Caroline Coetzee

WTF. This is pretty much exactly my old apartheid South Africa Id book which was similarly coded to control where people could work, travel etc.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

Happy birthday!

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Keltenwelt am Glauberg: A life-sized sandstone statue dating to the 5th century BC found outside the larger tumulus at Glauberg, NE of Frankfurt. An armed male warrior wearing a torc, and a hood-like headdress with protrusions resembling a mistletoe leaf.

Chef Monica Galleti, Michelin starred Marcus Wareing and... Judge Gregg Wallace.

Non, plus de rois, plus de couronnes,
Assez de sang, assez de deuil

And she's soon to be the subject of a new opera. An unsung heroine no longer.

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

It's beautiful isn't it? Realised this morning that the smell of rain after a long hot dry spell is one of those evocative, homesick making things I'll probably never lose. Even if it immediately brought out the slugs to attack my beans.

Our best discovery was a Christmas trinket where there was a version which had a blank space where you could write in a name. Neither of our daughters had particularly odd names, but younger one in particular was never fashionable enough to be trinketworthy. Older daughter's came and went.

The government has announced a two-tier benefits system.

Under its plans, you can keep your benefits if you are disabled now, but not if you become disabled tomorrow. How is that fair?

A reminder: The Independent Alliance stands by its own amendment, and we will not back down.

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

I find the provision of third spaces as a “solution“ to banning trans people from bathrooms so offensive and dunno about y’all but im not gonna participate in my own segregation

🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups.

This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

The UK is increasingly becoming a country of two-tier rights when it concerns migrants. We have already seen this government implement policies which deny refugees the ability to ever get citizenship, based on the way they came to the UK, and further entrenchment of blocking migrants the ability to be with their spouses and their dependents. Only yesterday it brought forward a bill which would see people still deprived of citizenship, even if their initial appeal overturned such a decision. We have heard how this government wants to “look at” the European Convention on Human Rights to deny some migrants the right to a family life. Rights by the nature, and for good reasons, must remain universal. They are not based on where you were born, they are based on the very fact that someone is a human being. We strongly urge this government to change course and show that rights apply to everyone, that the justice system works for everyone, equally. People must not be denied access to either because they have come from another country, or their manner of entry.

It does not matter where someone comes from, or how they arrive, their rights and access to justice must remain equal to everyone else. There is no excuse for creating a two tier system of rights and access to justice, yet that is exactly what we see happening.

Never has it been clearer that no one will be free until Palestine is free. Humanity - whatever is left of it - depends on it.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

ANYONE who thinks ANY group should accept fewer human rights than everyone else is totally unfit to serve as an EHRC commissioner.

Also, BY THE WAY, in case it wasn't obvious... It's actually not possible to "sensitively" target people and segregate them away from society.

Been thinking this a lot recently.

A senior Labour official said Starmer would be willing to debate Farage ahead of the next election, with polls suggesting the public also see Reform UK as the most credible opposition to his Labour government. Farage said on Friday: “I accept the offer.”

We stay winning. We've successfully found the most strategically brain dead idea in UK politics, everyone else can give up and go home.

If he keeps going the way he is, he's finished. If he changes tack, he's weak and finished. And he is weak. And nasty. He's allowed himself to be used by the nastiest people in Labour, which is nasty in itself. What scares me is that he'll be replaced by somebody evangelically nasty and not so weak.

This is at least better than responses from my MP, which are invariably boilerplate texts parroting the government line. No idea what he actually believes. I keep writing because I hope the number of contacts add up and eventually count, but it's depressing.

Why is it always the Legitimate ConcernsTM of the xenophobes and racists that have to be entertained and placated by politicians? Why can't they grow a spine, show some leadership and explain to those people that their concerns do not stem from migration?

#r4today

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?

'We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.'

Starmer jumps on a bandwagon driven by scumbags and racists.

I’m so tired of dog whistle politics.

This garbage should have ended long ago.

Celebrate immigrants. They benefit our culture, economy and health.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which"