When I transitioned through the sandyford clinic in the early 2000s it took so long that an internal investigation was launched to understand why it took close to three years for me to get from first appointment to surgery. The same clinic now has a waiting list of over three humN lifetimes.

Greta Thunberg along with hundreds of others is being kept in an Israeli prison where she is forced to stay in a cell crawling with bedbugs, refused food and water, and forced to take photographs holding Israel flags. But the West does nothing as Israel tortures its citizens.

As a flinty Gen Xer, I’m constantly embarrassed by the men of my generation who have embraced the worst possible politics. The only cool thing about our formative 80s decade was the counter-culture — everything else was about money and getting ahead.

Arrived in Prague and sat down to sort through my ballot Me: these are the worst elections I remember… My mother: the worst elections are when there is a one party system and you can’t vote for anything else, but you have to turn up and vote anyway, because they surveil you Me: ok, fair enough

Tom Baldwin, "We can't have politicians deciding which march goes ahead and which march doesn't go ahead, I don't think that's very British"

Astounding that in 2025 'woman gets top church job' is such an anomaly that that can be the headline. Like 'Frog becomes pope'.

Terrible news! One of Britain’s greatest comic actors has died. Patricia Routledge (1929-2025) immortalised the character of Hyacinth Bouquet in Keeping Up Appearances. Thoughts are with her friends & family & of course Sheridan. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

Horredous 🙁

MAGAts ended any possibility of unification when they said “…the despot is dead…” at the passing of a TRUE American, Jimmy Carter. When they said this, it was DESPICABLE and I will never forget it.

The man who is responsible for adding $2.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, and who is responsible for allocating $75 billion to kidnapping citizens, is taunting U.S. citizens by threatening to shutdown safety net programs. It’s time people. Courage over comfort.

Give Greta the Nobel Prize...

Simply listening to the experiences of women with conditions such as endometriosis will help to end the long-standing inequalities they face when it comes to medical progress

This is exactly what is happening.

PSA: if you ever need a meal and can't afford one and don't want to jump through these hoops, fund a gurdwara. They are obligated to feed you for free with no strings attached

This comment nails it. Frankly it’s none of anyone’s business who else is in a public lavatory, even if they consider someone is in the “wrong” one. If you’re upset by the mere presence of somebody else for reasons of your own beliefs, that’s your problem.

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

All are welcome here 🤍 Credit: The Book Wrangler

More chaos for Reform in Wales - after their former leader was convicted of pro-Russia bribery

Sandu: "This was not a normal election — it was a test of democracy under attack. And our citizens passed it." youtu.be/3Rd0OQ19FsI

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940. The money is going to be used *against* you.

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

As I stand amid a dizzying swirl of destructive distractions, I'm reminded again of this simple fact: Whatever is in the Epstein files must be incomprehensibly bad. All of this - **waves arms wildly in all directions** - it in service to keeping those files hidden.

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

As some of you know, for 4 years I've been working on a book about the last 80 years of popular culture as a flashpoint for the gay rights struggle. Sometimes I've wondered who it's for. Then yesterday a young gay man, maybe 23, asked me if Stonewall happened because everyone was in NYC for Pride. >

What are we doing to help with the cost of living? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scrapped peak rail fares 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Free prescriptions and eye tests 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Lower water bills and council tax than rest of the UK While Westminster governments deliver cuts and chaos, the SNP is delivering for Scotland.

Their strategy here is “Win over elderly reactionaries or bust”, and it’s helpful to understand that for them, “bust” means “very well-remunerated post-politics job with corporate donor” or at worst, “period in opposition, then try again with exactly the same shit”.

Friday. 1.30pm. 👇🏼 www.lbc.co.uk/article/pola...

Guys, big update on Portland today. My best friend works downtown, can see the war ravaged Federal Building from her office. She was stopped by this violent mob on her way to get (really good) soup for lunch. Troops are gonna be so bored, so damp & nobody will tell them where the good soup is.

Covid-19 Bereaved Families on today’s ruling ordering PPE Medpro to repay £122m to Govt “Nobody who had any part to play in the PPE scandal...should have any role in public life. Baroness Mone should have no role in making & passing the laws we all live under. Her title must be revoked immediately"

Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic. Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...

We are in the foothills of a solar-wind-battery civilisation. This is our best chance of avoiding catastrophe. But it threatens the profits of fossil fuel companies & nations - so these are pouring money into right-wing populism to stop the transition. This seems to me the biggest story in politics.

Nick Ferrari is claiming that "no-one is telling me about white grooming gangs so I'm not reporting them" Here's just one of many. Because he hides from social media, you can never get a direct message to him. @lbc.co.uk Fancy showing him @henryriley1.bsky.social? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

I spoke to a few people, including journalists, at Labour conference who had seen and believed claims on X that Multiverse – Tony Blair's son's company – had been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme @fullfact.org have checked this claim and it is untrue

Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

All those 'Companies' that supplied PPE using public Funds via the Tories VIP Lane that was unfit for purpose/substandard should be warned not to extract any money from or wind down those Companies. Their assets should be frozen NOW to the amount given Those who squandered money need investigating

In Matt 25 Jesus says that individuals & nations will be judged by how they care for the poor & sick. Govt is shutdown bc GOP wants to throw 12-20 million low-income/disabled Americans off Medicaid. Bc the GOP uses Jesus as a prop, while despising His actual commandments.

Here I am in March 2020 wearing the PPE that was available at the time for frontline services about to see an influx of extremely sick people with SARS-CoV-2 now known as COVID-19. I watched many die. Colleagues died. Michelle Mone should be in jail. And she should only be the first on a long list

I'll never forgive my fellow Americans for electing this utter piece of shit. They enabled an entire government full of the worst human beings imaginable and most Americans are too ignorant to even understand what they've done.

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

Kimmel described his show’s suspension as an “emotional roller coaster” while Colbert discussed how he learned that his show had been canceled.

Stay brave!! Beautiful work here!

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Jane Goodall came to our school when I was a kid. That whole week beforehand, all the teachers and faculty were freaking out and repeatedly telling us we had to be on our BEST behavior. This wasn’t some assembly about the importance of recycling, this was THE JANE GOODALL, who none of us knew.