Polanski is clearly embarrassed about a dickhead thing he did quite a long time ago. The attempt to make this into ongoing evidence of his unsuitability to be involved in politics *now* is a bit pathetic. This isn’t the Nixon White House tapes for fuck’s sake.
A 6-year-old cancer survivor at Great Ormond Street Hospital could lose vital care due to the Government’s “earned settlement” changes.
The Home Office reduces lives to numbers, ignoring health and safety.
MPs must stop these cruel, dehumanising reforms.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
Very excited to be appearing at Wembley Arena tomorrow night as part of Trans Mission.
100 per cent of the profits raised will be split between Not a Phase and the Good Law Project.
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This is incredibly brave and principled. I can't imagine how hard this must have been.
I've been comfort watching 90s ER on Netflix. A 30 year-old show: Trans character with sympathetic backstory. Multiple gay characters. HIV discussed every episode. Main characters who are black and brown talking about systemic racism
Years before we all came anti 'woke' babies.
BBC News: “The Iranian people are paying an increasing price for their regime’s continued defiance.”
It’s not exactly subtle, is it?
New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.
I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
we are carried sara rian sometimes i think i could cry you back to life. or loud enough that you'll hear me and come home.
Today is five years since I lost my husband Jerry to cancer.
The grief is different after such a long time, less raw and all-consuming, but it's still a constant background presence.
You are never the same again after such a loss. The pain never goes away, any more than the love does.
Or you play a hilarious practical joke where you accept all the truly godawful Labour MPs and then suspend them from the party 24 hours before the submission deadline so they can't stand again.
I wonder if Tony Blair has prerecorded video messages so he can continue making "rare interventions" on the issues of the day even after he dies?
Image is a screenshot of a reasoned amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill. It is signed by Siân Berry, Hannah Spencer, Carla Denyer, Dr Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay. It reads: That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Courts and Tribunals Bill because it is an inadequate and dangerous response to the challenges faced by the courts; it does not provide the correct solutions to the chronic backlog of cases in the Crown Court; it would not address the long-term underfunding that has led to the degradation of court systems, infrastructure and buildings; it would limit the crucial civil liberty and constitutional protection of trial by a jury of one’s own peers by removing defendants’ right to elect the Crown Court for all triable either-way offences; this change would cover a range of protest-related offences, and because protest rights and free speech, which act as safeguards against authoritarianism, have already been eroded by this Government and should not be limited further; jury trials build public trust and confidence in the courts and act as a space of shared civic responsibility that builds social cohesion; more effective interventions could be implemented that do not roll back fundamental rights, including expanding the use of ‘blitz courts’, increasing the number of sitting days, removing from the system cases that are no longer in the public interest to prosecute, increasing investment in legal aid, improving court case management technology, and bringing in more efficient processes to ensure defendants are brought to court and to the dock on time; and removing rights to judgment by one’s own peers may have the unintended consequence of increasing court backlogs through a rise in appeals.
🚨We have tabled an amendment to reject the Government’s sinister attempt to remove jury trials including for many protest related offences.
Our civil liberties have already been eroded by this Govt and should not be limited any further.
Greens are standing up against Labour's toolkit for tyrants.
The people you won in 2024 *and* the people you need to win in 2029 will both be voting Green.
I have a quote taped up on my bathroom mirror: "Motion begets motion." When fear is overwhelming, taking any small action can help - you don't have to be able to see the final outcome (and can we ever actually see the final outcome?). Just doing one small thing to connect with community, to care...
Gay and bisexual men what was(is?) wrong with you
A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers.
A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing...
#JustProtectingWomen
Every time I update it, something awful happens two days later …
You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name
Even before this decision, when I’ve raised Labour’s (and particularly Streeting’s) hostility towards trans people with my local MPs, they have essentially blanked it despite professing to support LGBT+ people. One called the (long) list of examples I presented “ludicrous hyperbole”.
So, according to news reports, the NHS England hormone ban ("pause") for under-18s is informed by new research reviews. Has anyone actually seen these? I can't find them.
I also have a *lot* of questions, given the sheer amount of evidence that hormones work. I suspect a Cass-style stitch-up.
Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
Since this update, Wes Streeting has now halted the puberty blocker trial altogether and the NHS under his watch has banned under 18s from accessing hormones.
Also I forgot to include that Labour managed to get itself banned from marching at the country’s biggest Pride events.
Honestly fair fucks to Vittorio Angelone for calling out Penny Mordaunt on Last Leg
Listened back.
Have listened back again. Was Nick Robinson responding to Jonathan Hall who had raised free speech and Graham Linehan.
“Police arrested a man for being anti-trans at an air port. Something I think almost no one defends now”
Today programme 6:56:54 timestamp
Item starts 6:52:10
This is not an attack on Gillick Competence, because Gillick only applies to u16s.
This undermines the statutory presumption of consent for 16/17yos.
These fascists are the people whose views on trans Labour is choosing to align with, indeed to promote.
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.
This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.
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Image shows Sian Berry stood to the left of campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, and surrounded by a group of clean air campaigners. All of them are smiling and holding a copy of Ella's Law - the Clean Air (Human Rights Bill).
Image shows Rosamund Adoo-Kiss-Debrah sat next to Sian with a copy of Ella's Law on the table in front of them. They are both reading the Bill that is named in memory of Rosamund's daughter Ella who died aged nine due to exposure to air pollution.
Ella’s Law has been published 👏
No child should have the growth of their lungs stunted because of dirty air where they live and play, yet this is the reality of air pollution in England. Ella’s Law would change this.
My thanks to Rosamund and all the hard-working campaigners demanding change.
Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from
