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Just so obviously such a bad idea for so many reasons.

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

When the Home Secretary is having to argue that the Prime Minister's speech was "completely different to Enoch Powell's", it may be time to pause and reflect on ... lots of things.

The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association. Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Fuck off you disgusting little snake!

he’s right and he’s right to say it

horrible horrible horrible horrible! horrible! inhuman and petty and cruel! horrible!

Trans people exist, they're beautiful, and Arsenal are going through tonight x

I started writing something similar but tbh this says it more eloquently than I could hope to

Again: Britain (not just this government but all of the recent ones) has a problem with knowledge work. Fishing, steel are manly proper jobs with a Victorian sense of place and history. Creative industries & HE are treated as secondary; derided or ignored.

Joke's on you, I never expected to be able to retire anyway

The five co-authors of this report on copyright, AI and the arts are all from the science and technology sectors. Not one artist or creator among them.

“my opponent is right, but - “ you have already lost, the only thing most people will take away is “my opponent is right” this man wants to take away vaccines, shout from the rooftops that he’s a danger to your children, both because it’s a much more effective message and because it’s true

Honestly this is just so depressing, like, the most UK politics thing ever for the prime minister to announce 'we will use an accounting trick to get an insufficient increase' and the leader of the opposition to reply with an argument based on their own fantasies and half-understood buzzwords.

Humbled

This is the worst news for Rugby Union in the UK for decades. The Six Nations is the only time most people here give a shit about rugby. You take that off free-to-air TV and the sport becomes a closed shop with no shot at ever growing.

The fact that an article about banning trans women from sport prominently features a picture of a cis woman basically tells you everything.

Oh Arsenal