The important point to remember is NO SHE DOESN'T. What was published yesterday were guidelines for service providers. They impose NO obligations on individuals and are NOT the law. People want you to believe otherwise, to intimidate trans people. But they haven't yet criminalised their existence.

Obviously there are historical examples for such attacks. But they are extremely rare, inconsequential in the larger picture, and are revealed for what they are very quickly. If your go-to explanation for any attack that is inconvenient for your world view is "false flag", you're a crank.

It does strike me that a lot of equality lawyers are going to find it hard to avoid words to the effect of "look I am not saying you should do this but all these problems go away if you stop providing women only services"

Today we must stand in solidarity with our trans and non-binary siblings. We must all raise our voices to speak out against this alarming attack on the rights of trans people, and we need to work together at every level to oppose it, and to work to restore inclusion and equal rights.

After presentation five I really want to yell “so why do we still shoot down Russian drones over the Baltics with fighter jets?!”

Taken alongside the rumours of the govt trying to force price controls on supermarkets this rather seems like Hormuz is starting to hit... ... and they're panicking.

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In the absence of any other great power willing or able to serve as an ordering hegemon, it is the loss of consistency rather than the disappearance of US power that will have the greatest implications for global order and drive the emergence of alternate approaches to ordering interstate behavior.

I spent the day in the Shropshire Hills learning about slow-decaying medieval elm beams on a riverbed, famous sin-eaters, hurricanes that flattened barns upon sleepers, meadow saxifrage, magical cows, flooded mines, and stone chairs occupied by the devil when the cloud level drops.

What's next, he found the money down the back of his sofa? How many different stories is this now?

Supreme, Strategist, Scientist, Eternal, Drone, Special Weapons.

Careful!! According to the Nazis you can get flat feet if you do swing dancing. Mini-thread on Swing Kids follows, the rebellious youths in Nazi Germany.

The Conservatives’ Alternative King’s Speech claimed the welfare bill is higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We’ve heard this a few times recently, but it’s not true. Welfare spending (including pensions) has been higher for years.

NEW: What exactly happened in the local and devolved elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week? @persuasionuk.bsky.social has some new polling out today which offers a first glimpse. Thread here on top line findings from each nation. 🧵

Here's the reupload. If you guys can watch, like, comment, share it around etc, just so the algorithm doesn't kill it, I'd appreciate it. Thank you in advance! youtu.be/ZAdyXb4FdHk

This week in 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Its the least interesting thing about him. Working with hedonistic lawyer James Stephen, the devout Christian engineered one of the first slavery bans in British territory WITHOUT Parliament's approval. /1

“The ​United States has informed ‌Switzerland that deliveries of its Patriot missile system ​will be further delayed ​and become more expensive ⁠due to the Iran ​war, the Swiss government ​said” www.reuters.com/world/united...

I prefer this place to the other one, but I don't have many followers here yet. Help me with the odd share if you like what I do. Ta.

<in Number 10> STARMER: Okay. So how are things looking? ALAKESON: Great. Great boss. CUTHBERTSON: Yeah absolutely smoking it chief. GREAT speech yesterday. Nothing to worry about everything is- ED MILIBAND <sticking his head through the door>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS! WOOOO

So, Timothy Chalamet, if no one cares about ballet anymore, why is *every* channel on my TV showing Swan Lake right now?

BBC News - Star Wars and Shakespeare actor Michael Pennington dies aged 82.

Oha, Latvian defence minister resigns over military’s failure to intercept drones flying into Latvian airspace and hitting an oil storage facility* *not an attack, looks like Ukrainian drones flying off course because of electronic warfare www.reuters.com/world/latvia...

The Odyssey (1987)

I have just received the most Dutch email of all time, reading (I paraphrase, but not by much) "I hugely enjoyed your book, so felt move to send you these 17 corrections".

Mudchute Farm: Sheep & Skycrapers A 32-Acre Urban Farm in the Shadow of Canary Wharf If you’re looking for unusual things to do in London, Mudchute Park and Farm is difficult to beat. A 32-acre working farm on the Isle of Dogs, it sits directly beneath the steel and glass of Canary Wharf—a place…

Top news from my clean tech/transport panels this w/e: 1. Small plug-in home batteries that let you store grid energy when it's cheap & use it later are HERE. 30% cost savings! 2. Home sodium-ion batteries are also here, & cheaper than Li-ion. 3. Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK SOON 🎉

30 years ago, Dame Shirley Porter was found guilty of spending taxpayers' money to fix Westminster Council elections. Dame Shirley and colleagues tried to gerrymander marginal wards by shipping out council tenants and selling their homes on the cheap to people more like to vote Tory.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

The Conservatives look set to end up somewhere between -550 and -600. This would be the second-worst locals result for a primary opposition party in post-war Britain, behind the Tories result from last year. On this map, a typical expectation for a first-term opposition would be around 600 *gains*.

Astonishing results from #Newcastle. #Labour have been all but wiped out losing 44 (!) seats mostly split evenly between #Reform & #Greens. #LibDems put in strong performance retaining all their seats & gaining 2, leaving: - 25 LD - 24 Green - 24 Ref - 2 Lab - 3 Ind www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...

One of the worst arguments I ever witnessed in a NATO meeting was between representatives of Greece and Turkey. The proposal was for an E3A to orbit over the Aegean and transmit by Link 11 a synthetic track picture to ground stations in range of its datalink.

2023: Lib-Dem controlled Council starts trialling a 4-day week on full pay 2024: trial saves Council £400,000 and improves services 2025: 4-day week made permanent 2026: voters return Lib-Dems to control with increase in votes / cllrs Upside from 4-day week is huge. Other Councils should try it!

The worst part is going through the various wards here in Gateshead and realizing that the logic now is, Labour or Reform? I don't blame them for abandoning Labour, as the party already abandoned them. I worry about what happens when they realize Reform is just a bankers' grift.

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

So for those outside of Wales, we introduced a new PR voting system (D’Hondt - horribly clunky but not FPTP), have a number of long time MS stepping down AND more seats up for grabs. The counting started at 9am so we won’t be getting results until this afternoon at the earliest. #senedd26

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.

Electoral Commission after polls closed: "We will now gather evidence from voters, candidates, administrators and campaigners to inform our assessment of these elections. We will look at voter satisfaction, the integrity of the polls, and the prevalence and impact of mis and disinformation."

Integrated Nordic Air power at work: Swedish and Finnish conscripts trained together, learning to service both 🇸🇪Gripens and 🇫🇮 F18s. This allows Nordic Air Forces to land at each other’s air bases and recieve service without their own personell on site.

Just watched BBC news report about the Amazon drones in Darlington and the damn things shoot the parcels out from like 10 foot above the ground. They don't land. Even Evri can only chuck stuff from the height of the driver...

I am not a supporter of #ZackPolanski, I think he is a thin-skinned opportunist who has espoused left wing policies to court popularity, but the vile #antisemitic attacks on him by the right-wing media are beyond the pale and need to be called out for what they are.

Vote Liberal Democrat this Thursday to elect a strong local champion. Britain desperately needs change. People are struggling to make ends meet and nothing works the way it should after years of chaos under the Conservatives and failure under Labour. www.libdems.org.uk/vote

You can already see what Ukraine can and will do without US leverage. And they're 100% within their rights to do that too. But if I were the rest of NATO and the EU I'd want to depen mutual ties with Ukraine robustly at this point.

The 🇩🇪 Greens, the Left/Linke and the social democrats (SPD) all collectively left X today. Coordinated action. Citing chaos and disinformation on the platform. Should inspire many parties in more countries.

The Colombian way of drinking hot cocoa involves adding molten cheese to it, and sometimes I think it's sad that the rest of the world hasn't known that joy.

Video clip showing the British Army Archer 155 mm Self Propelled Gun during initial trials

What's most remarkable about this is that the Home Office is insistent on sticking to its own social media use policy - which specially encourages people to use X (!): lordseyeview.substack.com/p/the-home-o...