Adrian Ogden

Jenrick can't control who stands in the background of his photos, but he can decide whether to attend protests with a far-right message and a documented history of being organised by the far-right. He knows this. He goes anyway. Once upon a time it would have been a sackable offence.

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Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

A content-based restriction on First Amendment-protected activity in a designated public forum is subject to strict scrutiny and must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest. Freedom From Religion Foundation, 955 F.3d at 426. The restriction here describes impermissible expression “not in terms of time, place, and manner, but in terms of” content, i.e., a drag show. Police Dep’t. of Chicago v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92, 99 (1972). The ban abandons “the neutrality of time, place, and circumstance” and becomes “a concern about content.” Id. The university may have a legitimate interest in prohibiting some expression to protect the institutional and educational mission, but a justification for a selective exclusion from a designated public forum must be carefully scrutinized. Id. at 98–99. Because

theatrical performances plainly involve expressive conduct within the protection of the First Amendment, and because we find the plaintiffs’ drag show is protected expression, discrimination among such shows must pass strict scrutiny. “The University’s institutional mission . . . does not exempt its actions from constitutional scrutiny.” Widmar v. Vincent, 454 U.S. 263, 268 (1981). President Wendler did not argue, either before the district court or on appeal, that restricting the intended drag show would survive strict scrutiny. Based on the record before us, the district court erred in concluding that the plaintiffs were not substantially likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment claim.5

5th Cir., 2-1, holds that a Texas university likely violated an LGBT+ student group's speech rights when it cancelled their drag show and then banned drag from campus.

Importantly, finds drag is expression protected by the First Amendment.

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I'm singing the song in my head now. Damn you both.

Migrant hotel protests show British public has snapped, says Jenrick Shadow justice secretary vows to 'do more than listen' as he joins demonstrations in Essex Picture Robert Jenrick a short white man in a suit and racist piece of shit next to a bunch of white racist piece of shit protestors Robert Jenrick joined protesters demonstrating against the Bell Hotel in Essex on Sunday Credit: Julian Simmonds for The Telegraph Tom McArdle. Will Bolton Crime correspondent. Dominic Penna Political Correspondent 17 August 2025 8:11pm BST Migrant hotel protests show the British public has "snapped" over illegal Channel crossings, Man an

What a piece of fucking RACIST SHIT

I was already laughing too hard at "Scum? You've bought a leopard, haven't you." Getting it cheap because it was deaf... I was a page and a half on before that one clicked.

He'd made the elvish reference several times throughout the book, but he'd gone in so hard on naming Bud of the Holly that I didn't even spot the Elvis pun until we got the full Kirsty MacColl quote.

People wearing these always know where the clematis is.

A book store with full shelves and stacked high right down to the floor on both sides of the aisle

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

What gif pops up when you type your name?

That's new too. Well, it's nice to be needed,

I wanted to take a moment to lay out something really basic that's been bugging me about the whole generative "AI" horseshit:

The idea of "AI" paying off the gargantuan investment costs is based on scale and the idea that tech will improve and build-out will get cheaper.

That's not happening.

This is in response to a banner which reads:

“STOP KILLING CHILDREN
STOP KILLING CIVILIANS”

john boyne and his friends have spent years lobbying politicians to replace my healthcare with conversion, strip me of my civil rights and legal recognition, and segregate me from the general population.

he should stop fucking whining.

Thread! :)

Clive Lewis MP has pledged to: Make Thames Water Public. I pledge that if and when Thames Water comes into Special Administration, I will back permanent public ownership. I will say no to re-privatisation.

Thames Water is on the brink of bankruptcy. ⚠️

When it collapses, the government must take it into permanent public ownership. 💧
@labourlewis is with us in this fight. 💪

Take 1 minute to ask your MP to take the pledge to Make Thames Water Public 👇

The worst thing about racist Robert Jenrick’s pretence that his racism is justified to protect his daughters from men from ‘ backwards’ countries is that 97% of women who contacted Rape Crisis said they knew the person who raped them. 43% of girls questioned in a national survey

BBC apologises over Thought for the Day ‘xenophobia’ claim against Jenrick Corporation says Krish Kandiah’s criticism of senior Tory not appropriate for faith-based radio segment

No-one needs to apologise for calling a bigot a bigot.
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Blue Oyster Conspiracy Theory

Slightly diminish a band:
Steeleye Palm

AB B♭A

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.

In an alternate universe, "Why'd we have to go and get a dead frog laminated?" is the song that killed Avril Lavigne's career before it began.

Saw a band social post saying they had 6mil streams on a song & didn't make ANY money from it. Not to defend streaming sites, christ alive I don't want to because you receive a pittance per stream, but you DO get paid per stream.

The problem here is that someone is TAKING their streaming revenue

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This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist

The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"

The "Don't Make Me Tap The Sign" bus driver from The Simpsons. The sign say: "If we don't make it dangerous to be a Nazi, they'll make it dangerous not to be."

Spotted over at Tumblr this morning, , courtesy of @depsidase... (www.tumblr.com/depsidase/79...)

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back