Dr Matthew A. L. Gault

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

The transphobic press have no incentive to give Labour credit for their transphobia and every incentive to push them to go further. Labour gain nothing by caving to them, and yet cave to them they will, out of a potent combination of hatred for trans people and political ineptitude.

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Keir Starmer said comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner were

It makes you wonder whether the whole ‘war on woke’ over the last few years was waged just so that men like Ratcliffe could be disgustingly racist again without any accountability.

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unfortunately, Peter, Adobe Reader's AI keeps offering to turn the articles I'm reading into podcasts and if it starts generating some nice cold opens and inside jokes, then no-one is safe.

Obviously, the whole thing reaches back to the time before the DUP's foundation, with Paisley Snr's Bob Jones University connection. Honestly, ther'e probably a good project in tracing the connections between Ulster Evangelism, the "moral majority" and the American Right in more depth.

In the wake of a vote of no confidence in the DUP Minister for Communities and the ruling of the standards commissioner, none of this is surprising. The DUP have been on this train for a long time, you only need to look at McCausland's whole "Cultural Marxism" writings to see that.

I’ve written and edited a lot about free speech since about 2018. And I’ve repeatedly use the example of “someone refusing to invite you to something” as a sort of parody of a free speech grift. Of course it doesn’t count!

well, aside from the fact this entire thing is about the fact Reform quite literally does want to go to Bangor University

There are certainly no differences between the socio-political climate of Northern Ireland and Welsh universities...

Honestly, something feels right about being somewhere in the wilderness to the left of Northern Irish Civil Society.

Where is Elmo from that he could be deported from the US? Can Ireland offer Elmo asylum? I'm sure the Morbegs would look after him.

Tomorrow's Headlines

The Telegraph: Starmer Next!

The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!

The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role

The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home

If anything, the only thing they aren't floundering on is being strongly anti-Corbyn - and by anti-Corbyn, I mean rooting out anything left of Teresa May in the party while pretending they're something new.

I am not sure it is fair to say the Labour Party is currently acting like anyone is in charge and isn't floundering, even when McSweeney was apparently "in charge". Also, imagine being a member of a, allegedly, left wing party and whining about wokeness and net-zero. Catch yourselves on.

It seems they've coaleased around the "moral panic" argument... of course, these are the same people who have been actively manufacturing a moral panic about trans people for over a decade, but I guess moral panics are okay when they are baseless and against minorities...

It does seem a little wild that the Epstein Files seem to be have a much greater impact on British politics than anything else. Like the only major consequence for an American is Queen's removing Mitchell's statue. And even that minor level of accountability is too much for some commentators.

The first one to load for me was "Master Race", so they did a great job giving me the full Twitter experience.

Ah, so this is why the Telegraph decided that Spain and not Ireland was the worst country in Europe.

At no point did the University of Sussex attempt to protect the rights of trans people. Apart from a sheet that promoted the law as it stood.

They backed Stock to the hilt and threw vulnerable teenagers under the bus for their own benefit.

Laughably, even that wasn't enough for the OFS.

‘Unlawful’ OfS ruling against University of Sussex should be quashed, court told Judicial review begins in high court over watchdog’s freedom of speech ruling that resulted in £585,000 fine

Remember, the state regulator "fined" U of Sussex almost £600,000 for attempting to protect the rights of trans people.

Hopefully this shocking and shameful abuse of power will be overturned.

As always, John Hulme was right. You can't eat a flag. You'd think a Labour government, of all governments, would understand that.

this is what she looks like in ghost world

Just in case you thought "Some places have different safety rules and that's okay" after a disaster that killed over 200 workers was the only morally repugnant thing Yglesias has ever written...

Honestly, they just keep outing themselves. Either they're running cover for the right or believe. Vile.

For anyone keeping track of Richard Hanania, this is an important thread.

In response to the news that @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social has cut ties with Senator George J. Mitchell, following new information that suggests he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we have released the following statement. 1/5

The fun thing about this is that there have definitely been a lot of classics scholars in the Anglosphere who think Homer's work is the peak of "western" civilisation while also thinking the Greeks are a bit suspiciously dark. So, like Jesus, Helen must be an Aryan...

It continues to be a case of "You cease, we fire" in Israel.

No matter how much control they have, no matter how much power, these folks can never escape being weird little guys.

"Where does one even start with that incoherence?" - I've never had to develop an argument while working at my big oil, weirdo libertarian think tank and know all my readers will just nod along and smugly say "he's got a point".

Every day I am forced to ask, what is the point of the Labour Party in its current form? This is just basic capitalist hyperindividualism. It's not even watered down social democracy. Genuinely, if thye're just going to be socially and economically conserverative, they should be dissolved.