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Where next for Labour after a bad by-election defeat? Labour needs to learn that a rebrand only works if the substance of what you are offering genuinely changes

Where next for Labour after a bad by-election defeat?

Labour needs to learn that a rebrand only works if the substance of what you are offering genuinely changes

By Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social

Well, colour me shocked.

When you argue that transphobes should be defeated through debate what you're actually suggesting is that vulnerable minorities should have to endlessly argue for their right to exist and that at no point should the debate be considered over and won.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

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it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Labour Accused Of By-Election Dirty Tricks Over 'Fictitious' Tactical Voting Group A leaflet sent out on the eve of the crunch poll has sparked a furious backlash.

Remember the bullshit Tory HQ 'fact-checker' website run during the last General Election campaign? Well, Labour HQ has taken a leaf out of its playbook with a bullshit 'tactical voting' website.

Different rosette, same party.

Farage accused of 'cheap stunt' after being 'denied entry' to Chagos Islands The Foreign Office website makes clear the restricted access of the British Indian Ocean Territory and clearly states 'you need a permit before you travel'

But it's not "a cheap stunt."

Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too.

It's expensive flying to the Maldives.

Where did he stay?
How long is he staying?

How much did it cost?
Who picked up the tab?

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Farage wants to tear us apart Let's stop pretending that Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain Party and Nigel Farage's Reform UK are running different agendas. It is already clear that they co-exist to simultaneously fuel the rightward s...

Reform is planning the destruction of the well-being of people, communities, ways of life and this country as it has always been, which is a small island state that has always offered a welcome to people who add value when they stay and make this their home. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

Tactical voting groups say greens - not labour - will stop Reform in byelection.

On Thursday only Greens can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton. And we will beat their hate with a message of hope.

On Thursday help us make hope normal again.

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

Sonia Sodha * @soniasodha X.com Scrapping the Equality Act would leave the door open to all kinds of terrible discrimination. A retrograde move that would take Britain back to the 1950s/60s, pre equality legislation. There's no public support for that. Tue Trades Union Congress @ @The_TUC• 9h BREAKING E I Reform announce plans to legalise discrimination. Plans include scrapping the Equality Act, which would legalise discrimination against a worker if they were a woman, disabled, black,... Show more 16:49 • 17/02/2026 • 23K Views

More than almost anyone else Sodha’s faux-reasonable anti-trans diatribes in the Guardian - claiming *concern* about women’s rights - contributed to undermining the Equality Act.

If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her.

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Britons living in EU face repayment hikes amid Reeves student loans row Exclusive: UK graduates in Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries informed of rises as salary threshold is cut

Britons living in EU face repayment hikes amid Reeves student loans row.

Choice - Stay in the UK, be unemployed, claim dole OR go and work in EU, make higher loan repayments

How many would sever links with the UK?

Most European countries do not charge University tuition fees

UK system is a mess.

One thing I find mind-boggling is just how quickly we went from "live and let live" and "mind your own business" to "get up in everyone else's business in case they have the temerity to be living in a way you don't like"

[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.] JOEL: Honey… what are you doing? BRANDI: Can’t sleep Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year. While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition. JOEL: Brandi… you're talking strange... BRANDI: Dammit Joel. It’s time you knew. You're a Netflix character. [Joel looks shocked] BRANDI: Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue. Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the - JOEL: Stop explaining, Brandi! [Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room]. JOEL: So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and... BRANDI: Yep... Warm/cool colour graded. [Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]: SECOND SCREEN - A Netflix original - [Ends]

"He's more interested in going on the television than he is really representing the people."

"Reform are a bunch of grifters."

This constituent of Robert Jenrick doesn't hold back on his MP, after he defected to Reform.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

remember folks. the guardian has 'no agenda'.

they're just presenting this weirdo quack to the public as a serious medical practitioner for... reasons.

Can confirm.

We are not trusted to be the primary authors of our own lives

😕 @bencollins.bsky.social nailed it

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

The Sun TRANS ROW TWIST Trans doc at centre of landmark Sandi Peggie case QUITS NHS after £400K court battle Kevin DUGUID, News reporter Published: 22:26, 14 Feb 2026 | Updated: 22:34, 14 Feb 2026

The disgustingly trans-hostile UK media are now hounding a trans doctor - who has already had the media spotlight on her as a victim of transphobia - because she’s decided to quit and flee the country to get away from the relentless transphobia! 😣😖

The UK media are BULLIES! 😤

this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?

The grim tragedy of inclusive communities of WI women disbanded due to the destructive power of transphobia promoted so widely and unquestioningly by broadcast and print media.

Organisations like the WI have been undermined and attacked under a banner of divisive hate directed at trans people.

hey @lucympowell.bsky.social,

the cass review has been discredited internationally on multiple occasions

why is the government using it to form policy that will harm children, up to and including their deaths?

i won't vote for a party that abuses kids.

ig im jus being an 'extremist lefty'.

Evil.