The horrors of the online “Rape Academy” If you thought the rape of Gisèle Pelicot was a unique story, you were wrong

This is not questionable pornography. This is men that hate their wives. This is rape culture magnified and gamified and keyworded

✏️ @jamieklingler.bsky.social

Revealed | Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status After nearly 30 years in the UK, Robert White was left destitute when he lost access to his immigration status, with his solicitor blaming systemic failure for his death

The Home Office is inept and immoral, and the ground zero of anti Black racism in the UK.

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Esther Esther in coloured pencils and watercolour.

Today’s face is Esther drawingfaces.home.blog/2026/04/21/e...

Still absolutely boggles my mind that Mandelson (or anyone else) imagined for a second that he could be both US ambassador and Oxford chancellor. Quite apart from issues of scheduling and location, the conflicts of interest are just obvious.

EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values ECJ says law passed in 2021 discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for incoming PM The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values, setting up an early test for the incoming prime minister Péter Magyar’s government when it takes power next month. In a wide-ranging judgment, the European court of justice said the 2021 law that bans content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV was at odds with a society based on pluralism and fundamental rights such as prohibition of discrimination and freedom of expression. Continue reading...

EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values

Our polluted rivers Why is raw sewage being discharged so regularly into our rivers, and what are the concerns and consequences for our health?

Our polluted rivers

Why is raw sewage being discharged so regularly into our rivers, and what are the concerns and consequences for our health?

By Brian Morgan

It's an interesting one: Olly Robbins was less than a month in post and Peter Mandelson had been publicly announced as ambassador and agreed by the USA.

Robbins was a longtime civil service survivor and knew what Number 10 wanted. So…how did he see his job in that moment? And whose fault is that?

#trevorphillips: Starmer appointed both Mandelson & Robbins

In response Liz Kendall brings up Epsteins victims. Where was her concern for those women when Mandelson was appointed? Why didnt she speak out publicly then? Because she doesn't care & is just using them now to deflect

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

The government (and Tories) voted down a Bill that would make water companies actually pay their fines.
Fines like the £122.7m that Thames was due to pay Aug 25, but OfWat have happily deferred while they pay shareholders large dividends
How many ex-water company execs work in government?

The new chair of Stonewall, the LGBT+ charity named after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, throwing trans people under the bus.

Meet Marsha P. Johnson, the trans woman at the heart of the Stonewall Riots:

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Queen Elizabeth Trust launched to strengthen communities across the United Kingdom A new UK-wide independent charity, the Queen Elizabeth Trust, has been established on the occasion of the centenary of Queen Elizabeth II’s birth to honour her lifelong commitment to public service.

Lets remember that the Queens commitment to people and public service didnt stretch as far as the girls raped by her son www.gov.uk/government/n...

I have an egg chair in the garden and it’s my favourite thing about summer ❤️

At a BTS livestream event with my daughter and she’s trying to teach me the names of the 7 almost identical Korean men 🤣 #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_LIVEVIEWING

Top tip for embroiderers - don’t use a magnetic needle minder near a cast iron garden table 🤣

The sunflowers is great - I never knew there were so many different varieties

Mr. Rogers: Always look for the helpers

State of Israel: Kill the helpers

Not just the tulips - go see the sunflowers in the summer!

At this point it's probably best to assume all three - Starmer, Lammy and Cooper are lying to save their own skin.

Law to pardon UK women convicted of illegal abortions passes final hurdle in parliament Legislation will expunge convictions and end prosecution of women who terminate their pregnancies Legislation to pardon women who have been convicted of illegal abortions has passed its final parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for a landmark change in the law. The amendment to the crime and policing bill, which will also expunge the police records of those arrested and investigated over illegal abortions, was considered in the House of Lords during a phase of parliamentary ping-pong, where a bill passes back and forth between the Lords and Commons. Continue reading...

Law to pardon UK women convicted of illegal abortions passes final hurdle in parliament

I think The Pitt is possibly the best TV drama coming out of the US since The West Wing.

Here’s a novel idea: why isn’t every Minister and Special Advisor, and I’d even extend that to the Lords, vetted with serious scrutiny? They don't always undergo the same rigorous background checks required of civil servants. Citizens failing an enhanced DBS wld be refused a role.

Yeah, but cyclists.

The number of people crossing by small boat this year compared to last year. The fall is very real and not seasonal. Little difference in numbers during the winter but since numbers increased in spring, half as many people are coming as this time last year. This is mainly because of European trends.

Orinoco the dog peering out above a field of colourful red, white, yellow, purple and pink tulip blooms

Orinoco between the tulips

A field of tulips and a windmill, Reds beneath the windmill and then stripes running across the foreground.

A sea of colourful tulips

These!

Tulips at Tulley’s Farm Tulip Festival

I love the Tulleys tulip fest!

The Criminal Past of the Far-Right Anti-Migrant ‘Auditors’ Going Viral on YouTube Streamers who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as 'citizen journalists', have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals

Anti-migrant streamers and 'auditors' who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as ‘citizen journalists’, have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals

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Watching #Taskmaster and thinking how much I wish Peter Capaldi was in it alongside Armando Iannucci

What does Lisa Nandy believe her job is, and why is she actually in politics?

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds

- Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

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