Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Obviously correct, and the public should ask how such a thing could’ve happened after their political leaders and media outlets won such a total and crushing triumph over the bigotry of the anti-racist, anti-austerity movement. It appears something funny was going on, there.

I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous. People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border. We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist https://theonion.com/study-finds-80-of-americans-lack-social-connections-to-pull-off-heist/

Innocent people end up in our criminal courts. Completely, terrifyingly innocent. And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial. Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

I'm so old I can remember when even the hint of the suggestion of racism was intolerably disqualifying. I wonder what has happened to change these people's opinion in the last six years?

So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"

That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election! *Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose

No.

Over the last year, myths about the Motability scheme have spread online and in the right wing media. Now, some of it is government policy.  In today’s Guardian, I set about finding the facts and why the idea of “free cars for the disabled” has taken hold. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Most of my #TTRPG games are on sale, with up to 50% off on the big stuff and bundles. My short D12 titles are still PWYW, so head on over and get a rules-light fast action bargain. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

So many bad-faith attacks on Zack Polanski. His own partner works in palliative care! About a third of carers are migrants. Among other things, Labour has banned them from bringing their partners and kids here. Labour pretending to care about them is nauseating.

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

This is not a suggestion, even remotely, that Labour's current strategy of "support us doing evil crap because otherwise Reform's evil crap will be worse" is the right one. Reform's evil crap will be, but they'll get away with a lot because Labour have laid the groundwork and "normalised it". 2/

for all the sanctimonious posturing about "hard choices", they're unwilling to confront the choice that's defined British politics for a decade: we can get the economy back on track, or we can continue to chase nativist sentiment but not both

Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.

Someone on the radio earlier talking about ‘the enormous sacrifices’ Lando Norris has made in his life to get where he is.

The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.

Labour's fundamental dysfunction is that it is the nominal representative of the left hand side of the political spectrum but its leadership class hold progressive politics in genuine, visceral contempt. Obviously that doesn't work. How could it?

Especially grim because this is a Labour government doing it, and there is no meaningful opposition. We have been deep in National Front Trumpy territory for many years now, no help is coming for a long, long time and what comes next will be much worse and uglier than this is.

Everyone involved knows Mel is a virulently racist fascist lunatic with horrendous views on the use of massive, murderous violence against civilians. But there she still is on Sky News, because her crackpottery is well within acceptable opinion, for our political/media class.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, said he was ‘disgusted’ by Neil Couling’s blogpost. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Today I Learned

cant get better long range support than the Three Wise Men

Every day in this country it's just the government frontbench finding another way to do BNP policies.

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There is much to say on this, but the very first point that must be made as a matter of urgency to the NEC is that excluding trans women is not a "compromise position", it is a segregation position, a biased position, a transphobic position and a morally repugnant position.

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's just bonkers, we should be able to say "No, that is simply false" and have that be the end of it. But since unfortunately they have the backing of our press and a plucky billionaire now all of society has to undo the arrangements we had settled into!

In practical terms, Labour and Reform become harder to tell apart on issues like migration every day. Where is the same outrage, understandably, seen against Farage when he talked about deporting children from those who will defend/deflect this because it is a "Labour policy". archive.today/ECeZx

It’s one of those lie after lie after lie situations: in order to protect the big lie that their brand of austerity politics is good for the economy and people, these lib freaks need to buy into the lie that people are faking mental health conditions caused by it www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

One of the people leading this likely farce is Simon Wessley whose previous work includes a reasonably well debunked study of ME which was used to make it harder for sufferers to get support or recognition. Streeting knows exactly what outcome he wants from this meassociation.org.uk/2018/02/gove....

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.

"24,000 households.. in Kent are waking up to a 5th day without water" One affected resident says, of the private water company, "these guys should be in jail" Labour could have taken our water back into public ownership. Instead they chose to side with the water companies.

It’ll be fun to hear “it’s the sacred moral duty of all you scum idiots to vote for us” from the same people who - last time this was an issue - worked relentlessly to ensure one million easily led idiots voted for the Lib Dems: a party that had 12 MPs before the election, and 11 after it.

There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

It is possible in social gatherings to turn your backs on bigots and not speak to them. GCs believe themselves to represent a majority of women: if this were true, they won't have a problem with being shunned by women who don't agree with them.

The people responsible should be whipped through the streets like dogs.

Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission. Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats. Is this justice? Is this liberty?

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.