The thing I don't get about Starmer is why he's this much of a wheedling craven racist even when it actively makes his own position worse, because it means he genuinely believes (for some reason) in his core value of believing in nothing.

An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.

You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…

Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

She won her case like you won the general election.

I am brimming with holiday spirit

one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?

This is the sort of solidarity we so desperately need. Love & respect to all the volunteers prepared to stand up & be counted. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Seems that Maya Forstater has had a Helen Joyce style slap down about her “expertise” and has totally shat the bed with the evidence she submitted, which is intensely gratifying.

It's happening! northskysocial.com/posts/norths...

It says a on me thing that every time the worst thing most white women can imagine is being treated rhetorically they way almost everyone else has been actually . Everyone is patriarchal if they don’t allow white women to avoid consequences

I keep thinking of Beth Upton today, who won against an absolutely foul, racist bigot, and should be having the best day, but is still being monstered by our entire media, for the crime of merely existing as her authentic self and doing a job in the NHS that helps people, all day every day.

I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

#C4News went above & beyond, reporting: "a nurse has won a harassment claim against Dr Beth Upton." No she didn't. NHS FIFE harassed her, not Upton. This is almost defamatory, & they mentioned none of the dismissed parts or the implications for trans women in SS spaces. I complained to Ofcom.

You know, infuriating and a shameful betrayal though the BBC and other media's misreporting of the Sandie Peggie judgment is, it also doesn't really matter. What matters is the judgment which lawyers will read, use to advise their clients, and inclusion will be the winner.

IM BIGGER THAN SOME MEN IF YOU UNDERSERVE ME I WILL KICK YOUR ASS AND THEN CRY ABOUT HAVING TO BE VIOLENT

Imagine a mendacious complaint, based internally upon bigotry and hatred, with no crime committed, making the top news story on the BBC website. There can be no greater example of the BBC's institutional transphobia, nor the way they report the story, by placing her feeble win first,

Dear media: stop running Sex Matters press releases as though they were neutral findings of fact

The real victim at the centre of this absurd case is very clearly Dr Beth Upton To witness the way in which she’s been dehumanised and vilified by Peggie and their (Sex Matters) legal team, the tribunal judge, the British media, and UK politicians has been beyond horrifying Solidarity Beth

If the headlines spinning this as a win for Peggie seem pre-written, I guarantee it's because they were, however carefully couched they might seem after some hasty editing.

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Key figure in recent Morecambe takeover "[suspected] of belonging to terrorist organisations in India." Blimey. www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids

In the puberty ban consultation, before it was made permanent, academics like me told the Gov this was happening. We noted the risk of youth who are self-meding avoiding engagement with routine healthcare, leading to wider healthcare inequalities. Our testimony was dismissed as 'anecdotal evidence'

Petition to only ever refer to Hadley Freeman as a "Woody Allen activist" from now on.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

David Lammy comes out as pro torture.

There is a reason that torture protections are the unlimited Human Right. It’s always, unquestionably, evil. There’s no balancing it. Why would you seek to weaken that prohibition?6

Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government." The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

Here we go

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer starting a newsletter on *Substack* in 2025 is just a wee bit on the nose, isn't it

"There are too many mental health diagnoses in the UK, but all those Greens are nuts" Labour. December 2025.

It says a lot that This lady was cited in the manifesto of Anders Breivik and she is still invited to be on TV over 15 years later

This is awful framing from the government who have the responsibility to tell a more humanising, honest, and generous narrative about migrants and migration. Migrants didn’t wreck the country or economy, the tories and this rigged system did.

Imagine being an ISS astronaut and leaving the actual planet Coldplay are on, only for this to be not far enough away from them

Through its knee-jerk attack on a prominent Black woman, I wonder whether the Mail has found a deeper truth. How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

astonishingly damning of Joe Biden & his legacy that he sat in the white house for four years with the Epstein files in one hand and the fresh memory of J6 in the other but somehow couldn't, wouldn't use either to land a knockout blow on Donald Trump. what a feeble, crooked excuse for a president.

I’ve made my original target so I’ve extended it, if you can donate, please do, my first shift is nearly two weeks away www.justgiving.com/page/lina-s-...

Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.

Today, on the 36th anniversary of the attack at École Polytechnique in Montreal, I am reflecting on the violent and brutal murders of 14 women whose lives were taken in a horrific act of femicide.

If you're American and don't know the details, The gunman, angry about women in science, went into a lecture hall and told the men and women to stand on opposite sides of the room. He told the men to leave, they did, then he shot the women. He continued through the building just shooting women.