Reposted by Rowan Jackanliathanach.bsky.social @anliathanach.bsky.social · 8hThe NI Secretary rocking back and forth and sobbing after just over 2 months in the job. 0278
Reposted by Rowan JackElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 8hI think two things can be true 1. Labour have destroyed trans people's civil rights, and don't deserve faith from trans people 2. Fixing trans rights is going to need many different approaches which includes mainstream orgs/parties trying to address transphobia in their ranks 31019
Reposted by Rowan JackTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 10hI'll believe Burnham is a progressive when he brings forward laws to undo our historically hostile position against LGBTQ+ people, immigrants and refugees, and protesters. Until then he's just Blue Labour with better vibes. 629278
Reposted by Rowan JackM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did Andy Burnham have any words of comfort for the UK’s 10m Black and Asian people who have witnessed the government tacitly nod along to pogroms or the LGBTQ community where trans people face toilet segregation and Section 28 the sequel in schools and cis LGB folk are facing erosion of our rights? 416242
Reposted by Rowan JackLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23hIf a politician crying on a stage in a speech he would have planned meticulously is all you need to jump back on board the Labour train, you were never really off it and care more about performative politics than actual cruelty. 824342
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Another appeal, which he's v unlikely to win, but the whole point is the generation of these headlines and the normalisation of the claim that homophobia is protected under the Equality Act. It is not, but these people have endless cash to spend to try to find a court that will set such a precedent. 23213
Reposted by Rowan JackSimon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fair enough that Burnham says he will lay out options for long-term relationship with EU, especially if he's clear about costs and benefits of each But still a bit of can-kicking, given those options are well-known and all take time to achieve, time that isn't in great supply 7599
Reposted by Rowan JackElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I’m very sorry but because I’m an extremely cynical and bitter left wing transsexual I will not be excited for an Andy Burnham premiership and I’m not going to feign even vague excitement or positivity. Just be forewarned this is not and will never be a Burnham positive zone x 212312
Reposted by Rowan JackTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 29/09/2026Never surprising how fast some white dudes will insist that marginalised groups sit down and shut up about attacks on their rights when leaders jingle some economic policy at them whilst giving the marginalised groups another taste of the boot 03410
Reposted by Rowan JackSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people. 1819382
Reposted by Rowan JackBen @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"immigration control weakened by Brexit" five-dimensional dogwhistle triangulation-ass line 1287
Reposted by Rowan JackNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As Andy Burnham decides to make pensioners poorer instead of taxing the mega-rich or rejoining the EU, a reminder of how the UK compares with the rest of Western Europe on pensions. 148154
Reposted by Rowan JackElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous. 8316108
Reposted by Rowan JackRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A very good article that cuts right to the heart of Drumcree 1156
Reposted by Rowan JackNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.socialheraldscotland.comShame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the deadOur Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors… 414073
Reposted by Rowan JackGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Homophobes are very grateful to the transphobes who pathed the way for this. The racists can’t wait to get their turn. It’s only a matter of time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukChristian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hearsFelix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality. 22501168
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply. 121056386
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets. 132493819
Reposted by Rowan JackPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Empty words whilst Shabana Mahmood remains in post. 518332
Reposted by Rowan JackBrendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18636254
Reposted by Rowan JackTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 27/09/2026Good to see the Guardian placing this story as their headline. It is insane that the Orange Order was given permission. Solidarity with the residents of Garvaghy Road. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...theguardian.comNorthern Ireland live: Orange Order march in Catholic part of Portadown after near 30-year banProtestant march taking place in an area that historically has been a flashpoint of sectarian disputes 25415
Reposted by Rowan JackColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't want to just dunk on Bryant, who is new in post, but successive UK Govts have been profoundly complacent about the stability of NI even after several summers of rioting. That the Secretary of State is only coming to NI now is jaw dropping. 910737
Reposted by Rowan JackSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/202611 people murdered to get marching here and it’s reduced to both sides need to behave. We mean nothing to these people and have to pay taxes for the privilege of indifference 313441
Reposted by Rowan JackAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks 19809273
Reposted by Rowan JackViolet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026[Laughs in Streisand Effect] 07721
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The second attack in two weeks on an LGBT+ bookshop in Glasgow. STV posted this story on Facebook and there is an endless stream of comments underneath suggesting the answer is for them to stop using the word "queer", stop supporting trans rights, and stop being so visible. Mainstreamed hate.news.stv.tvQueer bookshop vandalised again two weeks after targeted attackCategory Is Books in Govanhill has been targeted twice within two weeks 511864
Reposted by Rowan JackDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Deliberately leaving neurodivergent waiting years for a diagnosis is sickening. Imagine if this was other forms of diagnosis, and the uproar it'd cause. Yet again, we are treated as if we don't matter, as if we don't exist. We need more investment into diagnosis. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comNHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessmentsPatient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses 78322
Reposted by Rowan JackAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism. 231583547
Reposted by Rowan JackAllan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Whatever your position on the issues, the frequency with which people whose job it is to make laws in a country with parliamentary supremecy default to "sorry but the law says... nothing we can do about it" is infuriating Yes you can! So do it or make an active case for why you won't, cowards! 24813
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today, Alison Ann-Dowling, a Scottish Labour councillor who is a member of the party's ruling body the SEC, together with fellow Scottish Labour Women's Declaration activist Norma Austin Hart, will take their trade union, Community, to court to try to overturn its trans-inclusive policy. 1013177
Reposted by Rowan JackTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 24/09/2026Also it is now incredibly obvious that not prosecuting criminal acts by the far-right has done nothing but embolden them to go further. Refusing to charge them is what's playing into their hands. 0389
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes. 161776281
Reposted by Rowan JackDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is demonstrably proven, via multiple studies as well as commonsense, that preventing young people explore and acknowledge their own identity has massively harmful impacts. Labour reviving Section 28 against trans young people will cause untold harm, just as the original Section 28 did. 312137
Reposted by Rowan JackSearchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Patriot Platform boss Danny Tommo has tonight been arrested on suspicion of serious criminal offences committed on Tuesday in the Channel. Read more and see the arrest here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/dann...searchlightmagazine.comDanny Tommo arrested for criminal damage and reckless endangerment | SearchlightPatriot Platform boss Danny Tommo has tonight been arrested on suspicion of serious criminal offences committed on Tuesday in the Channel 55231
Reposted by Rowan JackRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Boycott lads, or your photo will go down in history like Neville Chamberlain's at Munich 3226
Reposted by Rowan JackScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 22/09/2026Andy Burnham is set to support Saudi Arabia's barbaric bombing campaign in Yemen. Yemen has already faced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with famine, cholera outbreaks and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. This is a shameful decision. 413961
Reposted by Rowan JackTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 23/09/2026Andy Burnham now presides over the return of Section 28. No mainstream news outlet has asked him about that. 111947
Reposted by Rowan JackBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 22/09/2026New article: Local Government reform done for the wrong reasons will be a disaster There is a kernel of positivity in the Scottish Government's plans, but let's be frank: if they fully get their way, they will destroy local democracy entirely. Yes, it's that bad.ballotbox.scotLocal Government reform done for the wrong reasons will be a disasterThere is a kernel of positivity in the Scottish Government's plans, but let's be frank: if they fully get their way, they will destroy local democracy entirely. Yes, it's that bad. 23018
Reposted by Rowan JackCllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So, just to be clear, Daniel Thomas was: 1- Carrying a knife contrary to section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 2- Used that knife to commit criminal damage (Criminal Damage act 1971) 3- likely engaged in the criminal offense of endangering Life at Sea (Merchant Shipping Act 1995) 7244101
Reposted by Rowan JackJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think the most appalling part of this is that even the liberal/left opposition seems genuinely incapable of a hard hitting attack on the government here 515629
Reposted by Rowan JackRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If I'm Zack Polanski, I'm taking the UK Government deserting RNLI to hordes of fash and plastering it on every leaflet and billboard 25611
Reposted by Rowan JackEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042175956
Reposted by Rowan JackDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Chants of 'let them drown' sung by a child over a megaphone" surely must be the moment this UK Government realises that no form of appeasement or persuasion is going to solve this problem. Ban the platforms spreading the lies, proscribe the groups terrorising the country. Act now, for pity's sake. 520452
Reposted by Rowan JackMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This year’s El Niño is on course to be the largest in at least *1,000* years. That’s going to drive excess heat into the atmosphere and combined with man-made heating will make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded. #climatecrisistheguardian.com‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world 15372169
Reposted by Rowan JackTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 21/09/2026It is in this climate that both the SNP and Labour think they're triangulating their way to victory by backing new drilling in the North Sea 1359
Reposted by Rowan JackRoss Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Credit to the Scottish Government for grasping the need to reform local government, but the starting point they published today leaves me with some major worries 🧵 23112
Reposted by Rowan JackDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433131788
Reposted by Rowan JackFinn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026this is frankly intellectual vandalism - and cultural too, when you look at the number of particularly "Scottish" courses on the chopping block 2167
Reposted by Rowan JackRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Quite simply, the Scottish Government should be coming down on the University like a hammer on a nail to squash this 25510