There is no greater fraud than this cross Atlantic attempt to silence students who have no power while ensuring people with power can speak without criticism. That's what this is all about. Protecting power and gaslighting us that it is about protecting speech.

‘just how central was Peter Mandelson to the Starmer project’ is a question that is becoming increasingly close to being permissible, and I think Starmer is 100% done once it starts being asked

An article in the Times today by Kathleen Stock in which she claims, incorrectly, that ‘when the gay rights cause first got going, the ideal was toleration’.

To correct the record:
The gay rights movement I was a part of in the 1980s and 90s was not aiming for ‘toleration’.
Mere acceptance was not enough.
How would that help the isolated queer kid?
No. We wanted that child to know they would be loved and celebrated just as they were.

The thing that really annoys me about all this Mandelson stuff is that the US Ambassador role was not vacant! There was already a highly qualified and competent woman in the position

And now this thing about finding a job for Starmer's ex Head of Comms?

Jobs for the Boys alive and well

Amazing that it’s always the same three transphobic columnists, over and over and over again. Here, we have the lesbian JD Vance rewriting a history she was never part of.

Sir, a THIRD nonce-related scandal has hit Sir Kier Starmer.

So now we've established that Mandelson is a corrupting force that sullies everything and everyone in his sphere of influence, what are we going to do about the fact he hand-picked the entirety of Labour's 2024 intake of new MPs?

I'd go as far as to call that a Trumpian use of slopaganda

T is OK for cis women but not trans men.

Puberty blockers are OK for cis kids but illegal for trans kids.

You see it, right? You see what this is?

Daily Mail front page banner with "I've only been taking testosterone for 3 days - and it is working already" Nadine Dorries

Folks, folks, FOLKS!

(The funny thing about the fact that Rahm works his "Democrats need to talk less about trans rights" message into every appearance he makes is that this is him talking about trans rights way more than any other Dem)

manifesting

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If anyone was wondering how e.g. the national equality body came to be ram-packed with wingnut ideologues or how various regulatory henhouses came to be guarded by industry-insider foxes: we’re getting the speedrun version here, with a charity body. I imagine Stonewall will be fully pod-personed.

Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.

“this whole thing smacks of a gender” i holler as i overturn the global economy and turn the down jones industrial average into the industrial shit

Man, the whole "anti-woke" moral panic just looks worse & worse in the rearview mirror.

1) pragmata is really pulling the worst takes out of people, we can't have nice things

2) saying men are incapable of nurturing any but their own offspring is a more sexist statement than anything andrew tate ever vomited

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

Free speech absolutism.

Living under authoritarianism is horrible, but I feel a certain grim satisfaction that every centrist who bought the idea that people on the left disapproving of things was a threat to free speech has been exposed as a total mark.

Not sure Peter Mandelson can survive this as ambassador

the problem with Keir Starmer’s defence is that it’s all coming from someone who thought it was a good idea to appoint Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the US

It says something about the BBC that in the face of significant cuts and hard priority calls they chose to launch an in-depth undercover investigation into whether refugees are faking being gay.

I think I'm far from alone thinking I'm not interested in funding people with those priorities.

Live from Starmers address to Parliament

as I've said many times, she was the most progressive prime minister of my entire adult life and that's horrifying

I remember when Theresa May became PM and it seemed like the worst thing

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

Update on the transphobic advert featuring on The National's front page this week.

This is good - but it shouldn't have taken people reaching out to have this response issued privately.

It should have been a public statement before the cover was unveiled.

He just can't carry on

Sue Gray became a darling of the media for investigating partygate, so Starmer made her his chief of staff just to get the press to coo like the morons they are, then silently expected this lady who worked in the civil service until just now to have an entire governing plan ready, which was his job.