🚨New article🚨 What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy? This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’' 1/ shorturl.at/jptiu

📜 RPRN statement 📜 HEPI’s Preparing for Populism is a profoundly unhelpful document that mistakes capitulation for strategy Research, critical inquiry, expertise, and the transmission of knowledge are not incidental irritants reactionary projects, they are its targets reacpol.net/populism-hepi/

📣New publication 📣 'A Cure for ‘Populism’? Diagnostic and Prognostic Framing in Anti-Populist Political Punditry' in @psrjournal.bsky.social. In this paper, I show how the 'cures' prescribed by anti-populists are elite-centric and embolden reactionary politics. 🧵 /1 doi.org/10.1177/1478...

This is a terrible and retrograde step for the recognition of trans people in India, which was already pretty damn bad. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/lok-sa...

The Danish Social Democrats received their lowest result since 1901 after spending their mandate centring far-right politics and discourse on immigration As we argue in our report below, this strategy is not only a bad electorally, but politically and morally There must be *another* alternative

Handy fact check for anyone in doubt and it’s worth sending to people because I’m amazed at how many sensible people I’ve spoken to who think ‘abortion to birth’ is real www.reuters.com/fact-check/b...

A school leadership team has misused safeguarding procedures against a librarian for stocking 'controversial' books - which, by the way, are not controversial at all. This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Really proud of what we've done here and happy to have worked on it with such excellent colleagues!

I am a co-author on this policy study for @feps-europe.eu with colleagues from @reacpolrn.bsky.social. Please give it a read if you want to help resist the far right!

Progressive resistance against the far right must be uncompromising and, as such, must be radically intersectional. Some communities cannot be sacrificed to appease the far right and all must be protected. An injury to one is an injury to all If you want to read more: feps-europe.eu/publication/...

3) Terminological precision is a precondition for any successful strategy 4) Embrace populism and accept polarisation 5) Public opinion is constructed and predominantly shaped in a top-down manner 6) Don't panic 7) Uncompromising radical intersectionality as a starting point 5/

Our recommendations are: 1) Progressive elites, from parties to intellectuals and the media must take responsibility and lead on progressive issues rather than place the blame on a reactionary construction of "the people" 2) The left cannot allow the far right to dictate what is common sense 4/

We argue that the process finds its source in the mainstream itself and in a predominantly top-down manner. This means that mainstream elites, and progressive actors in particular, have a key role to play in countering this trend 3/

The report is co-authored with @franamery.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social, @emilykendrick.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @alexepisteme.bsky.social and @alexyates2000.bsky.social The research links to the discussions taking place more widely as part of the @reacpolrn.bsky.social 2/

🚨New policy study🚨 There must be an alternative: Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space We make seven key recommendations to turn the tide @feps-europe.eu 🧵 1/ feps-europe.eu/publication/...

The far right and anti-abortion movement are repeatedly using the language "legalise abortion up to birth". When the reality is that the changes take abortion out of the criminal code - making it a healthcare issue not a criminal issue. This brings us in line with most of Europe.

🧵Some Lords are busy trying to wreck abortion decriminalisation. An amendment to report every girl under 16 who has a legal abortion to the POLICE and Sharron Davies wants to ban telemedicine that allows early abortions to happen at home in privacy

I've said it over and over but: anti-trans 🤝 anti-abortion

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

The NHS as it stands is being organised to opt for violence rather than medical consent. This can only continue to degrade trust by the public in healthcare bodies, as well as enacting direct harm to people facing healthcare administration by rule of force rather than consent.

I want to be friends with every single person on youraislopbores.me

"Farage to be blocked from No 10 by the majority of people who do not want him to be Prime Minister"

There are no lows Starmer is not willing to reach to in his attempt to please the far right and attack anything left of centre www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov) ➡️ Ref: 23% (-1) 🟢 Grn: 21% (+4) 🔵 Con: 16% (-2) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-2) 🟠 Lib: 14% (=) Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)

Narratives against DIY routinely fail to acknowledge that the trans community is a community that on a fundamental level *needs* access to materials such as medicines for transition, and restricting these severely is going to drive criminalisation of the trans community as a minority altogether.

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

🟥 Red Lines 🟥 "Sexual violence and sexual fear are means by which life, death and living-death are organised to support accumulation" Alison Phipps on The coloniality of sexual violence, based on her forthcoming book reacpol.net/why-red-line...

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises' This is why we need Red Lines reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

anti-abortion groups don't see abortion as a single-issue - they are simultaneously funding & driving anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI, anti-migrant [...] efforts in the UK and transnationally. it isn't just 'what happens in the US', it's also what they've funded in Uganda, Hungary, Mexico, Poland [...] 1/

Fascists did finally get blocked from carrying on their route so they're now headed down into the gay village where they've been redirected by the police (great thinking guys!)

'Blackpilled strikes a balance between reviewing pillars of far-right extremist communities within the “manosphere” and sharing important insights specific to“black pill” ideology.' Diana Wallens reviews Meadhbh Park’s Blackpilled: Masculinity, Media and Incels. reacpol.net/blackpilled/

Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go. If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.

We're also getting questions about what the decision means for service providers whose toilets are also used by employees. The High Court doesn't deal with this - and frankly the law is a terrible mess - but the safest (and frankly the most efficient) thing to do is make all toilets unisex.

An important takeaway – the High Court has made clear that the Code of Practice has gotten the law wrong. It will need to be rejected by the Minister.

Baffled by what this will mean for universities and anywhere else that service users (students) and employees are using the same facilities

This is sure to be a great event. For anyone interested in decolonial studies, feminist thought, democratic theory, psychoanalysis, or (anti-)populism make sure you sign up to this hybrid book launch below!

At the time she nodded along, along with acknowledging our concerns about pro conversion therapy groups lobbying the Cass review process, told us not to believe what the right wing press was saying about things she'd briefed in private. Then the end result was what it was. Deeply deceptive.

We (trans safety network) met with Cass during her research on the Cass review and explained how clearly ridiculous it would be to try and bring haircuts and self expression under the authority of being a "medical intervention". She went away from that meeting and produced this crap anyway.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)

🗳️ How young men would vote in #GE2029: 🟢 Grn: 30% (+18) 🔴 Lab: 21% (-19) 🟠 Lib: 17% (+1) 🔵 Con: 12% (+2) ➡️ Ref: 12% (=) Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

Gf had an appt a while back about a chronic shoulder injury and the GP had printed out her (extremely long) report and diagnosis from the gender clinic and left it prominently on the desk. Not sure if trans broken arm syndrome or whether GP just thought they needed a manual to talk to a trans person

📣Webinar announcement📣 Join us on Zoom (26th February, 12pm GMT) for a conversation in Spanish on 'Art, Memory, and Antifascist Genealogies' with Espe Pons and Jorge Marco.

Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.

My partner (who works in mental health) is on a kick about how bad the images in 'easy read' versions of documents often are, and sent me the following example (ironically from a guide to how to produce easy read documents):

was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read