Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.
She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.
What if... what really makes Britain "ungovernable" is... the nature of its political media and of its political class?
Anti-racism tsar Nigel Farage. The ultimate stupid prize for a decade's long stupid game
Thinking about this: it seems a very this-era thing in general, doesn’t it. Good ideas tend to sell themselves; if you’re having to bullshit the public to get them over the line, then that suggests it’s the product that is the problem. Multiple applications for that.
The lack of hope among this new wave of progressive, educated young women surprised me. In 2015, my school set up its first feminist society; we'd read Caitlin Moran and Naomi Wolf and we joined political Facebook groups, arguing with teenage boys about terms like intersectional feminism and structural racism. We talked about rape culture, Black Lives Matter, whether tanning was cultural appropriation and if shaving our armpits was a capitulation to the male gaze. But young women have become far more disaffected in the years since. After the isolation of Covid, and Western governments' apathy over the war in Gaza, a profound pessimism has emerged that didn't exist even a decade ago.
Could they be more disaffected because politics in the last ten years was the political/ media class mobbing and rioting: screaming abuse at and bullying the fuck out of the left, glorying in their own power and bragging about their total impunity, while grinding people’s faces into their defeat
'Soft Cell' is short for Microsoft Excel
Our producer James wrote a nice thing about going to see @theacms.bsky.social last night: jamesofwalsh.com/2026/04/14/t...
Robertson has spoken exclusively to @financialtimes.com and shared a speech he'll make in Salisbury tmrw In it he'll accuse 'non-military experts in the Treasury' of 'vandalism', arguing: 'We cannot defend Britain with an ever expanding welfare budget'
Yes, look, maybe if the armed forces had spent less money on aircraft carriers and unusable vibrating APCs, they wouldn’t be in this mess. I suggest they try taking responsibility, cutting down on the avocado toast and living within their means, like adults.
the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there
Pete Wishart Y @PeteWishart X.com Labour's chasing of Reform votes will go down as one of the most baffling and self defeating political follies of the recent political age. The thing is they're still doing it even when they know it's killing them. LARS Stats for Lefties • @LettieStats • 1d Lab is now losing far more votes to Greens (7.4pts) than to Reform (3.6pts). Overall, a majority of 2024 Lab voters are now backing other parties, and a whopping 70% of those are fleeing leftward. Lab's collapse is not the result of a right-wing surge, but of left-wing dissent.
It’s like the Donald announcing Fuck you, now *we* will block the Straits of Hormuz! It’d be smart to not damage your empire, but the alternative is to admit your critics were right to call you a dumbass. Far, far preferable to stay disastrously belligerent and never admit you are a arse and a clown
I just don't understand how we've managed to get ourselves into a place where having a home - something I would have as a child seen as a baseline - is felt as an enormous position of privilege, something you spend half your life working for and still can only achieve with help or luck.
He may be about to get hammered in the local elections but Starmer got the big one right.
Assuming that “the big one” here means “allowing the US to continue using Britain as an aircraft carrier for its wars of aggression, while publicly pretending that he wasn’t doing that”, then yes, he may have got away with that bit.
A reminder, again, that the establishment have to maintain that the Corbyn era was a non stop cascade of Hitlerian racism because otherwise their response - a decade of public pants shitting, Boris Johnson, diamond hard Brexit and Keir Starmer - seems like an insane overreaction.
if it hadn't already existed for 75 years, every single one of these economists would say the nhs was an impossible fantasy for babies that could never be a reality
Tweet by “let's try calling me 'november'” @AliceAvizandum: FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife 12:27 PM Feb 18, 2017
So many good ones. This is in my top five:
reminder that JK Rowling is not just some woman with anti-trans opinions.
she is an anti-trans activist.
she actively uses the money brought in through Harry Potter to support and fund anti-trans policies. she intends to do the same with this new TV series.
grow up and let this franchise go.
"Tankies" are people who still support the Labour Party despite them tanking in the polls. 😏
For right-wing people being working class is purely vibes. It has nothing to do with social class. Also, only white men can be working class.
"The Green Party has forgotten its roots" is a pretty common take from the right, who presumably think that focusing on anything except the environment is "abandoning their roots." But you don't see them level the same accusaion against Labour because they don't represent labour interests lol.
Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.
This is completely insane, lads. It’s not her that’s obsessed with anything, it the tiny gaggle of absolute headbangers who have not stopped screaming at her about it for five years. *You* are the wackos here, not her.
Glad SNL seems to have gone well. I remember when, not so long ago, there was a successful sketch show, and also other sketch shows were allowed to be on TV? And they had different styles and types of performers from the other sketch shows, and their own fans? Makes you think
We timed this perfectly and I foresee no issues
You know how we're getting helpful suggestions now on how to save energy- work from home, fly less, select which of your children to continue feeding, that sort of thing. Was just wondering if anyone had suggested to our tech overlords they power down the AI junk generators for a couple of weeks?
GUYS GUYS GUYS A POTOO
fucked up in a country pub trying to devise the caloric maximum Tesco meal deal. so far we’re on:
- main: triple sausage and egg sandwich (554 cal)
- snack: two mini melton mobray pork pies (360 cal)
- drink: emmi high protein cafe latte (211 cal)
I’ve asked before, but who is the left wing equivalent of a Mel Philips or a Douglas Murray? Who is the left wing Nick Timothy? And you simply can’t find an equivalent, because there is nobody prominent who believes in e.g. crusading civilisation-wide total war at WWII levels.
Hitting the big red "commission" button that exists in my imagination
I would love some more little Look Around You style shows so much. I mean, that's aiming high for me since I think series 1 is basically perfect, but still