Council motion highlights community cohesion, but the level of local hate crime and any changes in that level are not recorded objectively | Adam Green

Too right they can

He 'apologized to all those “who feel deeply uncomfortable.”' That's all right than, we will stop feeling uncomfortable. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

Bad faith actors try to justify their desire for a blanket ban on trans women in female prisons with misinformation, let's look at the facts | Sophie Molly

Our Scottish friends didn't like Mr Ratcliffe's comments either bylines.scot/society/jim-...

When girls grow up and become women, they can be ANYTHING they want, they don’t need permission from anyone | Yumna Zahid Ali

Are you appalled that the Reform candidate here in Manchester, Matt Goodwin has said ‘young girls’ should be given ‘biological reality’ checks? And has said that there should be a “negative child benefit tax” on “those who don’t have offspring” [email protected] if you wish to write

The only thing more powerful than hate is love ❤️ northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi... Earth’s Follies: Week 52 – boos, sulks and coal-fuelled delusions| Xylb'tok the Martian for @northwestbylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk #Trump #BadBunny #politics

Boos at the Olympics, a bridge held hostage, coal crowned king – and love outshining hate at halftime, Earth remains… consistent | Xylb-tok the Martian

Boos at the Olympics, a bridge held hostage, coal crowned king – and love outshining hate at halftime, Earth remains… consistent | Xylb-tok the Martian

Boos at the Olympics, a bridge held hostage, coal crowned king – and love outshining hate at halftime, Earth remains… consistent | Xylb-tok the Martian

Take that Reform 2025 Ltd! Women are not breeding vessels. They can be what they want in life, no permission needed.

When girls grow up and become women, they can be ANYTHING they want, they don’t need permission from anyone | Yumna Zahid Ali

What price love?  | Diana Ward

What price love?  | Diana Ward

Boos at the Olympics, a bridge held hostage, coal crowned king – and love outshining hate at halftime, Earth remains… consistent | Xylb-tok the Martian

Love it! Top level truth trolling ❤️ from @everyonehateselon.bsky.social

Are you appalled that the Reform candidate here in Manchester, Matt Goodwin has said ‘young girls’ should be given ‘biological reality’ checks? And has said that there should be a “negative child benefit tax” on “those who don’t have offspring” [email protected] if you wish to write

How Parliament can govern the Government by changing legislation for a progressive future in the Single market and the EU | Cleisthenes' Disciple

Dear neightbour... a letter NOT coming from any political party trying to win your vote, but just a friendly chatty letter from a concerned individual | Alice Brockway

With a high speed rail connection between Manchester and Birmingham, did we get the full Northern Powerhouse Rail agreed? | Peter Sagar

This is succinct and necessary truth telling. We are headed towards really challenging and difficult times and ignoring climate breakdown is no longer an option. Don’t normalise disaster or accept the status quo. We all need to learn resilience. #climateresilience

The people of Minneapolis express their love for their city, to help each other and especially the children cope with recent events. | C J Gronner

#CimateChange in the #UK Part 4 Billy & Will @northwestbylines.co.uk| illustration: Dormouse

Last in our series: politicians normalise disaster, people develop crisis fatigue – the solution: climate resilience that actually works | Willy and Bill

Exciting times are ahead for BAFTA collaborator actor Christopher Lee-Power as he is starting a very busy year | Christopher Lee-Power

Bad faith actors try to justify their desire for a blanket ban on trans women in female prisons with misinformation, let's look at the facts | Sophie Molly

“The core of the problem sits inside the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, which is meant to keep elections free from suspect money. A UK-registered company can donate if it is ‘carrying on business’ in the UK. Sounds firm, until you see how soft it is in practice”

Reform receives donations worth £200,000 from a luxury design firm, and Britain’s ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ democracy doesn’t question it | Willy and Bill

The spaceTesla has finally moved out of Xylb'tok's transmission path, so we have been able to retrieve all the images for this post and add them in. northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

Earth’s Follies: Week 51 – FAFO, King Bruce and the Bigot Awards northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi... Week 51 sees ICE back down, artists silenced, journalists arrested, Canada under siege allegedly | Xylb'tok, Martian correspondent @northwestbylines.co.uk #USA #politics #Mars Images by dormouse

Trump filed a defamation case against the BBC: an analysis part 1 - by @northwestbylines.co.uk Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, which stands very little chance of legal success northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/tv... #BBC #Trump #defamation

Trump has sued large media organisations before – it seems to be more about muzzling the press than defamation or money | Dominic Jackson

Cheshire East council tax could rise by 9.99% in 2026, under plans needing special government approval | Adam Green

Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, which stands very little chance of legal success | Dominic Jackson

And here is the missing picture. We have no idea why it doesn't show.

Week 51 sees ICE back down, artists silenced, journalists arrested and Canada under siege allegedly – the absurdity continues | Xylb-tok the Martian

United Utilities have apologised for ‘any inconvenience caused’ when they set up accounts for previous tenants of now uninhabitable premises | Steve Basings

The government’s proposed plans aim to increase internet safety, yet directly contradict expert cybersecurity guidance | Cleisthenes' Disciple

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

The endgame and the legal defence, billionaire bunkers, fortress politics and the ECHR northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/... -by Willy & Bill for @northwestbylines.co.uk 'The Ballroom' - by dormouse #climatechange #democracy #ECHR @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Trans people were persecuted in Spain during the Franco regime, but Spain is now accepting and supportive of LQBTQIA+ individuals | Sophie Molly

Where climate breakdown is pushing us, billionaire bunker fantasies and fortress politics, why the ECHR and Human Rights Act matter (pt 3) | Willy and Bill

One of my absolute favourite landscape painters

Musk has merged SpaceX, xAI and X. He claims he will build AI data centres in space to make a “sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the Stars!” A reminder of my warning in @northwestbylines.co.uk last year of Musk’s deranged Mars-first fantasy. ⬇️

With the planet in crisis and fast approaching a point of no return for climate and environment, Whitehall wants to assess things before acting | Willy and Bill

After 18 years of decline, Reform are promising radical change. But who was it who broke Britain, and how did they do it? Here, the author lays out all the culprits ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

Adam, a boy born with fused fingers, dreams of getting the surgery that could change everything, but that’s hard when growing up in Gaza | Jennie Kermode

Julian Cooper comes from a family of artists, and his latest book is a testimony to his life and his work as a painter of mountain landscapes | Eileen Jones