Martha Robinson Rhodes

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

A graphic saying 'Hosts needed in Sheffield. About the guests: Single males between 19 and 28 years-old From Eritrea, Sudan, and Afghanistan All speak varying levels of English. Could you host? Message us here or email info@refugeesathome.org'

We’re facing a crisis in Sheffield.

Seven potential guests – all young men in desperate need of a place to stay this week – have been referred to us.

Could you help? Please message us or email info@refugeesathome.org ❤️

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

I am 100% sure that have been more articles about youth gender surgeries than actual youth gender surgeries in 2026. When is someone going to reckon with the fact that ‘pivoting’ on this issue means signing on to a moral panic?

QueerAF newsletter text that reads: English Trans+ children to be banned from school toilets Long-awaited guidance, which dropped a day before the key judgement in the EHRC case, sets out bans for Trans+ children using bathrooms, being in PE classes and joining school trips that align with their gender. Parents will need to be told, in almost all cases, if a Trans+ child wishes to socially transition in any way in English schools, new statutory guidance released for consultation sets out.

“It’s absurd for this government’s proposed guidance to suggest that schools need to seek clinical advice if a young person wants to change their name, uniform or hairstyle,” @transactualuk.bsky.social

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?

The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"

Direct quote.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.

Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

The front cover of a small booklet titled ‘Geographia Visitors’ Guide to London’, subtitled ‘with folding pictorial plan’

The inside front pages of Visitors’ Guide to London. On the left is a fold-out insert on green paper titled ‘Calendar of London Events - 1965 Season’, which includes events like the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition and the National Stamp Exhibition. The right hand page reads ‘Geographia Visitors’ Guide to London with Bus Diagrams, Plans and Pictorial Map of London showing the Places of Interest’

Entry in Visitors Guide to London titled ‘Coffee Bars’. It reads: Within the past few years there have sprung into existence in inner London scores of coffee bars and coffee houses. Many have now become favourite rendezvous for art students and young people. In Soho, Chelsea and Knightsbridge they are especially prevalent and frequently possess unusual décor or atmosphere.

Found in my parents’ house - a Visitors’ Guide to London from 1965. My favourite entry is the one on ‘Coffee Bars’, a ‘rendezvous for art students and young people’. In Soho, Chelsea and Knightsbridge, we are helpfully informed, they ‘frequently possess unusual décor or atmosphere’! ☕️

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

‘Uneven: Nine Lives that Redefined Bisexuality’ by Sam Mills review

My review of 'Uneven' is now readable on History Today's website. Uneven sets out one way for bisexuals to reclaim a place in queer history. The problem is that it can sometimes seem like simply sorting historical figures into new, differently labelled boxes: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

One in six children who died by suicide were LGBTQ+, new data shows Amid heated public debate about whether trans children are dying by suicide, campaigners say we need to "take the politics out of policymaking"

The National Child Mortality Database repeatedly refused to tell us what they knew about LGBTQIA+ youth suicides.

But we didn’t give up. Now we can finally reveal the full picture 👇