The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.
There’s no separation of media and state over here. It’s one organ
The UK couldn’t have an Olivia Nuzzi situation because all of the columnists are already married to the politicians.
"Good Law Project said both rulings countered the argument that the supreme court ruling automatically resulted in a bathroom ban for trans people. “The tribunal was clear that the law does not now require banning trans people from single-sex spaces.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Your Party running a sortition exercise for their founding conference then purging nearly 10% of those selected to attend isn't doing anything to dispell the notion that they're less a political party and more a performance art piece meant to mock the entire concept of left-wing organising
feel like i'm speedrunning the past 10 years of the british left
The new guidance also removes a suggestion in an earlier draft that those running services could in “necessary and proportionate circumstances” ask to see a birth certificate or gender recognition certificate (GRC) if they suspected someone was lying about their sex. The final code instead says it would “unlikely be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex” even if doubts were raised. It said “there is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex” because people can change their sex on passports and driving licences without a GRC.
Under the new guidance, places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others. If there is doubt they are telling the truth about their sex, they could be banned from using those services once those running them had considered “relevant factors”.
But it says that if there is “genuine concern about the accuracy of the response” it may be proportionate to exclude a transgender person anyway.
Shot - chaser - finisher
The EHRC admits there's no way to enforce anti-trans exclusion using paperwork.
Therefore it's only possible using gender stereotypes.
Therefore they defend excluding basically anyone who might be suspected of being trans.
A recipe for utter chaos.
Ok we said Labour is in the service of elites and not workers but you didn’t need to make it that fucking obvious Shabana
Headline: Immigration and asylum Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
Headline: Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Nigel Farage Nigel Farage Photograph: Tom Pilston/The Guardian Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
If anyone was looking for evidence the Guardian has capitulated to far-right politics becoming mainstream, this must be it:
Farage being asked for "contrition" for the millionth time and Mahmood being asked for "clarity" for ideas that should be beyond the pale in democracy
At this moment, every single person supporting Labour is fighting for a far-right government in the UK.
Zoe Leventhal KC, representing the minister for women and equalities, argued that the guidance may have been too simplistic in suggesting that, for example, a trans woman should not use a women's toilet in a public space. She suggested that it could be judged on a case-by-case basis.
NEW:
While remaining a neutral party to the case, Bridget Phillipson's lawyers have told the High Court they don't think the EHRC's proposed blanket bathroom ban is the right reading of the law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
Remember the rule, folks – if it's outside a politician's home, it's "toxic behaviour", but if it's outside a so-called 'asylum hotel' it's a "reasonable concern" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
remember when Reagan had his press secretary mockingly imply journalists were gay if they tried to ask if the president was doing anything about HIV/AIDS in an attempt to bully them into not talking about it
(he was, if you count defunding the CDCs research on it at the height of the epidemic)
A VICTORY BUT OUR LIBERATION IS NOT YET WON
THE BUSINESSES THAT PUT IN POLICY BASED ON THIS GUIDANCE HAVE SHOWN THEIR TRUE FACE.
THE MPs WHO REVELLED HAVE SHOWN THEIR HATRED
THE EHRC CONTINUES TO PETITION FOR RESTRICTIONS ON OUR LIBERTIES
THE CYNICISM AND REVULSION PERSIST
WE RESIST NONETHELESS
When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
Oh my god.
Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!
A new FOI release shows how the DHSC gave anti-trans lobby groups like Sex Matters & LGB Alliance direct access to shape policy on trans healthcare. These groups push for restrictions that leave trans people waiting, suffering & at risk of suicide.
tacc.org.uk/2025/10/03/i...
media should declare their own conflicts of interest when reporting on AI
openai.com/index/openai...
gotta admit, funniest thing he's done in years
👉NEW -- Journalists secretly offered cash for social media posts
by John McEvoy
Exclusive: Firm directed by former Israeli intelligence officer recruiting journalists to publish content that benefits Labour party.
www.declassifieduk.org/journalists-...
the press gallery in the house of commons 2024. About 120 people, POC can be counted on one hand
I wonder why the House of Commons press lobby might be clueless of what racism actually is. Not representative of the UK (17% people of colour) and certainly not London (46%) where most of them are based (2024 picture)
of all the dumb shit that sucks these days, the dumbest and pettiest shit that sucks is the way people fetishize debate. i would like to revert to the old roughly agreed-upon cultural understanding that debate club is for boring friendless nerds
