"Look. don't provoke Trump and his circle, else they will invoke the Insurrection Act." Trump and his circle want to invoke the Insurrection Act anyway, one way or another. Just a question of how and when. Appeasing them ain't going to work.

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

some background on Reform UK’s latest Tory defector www.ft.com/content/e5cc...

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

If the BBC is going to insist on quoting Michael Foran as their academic expert on trans issues they should at least disclose his opaque links with the Gender Critical organisations involved in the litigation he is commenting on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who was the journalist who repeated the unanswered question of a colleague? More of this, please. @theguardian.com @dailytelegraph.bsky.social

New draft guidance from the CPS has classed circumcision as potential child abuse. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...

Feels like an appropriate day to repost my article in DLA Briefings on the human rights implications of treating trans people as a third sex 'A third sex: returning to an intermediate zone'

Our partner @evidentmedia.org has also published a short video on our analysis here: www.youtube.com/shorts/ETSQd...

When Discomfort Becomes Law: The Dangerous Logic of the Darlington Nurses Case. How an employment tribunal turned prejudice into principle and left trans workers with nowhere to go @goodlawproject.org @helenwebberley.bsky.social

Accurate headline on the front page of the Mirror

"Woman, Life, Freedom is not a mere slogan. It is a break with the past. The future of Iran will not be decided by crown or turban. Iran's future is female, egalitarian and secular." @maryamnamazie.bsky.social on the role of secularism in the Iranian protests: www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2026...

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."

Yet another attempt at legal harassment by the hideous UK Lawyers for Israel - this time against the eminent surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah - fails. www.bindmans.com/news-insight...

I have now made a Stage 1b Complaint under the BBC's Complaints Procedure. Amazing you have to make THREE internal complaints before you can access someone who is not self-interested.

As of now, that's still possible in the UK.

What's the difference between most of us and Donald Trump? When someone screams "pedophile protector," most of us know it's not directed at us.

They want us to become a “papers, please” country. That’s not freedom. That’s racial oppression.

I was asked to look at this post! And while the story obviously has important context that’s missing from the headline - which I’ll cover obvs 😜 - what’s more important is to question why this is being posted! And what to ask yourself when you see something like this… 1/12 🧵

“Parliament needs to think about how it can defend a system where a tattooist requires a licence... but a person carrying out genital surgery on a baby boy doesn’t" Lord Scriven is quoted on the dangerous legal arrangements surrounding #NTMC in the UK. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sometimes they just tell us they are weaponizing the criminal justice system to push their political agenda.

Then: free speech don't care about your feelings. Now: the state can summarily execute you for saying mean words.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

But in a sense it's actually worse than a war crime, because there is no war. It's just a crime. It's a crime—murder—whether or not the aircraft can be identified as part of a military force.

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

The UK National Health Service has very clear information on all major medical conditions. It is browsable by all Never EVER rely on an LLM for health advice www.nhs.uk/conditions/

The guy in the White House just posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. Insane.

Here we go: Mark Kelly is suing. This is the spirit. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Draft CPS prosecution guidance has classified NTMC as a potential form of child abuse. Guidelines aimed at tackling the most harmful practices are welcome. But the priority now must be to prevent that harm from occurring in the first place. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/01...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

a decade is a long time in politics

It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them | Rickard Berg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a wild hill to die on for someone who creates environments for kids. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games (Fortnite/Battle Royale) argues against CP protections on social media/AI platforms, claiming legislators are ‘just censoring political opponents’. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

'Khan said addressing the causes of serious violent crime, such as the effects of poverty and lack of opportunities, had been key, as had the work of the Violence Reduction Unit covering London that was set up in 2019, which took a longer term approach.'

We need more leaders to insist on accountability the way James Talarico has here.

I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration

Southampton Football Club appears to have made a small error with this popular meme...

Wonder why the illegal sex abuse image factory and racist promotion service owned by the world vilest man has such a poor reputation? It really is a mystery.

Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.

So his response to the criticism of his app generating sexual deep fakes of children is... to try to monetise it as a feature

Wes Streeting has blood on his hands.