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There's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
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@queerbritain.bsky.social private view last night. This was the piece that hit the hardest.
Part of a quilt memorial to those who died during the HIV crisis.
Here's to one day revealing the beautiful life beneath this panel and celebrating him for who he was. X
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By contrast, formally responding to our detailed complaint about illegal content on X, Ofcom couldn't even mention X's name: instead it broadened out to talk about the work it was doing across all tech platforms.
Feels like the UK is in the grip of the worst people in the world: Thiel and Musk.
There's an astonishing cruelty in trying to make the world even more hostile for trans kids by suing schools that want to include them. But that's where 'gender critical' Britain is.
We're acting for a school that is being sued - and we could really use your help with funding.
Defend trans kids in school | Good Law Project
No, your artificial lawn is not a "life hack". It's another tiny nail in the planet's coffin.
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I hate the captive princess narrative so much. It tends to be applied disproportionately to women who are considered conventionally attractive, eg Melania Trump. The fact is that women who choose to marry awful men are usually awful themselves. That’s why they like those men. Adult women have agency
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No organisation existing solely to eliminate trans people should be a charity.
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Catherine O’Hara Dies: Beloved ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘SCTV’, ‘Home Alone’ Actor Was 71
Catherine O’Hara, the beloved comic actor who launched her extraordinary career as one of the ensemble members of the star-making cast of SCTV before gaining acclaim in such films as Beetlejuice, Home...
Been a lousy day inside my head, but at least I’m not a transphobe who’s warped my life and legacy by spending all my free time spewing hate. So I’m calling that a win and having a Crème Egg.
The Council of Europe votes by 2/3 majority to accept the resolution banning conversion practices, brought by UK MP
@kateosbornemp.bsky.social.
#SexMatters and
#AthenaForum tried their best to derail this resolution, but failed.
Huge well done to everybody involved 🙌🙌🙌
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BREAKING: WIN 🏳️⚧️ 💥
The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged.
Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.
Striking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority.
(Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)
The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive
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Hampstead Heath Ponds to remain inclusive
The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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This level of propaganda from the BBC has been the norm for years.
Basically every story about genocide in Gaza, trans people and the attacks on their human rights, Farage and his machinations has had this baked in…
…this bias isn’t new.
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
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For the Lords to force this to fail would be an outrage. It's clear that, for some, no version of the bill would be acceptable. That and the manner of amendments and delay shows that it is not merely extra scrutiny, it is deliberately undermining the Commons decision.
EXC - MPs and peers who backed the assisted dying bill now believe it is “near impossible” for it to pass the House of Lords in time because of procedural obstacles used by opponents.
“It is our system at its absolute most dysfunctional,” one MP said.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Assisted dying bill backers say it is ‘near impossible’ it will pass House of Lords
Exclusive: Legislation thought unlikely even to be put to vote before timing out after delay tactics by opponents
I’m struggling to find the right words for the heartbreak and rage of seeing a five-year-old child detained by ICE.
But I’m not surprised. Trump’s political agenda has always been to terrorise the most vulnerable.
This is the reality of far-right rule, and it’s what Reform wants in the UK.
A change that has been debated in our country for 90 years, supported by 75% the public, passed by the elected representatives of the British people, blocked by an undemocratic body, a large proportion of whom are playing schoolboy games. This is a broken system.
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Assisted dying bill backers say it is ‘near impossible’ it will pass House of Lords
Exclusive: Legislation thought unlikely even to be put to vote before timing out after delay tactics by opponents
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TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose
BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy
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Like, there's obviously so much more that could be said about this. But all of it pales in comparison to the one fundamental truth of our time: this guy is really really stupid.
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A blanket ban on puberty blockers, with a medical trial the only way to access them for young people, still isn’t enough for those who are ideologically opposed to the very existence of trans people and want the trial stopped.
Nothing ever will be.
