"During an interview with parent’s internet forum Mumsnet on Friday (19 September), the UK health secretary said the government was looking to create “third spaces” for trans women, away from female single-sex facilities such as toilets and changing rooms." share.google/aS1UOCBZCgxT...

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Kair Starmer simply cannot continue as Prime Minister. He is entirely unprepared for this political moment, and is handing the country to Reform on a platter. No matter your politics, you would have to be a fool to support this inept man as PM.

If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO2. These oversized cars are choking our cities and fuelling the climate crisis. This #WorldCarFreeDay we imagine cities built for people.

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Farage’s new think tank, the misnamed ‘Centre for a Better Britain’, is very clearly planning a ‘Project 2025’ for the UK - ripping up the Climate Change Act, Equalities Act, even the ministerial code A recipe for chaotic authoritarianism www.ft.com/content/2260...

Yet another climate-wrecking decision from a Government intent on the pursuit of growth at all costs - but the only things that will grow as a result of this disastrous decision are pollution, noise, and climate chaos

Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis. Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet. Just big business & their own interests. #Gatwick

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It was trivially easy to predict that the Starmer government's belated condemnation of far right criminality last weekend would be quickly followed by even more intensive pandering to the far right's politics. Its who they are. They won't change www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is misinformation, pure and simple, from Shabana Mahmood. To grant the injunction the judge had to decide whether the claim was vexatious and he decided that it wasn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

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Interesting that both Phillipson and Streeting are campaigning by saying they'll be nice to trans people despite being two of the party's biggest anti-trans MPs.

Truly exceptional article from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the political meanings and impacts of Labour's transphobia and how it strengthens fascism worldwide: www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat... Even if you're not a capital-L Liberal, this is very much worth your time

I know it's not exactly news by this stage, but I can't help find something morbidly fascinating about LGBT+ Labour's craven uselessness in the face of this wildly transphobic government. This is the first thing they've posted in 2 months. Bailey supported Bridget Phillipson for deputy leader btw.

The U.K.: on the side of the crypto scammers.

In an "olive branch" Streeting defended everything he did to strip healthcare from young trans people as right and justified and said absolutely nothing about any way he'd move away from that targeted campaign to eradicate trans people. Come ON @theguardian.com. This is atrocious.

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“we’re not racist” (a few seconds later) *says virulently racist things including ethnic cleansing*

How do we fix this mess?

Genuinely what is this government doing 🙃

My letter to Lord Reed. This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow. If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form: supremecourt.uk/_next/static...

👀Quite a lot of people telling on themselves here

I've seen a lot of people on here in the past day or so repeat the line of "Arabs are Semites, too, so anti-Arab racism is also a form of antisemitism." This is and understandable mistake, given how weird the word is, but it's a misunderstanding of the word.

This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage. The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal." Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community. Your struggle is my struggle.

I think this says rather a lot, not very complimentary, about those “long-serving Labour aides”.

Anybody with Mamdani’s politics has been pushed out of Labour and look at how Muslim Labour MPs are treated - from Apsana Begum to Faiza Shaheen to calling it “Shaking off the fleas” when Muslim councillors resigned over Gaza - tells you all you need to know www.DUMPtheguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A lot of the blame for the Labour government's inability to confront the far-right properly lies with the mythologising around how they "defeated" the BNP in the late 2000s. A lot of the figures around Starmer were either involved in or idolise that moment without understanding it, so we end up here

100,000 trans people & allies march through London without threatening or making anyone feel like it is a no-go area. Media: crickets. 100,000 fascists & Nazis march through London threatening violence & making anyone not cishet & white feel it is a no-go area. Media: wall-to-wall live coverage.

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

Interesting

The constant capitulation to the far right is actually infuriating can a single politician get a grip. Why are we giving racists carte Blanche to vandalise our communities and intimidate our neighbours

It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin. Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation. We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.

£1,035. Per Person. Per year. FOR 10 YEARS. Immigration Health Surcharge + 10-year route to settlement = poverty, anxiety and hardship. Thanks to @rfuk.bsky.social, @ramfel.bsky.social, @gmiau.bsky.social + others for sounding the alarm on this madness 🚨👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Es wird am Ende nicht an fehlendem Können oder an fehlendem Geld gelegen haben. Sondern an fehlendem Willen. Eine absolute Katastrophe mit Ansage. (Heute noch mit meiner Schwester über Thema Kinder irgendwann ja/nein gesprochen. Nun.) #Klimakatastrophe

Labour: we're lowering the voting age to 16!! Also Labour:

Sad to see this poison infecting my hometown. But this is exactly why Starmer won't hold us hostage. A vote for Labour is now a wasted vote and will only get Reform in... 🙃

Paid a visit to the London arms fair today... Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display. Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains? These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.

You can read the letter in full here: carladenyer.co.uk/letter-to-br...

Trans people are anxiously waiting for the EHRC’s final guidance to be published, following its extreme and unworkable interim guidance. I know many are worried it will further the exclusion of trans people. I've written to govt to say that we MPs must be given time to debate it.

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

The full list of MP nominations for Deputy Leader is published here. Especially disappointing to see that some LGBT+ Labour patrons and former "trans allies" have nominated Bridget Phillipson. What a contemptuous betrayal. labour.org.uk/deputy-leade...

More extraordinary still is the sanitising of Kirk's politics. Kirk was - and this is just a straightforwardly factual statement - a far right activist. And here's a former British Prime Minister not merely mourning his death or condemning his murder but actively *praising* his politics.

Bridget Phillipson is the Government's driver of anti-trans apartheid.