Helen Lewis’ new article bemoans how the far-right is pushing for a Gilead-type existence. Yet she totally ignores how she (& other ‘gender critical’ transphobes) ACTIVELY collaborated with them in their joint “wedge issue” to attack trans rights! Spot her name on the anti-trans coalition website)

Kids have enough to deal with at school without having to put up with discrimination. We think all kids should be able to feel safe at school – including trans kids. Help protect them⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/a8mo

I love the noise Canada Geese make as they fly overhead and their instinctive communal sense of aesthetic organisation, plus the way that not one of them will ever barge in on social media with their opinion on a piece of writing without clicking on the link to find out what the piece actually says.

Law is not magic, and prohibitions are not spells.

“Your politics A-Level project is to research on the internet about the effectiveness of a ban for 16-18 year olds researching on the internet.”

And, of course, the racist and dishonest Times is uncritically amplifying Nigel Farage's racist and dishonest narrative.

Tea with husband, as he was allowed to leave the house today - he painted the door handle of the garage, and then couldn't get in to take out any tools. He CLAIMS he wasn't thinking when he did it, but I think it was on purpose!

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I think we are in danger of underestimating quite how evil Elon Musk is. 🧵

As ever, happy birthday to all June-14th-ers, except one.

Just watched The Audience on @nationaltheatre.org.uk at Home. Haven't watched anything on there for a while, but THIS is why we have a subscription. Quite one of the best things I've ever seen - and all from the comfort of my sofa!

The blackbirds are still singing, their song. For months now, it’s been liquid green bouncing off leaves, in between ferns and out of tendrils. Now the roses absorb it. What a wonder it is to be alive and to see, feel such things.

I love new slippers! Normally that's a pleasure I save for my birthday, but this week the physio said that I needed some with a thick sole that didn't flex much - I didn't need telling twice!

Today the words really flowed. I wish writing was this easy every day! Mind, whether the words are any good is a whole other thing, BUT at least I have something I can edit at some point in the future...

I see what they're doing and STILL...! BONUS Panel below! 👇

This “we used to just politely disagree with each other” bullshit seems to ignore most of the history of lgbtq+, women’s rights, civil rights, blah blah blah

I have just had another message from a parent. I have (anonymised) photos of the daughter but they are too distressing to publish.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

TODAY I LEARNT SOMETHING GENUINELY IMPORTANT! If you need to move a snail (like, to prevent it getting trodden on), don’t just pick it up by its shell because that stretches and hurts them! 😭😭😭 Instead, gently tap its shell so it first retracts inside. Then you can lift it without hurting it ❤️

A sunny day - so I have a wash of towels on the line, and husband is painting the back door!

Thinking of #filton4 today #humanrights #gaza

I've been asked to publish this statement from some of the families affected by NHS England's decision in Brighton.

UK Independent Bookshop Week starts today. Support your local indie! Our communities and culture are so much richer for their existence. And here’s a poem from ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ in praise of indie bookshops - only available in the exclusive Indie Bookshop edition.

In what feels like a metaphor for modern Britain we now have vast swathes of 'law,' protecting your privacy, to which no consequences attach for breach. The ICO won't act and you can't sue.

"It's not going to be incremental..." said the source, revealing how a decision with profound consequences for the agency of under 16s, a generation already multiply disadvantaged, has been rushed out, subordinated to the desire, to prop up the career of an utterly woeful Prime Minister.

If the police think they're dangerous terrorists then why are they gently and calmly walking them at a snails pace, unrestrained? People get into jobs that should require reasoning and morals and then just blindly follow orders instead. You don't HAVE to do things you know are wrong

Well that's one of the most depressing things I've seen in a long while. Oxfam says he has more wealth than the poorest 46% of people on the planet. He deserves none of it.

A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage. This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing even more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.

The day judges can sentence you for crimes you have neither been tried nor convicted of you no longer have a functioning country.

Thought I should probably update this poem.

Tea with husband. Managed to exercise today for the first time since my personal trainer broke me earlier this week, but no gym, just a Zumba class. Should be recovered in time for him to do it again next week...

Two big lies transphobes use…. The 1st is that the Equality Act always excluded trans people, but that the courts, Parliament or the EHRC, had somehow not noticed this until last year. The 2nd lie is that trans people are always identifiable, or when they aren’t, are intentionally deceptive.

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.

Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people (Less than 1K signatures needed to get to 10K - when Government needs to respond!) Please sign & share 🙏🏻 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

“The [Cass Review’s] insistence on hyper-specificity is a data-fudging technique known as ‘salami slicing’. It’s known to encourage malpractice and is warned against specifically in the Cochrane Handbook — the ‘gold standard’ guide for systematic reviews.” It was engineered to deny trans kids! 😣

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'. Spot on. They inflate investment by capitalising part of interest, repair/maintenance cost. Govt says Thames Water is worth £21bn. KKR wouldn't pay £4bn. Govt must enforce environmental laws, bankrupt them. Nationalise.

The Telegraph when MPs drink on the job: Hannah Spencer doesn’t have a clue about why MPs drink. The Telegraph when cricketers get drunk after winning: Even when they win, is it time to say there's no alcohol at all?

If being trans and transitioning was bad then governments wouldn't have to go to extreme lengths to try and ban it

Nigel Farage has confirmed during an interview with LBC that one of his first priorities were he Prime Minster would be to scrap the Human Rights Act. Here are the rights British people would instantly lose if he did that…..

Hey science fans get ready to doff your caps and put the kettle on for Hug a Climate Scientist Day! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.

They say banning trail hunting will mean thousands of hounds have to die. But they already kill them. Our hidden camera footage shows hunt staff tossing the bodies of healthy dogs into skips like rubbish. Routinely. Casually.

"Yankee Doodle" was a ditty (Roud 4501) that predated the American Revolution & was adapted by both British and Americans to mock one another. To mark the 250th anniversary, Trump birthday & #NoKings protest we've made a 2026 arrangement, where you can find the lyrics: themarshfamily.bandcamp.com 🎶

We want to help the families. But also I want to say to those at NHS England pursuing a wicked ideological crusade against the trans community, "you will not win." And this felt like the best way to do it.

My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started.

Belfast knife suspect won asylum in Britain under 'fast-track' scheme introduced by UK Tory govt. Then home secretary Suella Braverman and immigration minister Robert Jenrick – who have both since defected to Reform - oversaw the introduction of the scheme. They have a few questions to answer.