You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it. This was a *child*

Seen some people misunderstanding the point of TSN pointing out our previous communications with the government about this. It's not because we expect them to have empathy for trans people or to listen out of the goodness of their hearts. It's to prove that they know exactly what they're doing.

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

When the media and government move to demonise a minority it’s always noticeable how that minority gets denied the concept of including children or minors, as she was 17 at the time.

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Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further archive.ph/RlXPj

jfc. It was determined by a US judge that she could not be deported to Sierra Leone due to danger she would face in the country she fled. So they deported her to Ghana, a country she had never been to, and Ghana deported her to Sierra Leone. This country is fucking sick. Deeply deeply fucking sick

Horrendous & punishing for thousands of people including c.25,000 children seeking protection with their families who got status in the last five years (luckily children in care and care leavers are out of scope of the settlement changes)

As someone fairly plugged into overseas political commentary, it's so bewildering to hear journalists around the world plainly state that Starmer is a fucking disaster driving both his party and the country into the ground, then turn back to UK media, where his 13% approval is an eternal mystery.

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.

Imagine if 2000 children had gone missing from boarding schools. How much outrage there would be. Imagine how quickly there would be demands for inquiries and actions. Instead because these are unaccompanied asylum seeking children they will either be ignored or blamed for being trafficked.

Anyone remember that cease fire? "Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side. The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.

In memory of: Ilham Rajab Nabil Juha / الهام رجب نبيل جحا Age: 16 We will not forget you.

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

People for whom there has been a manhunt: Enoch Burke, Hannibal Lector People for whom there hasn't been a manhunt: The poor trans kid at the centre of this nonsense

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime. It is not justified, period. I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.

It took a two year campaign of digital deep mining, bullshit and screeching to convince the public Old Jezza had a racism issue. This government is straight out wearing black in front of a billowing sixty-foot Union flag like Norsefire, promising to fuck up the migrants. These things are different.

These things would be equivalent if Old Jezza had made the acceptability of big nose caricatures the core of his appeal to the electorate. They are not even slightly comparable if he didn’t do that, and it is IMO impossible to miss this unless you are determined to miss it.

I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.

quick question what country are these housing units in

i hate this country

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Prison guards rushing to take jobs with ICE. Almost like all of this is connected. I wonder which people have been making this case for a few decades.

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

Judith Butler in 2021

I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

Home Office media release on new settlement rules. 5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere

While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/

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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

Ok we said Labour is in the service of elites and not workers but you didn’t need to make it that fucking obvious Shabana

nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old

Justice served. A scarce thing that should be savoured.

"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this

1/This week has seen a blitz of what looks like corruption sandals: Saudi development deals for US military tech, Pakistani payments to Trump insiders for tariff relief, Swiss gold bars for a trade deal. Far from a payoff, this is a reordering of internat'l system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...

The majority of the UK media, encouraged by the UK's equality body, is waging a campaign to encourage the public, employers and health providers to harass anyone who doesn't fit their definition of what a woman should look like. This is what JK Rowling is funding.

Labour, extraordinarily, doing the exact same thing (changing the rules so that they retrospectively apply to people who'd followed the rules and done everything right) that they expressed outrage at the Tories for suggesting just a few weeks ago.

‘stocks climb soothing bubble fears’ ok lol

The EHRC want to exclude women from femal single-sex spaces based on how "female" they look. This is off the scale sexism and misogyny. Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.

Imagine a serial killer who can just request to remove the prosecutor who issued the arrest warrant

This, sadly, is all too common. Albanian trafficking victims in particular, but not solely, due to both the previous and current governments' policies are often ignored and demonized. Both Labour and Conservatives have weakened protections. Now the Home Secretary is making it even worse.

Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it

british fascists have killed serving mps for less. not sure labour, even at its most cynical, is giving the genie it is unleashing proper respect

Do the people of Newham, Brent, Tower Hamlets, Haringey, Croydon etc get to have "Legitimate Concerns"? Or is that a privilege reserved just for the people who hate us?

The multi-ethnic, socially liberal working and middle classes of London are as much Labour's "traditional voters" as anyone else. Perhaps we can now start talking about how its immigration policies have betrayed them and what the political consequences might be.

he will simply say he was young and foolish and everyone will blink and move on, hitlerite brits are the norm