NEW | ‘Inspired’ by that editor castigating a journalism graduate for not wanting a job just feeding the AI… AI;DR: Journalism's quislings for AI and why I'll never use AI to write this newsletter brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/aidr-journ...

FOI reveals the EHRC holds zero minutes of meetings with trans-led organisations in the past 5 years. This is the UK’s 'equality' regulator. Trans voices are not important enough for the EHRC to keep a record of what was said. This should be a headline in all the papers.

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

🚨 Please Share If anybody has any material culture related to protesting the Cass Review specifically, and would like to share pictures of them with me, then please send me images here or via [email protected]. I have an idea to do a little write-up about them from the pov of an archaeologist

I don’t pay the licence fee, I only use streaming services, and I have to say I would deeply resent paying a regressive flat tax for the privilege. Especially if that money would going to fund establishment propaganda, transphobia and shows I don’t watch.

Just in case you were wondering why a large percentage of the LGBTQ+ community now refuse to support the Labour party.

I should also say, I fully expect the UK government to ban under 16s from social media, and to ban them from using VPNs. They'll do it, to get great headlines, but in the process ruin the lives of some marginalised teens and make most kids less safe.

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

So glad we have massively restructured transgender care on based on the works of someone who believes absolute nonsense.

THIS IS WHAT IT DOES. IT'S THE WHOLE FEATURE.

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Whenever Farage says jump, [Labour] say how high. You will never appease the right by doing that. They will just get more and more extreme" Spot on. This is what people mean when they say Labour is ushering in the far right.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

I am sorry but this is just so monumentally stupid and clueless

STARMER’S LABOUR: THE MOST ANTI-LGBT+ GOVT SINCE THATCHER A list of the government's shameful LGBT+ record – especially when it comes to attacking trans people. Updated for the second time in two months because there have been six or seven things to add since January alone.

Took myself out to a gay bar in Edinburgh solo. My social skills have entirely atrophied. I just realised... after 20 mins, the weird guy across the bar giving me evils... is my reflection.

Just commemorated the latest confused judgment from the High Court by taking a piss in the ladies at Carlisle Station Next week I'll do the same at work. Segregation can and must be resisted every day, by every one of us who is able to do so.

Nearly 3,000 peaceful people have been arrested under this outrageous ban. It was brought in after lobbying by arms companies and Netanyahu's government. It has been condemned by UN rapporteurs and many other experts. All the while, our government has been collaborating in real state terrorism.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

Labour. Criminalising loving and supporting your children. They should stop pretending to be a progressive party. #voteGreen #UKpol

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision. Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.

We (trans safety network) met with Cass during her research on the Cass review and explained how clearly ridiculous it would be to try and bring haircuts and self expression under the authority of being a "medical intervention". She went away from that meeting and produced this crap anyway.

The Labour minister has not committed to a new timetable for banning conversion therapy.

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

Robert Peston, "Wouldn't you regret Reform UK coming through in Gorton and Denton if The Greens split the left vote?" Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"

The number of people who think this is "sensible" politics and don't understand why it's a massive uncrossable red line for millions of Labour's supposed core constituency continues to blow my mind. All the minor percentage shifts in NHS waiting lists will never make up for this nativist cruelty.

If nothing else, you know Wes will be absolutely fizzing at this.

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children. Recognised refugees. Denied the right to reunite with their children. It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied. So yes, he’s hated.

Something compelled me to make this

Anas Sarwar launched his Holyrood campaign almost entirely on the foundations of how much people are right to hate and fear trans people and they should be segregated from society. Within a few weeks he then completely botched a coup on his own boss and his career looks likely to be over. Fitting.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It’s practically a work of art that he thinks we’re all that stupid.

"Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, John Healey.. Steve Reed.. Yvette Cooper, Bridget Phillipson.. Wes Streeting" Cabinet ministers coming out one after the other in support of Starmer is a reminder that its not just about Starmer, and its not just Starmer who should go.

A Labour MP remarks: "Starmer will go down as the worst PM in Labour history ... He’s a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He is a moral gravity-well from which neither decency, honesty or integrity can escape. A genuine disaster for this country and the Labour movement.”

⚠️New @ippr.org research: 300,000 children will be hit by the Govt’s earned settlement plans. Retrospective changes will deepen child poverty, block access to higher education & trap families in years of uncertainty. This is precarity by design. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Oh dear, I seem to have been blocked by Ian Dunt for … a QT that wasn’t even really criticising him?

I think we can say there’s definitely Noticing Things going on now, at the BBC. You might have got this stuff piecemeal here and there but now they’re just laying it out in blunt terms.

A coy way of saying: it's a precondition for finally being able to get rid of Starmer.

"Children of Men" (2006) is set in November 2027

The general secretary of NASUWT (major trade union for teachers) wants the revisions to the RSHE guidance to be withdrawn and has signed the @prideineducation.bsky.social open letter.

OH, Look! Another game translated by magic! This right here is quite dangerous in these times. Why? By erasing us translators from our jobs it makes it easier to replace us with GenAI. We've always been invisible. That gave them a leverage in introducing MTPE and lowering our rates.

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

📊 Shirley by-election is too close to call but we are there with a chance and we are talking to all of Shirley's residents. Voters don't miss out on this chance to be part of the mini Manchester.

The deafening silence this story is being received with

When I paid my annual subscription for “Force-feeding the British public Peter Mandelson’s sleaze in ten easy steps,”, I did not expect that the British public would then be force-fed Mandelson’s sleaze. This is an outrage and a tragedy