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submitted 3 days ago • 355 comments

80 percent said no — so let’s stop pretending the AfD speak for ‘The People’ euobserver.com/eu-political...

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security #netzero #cimatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

realise this is a delicate point to make but does this current crop of Conservatives realise that they can try to appeal to uber-nationalist nutjobs as much as they want, but said uber-nationalist nutjobs are unlikely to ever vote for a Black woman

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Stephen King has returned to Twitter. 10/10. No notes. 🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 730 comments

I so enjoyed meeting Neil Kinnock for this special celebration episode of The Bunker. He’s absolutely lovely, witty and perceptive. I wish he’d been PM when I was a kid.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Ed Davey comments on Starmer talking to Trump #r4today Acknowledges the difficulty of his position but stresses the need to be firmly honest and to protect our interests. Managing to be both supportive and oppositional. A very welcome change from the twatty point-scoring we get from the Tories.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

“Dr Mike Galsworthy, chairman of the European Movement UK, told The Independent: “This is welcome news. We need to start pulling this country out of the no-growth quagmire of Brexit and start giving people hope for a better, brighter future.””

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Two years ago, I made the decision to provide free school meals for all state primary school children in London. I’m proud to see the difference it’s made—helping children stay healthy and focused with a nutritious lunch while easing the financial burden on families.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Finally!! Starmer ready to offer Youth Mobility Scheme. 🙌🙌🙌

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

submitted 6 days ago • 207 comments

The problem with liberalism is that it sits around waiting for extremists to cut its throat. Musk is clearly using Twitter to undermine European democracies, so Europe should pull the plug on it. Who gives a shit if he wails about freedom of speech. Geo-block it in Europe and tell him to get fucked.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

That stuff will kill you, it’s loaded with fun… Happy birthday Ivy, nobody ever rocked a bikini and a guitar quite like you 🖤 @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social #poisonivy #thecramps

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Translation: Female athletes are gradually reclaiming their sport categories. International sports (athletics aquatics cycling & more) are reinstating equality & non-discrimination for female athletes. The @theguardian.com is against this. Male rights activists. www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely genius. Who did this?

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered." The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

'The Liberal Democrats have been forced to allow women’s rights campaigners who believe in biological sex to have equal footing with other groups after claims that they had been “vilified and censured” for their beliefs.' What next? Women who believe in evolution? 🤣 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Seems like @stephenkb.bsky.social having similar thoughts. Personally I'd prefer to buy a security and defence bond than pay a levy. I wonder which would raise more. If the bare minimum is £5bn more a year, that's £100 per adult.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

'Requiring women ...to expose their naked bodies before ...the opposite sex as a condition of accessing employment, education, other public or private commercial services is without shadow of a doubt a breach of privacy, dignity, decency and human rights.' www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Starmer is making a huge mistake in not openly embracing the EU’s generous offers to cut red tape. Starmer is too scared to listen to reason. But he will listen to an electoral beating in the local elections by pro-EU parties. #VoteRejoin www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-are-we-s...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

When the PM visits the White House next week, he must challenge Trump on his Ukraine lies in the strongest possible terms. It's alarming to see the leader of the free world parroting Putin's propaganda. Trump spoke in Mar-a-Lago but his words could have been written in Moscow.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

submitted 7 days ago • 160 comments

'The #Scottish Labour leader has said he “regrets” supporting gender recognition reform and would have opposed it in #Holyrood “knowing what we know now”.' #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #GRRBill #WomenWontWheesht www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 8 days ago • 1195 comments

'“This is an incredibly complex area of law that has quickly become highly specialised,” Dr Foran said. “The average EDI lead is simply not qualified to be setting policy without checking with a legal specialist.' www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Best of luck to Geraint Thomas in his retirement after this year's Tour of Britain. An outstanding career, including a Tour de France and a gold medal, is something to cherish in a physically brutal sport.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

PM of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, "We want Palestinians to live in Palestine, and Israelis live in Israel, in peace, in harmony and with security" "No real estate operation from Donald Trump is going to cover up the ignominy, the crimes against humanity, and the shame that has been in Gaza"

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 12 days ago • 563 comments

'It does not matter how often Upton says “I am not a man”. It does not matter, because he is male. A man biologically and a man legally too. Saying something does not make it true, no matter how often it is said.' www.thetimes.com/article/b73c...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

'Workplace ... Regulation 1992 ... state that changing facilities will not be suitable “unless they include separate facilities for, or separate use of facilities by, men and women where necessary for reasons of propriety”.' thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

'Notable in this most recent study – conducted in mid-December – is the growing resistance on transgender rights among those groups that are typically more permissive on the issue, like women and young people.' yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

'World Athletics is looking to introduce a mandatory cheek-swab test as part of tougher new rules for athletes who want to compete in the female category.' #WomensSport #Athletics #Olympics #SebCoe #IOC #SaveWomensSports www.thetimes.com/sport/athlet...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Good. The public is now more educated. But the questions are problematic as they conflate sex and gender. It is of course impossible to have a 'new sex' as opposed to a 'new gender identity'.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

'Ms Cunningham said: “Insisting that Sandie Peggie and her colleagues accept you without showing any sign of discomfort, that insistence that they pretend to believe something everyone knows is false, is bullying or harassment.”' #SexMatters #LegalSky www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

WorldAthletics: 'is responding to scientific research by bringing in a “pre‑clearance requirement for all elite athletes competing in the female category”, which involves a one‑time, non-invasive cheek-swab test.' www.thetimes.com/sport/athlet...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

submitted 17 days ago • 128 comments

'It saddens me that #Unison which has 75 per cent female membership, has as its first motion at its Women’s conference one that seeks to undermine Equality Act protections for women.' @unisontheunion.bsky.social #TradeUnion #UNWC25 #UWomen25 #WomenInUnison www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

'Some things are plain common sense. Female employees should not be expected to share changing rooms with male colleagues. They shouldn’t be socially shamed into undressing around them, or being in spaces where male colleagues get undressed in front of them.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

'An NHS trust was “extraordinarily negligent” for failing to disclose documents relating to a dispute over a transgender doctor using women’s changing rooms, an employment tribunal has heard.' www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Ludicrous article taking the usual lazy tropes of regulation as a growth killer imposed by evil governments, not as something demanded by almost all market actors and thus by now a settled part of modern government across the world (obviously this US admin is a wrecker).

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Gail Brodholt, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt #Saturday

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Why would you want cheap unlimited electricity from wind/solar. When you can buy very expensive, dirty nuclear reactors and be extorted to buy and dispose of the fuel for it forever. Hmm...

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments

Bank of England cuts interest rate to 4.5%, cuts growth forecast from 1.5% to 0.75%, expects inflation to hit 3.7%. Can't get economic growth by depressing income of the less well off. Can't control inflation without curbing corporate profiteering. Must change govt policies.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

New NCAA Policy: 'Men's category open to all eligible student-athletes, women's category restricted to student-athletes assigned female at birth, schools directed to foster welcoming environments on all campuses.' There. It was that easy. www.ncaa.org/news/2025/2/...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Yep. This seems fine. 😳

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

'IMANE Khelif is not eligible to compete in the 2025 Women’s World Boxing Championships following ... gold medal victory at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.' Good. 'Passport sex' is not enough. Biological males should not be punching females on the world stage. boxingnewsonline.net/iba-confirms...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

'Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday banning transgender athletes [in reality, males] from participating in women’s [female] sports'. Why did @democrats.org hand this open goal to Trump? Why did they deny human sexual dimorphism? Deny the science? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Yeah, “whoever controls the treasury controls the government” is such an unheard of concept that only a genius could think of that it was the first fucking thing Henry I did in 1100 after his brother William II Rufus died

submitted 21 days ago • 100 comments

Seriously, this has to be one of the stupidest things I've heard from a Labour MP in this parliament - and possibly ever.

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments