Even in these times of rapidly shifting norms, there was something shocking about the recent Home Office change in internal guidance, slipped in without the need for legislative scrutiny, to deny British citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK “in an unauthorised manner”;

Going for Celtic 3 - 0 Aberdeen. Don't see any dig or craft in that starting Aberdeen line up.

Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.

The media blackout on the hunger strikers is disgusting. Nothing but puppets for the worst people in the UK. I've yet to meet a person in the real world who has heard anything about it.

#Starmer responds to Stephen Flynn's reference to North Sea Oil and Gas job losses by referencing Grangemouth, which imports US shale for processing. Is he rather dim, or duplicitous?

"Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality. Thus, biology cannot be invoked as a basis for such in legal terms." Augustin Fuentes.

And as for Wes Streeting kissing the Orange one's backside. Is a third state visit on the cards?

@channel4news.bsky.social "Patriotic opposition party", ReformUK. Really?

"In an email to Novara Media, Cunningham said: 'It is not my habit to comment to the media on cases in which I am instructed as counsel.'" Is she having a laugh? She did an BBC entire podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Microsoft asking why I cancelled my subscription... So I told them 🙂

Please can folks help me with this? My petition being discussed in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 parliament 14th Jan. this is the second time I’ve petitioned on this. STILL no action on providing abortion care to legal limit in Scotland petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

We need to ban men from trains.

Today's ScotRail coach has random seat numbering.

@channel4news.bsky.social Utterly inappropriate and misleading to use digital technology to alter the face of an interviewee on #Dispatches. While you acknowledge the use of the technology how this impacts the way in which the viewer absorbs the information is deceitful. Shocked CH4 have done this

@channel4tv.bsky.social Truly weird and troubling that Dispatches are digitally altering face, rather than blurring, for interviewee. So rather than focusing on the voice we are now "seeing" words spoken by a face that doesn't belong to the voice. Seems inappropriate and misleading.

Three U.S. bishops: Racially profiling migrants (and Americans) is a betrayal of the Gospel. www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act

Duncan Hothersall criticising "London-based" @stephenkb.bsky.social for having a "caricature" understanding of SNP politics is very funny. There's no group in the UK that has more of a caricature view of their political opponents than that of the Scottish Labour right towards the SNP.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

Looks like Politico gave Trump a free press conference.

this politico interview with trump is so fucking incompetent. nobody knows how to talk to this guy.

Remember when Helen Joyce was called out as "not an expert" by Australian courts - Now Maya Forstater has been told the same in the Peggie judgment! 👏👏👏 The judgement states outright that the evidence submitted by her & Sex Matters was “not skilled evidence.” This is the Tribunal’s exact wording!

Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Hahaha this is amazing. England lost the Euros final to Spain last year....the Mail might as well have said "victory for the England lads!"

I genuinely cant fathom how embarrassing and shameful it isto be a journalist in these times The outright abuse of power by so many must eat away at the few journalists who have a soul Just wish more used their power for better instead of worse But you can guarantee they are benefiting somewhere

Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour. Govts stigmatize people claiming benefits as scroungers, claim fraud is rife. Silence on corporate welfare, tax abuse by corporations/rich. HMRC failed to collect over £500bn tax since 2010.

#r4today Yes, #ADHD "overdiagnosis" is in RFK Junior's MAHA Report which came out in May. thedailytism.com/streeting-ne...

Fuck me. @lbc.co.uk Rachel going all anti-mask in the face of a rapid rise in the Flu 🤦‍♂️ Of course she can tell who needs to wear one just by looking. Vile creature.

🧵The National are reporting on the terrifying American interference in women’s rights and the huge amounts of American money funding this “ADF International received more than £1 million in US funding in 2024, representing a nearly 300% increase in two years…

Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they’re “not welcome” at upcoming tour “I think that’s a hard line for me now" “I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden” www.nme.com/news/music/h...

The delegate at the YourParty Conference who was censured by the chair for using the word “transphobia” is trans. This is EVEN worse than Labour, a trans person can’t even call out transphobia! Ridic. I expect every news platform, plus every “free speech” campaigner to be up in arms about this…

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Budget 2025. The wealthy hardly hit. Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax. No wealth tax. No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages. Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits No financial transactions tax. Lobbying and political donations pay

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Read it (without that one sentence...) here: downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...

The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

"Then Lee Anderson MP turned up, claiming he knew what the area wanted... We have many positive local groups, businesses, and individuals working to make Llantarnam better. Yet they’re not approached to talk about it. Instead, someone who doesn’t even live here gets the media" Exactly the problem.

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Well worth reading this thread folks.

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

Big topic this weekend is going to be Washington's new ultimatum to Ukraine. Multiple outlets reporting that Trump is demanding Kyiv give up all of Donetsk, reduce its military, swear off NATO — and that it answer by Thursday. "It seems to be written by Russia," says Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

🖕 Trump's peace plan! Who the hell is #Trump? Is he Russian?🤔 🇩🇰🫶🇺🇦 I support President Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Ukraine will become a member of the EU and NATO when the traitor trump is gone! #Potus #Trump's US no longer stands for democracy and freedom! Slava UkraЇni - Heroyam Slava!

PUTIN/TRUMP ARE CO-EXTORTING UKRAINE/ZELENSKY! TRUMP IS A TRAITOR TO AMERICA, TO DEMOCRACY, TO NATO, TO DEMOCRACY! This is no "Peace Deal", but is unconditional SURRENDER! Trump is giving Putin ALL he demands and NOTHING to Ukraine OR ELSE! All Americans should be disgusted at weak, malignant Trump.

Just seen that the Herald awarded For Wankers Scotland their 'Campaign of the Year' at their media awards and I don't have the words for how regressive that is, Jesus suffering fuck. Oh well, they've now landed themselves on the 'A Very British Bigotry' block list and it serves them right.

At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.

“We need to start, now, to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, by at least 5% per year. This must happen in order to have a chance to avoid unmanageable & extremely costly climate impacts affecting all people in the world.” PIKs J. Rockström @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...