Rwanda fails in its bid to get another £60-115 million from the UK - and so will have to settle for the £290 million it already got for the scheme that never happened www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

What I like about this is the suggestion he was hiding his opinions while at Ofcom.

Great piece by Susanna Rustin which is upsetting all the usual suspects!

Court throws out £100m Rwanda claim as botched Tory deal branded waste of money www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

🧵 I decided to take a look at how the chemical weapon denialists were responding to the latest news out of Syria about chemical weapons, and this reply from Aaron Mate says a lot about the credibility of the denialists positions.

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.

Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How can you say women's rights are not in conflict with trans rights when most women want single-sex spaces based on sex and you want to allow males into those spaces who say they have a trans identity? Are you just pretending not to see conflict or ignoring women? liberalvoices.org/thought-term...

Male people -however they identify -never had the right to access women's services, provisions & sports. Because these are for women. But males with trans identities ignored this & insisted on access anyway. Stonewall misrepresented the law. That misrepresentation has now been clearly exposed. End.

Is It Morally Wrong for Transwomen to Claim to Be Women? Holly Lawford-Smith. This is a long read but well worth the effort. journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/6/1/...

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

🔴 Anger Over Oxford Union’s Tommy Robinson Invite Amid Suggestions of GB News Deal GB News— whose presenter Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg sits as a trustee of the Union’s governing charity — is set to film the far-right activist’s appearance, @bylinetimes.bsky.social is told bylinetimes.com/2026/05/29/a...

Bluff well and truly called! 😂😂😂😂

I’ve lost track of all the mad and bad things that Reform’s Makerfield candidate has said. From misogyny to absurd conspiracy theories and pro-Russia propaganda. What’s amazing is this is their top candidate. The guy they have chosen to fight the biggest by-election in living memory. This guy.

This video is an absolute masterclass in Hitchensism because at no point does he actually mention what Graham Phillips has done (moved to occupied Donbas in March 2022 to make propaganda films for the Russian government).

Most of Westminster is living in a social media ecosphere where the most overtly far-right entity for generations is being boosted, funded and endorsed by the world's richest man and they, including the government, are broadly fine with that ecosphere.

Hitchens fails to address that Phillips is a pro-Russian propagandist, literally partied with occupying forces in Ukraine, denied war crimes, and filmed tortured POWs, and proudly received medals from Russian backed military groups for his efforts.

Initial momentum was led by left-wing feminists, many with a long background in trade union organising, in response to 2015 Tory proposal for self-ID. Right-wing activists jumped on the bandwagon a few years later, realising it could be used to split the left.

This is perhaps the thing that's annoyed me most about this government. They have had an opportunity to do something important AND in their political self-interest and instead chose to ignore it.

My latest: New Canadian Pediatric Society President Said Parents’ Concerns About Youth Gender Transitions 'Should Not Be Prioritized' benryan.substack.com/p/new-canadi...

'the demand that half the population, fifty-one per cent of the people in this country, surrender sex-based protections won through generations of organised political struggle, is not a rights claim. It is a power claim' 👏👏👏 labourheartlands.com/trans-rights...

Here is an archived copy of the Sarah Ditum article. archive.ph/2026.05.22-2...

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

' ... screening protocols, chain of custody, verification processes and athlete safeguards – including considerations around confidentiality and access to appropriate support – will be determined by each IF.' A clear weakness. There should be universal protocols & oversight.

Updates include: 'Transgender athletes are not excluded from IOC events, including the Olympic Games. Like all other athletes, they are eligible to compete in the category that aligns with their biological sex.' Exactly so. www.olympics.com/ioc/athletes...

This is untrue. Here's an IOC Update addressing these claims: bsky.app/profile/wome...

Former Post Office general counsel Jane MacLeod "significant individual" in criminal investigation. www.postofficescandal.uk/post/post-of...

We have released a statement on the EHRC Code of Practice and we call on our elected officials to accept the guidance and biological reality. liberalvoiceforwomen.org/blog/ehrc-gu...

Calling women who advocate for single-sex spaces a 'mob' & attributing attacks by drunken men on women to such advocacy increases polarisation, fans the flame of division & doesn't seem in good faith. What about elderly women who want single-sex intimate care? Are they responsible for this violence?

In response to Ian Dunt

Also spotted someone else sharing Ian’s views from 2020 on JK Rowling. Where have Ian’s liberal values gone?

Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage claims Russian hack! Doesn’t make the donation legal or declared. ”ask him about his connections to Russia & the consequences of Brexit, he'll put a stop to the conversation.” “Brexit was the best thing to happen for Russia...”👇 Where is the UK? www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Yep some men have tried to transgress women’s boundaries, without their consent, since the dawn of time. You’re just proving my point.

The reaction to guidance explaining men can't lawfully identify into women's facilities & services shows how much society values men's demands for validation over women's privacy, safety and dignity. And that's why I've become blunter in saying: NO. comment.press/answer-is-no

I find it interesting that so many on Bluesky think that because trans identified men feel uncomfortable or unsafe in men's spaces, they should be allowed into women's spaces, making women feel uncomfortable or unsafe, rather than men doing something about their own behaviour.

It's shocking the number of people here who seem upset that women have any human and equality rights at all, let alone rights that have to be taken into account.

Schrodinger's trans:

BBC News - Puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise – review. This is good news, and not a surprise to those who understand there is never a single cause of suicide, and that love and acceptance are protective factors.

Ladies and gentlemen, the excellent @sarahditum.bsky.social listened to that podcast so the rest of us don't have to. In Unherd.

Survivors Network actually settled with Sarah after the SC ruling - they posted an apology to her on their website & committed to adding a female-only option to the support they offer. Since then no female-only option has materialised, & the apology has been taken down. Women's groups in Brighton...

Thank you for raising this. Sarah Summers - a rape survivor - speaks about her experience in rape counselling when a male joined their group sessions. She is campaigning for a female only rape counselling meeting locally. See here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-sa...

In certain circumstances only providing mixed sex facilities may be indirect discrimination against women. For more information about when this might be the case I highly recommend reading Michael Foran’s piece. knowingius.org/p/when-are-m...

Yes agreed everyone has lost. Division, anger, time & money, medical & psychological harm, damage to credibilty of progressive causes, own goal for the right to exploit, etc. If only activists had focused on the rights & welfare of gender non conforming people rather than replacing sex with gender.

'Women never sought this divisive battle: until a decade ago we turned a blind eye to the few fully transitioned trans women who used our loos. Then activists pushed self-ID, threatened our safety and spaces, until women pushed back.'

If anyone has been radicalised it is obvs the likes of Lynskey and Dunt who affect to believe that men can become women through assertion, which is an extreme faith-based belief not one reached through the application of science or reason. Any yet JKR has been radicalised? Absurd.

Chair of Women & Equalities Committee with nothing whatsoever to say about women's legal rights to single sex services, provisions & sports when sex matters. All about the men (with trans identities). Disgraceful.

More name calling and unevidenced assertions. You are not making a strong case for why women should allow biological males into their spaces and sports. Issues have been found over the years - everything from attacks on young girls to women self-excluding. Here are just a few examples:

Something fascinating in current debates about single sex spaces and resources is the complete refusal to acknowledge that trade offs and compromises will have to be made, and that individuals might unavoidably suffer some detrimental consequences as a result of decisions they have freely made.