Twisted and bitter my soul may be, but this kind of thing brings a tear to my eye.

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".

This is absolutely appalling. "The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit." Absolutely pathetic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The political editor of the Guardian. It never would be missed.

If I was a left-coded supervillain I would force people into this dilemma all the time because it's extremely funny

Do ask any Labour MPs or centrist commentators congratulating Mamdani what they can possibly learn from some of his policies. Like these for instance.

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇

So why are you so desparate for the perpetrators to like you? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

i still struggle to comprehend that it’s 2025 and the government is ignoring decades and decades of fully peer-reviewed medical science in favour of some nonsense cooked up by anti-lgbt+ bigots who work for christian evangelical groups. labour are disgusting.

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

"I hope when Lady Falkner’s successor starts in post next month that she will take a far more balanced and consensual approach." Tactfully not mentioning that her committee made a strong public recommendation AGAINST the gender-critical individual the govt has installed as Falkner's successor.

There's a women's gym here in Cologne called "Mrs Sporty". I'm sure they think that cool English name conjures up images of high-powered 25-year-olds but to a native English speaker, it might as well be called "Grandma Sporty".

The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯

Political wisdom does not in fact lie in shrinking and contorting yourself into whatever shape an imagined white conservative might find tolerable. You can be authentically, cheerfully yourself, and set your stall out on that basis.

The (unelected) LGBT+ Labour committee continuing to suck up to ministers complicit in removing rights and dignities from trans people. A striking contrast to other parties' LGBT+ wings, like @pluslibdems.bsky.social, who recently publicly stood up to their party's capitulation to transphobes.

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Ah I see so while the gov was fining universities for trying to prevent people harassing trans people, all in the name of free speech, this was happening

“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year” A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

glamour uk have made trans women their ‘women of the year’. this really highlights how transphobes have lost the ‘culture war’ and are wholly reliant on bigoted politicians like @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting they wouldn’t do this if they were worried about it losing them readers:

Getting this one ready in anticipation.

Labour doesn't want to build a 'new state' - it has been persuaded by the Big Tech backed Tony Blair Institute that it should outsource the state to Big Tech. This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Just eight years ago, Labour and the Tories got a combined 82% of the vote in a general election. Now its 34%.

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

he's a vile bigot, polly, responsible for the biggest regression in lgbt+ rights in the history of the uk several trans children have died bcos of him and his pandering to bigots in the press and his insistence that jk rowling be allowed to dictate healthcare policies he's reimplemented section 28

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

Fantastic thread (and pre-print) on Critical AI Literacy in Psychology. The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”

Since I've seen two absolute dogshit framings of populism in two days, this from The Guardian being the second, let's talk about what populism actually is.

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This is good. The people Zack talks to, what he talks about, I like that he's not only not afraid to talk to people about these issues but seems like he's at least baseline level informed about them and sometimes a lot more. Can't imagine anyone like Starmer even bothering.

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Lucy Powell has been elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party on a 16% turnout of the membership. See? Even THEY don’t care. Unfortunately Bridget Philipson no longer needs to worry about the damage to her prospects when she tables the EHRC’s Trans Exclusion From Toilets and Societies […]

A reminder of awful soulless ghoul Bridget Phillipson’s finest moment as she humiliatingly loses the deputy leadership contest because even her own party members hate her government.

BREAKING: morgan mcsweeney has started briefing against lucy powell

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

if you’re dumb enough to still be a labour party member then vote for @lucympowell.bsky.social bcos any bad news for @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is good news for the rest of us. once you’re done quit labour and join the greens.

Pretty shocking, this, from a barrister and former Lord Chancellor. Shabana Mahmood, disgracefully peddling misinformation about the Human Rights watchdog.

Kinnock criticises Starmer for failing to articulate the “purpose” of his government. Just hours later, Starmer tweets a bunch of vague statements (that fail to articulate anything) and says “That’s the purpose of my government”. The guy just doesn’t get it, does he?

Curious how the Graham Linehan story is being spun, including by the BBC. He was arrested on suspicion of the criminal offence of inciting violence; but the BBC is now conflating his incitement with a "non-crime hate incident".