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Cruel, pointless, impractical, and ultimately dangerous. The rooms in hospitals which will now be used to offload trans people are often required for clinical reasons ie to treat the immuno-compromised. This is the product of a country that has gone insane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says

New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21h

The Forstater judgment kind of broke equalities law. What do you mean transgender people have to accept that some of their colleagues might not "believe in" them?

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Rob Wilkins @designer-rob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The report doesn't claim ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed. That's media misinterpretation. From the report… "On the basis of evidence available to us we cannot conclude that over-diagnosis is occurring at scale, particularly given the gaps in population prevalence data and data reporting."

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?" I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.

newstatesman.com

Why does nationality matter, anyway?

Deciding someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is a bit weird

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Taxing private jets at the same rate as regular flights, and ending the tax exemption on plane fuel could give the Chancellor an extra £2.7 bn. £2.7bn for our green transport networks! With other MPs I am calling on the Govt to end the tax breaks for wealthy private jet users. buff.ly/B65XyNf

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Private jet tax open letter — Possible

For *one week only* all donations have double the impact.

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Been saying this for years. Vanilla is not plain. It is SUPERB.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How to Draw Cartoons, by Julius Streicher

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Everyone, stop what you are doing. I've discovered there is a politician called Teresa May running for city council in British Columbia. And this is from one of her campaign videos. Never have two people with the same name had such different vibes.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling an election now could very easily make Reform the official opposition. Even if Labour wins, that’s not a legacy they’d relish.

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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

found sunak's times article moving, but also genuinely frustrating. In particular, there is a bit about how he spent half his premiership trying to deport people to rwanda! Profoundly disagree with his assertion that part of why we're here is because the scheme wasnt allowed to work.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:

thetimes.com

Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The usual moral “I’ll support anything as long as the rosette is red” voids in the replies to this. The reality is that Sunak did take real political damage in sacking Braverman and taking the whip from Anderson. Starmer and Burnham both useless on this.

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Jonathan de Peyer @jondepeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

With a forget-me-not pin supporting Alzheimer’s Society for Andy’s dad. Class that.

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MALF @malf.io · 17/09/2026

Maybe I’m just a grump, but I don’t need a damn watch to tell me my sleep score. I wake up and can tell you how I feel after a sleep.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is it too much to ask from the Prime Minister of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to grab the largest microphone and television camera in his immediate vicinity and shout "STOP TRYING TO LYNCH ASYLUM SEEKERS YOU RACIST CUNTS!" from the top of his lungs? Yes. Apparently.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Banning me from the country seems to be a petty retaliation by Israeli ministers against the long overdue new sanctions from our Government, which will not stop me from continuing to speak up for human rights in Palestine and Israel, or elsewhere. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2653341...

theargus.co.uk

Sussex MP among twelve people banned from Israel in UK sanctions row

Brighton Pavilion MP Siân Berry has been barred from entering Israel following the UK Government’s announcement of new restrictions targeting…

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Quick! Someone call the Culture Secretary

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026

What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reform mired in scandal. A Labour government that literally cannot do the most basic bits of “are you a state?” i.e. arrest people who blockade infrastructure and intimidate the free press. Literally everyone in politics is optimising towards a Conservative victory other than Kemi Badenoch.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What a country we have become when the RNLI has to post things like this. Just over 1% of their total rescue work is in the Channel. Meanwhile Reform and Restore continue to badmouth the service.

The RNLI is a charity that exists to save lives at sea.

But recent events have generated deliberate misinformation and a misunderstanding about our purpose and our lifesaving work in the Channel.

As a result, some of our volunteers and staff have been the subject of online and, in some cases, physical abuse.

This is unacceptable.

The RNLI's people represent the very best of society. For over two hundred years they have dedicated themselves to rescuing people they've never met before, without judgment, fear or favour.

We are tasked by HM Coastguard to help those in distress, and we'll do so whenever, wherever and whoever they are.

We launched 9,058 times in 2025.

Only 109 of those launches were to those in distress in the Channel - 1.2% of our total rescue work. Anyone rescued from a small boat by the RNLI is then taken into the care of the relevant UK authorities.

To those who stand with the RNLI, thank you. For more than two hundred years, we've saved lives at sea around the UK and Ireland, and that commitment remains unchanged.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This seems like a useful policy to support.

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Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Know the UK News Environment Rules!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

By tomorrow morning, who knows, they may have even progressed to commenting on what happens when the 'line into disorder' has actually been crossed.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026

Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.

Description of the BUF Olympia rally, at which a series of hecklers were violently attacked by Blackshirts. The sadism, Blythe writes, reached "an erotic intensity".

Stanley Baldwin's private secretary expressed shock and dismay: "It was a deeply shocking scene for an Englishman to see in London."

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gotta say I'm beginning to doubt the democratic credentials of these radical right lads who keep doing crimes

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026

a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists!

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The problem with Muslim migrants is they don’t really subscribe to British values like letting women play a full part in public life. [Muslim woman becomes leader of a London council] This is an affront to British values.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can’t put into words the fury this reporting fills me with. How more indignity must trans people be spoken be subjected to by our national broadcaster?

One patient, Sion Jewell, had been due to have surgery to remove their breasts and had packed to go to hospital, only to be told in a phone call 24 hours before it that it had been called off.
The 29-year-old from Anglesey, who is biologically female, had waited five years from their initial GP referrals and the surgery had been postponed twice already for mental health reasons.
The surgery would be irreversible and would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in future.
"When I found out I was heartbroken - I was distraught and completely disheartened," they said.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just realised that the longest-serving Prime Minister and shortest-serving Prime Minister both held office under two monarchs.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Really, everyone should listen to this brilliant episode on an absolutely shameful tale from really quite recent UK political history, particularly those who weren’t there or paying attention at the time.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She was a bright light of what America could be at its best. Rest in peace.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/08/2026

It is absolutely meaningless for the UK government (or EU governments) to talk about regulating social media while continuing to ignore this stuff from Musk.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every MAGA politician whines about immigrants taking jobs and in the next sentence fully supports AI taking everyone’s job

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Big Tech’s capture of the US government is more or less complete, but it seems pretty obvious these should not be legal

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Is Kemi still anti-net zero?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19/08/2026

Being a trans person in the UK is to be held by the throat on national TV as the government punches you in the face while they deliver a speech to camera about how nobody should be punched.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

As a rule I don’t think one should call anybody a traitor unless it’s, like, Lord Haw-Haw. It’s ugly enough as an insult and should have no place in respectable journalism

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