Work colleague's sister won first prize in Xmas catalogue promo with a £6 prize, she cheated as it's under 16s only & entered behalf of a fictional nephew. I'm 20s, small, boyish, so made me wear authentic school uniform to attend event. Split prize 50/50. Photos on website.

I’ve seen enough

Rachel Reeves telling us she's not immune to world events when she is the one who repeatedly claimed to be so

Good things are much worse than bad things. Worse for who?

The real risk is the left, very good Darren

Safety Advice: I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs. I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Shabana Mahmood believes immigration is too high, a person whose parents migrated from Pakistan and who lived in Saudi Arabia as a child

shabana mahmood does not contribute to uk society. im not even kidding. this is not a contribution to uk society.

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

To put it briefly, opposition leaders are stuck on questions of legality, and the time has come to move past that, because it is obvious the fascists in control of the government simply do not care about the law anymore. open.substack.com/pub/maeforre...

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

starmer could choose to tackle these irrational fears and the falsehoods propping them up, but instead he is choosing to use his position as prime minister to lend them legitimacy. this only benefits the far right.

starmer: "the left has ignored immigration fears"... well, those fears are irrational and should only be addressed in such a way that makes it clear why they're irrational.

The last time the labour party conference ventured out of england was in 1936.

"the thing that lets a government defy the public to force something through is democracy, actually"

Every day you think the world can’t get any worse and then you see shit like this! Fuck colonialism!

an evil brit installed as a colonial ruler over palestine? some things never change www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Just in case you missed in among all the digital ID talk today - Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority Blair was spotted outside Trump Tower this week, as was Rishi Sunak www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Blair should not be a allowed anywhere near Gaza

The White House is trying to install Tony Blair as the unelected leader of the Gaza Strip for 5 years

A lot of those “left behind” people on those marches “left behind” their four bedroom house and “left behind” their £100k Land Rover Defender in the car park. What they haven’t “left behind” is white supremacy

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

How will the govt enforce ID cards when we all refuse? Genuinely wondering.

Could politicians stop putting major policy announcements behind a paywall please?

I wish this was a bit i made up to fundraise our cat's vet bill but no I really had to keep a straight face for 20 minutes while a women went "Cut it out, Israel!" and "That's it, Israel, no more YouTube!"

Yeah I don't care what this psycho has to say

Tony finally did it - can he retire now? Just know there will be a massive political fight over how these record "sex".

imagine a world where politicians said stuff like this about trans health care, too. coz they totally could, from a science perspective

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

After being used in WW2 compulsory ID cards were abolished in 1952 because of the widespread sentiment that they are fundamentally at odds with British values and civil liberties. That was true then and it’s true now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who exactly voted for this?

Tonty can die in peace now www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So it is possible to send an ex-president to jail? Interesting.

Unfortunately there isn't a way of making people realise that One Guy isn't going to fix shit. Andy Burnham is a great communicator, vastly preferable to Starmer. But I witnessed the same people saying "YAY ANDY WILL SAVE US" announce that Rishi Sunak was going to be "a safe pair of hands for now"

Speaking to MumsNet, Streeting said he did not think trans women should use female spaces and his team "is all over this". He confirmed Labour will bar trans men from female spaces, calling their presence "unpleasant" and said trans women "impact on women's sex based rights".

Counterpoint that is pretty american actually

Remember this gem? Can’t imagine why she didn’t win with this attitude towards voters.

Mate we all saw your campaign

"Nigel Farage has refused to rule out a link between paracetamol and autism" is the lead item on LBC News. Why? Why? He's not a doctor, he's not an expert, he's not a Minister, he's not the PM, he's not the opposition. Why is his bullshit the most important item on the news? Why?

For the record: both the original and the replacement are embarrassing eugenicist twaddle suggesting that tylenol causes autism and that autism is a problem.

Honestly, so much of the more "progressive" gentry's de facto approval of fascism (and before that Jim Crow, and eugenics, and colonialism and slavery...) is just "well they have nice table manners."

In Kamala's new book, "Nothing was My Fault and I Told You So," 🙄

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

Liberals when fascists announce their intentions to strip millions of people of their human rights

i frequently don't understand the romance girlies but i have to admit that they don't fuck around

Ah yes, the progressive political stance of "lol, calling out sexism is idpol", man fuck these guys.