Have they tried turning it off and on again?

He's repeatedly insulted our country, our leaders and our military, is pushing up our prices and threatening our national security, yet the self-proclaimed 'patriotic' right-wing press still finds a way to put themselves on his side

Then vs now. Such a shame.

I guess it’s better late than never; but still, should not have taken so long , or a massive series of international crises, to acknowledge this.

Resisting the temptation to make a comment about a white house.

Trump is attacking the UK, Europe & NATO because his own military & security officials have told him that there is no military option to keep the Straits open that does not involve huge military looses. He is attacking us for his own failures. We are right to have nothing to do with his illegal war.

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Interestingly, I’m seeing on X a lot of hostility to the royal visit not just from Trump critics, but also Trump supporters who’ve lapped up his attacks on the UK and are asking why they should host representatives from a country which is not supporting the US in Iran. Lose-lose visit all round.

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility, and LDV is pleased to publish this powerful article by @tanyajaynep.bsky.social… www.libdemvoice.org/my-existence...

Starmer could have postponed the visit. By confirming it, there’s no way to u-turn w/o causing massive row; so we’re stuck with this awful, humiliating spectacle, rewarding an individual who’s not just repeatedly insulted the UK but many of its Commonwealth partners, which the King supposedly heads.

Trump’s illegal war is hitting our economy, pushing up inflation and deepening the cost of living crisis. We shouldn’t be rewarding that behaviour with a state visit.

Here is the UK’s primary ally, to whom the British establishment has been kowtowing for over 80 years. Britain needs a new, democratic, human rights-based and public interest-focused independent foreign policy delinked from the world’s primary rogue state. Starting now.

I hope all those people who said the US had done no planning for war in Iran will now apologise. www.ft.com/content/744e...

I saw someone online say that instead of the clocks changing at 1am on a Sunday, meaning we all lose an hour in bed, why don't they go forward at 4pm on a Friday, so everyone celebrates, and I can't stop thinking about it.

A reminder to all my friends across the UK that British Summertime starts tonight at 1am so don’t forget to put your clocks forward an hour and get your snow shovels ready!

Solving non-existent problems. Given that the IOC has ‘solved’ the ‘problem’ of trans women in women’s sport by imposing genetic testing on all women and girls, I trust they will be dealing with the ‘problems’ of unicorns in equestrian events, Greek triremes in rowing and flamingos in croquet.

Over 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups, including the United Nations, have criticised the International Olympic Committee’s new gender eligibility guidelines as “a blunt and discriminatory response that is not supported by science and violates international human rights law"

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

You need to remember the damage of bans like this isn't just the overt bigotry of the act itself, but a sustained effort to create a tapestry of lies/laws/myths all working together to paint the image that a trans person excelling or even just existing healthily in society is somehow unnatural.

He's put a couple of unnecessary words in the first sentence, like "the" and "Iran"

Ah, just like Naked Week, not actually anything to do with witches.

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

Useful thread here:

48 hours to open the Straits, which Trump also says US don’t need to have opened, in a war he has already said US has won, and in a situation where he demands help from countries which he also insists US does not need.

The Nick Timothy thing is the same tactic as always. They say these horrendous, obviously racist things and then we have a media debate and whether they are right actually. It just further forces the general state of political discourse to the far right.

Wait, what is that graph? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Macquarie again...

Trump is yet again trying to bully Britain into joining his illegal war in Iran. What more will it take for Starmer to cancel the King's state visit to the US? We shouldn't reward someone who is pushing up people's energy bills and repeatedly insulting our country.

In the absence of a suitably equipped plumber, i'd call Dynorod

Is Newt seriously considering detonating 1,000 nuclear weapons? The Soviets managed 600m with 3 explosions. I estimate going east from near Abu Dhabi would be 200km…

"to defeat Iran, America must repeatedly nuke a regional ally"

Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Literally this

I was in a meeting yesterday where the almost complete collapse of trans people's trust in the legal system, from police to courts, was repeatedly noted.

Huge thanks to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for joining @jolyon.goodlawproject.org and others on the Trans Mission stage to reaffirm the @libdems.org.uk party's long-standing and fundamental support for Trans+ rights. 🧡 goodlawproject.org/jo-maugham-t... #transrights

If this ever happens, I'm hoping for huge "boiinnggg" noises for each and every ship.

The old "Make America Great Britain Again" schtick...

Cal's thread should be published in the national media, a completely rigged review that will achieve their aim of blocking all treatment for trans kids. The complete control anti-trans activists have in the NHS should be a national disgrace, it's akin to anti-vaxxers seizing control of vaccinations

This excellent piece describes the crap that's going on within NHS England in their policy-based evidence-making, asking questions that studies were not set up to answer, then concluding that the absence of evidence means evidence of harm. The damage they're doing to people's lives is immense.

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

This NHS policy-based evidence-making is becoming more and more transparently corrupt.

The 2026 Headline of the Year contest is heating up

A useful analysis, deconstructing much of the nonsense that has gone on since last April.

They are not 'transphobic', we are told. They don't hate trans people. They simply feel deeply 'concerned' about children being 'trans', & therefore, need to put 'sensible' people in charge of trans children's healthcare, people who, for example, don't believe in the existence of trans children.

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

If it becomes difficult if not impossible to get medication on the NHS, it doesn’t stop trans people being trans. It just means they will find other ways of acquiring it. The reason we fought for transition-related healthcare on the NHS was safety. Government including Starmer knows this.

Happy International Women’s Day! Today we celebrate ALL women. Solidarity is crucial in the struggle against patriarchy. Whether we’re cis or trans we share that struggle. This year’s theme is ‘Give To Gain’ emphasizing the power of reciprocity and support. #InternationalWomensDay #Solidarity