Reposted by CyanishblueHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059812392
Reposted by CyanishblueYunze Wang @yz18.bsky.social · 06/09/2026And beyond it all, we should bear in mind that, despite the backslide, the democratic west has more rights and autonomy than the vast majority of the world. We have the agency to make things happen. And we have a responsibility to use that. The future is not determined yet. 182
Reposted by CyanishblueYunze Wang @yz18.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is a sobering and correct observation. And god, what a bad weekend. Would add though, that now is not the time to despair. Far right politics is a self-destructive force. The job is to try and make it so that it takes something less than a destructive world war to diminish it significantly. 193
Reposted by CyanishblueJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt. 1312689711
Reposted by CyanishblueChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One thing Labour really needs to get through its head is that government has huge agenda setting capability. If the prime minister or home secretary calls these people what they are that will form parts of headlines and the like. We saw this under Starmer when the correct response finally came 625564
Reposted by CyanishblueTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I appreciate they would deny it, but they spent the last two days arguing about if some ethnicities can be British, announcing they'd declare a state or emergency to push through their policies, and now this, it's a very straightforwardly fascist movement. 7329102
Reposted by CyanishblueJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Mahmood's proposals would force medium-skilled & care workers to leave the UK & would deter high skill workers from coming in future. This would widen the deficit/fiscal home. Would be deliberate economic and political self-harm for Burnham/Healey to proceed with them. inews.co.uk/news/politic...inews.co.ukMahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellionMore Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain 28418193
Reposted by Cyanishblue👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don't think you can get a better measure of Dolly than how she was brought up in a house were some of her siblings couldn't read, so she set up a foundation where literally anyone could sign-up to have a curated, age-appropriate book, delivered to their children until they entered kindergarten. 413530
Reposted by CyanishblueTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742411099
Reposted by CyanishblueBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026christ, what a depressing story all round, and what a series of failures of responsibility to get to this. 141037167
Reposted by CyanishblueMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible 1564206674
Reposted by CyanishblueMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/08/2026It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.theguardian.comThis burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq KhanLook at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan 731533486
Reposted by CyanishbluePeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026One reason why I fundamentally do not relate to this fear in any country is because at core I think that if your national identity is so thin, so weak, that it can be undone by the colour of the skin of the people who carry its banner, then you fundamentally have no faith in your culture. 735784
Reposted by CyanishblueJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The thing that really grinds my gears about this is the dishonesty. The biggest implication of this guidance is that trans people will have to live their lives very differently. But they are entirely absent from this framing. You'd be forgiven for thinking this didn't affect them at all. 36714
Reposted by CyanishblueNadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’m glad that the @goodlawproject.org is launching a legal challenge against the EHRC’s new Code of Practice, which is dangerous, unworkable and has been opposed by a quarter of all MPs. The Code will discriminate against trans people and subject many others to gender policing based on stereotypes.attitude.co.ukPro-trans groups challenge EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces as rules come into forceGood Law Project’s trans rights lead, Jess O’Thomson, criticised the government’s approach, calling the code of practice “transphobic”. 612129
Reposted by CyanishblueQueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 22/07/2026"This is going to lead to widespread harm for trans people and those who don't conform to gender stereotypes, and put businesses and charities in the crossfire of endless litigation," @transsolidarity.bsky.social Source 👉 shorturl.at/nhw99 15016
Reposted by CyanishblueLuke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Worth repeating, the 'tough new visa rules' were designed specifically for care workers and their family members. If it's not going to work for them, it won't work for anyone else caught by the cruelty of the rules. Bin the whole thing. 8298105
Reposted by CyanishblueColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The whole point of the original policy (which was and is terrible) was to target exactly this group. And now they’re going to introduce the policy and exempt them? Just abandon the policy! The whole thing is just a terrible idea. 11547183
Reposted by CyanishblueElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Yep we need to die in this hill. Intentionally misgendering someone is transphobic, doing to repeatedly in a workplace is harassment. 233197690
Reposted by CyanishblueJulianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026This is IMO a big trap Labour are falling into, reminiscent of the "nasty party" problem the Tories had where individual policies, ones that were unlikely to put off many voters by themselves, combined to make the party just generally off-putting 15716
Reposted by CyanishblueJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026If confirmed Miatta Fahnbulleh as Energy+Net Zero Secretary, Angela Eagle as Environment Secretary, and Jonathan Reynolds as Business Secretary is good news for the green economy. Strong signal of both support for ambitious reforms and continuity around some of the better parts of the govt's agenda. 120742
Reposted by CyanishblueJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Banter outcome: Farage wins his self-inflicted by-election, standards commissioner rules against, recall petition, 2026 becomes the year of two Clacton by-elections 1753395
Reposted by CyanishblueElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This makes me feel really sad. I'm all for apprenticeships, but I truly believe there's so much a value in a university education, and that anyone who wants it should have it. Our university sector is world class, and we should be loud and proud about it. 1254
Reposted by CyanishblueAndrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Given how hard Starmer is seemingly prepared to fight to hold onto the job, it is amazing to me how reluctant he is to actually, you know, be the Prime Minister. 0317
Reposted by CyanishbluePeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026we genuinely need to start jailing people 69412
Reposted by CyanishblueSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556051589
Reposted by CyanishblueBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country. 6262071709
Reposted by CyanishblueRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We're in such a dark place and we're going to have to fight like hell to get out 03911
Reposted by CyanishblueJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/05/2026This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together. 6673881773
Reposted by CyanishblueSwitchboard - LGBTQIA+ Support Line @switchboard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026You’re not alone. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to listen to any concerns you may have as a result of the revised EHRC guidance being laid before parliament. We’ve supported the community through trials and tribulations for over 50 years, and we’re here for you today. 7327246
Reposted by CyanishblueJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Hard to overstate how much the Overton window has been allowed to shift on this. “Labour bans trans women from female toilets” would have caused a political earthquake in the party in, say, 2019. 1070762
Reposted by CyanishblueJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026‘Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state’ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... 6928754
Reposted by CyanishblueHugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026this is why Labour need a new leader in short order. maybe in an ideal world, Keir Starmer would hang around for a year and govern well while absorbing some of the inevitable flak associated with a developing global economic crisis; but the 'and govern well' part of that simply isn't going to happen 43710
Reposted by CyanishblueBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 01/04/2026AAAAHHHHHHH IT WORKED THIS IS WHAT I WANT GOVERNMENT DOING 231641279
Reposted by CyanishblueTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/03/2026If Labour's tactic on immigration was to "manage it better and talk about it less" then that's an even more embarrassing failure than I thought. 813323
Reposted by CyanishblueTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 20/03/2026It's not the biggest thing, but it is genuinely deeply aggravating that everything will get worse for no real gains, just because Americans were stupid enough to elect him again. 727440
Reposted by CyanishblueBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Blue Labour in a panicked retreat. Let’s keep the pressure up until this iniquitous policy is buried five miles underground.theguardian.comStarmer plans to ease impact of immigration policy changes after backlash from Labour MPsPM will consider exempting large numbers from proposed changes, which would leave people waiting 10 years for settled status 9572122
Reposted by CyanishblueChai Patel @chaipatel.net · 18/03/2026The thing is once you have implicitly accepted that your immigration reforms are a horrible unprincipled mess that everyone hates, you cannot try and hold on to random bits of cruelty within them without looking very foolish. And everyone will still hate them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comStarmer plans to ease impact of immigration policy changes after backlash from Labour MPsPM will consider exempting large numbers from proposed changes, which would leave people waiting 10 years for settled status 1018461
Reposted by CyanishblueDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Two things need to happen at this point: 1) Scrap proposals and pull a mea culpa for ever suggesting them 2) Fire Mahmood as Home Secretary and get someone in who isn't chasing soundbites. You can't "water down" proposals which are so obviously inhumane, hostile, unworkable and ignorant of reality. 7335110
Reposted by CyanishblueColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Let’s hope so. 10+ years to settlement is a terrible, terrible policy. Workers trapped in tied visas, families in relative poverty, massive damage to integration and social cohesion. This really matters. 420339
Reposted by CyanishblueTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The prevalence of nominally reasonable organisations discussing the increasingly wild, radicalised claims of the right as if they were real cannot be good for democracy. 1224465
Reposted by CyanishblueProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHumanity heating planet faster than ever before, study findsResearchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño 25858512
Reposted by CyanishblueCarbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 06/03/2026NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says ✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️carbonbrief.orgPace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says - Carbon BriefAn acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before... 3143118
Reposted by CyanishblueElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton. This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing). 26667127
Reposted by CyanishblueIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRefugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-upAdults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes. 891884555
Reposted by CyanishblueAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK. People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal. We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.theguardian.comRefugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylumHome secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe 512576