"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🔴'BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

So glad we rolled out the red carpet for the tangerine tosser, cringily hoping to curry favour, only for him to literally not give a shit - as people with brains predicted - and threaten to sue the BBC for £1bn anyway (on top of tariffs and slagging our country off every 5 mins)

🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

Trump was impeached for his Jan 6th actions. However that made no fucking difference.

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 what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

A clarification

You have got to actually be f*cking kidding me

Good analysis of the mistakes made by the Supreme Court by Robin Moira White. In a Skyview Unroll here for reference...

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Nope. Cluelessness far more important than being desperate. A total failure to understand the modern world, trade, geography, even international politics. Still not fixed. And in milder forms quite widespread across Europe.

"By a whopping two-to-one margin, voters now favor the pre-Brexit immigration system to the one that has taken shape since leaving the EU." Even among Reform UK voters, more wish they could go back to pre-2021 migration rules! ~AA www.politico.eu/article/labo...

Of course it is. Mussolini and Hitler and Franco all blamed immigrants to seize power. The same old playbook is being used.

We did warn everyone…

Starmer/Streeting’s policy of denying essential healthcare to trans kids is identical to the Trump administration’s denial of healthcare to trans kids. If your policy is the same as Trump’s (and Putin’s) your policy is fascist.

Migration makes for political deflection and migrants an easy scapegoat, but most "concerns" around immigration are flat out false and driven by hostile rhetoric. Reality is, on a day to day basis, people are more worried about how they'll get through to the next payday. news.sky.com/story/manufa...

I'm glad Labour decided to risk everyone's literal human rights over an arbitrary rule 🙄

Paxton is actually using the same tactic as UK trans hostile activists. It's taking a case they know they can't prove and probably won't win, because it will mean wall-to-wall disinformation via the media that will scare stores from selling it, women from taking it, etc. Still a good result. :(

“Saudi Arabia has one of the worst human rights records in the world,” thundered the Daily Mail in September, slamming comedians like Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall for performing there. 🧵1/4

Obviously well worth a read because it’s Stewart Lee but this line is perfect, “Jack Whitehall and Jimmy Carr performed in Riyadh too but they are of no consequence.” 👌

Jimmy Carr, everybody. Posted without comment. www.threads.com/@missnicolat...

He’s just going to make things up to try and stay in power, like all fascist authoritarians do. We will not abide it.

Today's Conservative Party: more extreme on mass deportations & more explicitly ethno-nationalist, illiberal & authoritarian than Enoch Powell in 1968 and his 'rivers of blood' speech. The sad decline of a once great party.

To then attempt to say this is the result of Narcissism on the part of the trans people as a whole, when the whole premise of the story relies on the argument that a prejudiced person's discomfort matters more than a marginalised person's inclusion (when you are the prejudiced party) is insane. 4/

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

This is the best account on any social media. 💯

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"big tent" opposition to fascism and authoritarianism simply cannot include, for example, transphobes or racists. they are holes in the canvas. they must hang up their hangups or go home.

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

The UK is swiftly positioning itself to become a pariah state, entirely outside of international human rights norms, and we will deserve any and all consequences of that positioning.

You hear it everywhere: snip-snip-snip. ✂️ Every party’s reaching for the scissors again – even though there’s nothing left to cut.

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it. Join.greenparty.org.uk

They lie about the ECHR. Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved… It’s NOT TRUE. We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING. For liars. Again.

Please don't stop sharing the ID card petition. The 3 million signatures milestone is within reach. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Jon Sopel thinks the UK is immune to US Christo-fascism (British exceptionalism! 🙄) He's wrong! It’s already here! His mainstream UK media mates held the door open for it through 'debating trans ideology' narratives. Now the people pretending not to see it are the ones who gave it a platform!

🚨This is an emergency🚨 This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life. Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban @transsolidarity.bsky.social #ScrapTheBathroomBan

Do you see where this is headed?

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳 It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

I wrote an article in January about where we have ended up in English law re. "deception as to sex", and what that means for trans people. I think it's likely we can expect to see more of these sorts of cases going forward. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-teen...

Regardless of what one thinks of the Greens and Zack Polanski, there is something refreshing and much needed about seeing a politician name far-right discourse as it is No more euphemising, no more "populism", "legitimate concerns" etc - accurate & damning depictions instead as needed

Council of Europe adopts landmark Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons www.coe.int/en/web/sogi/...