Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

If a Labour government just didn't spend its time using the bully pulpit to talk about what bastards foreigners are and pandering to anti-trans cranks it'd make a real difference to me. So it's relatively easy for a new leader to significantly shift my opinion. It therefore *cannot* be Wes Streeting

Every day I am happier that I made the decision to quit my job and write a book to combat transphobia from the POV of a trans evolutionary geneticist These slimebags may have harassed me off the internet when I was a young atheist/feminist blogger, but I'm finally ready to fight back

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

sorry babe can you say that again - i was too busy mentally constructing an opening credits sequence out of the FT's stylised Labour leadership photo montages

Five trans children died by suicide in 2019-20, 4 in 2020-21 then 22 in 2021-22. This is the truth, from official Government data, that Wes Streeting desperately tried to cover up.

This is utterly ridiculous. At the time I went to No 10 (and Global Counsel, who said they were questions for govt) I was told it was ok bc Palantir is a 'significant technology investor in the UK economy' and Mandelson had 'fully relinquished his active role and all executive functions' w GC

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Trans teacher: “I’d like staff and students to refer to me as Mx” School: “Sure, that’s a reasonable request” Tommy Robinson (criminal): “Guess I’ll start harassing this teacher - at school, at home, everywhere” Gavin Williamson MP: “Keep it up, Tommy, and let me know if you need anything”

Hahahaha get fucked Rennard you nonce piece of shit

This is simultaneously (1) garbage: Labour has done nothing remotely as bad as the Tories' industrial scale VIP corruption and (2) proof: of Labour's failure to understand, let alone address, the industrial scale lie-telling machine that is our media.

My favourite version is in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. "A penitent man kneels before God" Aka "a penitent man kneels and does a sick forward roll before god"

Like a lot of fantasy tropes, this is probably the result of something from LOTR being tropeified, specifically the Doors of Durin. The riddle on the Doors is meant to be easy because it's not actually supposed to keep people out as long as they can read Elvish, but this context gets lost in copies.

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

Er, hello, yes, sorry, hello, we just wanted to remind you that as well as being soft on child abuse and massively corrupt, we’re also extremely racist

What is the point of Keir Starmer staying as prime minister?

I’m still confused that Streeting isn’t in trouble over *his* links to Mandelson.

Takes me back to Priti's flight tracker

I said this at the time:

If Morgan McSweeney hasn't offered to resign in the last couple of days, he doesn't give a shit about Keir Starmer.

This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇 Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered. The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.

Journalists should be asking the Labour candidate at the Gorton & Denton byelection - and any senior Labour figures who turn up to campaign - whether they support these proposals or not. If they are genuinely serious about rejecting Goodwin/Reform's racism and bigotry, there's only one answer..

Anyone with experience of our party will know that these two groups might well have some crossover.

Sad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...

One thing that really strikes me throughout this whole scandal – from Mandelson’s chumminess with Epstein, to passing Gov info to him, to his “I’ve done nothing wrong” response today – is Mandelson has told us who he was since 1998, and a whole succession of PMs have never actually listened.

Remember France locked up Telegram creator Pavel Durov when he landed in Paris and indicted him for Telegram's lax approach to child safety. They do not fuck around over there.

The awfulness of Epstein risks overshadowing the fact that what Mandelson did would have been wrong whichever financier he was sending stuff to. thecritic.co.uk/pete...

Everyone's talking about it, so just to add in my own experience: I spent about 5 years studying undergrad, never graduated because of ill health. Theoretically my debt is very high. But I've never paid any of it back because of low pay / unemployment

And in the least surprising plot twist in history… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The problem with the term "conspiracy theory" is that we don't have a snappy two word phrase for the well founded belief that there are networks of the rich and powerful who do favours for each other not necessarily in the public interest

Today is the first day of LGBT History Month LGBT+ people have always been part of our societies, but often their stories are hidden and go untold. This month is an opportunity to celebrate those stories and continue to campaign for progress.

Here's the best explanation

If you were wavering between Labour and Green (as potentially a fair few voters are), I feel like this just pushes you to the Greens?

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

oh my god

do sort of think the actual issue is adjacent to that, and it's that most people just.....don't care about most things! you saw it with MeToo, you saw it with Black Lives Matter, and across smaller social movements: most powerful people don't care abour people who are not them, and that's that

Oh she’s going down *that* road. Wish I could say it was a surprise

"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I may be a naive little baby but I don't think sinister racist YouTubers should be on Question Time at all. Booking Nick Griffin was massively controversial in 2009 but I can only imagine that the bookers don't care anymore, which seems bad

Proud to have signed up to this when the group were in Westminster - I had not heard of it previously I know the majority of women are trans inclusive so let’s get this out wide and sign up many more women to @nionwomen.bsky.social

Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss

I can't believe some of the most obvious massive paedophiles in the world met with the Financier Jeffrey Epstein.

"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky

Really disappointing to not have @willierennie.bsky.social or @orkneymsp.bsky.social even explain why they voted against banning greyhound racing

This is the first time I’ve read details about a bomb that was set off in residential London street, destroying cars and sending shrapnel into kids’ bedrooms. Young people are considered vulnerable online, but the actual radicalisation of old generations is given a free pass by the press.

LRT: can you imagine the coverage that ULEZ bomber would have gotten had they not been an old white bloke? We'd have hourly updates castigating Shabana Mahmood for not bringing back the death penalty.

How is there still more in the Epstein Files??? Thinking that the Epstein stuff is a load of nothing is probably the wrong way I've been about anything. Just never could have imagined the scale of conspiracy and crime here, or how willing they are to have it on record.

What's the process to remove a peerage again?

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...