www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09... Well, that’s kinda backfired.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09... Well, that’s kinda backfired.
x.com/gavinnewsom/... @newsagents.bsky.social I’m listing to your pod on labour’s communications (or lack thereof) and this popped up - you couldn’t get a more stark contrast…..
A video is circulating with misleading claims it shows the Union Jack being replaced with the flag of Pakistan. It’s actually from a ceremony marking Pakistan’s Independence Day at the Pakistan Consulate in Glasgow, where the Union Jack is not flown.
No one cares
Oh dear god. Monetised fake pseudo American victimhood.
God she’s vile
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#RNLI lifeboats are crewed by brave people. I used to live near one of the launch stations, in Stromness, Orkney. When the boat went out, often in dire conditions, it felt like the whole town stopped until they were safely back in harbour. 'For those in peril on the sea' rnli.org/support-us/g...
x.com/genspect/sta... New UN report out from Special Rapporteur 👇🏽
x.com/sarahsurvivi... YES!! After 3 years - women who want and/or need a single sex space in a rape crisis service can have one.
They’re beautiful in own right, let alone compared to pylons, power plants etc. and needed.
This Data Flips the Transgender Bullying Narrative on Its Head A new Finnish study found that trans-identified adolescents—especially those who identify as “nonbinary”—were more likely to bully others than they were to be bullied.
[In a poll of LGB workers] 91% of respondents are uncomfortable being grouped under the broader LGBTQ+ umbrella at work – hardly surprising, when the TQ+ is unrelated to sexual orientation. Most alarming of all, however, is that business and HR leaders often take sides.
x.com/womenreadwom... For those interested "The Eunuch Archive was named in the WPATH draft standards of care 8 document... And that website has a link to a fiction archive where there are thousands of stories written about graphic castration, explicit sexual castration, even of children."
Insufferable glee
x.com/sportseenuk/... YES! fairness and common sense prevail
And paywalled? 🤔
x.com/zaelefty/sta... For those interested in some facts …
Surely was done deliberately to get suspended?. Why would it be credible not to be suspended over the same comments? Handy there’s a new ‘party’ on the cards
You too could also have this funky bracelet with blinking LEDs for 300 USD. What r ya waitin for? #QuackMollieJames
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x.com/michaelpfora... For those interested in women’s rights
The Mail’s £25k benefits headline? Not journalism. Propaganda. A rare disability case, cherry-picked to whip up hate and distract you from the real scandal: wages that don’t pay the bills.
One in five young people have struggled – or been in a family that has struggled – to afford food, new research has found.
That’s another thing you’ve got wrong 🙄😆
How beautiful, the idea and the art and the bench
x.com/genspect/sta... For those interested in the safeguarding of children.
Only certain ones
Nasty
Narrative blaming migrants/foreign people/ not ethnically white oops English ppl already taken hold. evident b4, during & after Brexit. Political football = devastating conseq 4 migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, black & brown citizens & communities. Also damaging public safety, cohesion & economy
An image of police officers supposedly kneeling in front of a group of Muslims is being widely shared on social media again. It’s still fake (and was probably created using AI).
I’m waiting for the Big Beautiful Party.
Would I count? Great grandmother arrived here early 1900 from what is now Poland. Would I pass (the English test)? Guess that depends on Goodwin’s implicit criteria …
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Analysis and information for those interested 👇🏽👀👇🏽
As Sexual Rights Initiative untagged itself from the tweet i commented on, here is the link to the original article by Global Solutions: genevasolutions.news/human-rights...
x.com/anthony7andr...
Worse than Liz in the tank ffs
A video of what appears to be a speech by the military ruler of Burkina Faso in which he criticises the portrayal of Africa in western media has gone viral. This video is not genuine but likely an AI deepfake, according to experts.
x.com/wesyang/stat... From the UN rapporteur
40 years?! How’s that possible..
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And his lies??
x.com/sophiaslorey... Fairness for women’s sports? Have a listen
x.com/noshirleyno/... There we go.
I don’t agree with her decision because I don’t think the threshold of serious damage has been met. But your summary is, well, pants.
A video has been circulating widely on social media with misleading claims that it depicts an Iranian attack on Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. It actually appears to show the aftermath of strikes on the Israeli city of Haifa.
Love those leather jackets
x.com/zaelefty/sta... For anyone who wants to know whether humans can change sex.
The sweet smell of stagnant sovereignty #Brexit
My latest, a deep dive into the Stewart report into HS2.
x.com/womensrights... At last! It’s ok to call a rapist ‘he’ (ffs)
It’s almost like Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Mental illness and coercive control. She should be charged with manslaughter.
No one.
This image, which purports to show a US B-2 bomber after crashing or being shot down in Iran, is AI-generated and fake. According to the US government, all the B-2 bombers used in the bombing of Iran's nuclear sites returned to the US.
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Finally, high-resolution satellite images captured by Maxar Technolgoies on 22 June show six fresh craters - likely the entry points for US munitions - as well as grey dust and debris scattered down the mountainside - at Iran's Fordo enrichment facility after US strikes. 📷 Maxar
There have never been sufficient refuge services, IDVA advisors, children’s workers or MARAC places. The whole system is struggling due to lack of resource.
Shouldn’t shells be left in the sea / on the beach? I thought that was the ‘rule’.
The Iran-Israel conflict marks the first time in a war where AI-generated videos and images have been widely shared by supporters of both sides as an effective tool to fight the information war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
110°F is 43°C.
And you believed them??
He is absolutely repellent - he literally makes my skin crawl. narcissistic buffoon, endlessly entitled, corrupt, liar and grifter
The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo 🐶
Indeed
The Great British Gaslight: Telling Women Their Safety Matters Less Than Hurt Feelings Read and subscribe for free: open.substack.com/pub/katiepin...
Thank you. It makes sense of the detail which is often presented (as gotcha). And/or poorly answered.
knowingius.org/p/are-trans-... Given the ongoing debate on walking groups, mixed and single sex services - this clear insight may assist @michaelpforan.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social
What a beautiful interview - deeply moving 🥰
Nope - the judgement was about the definition of woman (& man) in the context of the Equality Act - biological sex. So a women’s group can only be for women. I posted the judgement earlier if u want more info.
Either way the recent judgement was about sex
It should be - in that the law has been clarified and the EHRC need to set out how that works in policy & practice.
The SC is not mistaken, it’s clear. gender reassignment & sex r protected characteristics (pc). In some situations rights have 2 b balanced & protected eg membership orgs- u can't have one on basis of two non-overlapping pc’s ie membership is contingent on being female OR trans-identifying male.
Know we can do better than that t**t
I didn’t take that from her evidence - the judgement makes clear than the rights of trans people through the protected category of gender reassignment remain.
You’re mistaken, this is not about belief. This is clarification that when the Equality Act refers to eg men it means biological men. Re the protected category of sex.
I promise - biological sex is not an irrational belief system.
It’s not, this is about sex as a protected characteristic.
I’ve posted rather than replied the judgement. My poor tech skills
supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
Under the Equality Act 2010, a grp that chooses 2 admit women & trans identifying men - it can’t describe itself as single sex. call itself anything else - mixed sex, for everyone. It can prevent as they are legally defined terms. So eg women wld have right 2 challenge - breach of Act.
Ah I see. It’s not about GC belief it’s the law. So if it is single sex women only (for the purposes that are legitimate & proportionate)then yes it’s women only. No men or trans identifying men.
I’m not. Precisely the opposite- I’m saying that any group of people can set up any group they like. If it’s men only, then it is, women only then it is, mixed then it is. terms men & women have been clarified so if grp is mixed that’s clear & in any articles, publicity etc. & vice versa.
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social most of comttee, particularly the chair, wr unprepared not reading - judgement, interim update or consultation. That said EHRC didn’t nail issues when was chance. Yes, ofc set up mixed women’s grp including trans identifying men. But know that it’s not women only. That’s it
Or indeed ‘anyone with a cervix’
Well, it’s marginally better than a ‘person with a front hole’. ffs
It’s actually bigger than the affordable homes investment by the last Labour government because it’s sustained (rather than a short term package in response to the financial crisis)
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But it was different, it was dreadful & dysfunctional eg cancelling capital infrastructure for pot holes. No housing, no transport, no regional development. No ambition. etc etc
@newsagents.bsky.social Come on - it’s better than you’ve given it/her credit for. How about it’s coherent and (starts to) addresses the woefully dire state of public sector services & infrastructure. In a way that was understandable and relevant to us normal folk.
The public sector & infrastructure is shot 2 pieces & needs bold judgment 2 address issues that matter 4 electorate. & can kickstart big spend eg housing, transport. Strategically coherent & explained how the big changes required can start 2 b delivered. It was relevant & understandable. Good.
Deadline for BRCA-testing programme announced www.thejc.com/community/de...
And going out in the burqa if they are compelled to wear it - to socialise, work, shop, school, get advice etc. it could lead to more isolation not less.
Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Sure.