People had to complain to get Polanski an interview. Weird nobody has to beg the BBC to give Farage airtime. I mean, it's not actually weird. We all know what it is and why it happens.

Eat the rich.

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

The road is expected to remain closed for some time

Amy has landed and is sweeping across Donegal and Derry. She's loud and powerful, stay safe everyone!

"There is no greater example of political failure than the state of Lough Neagh. Pollution is killing the freshwater lake and there seems little urgency to deal with it."

Colin is correct, & also now we have a crew of politicians who are openly saying that we are getting too big for our boots and should have no voice in any part of policy development - the policies the government then contract to us to do for pennies. More organisations will follow Parenting Focus.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Dutch late night TV has its take

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Happening in the USA, only way to compete with terf island is to escalate to new levels of extremism. Our gender crits will likely be delighted with what's happening and be demanding for the same to be enacted here. Protect the Dolls!!!

In the bastion of democracy and civil liberties that is the UK, *light* is now a crime

Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are “not credible”, a new report has concluded. www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-...

"Gender Ideology" is do-I-get-to-exist. "Just asking questions" - yes, the question is, do-I-get-to-exist. "Shoving it down our throats" - Existing. "Debate" - yes, over whether I get to exist. "I was shut down by the far left" - when you said people don't/shouldn't exist.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

It was weirdly fitting that the Charlie Kirk murder blended into the 9/11 anniversary as once again Americans were told to “watch what they say” The hypocritical censorship around a “free speech hero.” My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

🏳️‍🌈 Want to read the research on experiences of LGBT pupils in NI schools which Minister Paul Givan says has been removed from Department of Education website 'to ensure the information is up to date'? You can still (at least for now) download it from the Department website: tinyurl.com/4dh78t78

NEWS: A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”

… the worlds most respected genocide institute, the Lemkin, have warned that Britain’s actions towards trans ppl breaches international human rights, or as Brits might think of it - common decency:

With the UK Labour govt egging on arsonist rioters outside of refugee centres - explaining that ‘they get it’ & Reform encouraging the murder of refugees - this dehumanisation in British politics is going to a v dark place. Connolly said to ‘set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards’.

I spent many years on the panel for the review of trans healthcare, that was only "completed" and we were discharged from that in April of this year, that was over five years for nothing and just a few months later they are at it again. Fuck right off , transphobic arseholes 🤬🤬🤬

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Immigration is NOT the number one political issue in the north/NI. 3% fgs! Health, poverty, housing, economic opportunities, the list goes on…. Don’t mistake a minority of racists and victims of right wing propaganda and dis/misinformation for most people.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Makes me feel very not good that the BBC openly refers to trans people with slurs. If you weren’t aware, to call a trans person “biologically [their sex assigned at birth]” is a slur - it’s dehumanising and inaccurate!

They are given "free hotel rooms" (under strict curfews/allowances) because there is nowhere else to accommodate them. There is nowhere else to accommodate them because successive British governments have prioritised private landlords and investment funds over the welfare of the population.

This is directly referencing the UUP who are identified in the following diagram:

John has been cancelled now repeatedly, so much so it's become a personality trait. The guy also uses Irish defamation laws to silence his critics, so really shouldn't pretend he advocates for free speech.

I know Neville Chamberlain was likely a better person than Donald f*****g Trump but I'm getting the same vibes after this recent summit. #TACO

Would not recommend Friar Tucks in Warrenpoint, stood for ten minutes waiting to order a burger, staff not interested in taking orders. Rather than being the loud excuse me guy I just walked out, they were actively avoiding the til and counter.

When I pointed this reality out to MLAs I was called racist, a liar, a disgrace, legally illiterate, and faced people trying to get me fired. And yet, I was right. Because unlike GCs and many of our politicians, I do wild things like listen to people and look at evidence.

Grammar police.

And just like that, the DUP minister bans drag story hour from libraries in N. Ireland. 1. The Department of Justice refuse to act on far-right due to a ministerial strategy of appeasement with loyalist paramilitaries & the far-right. 2. DUP censors LGBTQ+ existences under the cover of disorder.

Every NI drag queen doing storytime events should just set up a new character name specifically for those events where they advertise it as "in the style of May McFettridge" and just do their usual storytime act so Gordon Lyons is forced to outlaw panto

Labour’s school guidance is Section 28 all over again for LGBTQ+ people

Across the West the key challenges are jobs that don’t pay enough to live, inability to find reasonable rent, impossibility of affording to buy a house, cost of childcare, cost of schooling, low public welfare for the vulnerable, lack of opportunities etc.

Those of us who fought for gay rights in the 1980s and 90s were often told we were too loud, too angry or asking for too much by the gays who sat at home. Now they’re the ones saying the same about the trans rights struggle. #ProtectTheDolls

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

Bloody hell! That’s the third recall of products from the same company in the last few weeks. ‘Over 140 ready-made meals and sides sold in major supermarkets recalled by FSAI’ jrnl.ie/6770959

For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent: This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life. You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.

14 years ago today a far-right Nazi terrorist killed 77 people, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya in Norway. Yet we still tolerate fascism as “legitimate” politics because it is supported by oligarch money and mainstream media.

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If the Tories were treating trans people the way Labour is currently doing (and to be clear, Labour are treating trans people worse than the Tories ever did) the people STILL standing up for Labour would be up in arms.

Linden J has, quite remarkably, held that police participation in the 2024 Pride marches was unlawful for breaching neutrality obligations: www.11kbw.com/knowledge-ev... Two quick thoughts follow, after a brief skim of the judgment.