I'm loathe to say positive things about BBC News these days (obviously it's still better than most media but much diminished under Mason) but, honestly, fair play to their legal team here: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/f19e6252-5c4d-434b-afde-8fb84aad56cf Trump sues the […]

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/05/un-experts-warn-legal-uncertainty-and-rights-implications-following-uk Quelle surprise. #ukpolitics #ukpol

@DuncanMSussexPol Bloody hell. This needs to be spread far and wide. Anyone can temporarily or permanently find themselves in a situation where they need independent help like this. I wonder if it is lobbying by care home companies or just some person trying to 'save money' by continuing […]

Jesus Christ - what the hell is going on with the Supreme Court in my country? First trans rights, now disability rights trashed. In some ways I'm even more concerned about this than the trans rights - as I'm pretty sure dodgy EHRC guidance won't survive a trip to Strasbourg (and the worry is […]

While on the topic of the local government reorganisation I saw a good article: https://www.centreforcities.org/blog/three-steps-to-rescue-local-government-reorganisation/?utm_content=buffer7e339 I'm in two minds about most of this, truth be told, though I do think this local authority led […]

Local government reorganisation still ongoing in a few places . For anyone based in Sussex who cares what your new council will be - have your say in the consultations. I'd say especially if you're in West Sussex or in/near to Brighton & Hove, as the proposals here aren't amazing […]

My advice to everyone operating services is to just ignore the EHRC’s long, messy, unworkable suicide note. They threaten that failure to comply with their convoluted guidance may lead to legal challenge (by well funded ideologues championing people seeking a moment’s fame) but following the […]

In years to come scholars, searching for a single thing to characterise the era will quite possibly settle on the inconsistent unworkable mess relating to toilets as emblematic of Britain in headless crisis. And all because people who should have known better […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

More seriously, a deeply funny thing about this poll is that people who live in cities give one of the correct answers (“Manchester”, “Edinburgh” or “Glasgow”). People outside them give their nearest city.

ffs Hopefully this will all fall apart on legal challenge but Labour actively supporting transphobia remains just grim. At least we're a proper multi-party system now, even if our voting system hasn't caught up to that fact. Yellow and Green are both fine from this POV. #ukpolitics #ehrc

Interesting quiz doing the rounds in the other place. Based off an earlier one that was way too US-centric. 🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Progressive Liberal Economic: collectivist Social: strongly progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: leaning […]

Man, UK politics is wild right now. Starmer's clearly on his way out but the most likely successor has changed twice since yesterday lunchtime. First Ed Miliband (as he said he'd stand against Streeting), then Angela Rayner (as she's been cleared of wrongdoing with her tax issue) and now Andy […]

For some positive news Sundar Katwala (sadly not on Fedi, or Bridgy) has been appointed as a commissioner to the EHRC. He's a pretty class act, and from what I can tell the other 5 appointments are also solid. He's more race relations than trans rights, and I'd have loved to see a specialist in […]

In light of: https://www.ft.com/content/8ce1b9be-1d51-466b-90de-54bff1a504ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://digital.nhs.uk/services/national-data-opt-out It's sad that it's come to this, I'm a great believer that anonymised data should be used for these purposes. But Palantir is a national security […]

If Labour MPs were tasked with assassinating Julius Caesar they would have missed the Ides of March because the dagger selection committee wasn't quorate

A bit baffled at the claims that Wes Streeting brings anything that can get Labour out of its current predicament

Calling Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman back in is another datapoint indicating that Team Starmer is devoid of any political or policy creativity

Final 2026 local and devolved elections thread. 1) struck by the unreality of the right wing after the locals. There are Reform cllrs who seem to (genuinely) think all the money's spent on EDI etc. Financial reality will hit them hard. Meanwhile the Tories are doing a victory lap while losing […]

Local and devolved elections today in the UK. If you have any today, go and vote - though doubt anyone here needs to hear that. And if you want to watch the elections as they come in … why would you do that to yourself? I think Reform have peaked but they're clearly still going to do very well […]

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/70636 Sense prevails, the University of Sussex wins its case against the Office for Students (an attempt to enforce "free speech" on universities). 👍 The judge found the process was biased and the outcome predetermined before the investigation.

So I saw on the other place* that the UK fash on the other other place** are starting to get a bit Francophilic, especially re: defence. Better that the European far right (obviously including the UK) be more Meloni than Salvini, I guess, but still unnerving to see that stopped clock moment […]

The autocratic right’s biggest plays are delivering perverse results: Brexit makes the case for the EU; Russia’s invasion is strengthening Ukraine & Europe; Trump’s aggression has accelerated decarbonisation and European autonomy; Trump’s interference has weakened nationalist movements in Europe.

I’m so out of practice with receiving unalloyed good news that I don’t know how to react. But this is indisputably good news for Europe and the world. 🇪🇺🇭🇺

Orban has conceded. Majority too big for him to try any nonsense. Tisza is going to have plenty of challenges in sorting out Orban's mess but this is a good day.

Is this what good news feels like?

Orban conceded, opposition supermajority looking pretty likely. End of an era, and the most entrenched far right in Europe defeated. Had I not overspent this month it'd have been champagne or a Sussex sparkling! #hungary #orban #magyar

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Find it a bit depressing that what's going on in Lebanon is barely registering. Or, as something more positive that's barely registering, that Ukraine is doing pretty well in the war right now. I mean, I get that the Iran situation is fucked, but the inability of the media to focus on more than […]

As someone who doesn't like Kneecap, good. It's an embarrassment that the government even went down this road. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjdpy7vvro

Some pretty decent news. The most bonkers technically-not-a-tabloid in the UK is getting bought out by a German group, rather than The Mail. Don't get too excited, Axel Springer also owns Bild so it's not like they don't also produce right wing crap - but this'll hopefully lead to, at least, a […]

66% of the voters rejected the right-wing fuckwits in Reform. Watch how the mainstream news coverage focuses on Zlabour coming third, rather than the rejection of Reform. #ukpolitics

Second best realistic result imo from Gorton and Denton. Labour holding on slightly better so Reform was third would've been nice. Reform actively doing badly given their awful candidate would be even better but not likely given it's a by-election and the […] [Original post on toot.community]

I think the key to understanding why parts of the British right have ended up where they are is they self-identify as being more successful than they are.

RE: https://toot.community/@DuncanMSussexPol/116045489800794066 Whether your kind leftie heart or your cold capitalist heart leads you to good sense - any UK-based tooters wanting to criticise the government's (quite frankly mad) immigration changes have one more day to do so. A couple of […]

The UK government is intending to introduce some absolutely awful changes to how settled status works. Object here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/earned-settlement #ukpolitics #ukpol

This account has atrophied a bit but ... well, I couldn't not celebrate McSweeney has fucked off day! 🎉 I'm not so naive to attribute Starmer's failings solely to his evil councillor but this is still good news in itself. Let's just hope Rayner's cleared by HMRC in time for whenever Starmer […]

This goes a long way to confirming the hypothesis that Trump's cognitive collapse is such that paths taken come down to who was the last person to speak with him at any one time. First Rutte, now Walz

The EU and UK responses to Venezuela are in lockstep. That's good. The actual responses are fucking awful though.

Trump needs to take a nice holiday to The Hague for the rest of his life. Maduro, to be clear, is not a good person and is also an irredentist authoritarian (but with a left-wing fig leaf this time) - just ask Guyana. But extrajudicial kidnappings are an atrocity, internationally moreso and of […]

V good thread. IMV what’s double damning about the Ovenden piece is that you could write a thousand pieces about how Whitehall could run better, but absolutely none of them would run through “why should the diplomatic service care about a British citizen in an authoritarian jail?”

I've no connection to South Cambridgeshire, outside of travel to other places I've only spent a few hours there in my entire life. But the moaning about its council adopting a four day week is just absurd, and it's disappointing to see this continue under Labour. Frankly there's no […]

Government consultation on Sussex local government reorganisation - it you're a Sussexperson and have strong regional identity, are well into politics or are a nerd even by Masto standards go and have your say! (The mayor's baked in, sorry.) Spoiler: BHCC's proposal is somehow both the nearest […]

This was just too good not to migrate it from #lemmy h/t: https://lemmy.today/u/[email protected]

Wow. OBR forecast leaked. Then the entire budget. Never seen this happen before! Anyway, I don't know enough to say much more than the pension salary sacrifice scheme changes are awful, but don't come in for a few years so touch wood they get reversed in a goodies budget near the election […]

Trump's latest outburst cannot be 'normalised' or 'walked back' He is calling for his political opponents to be hanged. The USA must not let this stand - there is every chance that his crazed followers will try to do it. Remove Trump from office now.

As a social scientist I often hear criticism that xyz study just shows the blindingly obvious - but I think having the blindingly obvious systemically evidenced both eliminates the possibility of a counterintuitive answer (common in all sciences) but more importantly sets everything out in black […]

Okay, I realise I'm not in The Netherlands, and maybe what the parties stand for has shifted since I last checked, and counting is 70% through - but as a Charlie Kennedy social liberal in the UK seeing D66 (if temporarily) top the polls is wild and lovely. NL has always felt culturally very […]

This where we get to see how no one learned anything from the Alaska hype

European Parliament groupings (technically different from the Europarties) have some weird names when you think about it. - European People's Party. Sounds socialist. Nope. - European Conservatives and Reformists. The words are opposites. - Renew Europe. Macron is a special boy so the "some […]

New YouGov poll: RFM 27% (-2) LAB 20% (-2) CON 17% (+1) LDM 17% (+2) GRN 12% (+1) SNP 4% (+1) That first line is terrifying, but ngl, the rest ain't bad. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/voting-intention #ukpol #ukpolitics