Major news. Police Scotland’s newly announced “sex at birth” recording policy represents a deeply regressive and discriminatory shift in policing practice. It raises profound concerns for the dignity, safety and human rights of transgender people across Scotland.

Former prime minister Liz Truss has backed the use of Twitter/X as a replacement news outlet for the BBC

www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-male-gri... Male Grievance Ideology is rampant in society and it is the source of huge amounts of violence. It needs to be stopped, not coddled.

On this date in 1984, @cocteauofficial.bsky.social - 'Treasure' was released. 📈 #2 for 1984, #213 overall rateyourmusic.com/release/albu...

Great conversation with @natashadevon.bsky.social - How the Education system became a mental health crisis. Full YouTube Premiere at 7pm. youtu.be/308kvoBM3xw?...

Now confirmed: no action. news.sky.com/story/police...

📊 POLL | Reform lead by 11pts Projected majority = 46 seats ➡️ REF – 31% (-) 🔴 LAB – 20% (+2) 🔵 CON – 19% (-) 🟠 LD – 14% (+1) 🟢 GRN – 12% (-) Via @Moreincommon_, 7-10 Nov (+/- vs 3 Nov)

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So was he ever a LibDem? I'm guessing not really. It's pretty hard to go from moderate middle of the road party to far right. He meets the Reform demographic though. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

November working in a sometimes stressful male dominated industry means being inundated with woo woo shit about "men's mental health" relating to 90% of your colleagues where all the minority stress you face from being a trans woman is effectively actively sidelined.

Millionaires who want to see a wealth tax implemented by Rachel Reeves have staged a demonstration in Edinburgh city centre to put pressure on the Chancellor ahead of this month’s Budget

Handmaids Tale's own Rebecca Paul MP asked a hateful question in #PMQs interpreting UK law inncorrectly as usual 👺 Useless Keir caved as usual 🙄 If you are a Cisgender woman that supports womens rights and #trans rights please sign this 🙏⤵️ notinourname.org.uk/petition/not... @sarahowen.org.uk

Banksy painted it. They scrubbed it off and now, they're hiding it. So let’s make sure it’s everywhere.💥 Get or gift a t-shirt from our shop now ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/cf4c52

Defending him

Live: Wildlife conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall’s funeral is held in Washington reut.rs/47BCYbR

🚨🚨Brussels deadlocked over how to handle #Brexit Britain as Member States remain divided over the question of U.K. payments into EU budget funds. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/uk-p...

Ben Ansell: "Those shifting to Reform are indeed more socially conservative. But remember, that’s only as many as have shifted to the Greens, or the Lib Dems, or Other. And it’s substantially less than those who have shifted to Don’t Know."

well someone had to keep the nazi torch aflame inside the palace after prince Philip died www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

Joanna Harper (one of my heroes) researches trans athletes. She says Nike has retreated. www.outsports.com/2025/11/11/2...

Hannan was born in Peru ffs.Couldn’t make this💩up. Maybe he wants the Royal family to piss off back to Germany or maybe Russia.

This is stone-cold racism from Daniel Hannan, a man who was born in Peru, notorious home of the implacably murderous Sendero Luminoso guerrillas, to where he should clearly be immediately deported.

just got exposed to some clips of Ben Shapiro, and as with so many other members of the conservative commentator industrial complex, I'm once again amazed at how he's become so influential, because apart from having absolutely obnoxious opinions about everything, he's just unbearable to listen to

😂😂😂😂😂 Sorry shouldn’t laugh because so much is at stake but the idea that the solution to the failure of Blue/Neoliberal/Blairite/Trying-to-please-everyone-and-pleasing-no-one Labour is to replace Starmer with Wes Streeting is so ridiculous.

There was a leak from staff saying that Davie said staff couldn't attend Pride because "impartiality." When I mention this, it is poo-pooed by supporters of the BBC / the Establishment /whatever, and they refer me to the official retraction, but this adds to evidence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

In what way is this not equally true of many "democracies"? Telling words about Africa made me realise what a big problem the UK has, never mind the US: @nesrinemalik.bsky.social in this weeks Long Wave newsletter from @theguardian.com

What would it take to reduce the 48,000-person wait list for transgender healthcare in the UK? https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clinic-files-what-would-a-healthcare-system-that-works-for-trans-people-look-like-in-the-uk/

Are transwomen really such a danger? I think not || LETTERS 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/opin...

«Il faut vraiment poursuivre les efforts» : un buraliste sur trois vend encore du tabac ou du liquide de vapotage aux mineurs L’enquête démontre toutefois une diminution par deux du non respect de la loi

At the American War Cemetery in Margraten (Netherlands), two information panels about African-American soldiers have been quietly removed from the visitors center. www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Yet another of the horrors of the age is watching the UK political class catapult us out of actual formal union with all our closest neighbours, with the blithe self-assurance of an absolute monarch, and then declare, when it comes to fiscal policy, there's *absolutely nothing useful they can do*.

This detail tells us, perhaps, how the government is heading:

A reader writes in on Reform's plan to sell-off care homes in Lancashire: "They [will] come up against some feisty octagenarian and nonogenarian Northern women. They will probably find that they are very articulate, to boot..."

Try reporting some truths about Farage’s financial affairs instead of false stories about kier Starmer!

Obligatory reposting.

A Palestinian brewer has visited Scotland to launch a lager brewed in partnership with a Scottish company

UK counter-radicalisation scheme Prevent sees sharp rise in referrals reut.rs/4oBMylb

The National Union of Journalists has called for worker representation & independent appointments to the BBC board, amid the fall-out from the BBC Panorama doc The union has also defended the integrity of its members at the BBC & demanded "sustainable funding to safeguard public service journalism"

@lewisgoodall.com says how some journalists have “a total lack of self-awareness. They believe their own politics to be neutral, impartial- and other people's politics to be the aberration” - yet falls into this blind spot himself when evaluating Newsnight’s deeply biased coverage on trans topics! 😖

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The Labour MPs who received ££s from Lexington who represent the owner of private water firm (and major polluter) Southern Water. - Hamish Falconer, Oliver Ryan, Liam Conlon, Liz Kendall, Pat McFadden and Gregor Poynton -Mary Creagh and Steve Race were both former lobbyists at Lexington

Claire Ainsley (WPI: South West Water) Mark Glover/Johanna Baxter (SEC Newgate: Anglian Water) Melanie Onn, Dan Hogan, Ben Johnson (Blakeney: South West, Anglian Water) Kamella Hudson, Starmer adviser (FGS: Thames Water) labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/l...

It's incredible that the story in the headlines today, about Wes Streeting is not that he has finally agreed with the treasury how he is going to sack tens of thousands of nurses at massive expense to the NHS. news.sky.com/story/thousa...

1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2) 
No live reporting, sorry.

Trans+ is inclusive of all gender diverse communities: Trans+ History Week is dedicated to celebrating the rich history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse, and intersex individuals through stories, events and lesson books for the whole world to use 🏳️‍⚧️ www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...

The creators of an influential list of highly cited researchers have shaken up their methodology this year, taking a swipe at scientists who associate with those linked to possible ethical breaches go.nature.com/3LAThwX