Mel - quoted in the manifesto of a fascist mass shooter who murdered seventy seven people, including a large number of teenagers he specifically targeted as children of socialists - says incitement to murder is disqualifying. Every day, these papers are rubbing everyone’s faces in their impunity.

The thing to understand is no compromise would be enough for the GCs. It is not enough that they are allowed to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. Everyone else must be forced to do so. It is not enough that they are allowed to speak their views. Everyone else must be forced to listen.

As I said recently in The Guardian: "Despite their hopes to the contrary, anti-trans campaigners have not won the hearts and minds they believed the Supreme Court would give them" So they turn to this; desperate, fascistic calls for the destruction of those they hate (framed as ideas, not people).

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's so much more to your average "gender critical" person than their transphobia. They're also hugely racist, homophobic, ableist and misogynistic. They hate women who disagree with them and see women as the weaker sex. They're so weird irl, people avoid them before they even know *any* of this.

Talking to a relative over Christmas who said she was leaving the WI over "this trans nonsense". It sent a cold rush through me, until she continued; saying that one very loud transphobe on committee was dominating meetings & she & many others were sick of it. These ghouls ARE hated by their peers.

I really hope anyone out there who has chosen not to meddle in the so-called "Trans Debate" either way does not miss the use of the word "KILL" here. Bc it is absolutely about killing people. Not "ideologies" - people. No one with a conscience can afford to sit this out.

Columnist: Why does no one like Labour? 🤔 Me: Because they're miserable racist, transphobic killjoys, committed to culling the disabled, introducing segregation, supporting an ongoing genocide, criminalising dissent... Columnist: It's a mystery! No one can explain it!

You should expect this year in Britain will involve ever-greater convergence upon these forms of increasingly Mein Kampfy authoritarian cruelty into a single, incoherent shared ideology within our political/media class, because that is where we have been going at increasing speed since roughly 2001.

Sharp-eyed readers may note the overlaps between “gender ideology is a leftist plot to deprave the youth and molest our womenfolk”; “human rights are a Soviet/Islamist plot to sap our martial will to dominate and destroy our enemies”, and “the volk are threatened by the taint of the lesser races”.

Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

Sorry just remembering this moment when this got presented in parliament as a legitimate death threat

Suzanne Moore at the end of 2025, as trans people continue to exist: This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology Suzanne Moore at the end of 2026, as trans people continue to exist: This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

Could this have anything to do with the two major parties and all the media hyping far-right narratives and "dining across the divide" increasingly unashamedly in the past couple of years? No, it must be those grassroots "legitimate grievances" I keep hearing about...

I mean we know the Daily Mail has a history then and now of loving the fash but fucking hell the Zack 'caricature' is straight out of a Nazi stereotypical cartoon about Jews. Laurent Brindeau just being straight up antisemitic.

What a quote.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

It is fascinating to me that people think that folks who mask need to explain it to... Anyone. Like, do you want people to give you the murder board explanation of our chronic illness? Talk about our parent or kid with cancer? It couldn't be less of your business.

If you're looking for a bunch of freaks to block, Sloane seems to have found a real grab bag here.

The lads sabotaged kinder, gentler politics to try kinder, gentler white supremacy and here we are

runner up:

Celebrate the chunky but consistent quality of the Playmates DICK TRACY (1990) action figure line.

My fear, when these proposals were mooted then adopted, was that the effect of making citizenship contingent for some citizens would be to make those same citizens second class: how can you confidently exercise your full range of democratic rights against a Government which can remove them?

We will never know *how much* this is attributable to Labour's decision to track not tackle Reform's rhetoric of hate on immigration. But that Labour *helped* render these views acceptable cannot, surely, be doubted.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

We were in first place in this film award voting. A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours. Now it's personal. Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS. Reshare? VOTE! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

Labour has made my life hell. You’ve made me feel I don’t belong in my own country and you’ve treated my community like we’re subhuman. Hiding children’s suicide statistics to cover your evil. And then u talk about coming together. That doesn’t include us though does it. We don’t count. Fuck labour.

well christ, don't let it drive home then

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

Pronouncing star anise “star anus” and ruining what is left of the holiday spirit

Much like Labour, the BBC has burned its natural supporters to chase the populist right, who inevitably continue to despise it

The sudden zeal on the right for revoking citizenship is very alarming, and exactly why I was concerned about the Begum case. If you can have your citizenship removed because theoretically you COULD be eligible for citizenship elsewhere (even if you are not) that puts a lot of people in danger.

dune 3: let's get dune to business

The people they don’t like are non-white that is the reason. It isn’t inconsistent they are just racists and bigots.

No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?

The Times and Herald would have rewarded For Women Scotland even if they lost everything this year because in the end it's not about what they actually did or who they are - it's about how they serve the ideology of the owners of that paper and the toxic influence they have throughout our media

It's not just that the Jewish guy gets given a massive nose, the WOC gets given a wide nose and big mouth. Meanwhile the two ostensibly white caricatures basically only really get their head proportions to their body tweaked. Just naked bigotry tropes in full swing. They always show you who they are

Not a single Sensible Holder of the Left to Account for Antisemitism has noticed let alone condemned this appalling racism. Complete crickets

I think sometimes our far right newspapers just do stuff to show people they can get away with whatever they want without consequences

all things considered caricaturist is a pretty easy job and there's basically only a few things you absolutely cannot do

toy plushies and Ms. Rachel are considered antisemitic in today's depraved society but somehow Elon Musk and shit like this are allowed to see the light of day

So many institutions in ~~British public life~~ are currently in this objectively weird spot where they've quiet quit their actual responsibilities to focus on niche obsessions and yelling slurs, but still expect the people who came for their stated mission to keep tuning in and applauding

The BBC currently can't be bothered to put together a Christmastime lineup that doesn't have Would I Lie to You starring a sex pest as a load bearing component, so I'm not sure what you expect me to do

Laundering genocide, giving soft interviews to flag shagging racists, demonising asylum seekers, spreading transphobia to billions of page views… I think the fuck not!

You “cultural catastrophe” has already happened. Any version of the BBC worth defending is long dead. What remains is a vehicle for corruption, propaganda and the normalization of prejudice. It deserves to be destroyed and I will cheer its passing.

I've wasted a decade begging them to improve. The BBC have responded by platforming anti-LGBTQ hate groups, firing people for not being racist and now, openly using transphobic slurs. They're not interested.

nah. screw the bbc. get rid of it. i should not have to pay for a broadcaster that describes me and others in my community using slurs. i don't care that you like it. make it a subscription service and you pay for it.