Aren’t they all? This is how Tories and Reform really think. Convinced of their own superiority and right to power, they’re quick to be sneering, racist and bitter when they fail. Always blaming. Never taking responsibility. Or feeling any shame. Cummings is nothing. But god he’s furious about that.

The Kremlin's top sociologist is warning of civil war in Russia. He's blaming childless women and LGBT people. 🙄 youtu.be/IEJJaitKz4I?...

Starmer is telling on himself again. He needs to pack his bags and bog off. Nasty man. >> Keir Starmer, who took to X to pay tribute within hours of the assassination of right-wing firebrand Charlie Kirk, was yet to acknowledge Mamdani’s historic win on the same platform at time of publication.

The master race. 🙄

This could get spicy if and when the dagger is plunged. If Labour continue to back the bent lawyer and bent cop Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney's far right inclined operation they'll lose more seats than if they don't. Go down or go down hard. Their choice. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Healthcare for trans women and trans girls could be easily managed at the GP level and the government is refusing to do it. Trans healthcare for trans women and trans girls *is* women's healthcare. The media and politicians need to include us too. www.independent.co.uk/voices/adhd-...

Yup. Software distribution and purchase and licensing etc needs an open standard. www.techspot.com/news/110133-...

Wes Streeting's conversion to being progressive and styling himself as the new Mamdani didn't last long. Apparently, Maitlis on The Newsagents asked him why Labour aren't more like that and he turned into neoliberal jelly.

It's all about positioning and marketing. There's two things going on here: * Solve people's ambitions/economics. * Present trans women as the woman next door. This gets you away from omg scary communism, and misgendering and debates. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey for boosting an article linking American police abuse to the IDF. The outrage off Starmer about this when he had been up to his neck in pro Israel fraud to win the leadership? Also his transphobia? Same game. youtu.be/PKSxweRKbkc?...

Perception is reality. It's about positioning and marketing. Neither Polanski or Mamdami's campaigns happened by accident. It's the work you don't see working on crafting the policies and message and word of mouth. But without a product you have nothing. No amount of "comms" will save you.

We need to frame this as “Billionaires need to *take less* - framing it as they’re going to “pay more” implies that they’ve somehow ‘earned’ their billions - “taking less” (including taking less tax breaks) so that there’s more to go around for everyone else is grounded in equity narratives.

The best strategy is pushing forward regular trans like, say, Vivian Wilson as she's relatable *and* exposing NHS and other abuses. This sidelines transphobes misgendering and debate. Perception is reality. It's all about positioning and marketing. That's where the usual suspects failed.

Labour’s “Growth Commission” is chaired by Shanker Singham 👉 the same Brexit deregulator backed by Liz Truss + Tufton Street. The man who sold “Singapore-on-Thames” 🦄 is advising Starmer’s Labour. McSweeney’s fingerprints all over it. Proof Labour’s been captured www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:ygzil4zyj56fuji2oxflb7qt/post/3m4w74accs22t.

Both Labour and in the US the Democrats made the fatal error of assuming the LGBT vote was marginal, could be diluted, and wasn't motivated. They also forgot that the LGBT vote shitposting and badmouthing them has a big reach and ripples outwards.

The same govt which wants to build a fortress around itself is okay with random women whether born cis or trans being accosted by the toilet police, random asylum and refugee hotels being protested, and wanting to remove European Convention Article 8 rights from both.

Thoughts from the desk of, as you do. I unexpectedly had an enormous dose of the sneezles. Carry on.

👏👏👏 well said 👏👏👏

Two things from this exchange between Phillipson and her Shadow equivalent from today. 1) Worrying that Coutinho doesn’t know what month the SC ruling was. The transphobia is, of course, unsurprising. 2) We are still fucked looking at Phillipson’s comments. No RIA but a quicker minimum assessment.

The job adverts for EHRC Commissioners (4 posts) are finally out. Deadline: 1st December. If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...

I first watched this last year and watched it again this week. It still wows you even when you known how and can see the trick being done. I like his laid back bullshit patter. It's funny. Also those magicians hands. You know they're up to shit! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnKS...

Interesting. Europe was ahead of the US with both composite headlights and adaptive beam headlights. Americans like to make out they were the first, the biggest, and best with everything. This is mostly swagger and sales pitches. They're not the only show in town. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BA...

The PM is going to a rainforest in Brazil tomorrow. Britain has rainforests too. I agree with the Woodland Trust: "This feels like a lost opportunity to demonstrate domestic leadership in the protection & restoration of the UK's own precious temperate rainforests." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The birth of the NHS post war was a socialist act by a _back then_ socialist Labour. By the way, the Tories voted against it. Let that sink in. Socialism =/= Communism

One thing I've noticed is the sudden use of the word "manhunt". That's an American term which drama fueled overweight small dick macho cops seize upon and has media frothing at the mouth. We're not Americans. Shit happens. Just let the cops do their job silently in the background.

No I think it's a good point to question why people know more about America than they do of the community of nations on their own doorstep or even their own country. The UK shares a language with the US and lazy journos and govt being captured by Tufton Street et al keeps us ass kissing America.

Grifter, backstabbing careerist, and slimy transphobic religious nut Wes Streeting pretending he's Mamdani's best friend to get ahead. Streeting is the same man who abuses trans kids after having previously worked for the Helena Kennedy Foundation and Stonewall.

Owen Jones is riding bandwagons for attention again. This time it's Mamdani. He'll whine and moan that people aren't doing enough when all he's done is exploit trans women and trans girls for clicks, dropped us when he got bored, and silenced us in favour of his latest hobby horse.

One thing people are missing about good campaign performances is they don't just turn up and mouth off. There's a lot of design and consultation work which goes into it which depends on both marketing expertise and domain expertise. The UK is generally crap at this.

So far Zack gives no indication he's listening to anyone, or may be recycling the same old positions and voices which got us into this mess in the first place. He hasn't done great so far and needs to pull his socks up.

Note how little Wes Streeting and the Guardian are concerned by the rabid transphobia they're peddling and driving into every corner of the NHS and public life. No mention either about Starmer's bigotry and transatlantic ass kissing turbocharging this or racism. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Americans are great with the everyman persona and marketing and selling back to us the shit we invented after scaling it up. Because we share a language we spend too much time grovelling to them and importing their bad shit. We know more about what happens there than our own doorstep.

The British generally speaking have no confidence. We can do stuff over here and do it first or better then some yank comes along and they're all "Oooh America's changed the world and we can do what they do". Yeah, great but other places in Europe, Japan, South America etc which do stuff too.

People who "got theirs" or cis people not effected by anything have the luxury of doing a big whoop because some random foreign politician won an election. The reality of my life is I can't walk through the door of the transphobic NHS without getting shit. Change that *then* I'll be impressed.

Noticing people get more caught up in a random American New York politician than anything which happens in Europe if they even know it exists. I'm not American nor do I live in New York. We have our own shit to sort out and don't need to wait on the Americans before doing anything.

Living in Bristol I wouldn't consider this a none story. This is a step up from the reaction from BCC's former head of legal dept who after quitting his job admitted he was a terf. The only thing that matters is policy. I'd rather have that than a million parades.

Everyone getting caught up in hype. That's political campaigns and social media. They forget there's this thing called delivery and in the middle something called work. I'm here for trans rights and healthcare and so far seen shit off Polanksi let alone Mamdani who's American and lives in New York.

Keir Starmer is such a desperate greedy social climber. He just needs to sex himself up like Bill Gates then he'll really make his breakthrough. Lol

75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it. We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life. We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Massive YIKES that @europarl.europa.eu are platforming obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobes like Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull - who is embedded with the anti-gender movement - as part of their ‘Gender Equality Week’! 😣 This is NOT ‘feminism’ or ‘protecting women’ - it’s BIGOTRY!

I want to see changes to the Lords but it's notable that unless I've missed something we've got a stronger statement and response to Elon Musk's dangerous comments on UK politics from a Labour member of the House of Lords than from the Prime Minister of a member of his cabinet.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Old Spice when originally launched was a ladies brand. Men bulldozed women out of the way later!

Labour are behaving like an abusive ex begging for people to come back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt0p...

Interesting. Below their post linking to an obituary of Dick Cheyney the Guardian responded to a fact check about Liz Cheyney. This is the first time I've seen them do this. They've never responded to complaints about their transphobia.

This is a decades old discussion. There's a place for tight maps and bigger maps but otherwise the overall argument presented here is correct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atx4...

Given the utter failures of NHS data collection in adult gender services, this unfortunately does not surprise me.

The original LBC article has been taken down. Perhaps the free speech warriors in Reform began making legal threats? It's a news blackout among all the other mainstream media outlets. web.archive.org/web/20251103...