Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

This is blackout poetry to me

We're working around the clock developing Chess 2

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about

Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...

To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil. Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights

A recipe for any company or organisation trying this nonsense to end up in court rightly accused of unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. www.acas.org.uk/religion-or-... Which the Supreme Court ruling explicitly says still applies.

i've been asking this all along & critics accused me of exaggerating but that's just the logical consequence of their position - if trans people are to be barred from single sex spaces & a venue *can't* create a gender neutral space, then what? www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

the ehrc leaked the draft guidance answers "what if a business doesn't have space to create gender neutral toilets?" then trans people just can't use the toilet there www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

As the PM heads to the Amazon for COP30, remember that Britain is also a rainforest nation. UK Ministers must support Brazil's plans to save the world's tropical rainforests. They must also set a goal to restore Britain's own lost temperate rainforests: lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/05/a...

Tired of people missing the point behind Lord of the Rings 😔

It’s past a joke at this point: EVERY trial into UBI has shown that it’s a net benefit to society, every one has been a success. But, the response is usually “one more trial, bro, just one more trial”.

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

"But now we shall both surely drown", said Sultana. "lol" said Corbyn, "Imao".

Britain's chemical castration plan for sex offenders seems like the most obvious attempt to avoid doing anything about sex offending, while giving the govt an excuse to release large numbers of offenders despite the fact people can and do offend while chemically castrated.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

🚨Meeting point and route change🚨 Saturday 13th September, Epsom, Surrey Trans+ Pride Surrey will assemble in the middle of Rosebery Park, Epsom from 12pm. The march will depart Rosebery Park’s west side at 12:30pm.

I have been watching FOUNDATION Season 1, entirely unrecognisable from the beloved Kate Nash source material

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

This is good; "Minister of Hypocrisy Wes Streeting" "So there we have it. One Irish person is charged with ‘terrorism’ in a UK court for speaking out against violence, while another Irish person is being held up as a victim of unfree speech for speaking out in favour of violence."

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

I still can't get over that phobes are claiming a woman openly saying racist slurs at a tribunal made a media circus by THEIR interest & promotion of it, paid for by mystery money (lol, we all know who) is a 'witch hunt'. She wasn't tricked! It's not heresay! She stood up there & said the P Slur!

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.

“Changes to the planning system made under both Conservative and Labour have put developers in an extremely strong position to build houses that maximise their profits and avoid building everything else.” THIS is what the government should be making noise about, not environmental protections.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

"LGBT" is not unsafe or inappropriate for minors. It is what a minority of them will be. Censoring it for anyone who can't pass an age verification check suggests that queer people are dangerous predators. It also stops queer kids from being able to find community. This is an online s28. End it.

Watching a whole people starve to death because of Israeli policy and because of the inaction of our government is horrifying, and it is also destroying our souls, not just those of our politicians who could act and don’t, but those of all of us who are forced to watch and do nothing.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

he's bitin the heads off the angels now

RIP Ozzy. An absolute legend. news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have! Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.

Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.

Reality check: * Starmer is a self-admitted transphobe. * Labour are banned from every Pride in the UK. * UK has dropped from #1 in Europe to the worst in Western Europe. * Trans adults and families with trans kids are fleeing the UK. * Lempkin Institute issued a genocide warning for the UK.

And day 18 is Colin Blunstone's version of Tim Hardin's "Misty Roses". Blunstone's One Year should be listened to by anyone who likes Nick Drake. Very similar in sound, with some of the best vocals and string arrangements I've ever heard.

Holy fuck

Via Defend Our Juries: "More than 100 people have now been arrested...for holding cardboard [Palestine Action] signs, with many subjected to raids on their homes." Still: "Protests are expected to resume on Saturday, inc. in Parliament Square, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester & Truro." Photo: DOJ

I’ve said it before and I will say it again: liberals and liberalism have turned transphobia into a mainstream, everyday, top tier, omnipresent social crisis. It was a niche problem driven by conservatives. Liberals blew it into the screaming global moral panic it now is.

Things we're told Councils can't just close: Roads where are safety concerns Things we're told Councils can close: Public toilets Public libraries Day Centres Footpaths Cycle lanes It's all choice. We don't have to accept this

Girls in your area Girls in proximity to your location Girls approaching your coordinates Girls have breached the perimeter Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the