The IOC’s decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness | Tanya Aldred Trans and DSD athletes must be treated with respect, and the new testing regime must be run with sensitivity. But this is a step forward, says Guardian sports writer Tanya Aldred

The IOC’s decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness | Tanya Aldred

Mahmood: White liberals who want to put me in a box can f--- off Home Secretary responds to heckler claiming she is trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’ with tough stance on immigration

“I do think there is that element of it which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’
No Shabana Mahmood, it's more like "How dare you, a Labour MP, spout far-right white nationalist talking points and remove rights from refugees"

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

So stop bloody well dipping it then!

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

This meme never gets old.

There's a young man we know, Richard Tice,
Who was onto Angela's tax in a thrice,
But the posh phoney git,
Is a huge hypocrite,
Resign, Dick...wasn't that your advice?

Photo of researcher in hat talking to pensioner with baseball cap on… Dave Taylor (left) debates the local elections with John Doult, who says he will vote Reform at the upcoming local elections in Swindon (The Independent)

But on a visit to the former railway town last month, the outlook for Sir Keir and his party was bleak. "I'll be voting for Reform - it can't get any worse," said pensioner John Doult, until now a lifelong Labour voter who was among the thousands employed in the town's once-famous car industry. The 86-year-old bemoaned the "terrible" state of the town centre,

“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse”

Oh it really can.

You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse.
Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.

Meanwhile, in the UK.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think "to monk/to have been monked" should enter the English language. Emma always does such a brilliant job on dismantling headlines

Well-played, @zeit

*Dons helmet and flak jacket*

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future

iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...

You missed a zero

Thank you for your honesty

A summer of passport queues in Spain might change few Leaver minds…

Trump heals 500-year-old schism, I think that deserves another FIFA gong

New times, same old arguments. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism blog discussing the latest developments in the rapidly changing international order and how post-Brexit Britain is stuck in delusions of greatness and cries of Brexit betrayal: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-...

Surprised to see one the right way up!

They’re not keen on environmentalists either

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Yes!!! 🙌

A generation of stunted children

Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

BOOM!
South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.

THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis.

#EnergyRevolution

Starving British children so they can bomb children in other countries is so incredibly on brand for the Conservative Party.

Kemi absolutely bringing back the Tories we grew up to know and despise.

John Simpson, pictured against a black background with images of journalists who have died in Gaza. Caption: “Today, governments can get away with anything. Israel is getting away with journacide”

“There used to be some sense that killing a reporter would mean serious consequences. Now that understanding has vanished”

BBC world affairs editor @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social writes for the Nerve on the journacide in the Middle East

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