So many problems are the result of England's institutions being in a transition state to full communism (List PR, regional parliaments and a directly elected presidency)

Amazing how much of UK political journalism is ventriloquising tradespeople with "my job at a right wing newspaper sometimes causes awkwardness in my extended social circle"

Maresca getting the Man City job reminds me of that time Leicester had a late-season wobble in 2023/4 (but still ended up winning the league with 97 points) and the Leicester message board did a poll and about 3/4 of them wanted him sacked. Great memories.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

The legal situation for trans people is now deeply incoherent and means that it is untenable for them to be able live their lives with dignity. This is completely out of line with the values of equality that a Labour government is meant to champion. [4/5]

The Code unfortunately still represents the culmination of years of anti-trans campaigning from a small, well-funded minority who have had outsized influence in the media and in politics, and have weaponised the courts for their own ends. [3/5]

While it appears that the government has successfully pushed back on some particularly harmful elements in the previous draft, the new Code of Practice will still lead to the exclusion of trans people from services and facilities that they have used without issue for a very long time. [1/5]

EHRC stuff means I am encountering another wave of bluesky transphobes. Surely the rummest cohort online. "I have fled X because I hate the owner (who I agree with btw)"

The amended EHRC Code of Practice has been released. Lots of people will make claims about what is and isn’t going to happen as a result, and there will be many different interpretations of the Code in the next few days. We urge everyone not to jump to conclusions.

Some good content for the JBM haters here isitcredible.com/cases

“Tasmania’s women’s services and sports groups have included trans women for many years, exposing as false the claim that trans women pose some kind of threat to other women.” 1/2 www.starobserver.com.au/news/nationa...

me when AI tries to do historical research or write a novel: well this fucking sucks, what the fuck me when AI ends mathematics: hahahah fuck yeah! yes!

In 2016, the FCO issued travel warnings to LGBT people after US states proposed “bathroom bans”, it was seen as so obviously extreme. www.theguardian.com/world/2016/a...

I think the time has come to ban the Labour Party and everyone in it.

This will be a more extreme bathroom ban than, for example, Alabama (whose ban is for state/public facilities only)

Phillipson is a relatively young person. I wonder if she has really thought through how this will follow her for the rest of her life.

Might do a thread of Aldi soft drinks. This one is banging. Recommended for Lilt (rip) fans

This thing the media does where they get people on to "illuminate the process" for the benefit of the plebs and they make it sound even worse than they thought... it's good imo

Doubt very much most Labour members know the details of the immigration changes and are just ticking the "this is the policy of the party I am a member of so I support it" button.

Only just clocked what a complete mess the BBC have made of their gender style guide.

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Once again the BBC text updates really adding value

When you win the league for the 14th time in 15 years

Confounding news for ex Twitter users of a certain era that Burley, who always seemed to be straining (badly) to disguise his reactionary tendencies when at the BBC, was indeed a reactionary all along

700 MW interconnector between France and Ireland going in the water. The first time Ireland's grid will be connected to the European continent. l'impressionnante installation d'un câble électrique de 500 kilomètres entre la France et l'Irlande | TF1 Info share.google/kwJTbswHNPL9...

Pretty sure this is actually a modification from an earlier version where the reporter just outright declared that they had a "wide range of views". Good stuff

Ref not even allowing a restart now he has delivered the goods for the deep state

Who could possibly have predicted that this campaign would end in violence? Oh that's right, literally everyone, because they're the fash and every single campaign they ever do ends in violence.

hearts title challenge based around an incredibly well organised defensive structure and scoring loads of goals from set pieces vs arteta’s arsenal doing the same

Hard to see a recovery from this broadside

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

Big green energy news: The Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farms DCO application has today been granted development consent by DESNZ At 3GW, it's one of the largest single consenting decisions in UK offshore wind history. If/when it's built, it will provide enough energy to power ~3 million homes.

Yeah he'll win it quite comfortably imo. I know that people online (and especially bluesky) are funny about this but people in GM like him, that's why he keeps winning by enormous margins across the whole region

wow if only there was some quantitative way to determine the degree of fondness that the constituents of Ilford have for Wesley Streeting once and for all. I guess all we can do is go and ask someone we find sitting outside a café.

It’s so cool how “a Liz Truss moment” stopped meaning “unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy” and started meaning “doing anything at all” immediately after the event www.theguardian.com/business/202...

i'll always remember where i was when i heard that Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership: i was at home, checking the news to see if Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership

Streeting told Starmer yesterday he didn't have confidence in him... but Starmer declined to sack him and had his spokesperson brief (twice in two days!) that he still had confidence in Streeting?? Funny

Bit of reflection needed from the lobby re: their indulgence of the obviously doomed Wes 4 Leader scam imo!

Used to think the complaints about "Starmtroopers" on here were exaggerated but no it's true there really are loads of them and they are all quite annoying! What's the deal with this site attracting very niche interests like "thinking the PM is good"

On that day, the fash 'peacefully expressed' themselves by doing sig heils and throwing full beer bottles and cans, fireworks and trash at us while we were kettled outside a Trafalgar tourist shop for several hours. This has, for some strange reason, never been mentioned in the papers

BBC News is unable to comprehend the level of organic support that exists in the community for trans people so they have to settle for casting non specific "doubts" about a consultation outcome, including an uncritical citation of a hate group

"Our obsession with social housing" 🤪🤪

Have listened to this 107 times apparently. Not enough! open.spotify.com/track/2jZK70...

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Ah yes the famously sharp Keir Starmer political operation of July 2024-February 2026

Luke Akehurst and Antonia Bance in the first eight names... wonder if this list will get any less cursed

Progressive voters are a lot less willing to compromise because the government spent two years telling them to fuck off (which was a thing within their control.) You can't blame the voters for listening.

Close all 169 UK universities and replace them with steel blast furnaces imo

Our new Green Party council in Lewisham have taken our bins… on a palestine march! 😠

There absolutely should be sackings at the Electoral Commission over this. A fake party that does no campaigning, will have spent £0, and whose own holocaust denying leader acknowledged is only there to confuse voters, came 7th, only explainable if it did indeed confuse voters.