When natural causes and obvious criminality remove Trump in due course, we get Vance. There must have been Romans who breathed a sigh of relief when Tiberius or Claudius died, only to wake up with Caligula or Nero. Be careful what we wish for.

At this point we have to assume that all prominent figures on the Right of politics are both in the pay of the Russo-American brand of elite Christian Nationalism and its devoted and willing acolytes.

Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. Add your name now. a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/

Liz Truss is helping Trump sue the BBC. Are there no depths of national betrayal to which Tories won't sink. Hopefully the decision of the Pulitzer board to demand his financial and health records in disclosure will deter Trump from using lawfare to silence critics' and Truss will look even more dim

Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. Add your name now. a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/

Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. Add your name now. a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/

Elon Musk is one of the worst human beings in history and is a white male. This is not propaganda as he thinks just propaganda There are a lot of good reasons for transitioning, most of them having to do with not hating yourself, not being made miserable by dysphoria and so on.

Badenoch and Truss corrupted the already low standards of UK public life by appointing a deliberately fraudulent enquiry into medical care for trans adolescents and packing a public body with people fundamentally opposed to the purposes it was set out for. This ought to be considered a scandal.

The only possible consensus on trans issues between Streeting and Badenoch is his abandoning all pretence of believing in our human rights and agreeing with her that we should be eliminated altogether for our own good.

"I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career." An act like this is, in itself, a victory for kindness and empathy.

It's notable that the right-wing parties that the USA wished to impose in Europe are at best appeasers of Russia and more probably it's conscious paid agents. Trump is handing Russia Europe on a plate - he is a traitor and Europe must tell him to fuck off and expose Farage, the AFD etc as traitors.

This is the argument of an empire talking to client kingdoms, not an ally talking to partners. He wants to impose the election of Reform and the removal of non-white politicians from office.

Farage's teenage racism is important because it has led to his adult belief that we should appease Putin and make him our ally against Islam. He publicly opposes helping Ukraine and all his projects from Brexit onwards objectively serve Russia's interests. At best he is a useful idiot, at worst...

Something needs to be done about the Guardian and the New Statesman. It ought to be utterly unacceptable that they sing from the same songsheet as the rest of the media on this.

When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'? Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som

This was my response to some workerist clown on FB. The question is very simple. Are you in alliance with international Fascism or are you not? Pretending for any reason that defending trans people from the genocide...

It is possible in social gatherings to turn your backs on bigots and not speak to them. GCs believe themselves to represent a majority of women: if this were true, they won't have a problem with being shunned by women who don't agree with them.

Apparently the decision of the WI to rescind trans inclusion was prompted in part by an internal faction. If I were a cis member of the WI, I would want those bigots named,shamed and shunned. Aggressively promoting transphobia should have social sanctions applied to it.

Popcorn time! Jenny Watson's recent Substack posts seem to indicate internal strains and stresses in the GC community. It's always worth remembering that sooner or later terrible people are terrible to each other.

This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.

Have just blocked @forwomenscotland.bsky.social and 61 followers that I don't need in my life.

The really interesting question about the Times story is who leaked the EHRC guidance document and why. The Government evidence in the GLP's judicial review last week seemed to indicate some weakening of the Government's resolve. It looks as if this is a crude attempt to bully the Government.

Are we going to call it #Bubbagate?

Seriously...I was an early member of GLF, a former Deputy Chair of Liberty, involved in consultations on both the GRA and the EA and various trans health initiatives. I have had a distinguished career in publishing and writing. Of course they'd never appoint me but turning me down would look bad.

I am a truly insignificant person who doesn't rate my own Grokipedia entry.

Did we all know that Lee Harvey Oswald was an SF reader?

These are the words I try to live by in my politics.

Small victories are how we survive and thrive.

Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...

Good man on this issue...

An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights. He will be missed

Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.

The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all. Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.

This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.

Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism. substack.com/@iandunt/not...

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Russia is facing a cold cold winter with the logistics of keeping warm seriously fucked and a million war dead. Constant provocations are intended to make NATO do something that will enable Putin to unify Russians in patriotism. Which makes Trump's suddenly turn to hawkishness a bit interesting.

I'm very excited to see that there's a new monograph about the work of Tessa Boffin.

This is amazingly good news though too late for the two friends of mine that out killed.

He's definitely plotting to get rid of Starmer and become PM, and has realised transphobia might get in his way. I mean, his other major areas of liability are his relationship with private health care and his personality and he clearly can't change either of those....

Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law. Farage is a traitor.

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

I'm not sure all of them are yet committed to our physical eradication or incarceration but that's their direction of travel. They are getting annoyed that most people don't comply with their desire that we just shut up,go away and stop being difficult.

A lot of people on the Left will tell you that Trump is a greater threat than Putin. There is ample evidence that they are the two cheeks of the same arse.

A lot of people on the Left will tell you that Trump is a greater threat than Putin. There is ample evidence that they are the two cheeks of the same arse.

With the Heritage Foundation and the FBI terming trans people a terrorist movement, perhaps Julie Bindel should reconsider all the times she's referred to us as a militia or as the Taliban, if she'd prefer not to be thought of as a Fascist shill who helped incite an attempt at genocide.

Just how far will Trump have to go down the path towards dictatorship before Starmer criticises him? Shooting demonstrators? Expelling Democrats from Congress?Putting Obama on trial ?