weeks listening to Christmas songs, a few observations: It's hard to do a bad version of In the Bleak Midwinter. It's easy to do a bad version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Done right, it should make you cry.

Rest well Chris Rea. I will pop an extra egg in my bath tonight in your honour. youtu.be/H0WiwB1Cjbg?...

I'm also appalled by Wes Streeting.

Sadiq Khan cancelled Christmas in Leeds 🚫🎄

If you think this is about free speech - rather than a wilful goading by money and power of a screwed over minority - just ask yourself how the media would cover this story if Alice Sullivan was an anti-semite and these were Jewish students rightly protesting at her being invited onto their campus.

Did you know that in journalism it is surprisingly easy to find people who aren't burning to tell truth to power? Who have no moral and ethical tether. Oligarchs who own media for political influence spot them and put them in charge. They don't work for you, dear reader. They work against you.

More great news on the book front. My new publisher has pushed the ebook of Trans Britain to Bookshop UK. I have added this to the paperback in my affiliate bookshop there. Check out more than 100 trans-themed titles that I’ve curated there and, if you buy books from there, I get about 10% […]

This Calvin & Hobbes cartoon is still perfect.

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

When those who hate trans people win - or pretend to win, cf Sandie Peggie - it's all over the media, even if it's just a tribunal decision. But when they lose, even in the Court of Appeal, it's absolute bloody tumbleweed. So here's our blog about Allison Bailey latest loss. goodlaw.social/3uyd

Fugg you, winter. You're on the way out. In just over six months' time I'll be complaining that it's 40C.

Here are some of the headlines Britain's most dishonest newspaper carried in the space of six demented days...

Cass literally saying there has been no increase in suicide as a result of her ban on puberty-blockers. Tell that to the family of Leia Sampson-Grimbly. She is also ignoring all the other harm her ban is causing, that I have documented here in my peer-reviewed (unlike the Cass Review) research.

Important to note that Harper Collins hasn't exactly 'dropped' Walliams - they're going to continue publishing all his existing books, just not any new ones

This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Trans women and girls are being excluded from services across the UK that they've used for decades because of legal pressure and targeted campaigns. We explain what just happened, and why blanket exclusion is a choice, not a necessity. 📖 notinourname.org.uk/banning-trans-people-what-just-happened

Public service information: Joscho Stephan Quartet's version of Seul ce Soir is delightful and recommended for your listening pleasure.

Persistence of prejudice. I see The Times are platforming Transphobia yet again, given that those who hate trans people have not achieved the banishment they seek.

All true. The UK is utterly fucked unless and until there are radical reforms to press ownership and journalistic accountability.

How showbusiness 'journalism' really works

A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times. First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.

As a former Times journalist, I agree with Jolyon's analysis below and add that dishonesty has become the hallmark of The Times under this and the previous editor.

IMPORTANT thread. UK Government's forced outing of trans people by businesses puts it in breach of data protection agreements with the EU.

UK Key economic sectors face post-BREXIT challenge in 2026: the Gender Critical Data Chickens come home to roost. Today, Trans Exile Network, which helps trans+ people, their families and anyone perceived as trans to flee the UK in the present climate released the following update.

This confirms what I have learned in recent days from BBC News insiders. Editors are changing copy to include the phrase 'biological males' when referring to trans women, when the reporter has not used it. Aside from being disgraceful, it is likely to be in breach of the GRA 2004 for GRC holders.

"The Epstein files have been released."

"swapping Starmer out for Streeting or anyone else from the right wing of the party would be no solution to the gigantic challenges facing the country. What’s needed is a radical change in approach based on the Labour movement’s core values." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I cannot see the slightest justification for allowing anti-trans hate group ‘Sex matters’ to comment on this story. If you agree with me, a complaint to the BBC only takes a few moments. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

One of the world’s most interesting thinkers, the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, says citizens need to form a modern day protest movement modelled on the 19th century ‘Temperance Crusade’ to bring Big Tech to heel before it’s too late. I couldn’t agree more. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

This precisely. The last innocent pleasure of the Internet ruined.

No, YOU binged the latest season of Slow Horses in two nights after your daughter let you use her Apple TV account. Me? I'm not even interested.

A compelling read in the Scotsman today from Vic at Scottish Trans. We really are in a mess. It's important that trans people are provided clarity amidst the many rulings, (lack of) guidance and media narrative which have muddied the waters. (link below)

Some absolutely staggering numbers in this.

HMP Bronzefield must urgently allow medics into the prison to treat Qesser before it’s too late. The appalling denial of medical attention ... will likely have fatal consequences, directly linked to the decision-making of Labour ministers. Read my full comment, link below.

Interesting piece on McSweeney. He wants to - and does often - win and he and Starmer are conjoined. But for what? The little that can be divined of his political beliefs and readiness to lie and ditch promises point to power for the sake of it. He's an utterly hollow nothing.

As someone who recently found I am intersex it turns out what letter was written on my birth certificate would give you at the very least a pretty incomplete understanding of my anatomy. I think we can expect better from our health service than these dangerous and inaccurate generalisations.

I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital. Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“media literacy shouldn’t just be a side topic but treated as civic infrastructure”. The teaching of it a type of “psychological inoculation”. In Finland journalists impart this wisdom. Can’t see this working in the UK when so much of our media relies on its ability to misinform ignorant people.

Did I mention that Streeting is a worm? I did? Good.

Draft Guidance on Toilets and Changing Rooms OUT for consultation. No, not THAT guidance - but mine. I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases. translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...

Oh, well that's fair enough then. Tr7mp knows nothing about anything and has the best regenerating ear. These guys are just doing their best, right?

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Canterbury Food Bank is where I volunteer, and when I said demand had increased this year a load of Labour loyalists piled on me.

A terrible indictment on both 14 years of Tory rule and this Labour government.