(Trans) Women, know your place. Don't get uppity.

Yet if you watched the media and read the papers you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was a straight race between Burnham and Streeting. Even Starmer would beat Streeting.

The dark side of reality television was discovered decades before reality television. #bbcpm Spot Brian Cox. youtu.be/JxJqi36rtUY?...

"...just in time for the Bank Holiday Weekend!" #bbcpm

So the global financial crash and austerity didn't explain it? Absolute junk science. #bbcpm

This was being heavily promoted on #r4today the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme earlier and haven't we heard this sort of thing before? 'Former Labour Policy Coordinator Jon Cruddas, who also co-chairs the Commission' Guy who founded Labour Together? #wato #bbcwato www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour ran on a platform of change in 2024. They won an overwhelming majority and could literally have passed any laws they like. Instead they chose to continue to bully vulnerable communities.

This sums up the new post-left / hard right alliance, e.g. Labour Together. The progressive case for <insert regressive policy>

So the US president kicks up a stink about the BBC, the Director General resigns, and someone from a US tech giant ends up as Director General. #r4today

There is talk about if we were to rejoin the EU we wouldn't be able to join on such good terms as we had. But the those terms were being less involved: paying less in, not being in Schengen, not in the Euro... #r4today

The BBC simultaneously expressing ennui about "culture wars" while supporting and promoting them. #r4today screedvault.neocities.org/post/2025110...

The BBC have long been having dollar signs in their eyes about a broadband tax. #r4today

A "digital first" BBC will be like water soaking into sand. #r4today

Google have developed a bit of a reputation for rug-pulling services. #r4today

These think tank based moral panics over "what unites and divides us" sometimes seem to end up pushing the discussion to the right, and arguably this is a right wing talking point. #r4today

One wonders why august publications would not wish to be held up to public scrutiny?

#ThisGuy #BBC #GCbeebies

"We need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights"

Everybody's gangsta until it's not just trans people being attacked. youtube.com/shorts/3LyTM...

#Legal #America

#ThinkTank #PolicyExchange

One really fascinating point here (among many) is that a peril of organic-looking PR is less that people will be tricked into liking a band, and more that some journalists can be suckered into treating people/phenomena as massively influential when they probably are not!

#ThinkTank #ProgressConference

Proud ‘Terf Island’ flags at the Unite The Right March.

Some ships sail from their ports, and ever afterwards are missing

Many Labour MPs, maybe even the PM, will tell us today that the far right rally doesn’t represent the British people. Meanwhile, the policies they support help normalise, at times deliver directly, what the far right want. This is not how we are better; it is not how opposing the far right works.

Elevator pitch: It's authoritarianism, but this time we justify it with liberal principles turned against themselves. #ElevatorPitch

Counting the seconds till a journalist asks Andy Burnham "What Is A Woman?"

This isn't a joke?

I'm waiting for Burnham to be asked the #WhatIsAWoman question.

The Establishment has given itself the challenge of somehow justifying public bullying of certain despised minorities while shining a spotlight on outrages against other selected minorities. This unequal treatment is blatant and is one of the pillars of fascism. #r4today bsky.app/profile/sara...

We can't have Police or government urging sensitivity to one group and this not specifically violent slogan could be interpreted as threatening given sensitivities while we must respect "free speech" over an actual exhortation to violence against another group. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Jess Phillips, the women’s minister and a Streeting ally" www.independent.co.uk/voices/wes-s...

it's really sad how we went from large gay orgs being unapologetically radical and calling out both parties for their bigotry, to today where the large gay nonprofits basically just function as arms of the Democratic party.

ISC has revealed the government is withholding Peter Mandelson’s vetting file despite not having authority to do so. In extraordinary intervention, the powerful committee has criticised government over its handling of release of papers www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#BBC #GCbeebies

#bbcpm How normies can witness this and not 1. Empathise 2. Imagine how they could be in danger Baffles me. We are in a giant Milgram / Stanford Prison Experiment

#TransKids #DHSC #NHS #WarOnTrans #WarOnFreedom

#PolicyExchange #ThinkTank

Always a good laugh when the BBC present themselves as being above culture war stuff. #r4today

Where there is no vision the people perish.

#America #TrumpAgenda #Project2025 #UnreportedBBC

#Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, from very quick research/replies here, it seems our new shiny Health Minister believed trans women are women in 2022 but declined to answer the question in 2025. Another spineless fuckwit that blows with the right wing wind.