Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.

'Trans women aren't a threat, so why does the public think they are?' Statistics show that trans women are not, and have never been, a threat to cisgender women, so why does the public still think they are?

How we see it, and what the data and evidence tells us. Trans women are not a threat to cis women. We now have over 79k signatures saying the same

www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/28/t...

Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.

This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.

Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜

notinourname.org.uk

Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Suella Braverman has joined Reform, saying "I feel like I've come home."

Suella voted against

* Banning exploitative zero-hour contracts
* Banning fire and rehire
* Sick pay from day one
* Improved parental leave

Nigel Farage and the Politics of Incompetence and Incapacity From Boris Johnson to Nigel Farage, how confusion, busyness and bluster replaced accountability.

Seventeen breaches of disclosure rules by Farage with exactly zero consequences.

The excuse?

He's far too busy, important, overwhelmed and confused by computers.

This, however, isn’t a one-off failure - it’s a system that now treats confusion and busyness as mitigation rather than misconduct.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An' foolish notion

If only we'd taken Robert Burns's advice.

Please share. 💔

Help Nina Cresswell stop the police failing women | Good Law Project

Nina Cresswell did what every survivor is told to do: she went to the police and reported a sexual assault. But within a few hours they said it wasn’t a crime.

They failed her, so we're holding them to account

https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-nina-cresswell-stop-the-police-failing-women

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes? We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

🚨BOOM!! 💥 YOU DID IT!!!

The Petition for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party has hit 100,000 signatures!

NOW LETS HAVE A DATE FOR A DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT

Cc @HoCpetitions

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

A Billion Streams and No Fans’:

The government claims that between 2017 and 2024, Smith made over $10 million in royalties by using bot armies to continuously play AI-generated tracks on streaming platforms

This is a political playbook too

www.wired.com/story/ai-bot...

Farage failed to declare over £380,000 in outside earnings on top of his MP's salary.

He's lining his pockets when he should be standing up for Britain.

www.parliament.uk/globalassets...

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

Trumps main problem is that he hasn't been told to fuck off often enough.

If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

You mean adding an unpopular politician who fiddled his taxes and claimed public money to heat his horses who stood down before the 2024 GE because the party he was in was so deeply unpopular didn’t help make Reform UK more popular?

I am shocked.

Shocked, I tell you.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

I really appreciated the opportunity to contribute and hear from parents/ organisations in the SEND space. There’s a lot to influence. More please

The first thing I did when I I heard about the latest abuse grok/musk was facilitating was deactivate my account. It was the last straw for me. I would ask everyone to do the same.

"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."

Shameful.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deactivating my twitter account (will never refer to it by his name) filled me with joy

The January 6th Insurrection Didn't Fail, it Just Took Five Years Boy, do I feel like an idiot.

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Fat Cat Day 2026 - High Pay Centre Data shows the average FTSE 100 CEO will take just over two days to earn the median UK worker's full time annual salary. Median FTSE100 CEO pay amounted to £4.398 million (excluding pension), 113 time...

We can’t go on like this.

In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary.

The right calls this “wealth creation”.

It’s wealth extraction.

Time to tax the rich.

@highpaycentre.bsky.social

highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...