We already do, you patronising arse. (Especially to trans and disabled people).

Of course, Sachsgate should have been the end of Brand's career.

Not sure how many of these people are trans women ?

An unholy alliance between tax avoiders, the Lib Dems, and the far right has saved millionaires some spare change. Embarrassing the government has crumbled to such a fringe campaign.

Forstater found that you can have transphobic beliefs, and yet we are now stretching that bad judgment to say that institutions must platform and secure preaching of it, and that's just not what it has found. Are we platforming all hate? Treat the racists like our PM the same way? Oh wait.

In the past month 3 transport routes have collapsed - but they aren't roads so don't make national news. All 3 have the same root causes, climate change, and Tory austerity passing responsibility for critical infrastructure on to charities and councils. This will happen more, and people will be hurt

BBC Board & Editors We’ve lodged a formal complaint over repeated failures to meet the BBC’s own editorial standards when reporting on trans people, and their repeated use of language the BBC style guide explicitly warns against. 2/6

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

All three top stories tonight are about men accused of rape or sexual assault of women. Some with great power + influence, some without. Some white, some not. Some religious, some not. The only commonality is that they are all men (cis men). Men who are accused of the most awful & cruel acts.

Went to the supermarket after work. It's a warzone, shelves stripped. Rude, greedy customers roaring at frazzled staff. A shout out to all retail workers. Merry Christmas to you all 🎄🍸 I salute you. God knows how you do it. Thank you.

Also! It should be noted that the paper she was supposed to be responding to was NOT about trans people. She just went off on that tangent because she thought the paper was about that.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Is the Scottish police service openly collaborating with an anti-trans group…? If this is the case there needs to be an urgent investigation into its activities. Police Scotland is not even pretending to be neutral or even-handed.

If you missed this, reporter Veronica Esposite took us inside a fight at the APA over whether the conversion therapy lite group Therapy First should be allowed to offer continuing ed classes to therapists. It's an important, original story only on Assigned Media.

Here's me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social arguing that the only way to forestall a Reform government is to make a more decisive break with neoliberalism than Starmer is ever going to, or most of the parliamentary 'soft left' still seem capable of imagining. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Judge throws out anti-semitism case against Reginald D Hunter

This is an insane situation where a member of a minority explained that a joke was hurtful and ill considered, the mortified artists immediately removed it & apologised and some elements in the media are acting like this is a bad thing.

Who knew transphobia led to easily to homophobia? All of us. We all did.

Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄

This Christmas Day join us for #JoinIn on Bluesky. Just use or look for the #JoinIn hashtag. Lovely people coming together for chat and cheer - especially for those who may be alone or troubled at Christmas, or just looking for a bit of fellowship. See you there! Please share

challenge – how well do you know Canterbury? (looking for an unidentified building and/or more volunteers to look at glass slides from the early 20th century!) collections.sal.org.uk/gls.02.1353

The mark of a free society is that there is the right to protest & to free speech. Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!

quick. someone tell him about the 'gender critical' network openly operating within manchester police.

I wonder how many disabled and vulnerable people will be ~tough decisioned~ to death to pay for this.

Also raises questions cis lesbian mothers (and come to think of it, unknown fathers). One of mine isnt on my b/c because that was unthinkable in 1983 but I was under the impression that that was no longer the case. But does this change that? Are they protecting women by reducing their rights again?

So now we have Sullivan working with Christian evangelicals, Stock doing work on behalf of the Christian Institute, and LGB Alliance have a track record of working with American Christian Nationalists. Hmmm, there’s a pattern emerging here. 🤔

If we care about protecting women and children, we need to stop banging on about the ethnicity, colour or religion of the perpetrator. A woman in Britain is far more likely to be attacked by a White man that she knows than a random “foreigner”. We’re not protecting women by ignoring that! 10/10

3 prohibited images 82 extreme images 1 charge each for four types - “rape, animals, death, gore” 500 breaches of the Obscene Publications act. This from a former Tory councillor, cabinet member for CULTURE, regeneration and economic development… 4/

MEN are the problem. (No, not ALL men. Please don’t go there!) There is no race, religion or ethnicity that should be focussed on or excluded. White Men British Men Black Men Foreign Men Christian Men Asian Men Muslim Men None are exempt. None are solely responsible. 8/

You can read Prof. McTerf's exclusive interview, "Why As A Leftie I Refuse To Be Cowed By The Radical Transgender Woke Liberati Untermensch", on pages 4-8, followed by an exclusive preview of her new book, "Trans People Are Coming To Get You Barbara: Look, Here They Are Now".

Prof. McTerf's nephew - a biological adult human male who currently shares a flat with a biological human adult male who once dated a non-biological adult human female-identifying male in the summer of 2015 - was available for comment, but to avoid bias we have declined his offer of an interview.

Prof. Karen McTerf has announced that she intends to sue her sister's family after being attacked by a woke nephew during a family dinner. "My own nephew, his face disfigured by woke hate, told me to read something other than Facebook. And my sister, his mother, only stood up and said 'dessert?'"

Breaking News: Better Things Still Not Possible.

lol starmer watering down the inheritance tax for farmer after a year of crying from millionaires and now it's going up to 2.5mil impact: farmers still just as angry rofl

Our terrifying, dystopian future in which Times journalists can only occasionally roar “answer the question, can a woman have a penis? Yes or no!” at politicians and party hacks, while angrily jabbing a finger in the air

Every single study into a 4 day week has concluded that it's beneficial for employees and shown there's not a drop in productivity. It's not a sign of failure, it's a sign of progress but the UK government is more than happy to stagnate at best and march backwards at worst.

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

I thought I was doing the right thing when I joined the Labour Party. I knew I was when I left.

Matthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk

An English local council innovates, evaluates what it did, finds it works (replicating an earlier study in Scotland) … and all councils are told by the Labour government not to try it. What message does this convey? Another victory for ideology & cowardice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder if all those economists (and everyone else) telling us we’ve never had it so good, have seen the news news.sky.com/story/briton...

In a world that seems determined to exclude us, it was a year that tested queer people in ways we didn’t expect www.wearequeeraf.com/what-2025-wa...

Another day, another own goal by the Labour government. What a pointless, silly little lie to repeat. 4 day weeks are not a sign of failure, they need to do some fucking research before spouting this nonsense.

We've all lost a big friend in @wombat37.bsky.social. I've written up a thing over on Blipfoto www.blipfoto.com/entry/345006... What a top fella, sail on well my friend.

It's genuinely insane that Ann Widdecombe (a socially conservative religious zealot) sensibly opposed this idea because she opposes trans women being raped. Labour MP Jonathon Pinder called her 'woke'. For opposing rape.

Reform oppose trans women being raped in men's prisons. Labour do not.

Govt minister Josh MacAlister says we have to change how we think about the care system for children. Does that mean kicking out the private equity backed providers who make huge profits running childrens homes? Of course it doesn't.

The Bruges Group have decided to go into children's literature and it's like they threw ideas into ChatGPT and got this. So many questions. First: Why is AI David Tennant on the jacket? 1/3

Consequences of poverty, austerity and fiscal rules. People in poorest areas of England ‘more likely to need emergency care for lung conditions’ Poor housing, pollution lack of quit smoking support, low investment in the NHS inflict misery and death.