Jill Hayward

Today's weather: hot and cloudy.

Worst of all combinations.

Peter Geoghegan · Labour and the Lobbyists The closer Labour got to power, the closer the business lobby got to Labour. The party conference in Liverpool last...

Labour and the Lobbyists.

The closer Labour got to power, the closer the business lobby got to Labour to thwart laws, regulation; demand tax cuts, crony contracts.

The problem isn't confined to Labour, it afflicts all parties.

Need a public record and transcript of all business lobbying

Can I just say how awful it is to be doing politics like a list of 'things Labour have destroyed already' and 'things Reform will destroy on top of that' and have that be reality now?

He was suggesting not so long ago on Twitter that the US should invade the UK to replace our government. Between that and the Nazi salute, you would think the answer should be a hard "no".

I don’t ever want to diminish this, but compare the lack of reaction to the outpouring after the Jamal Khashoggi murder.

They will keep pulling shit like this, and get worse, because Labour Party, the government they run, and the police who work for them, have completely lost the moral argument on Gaza, but refuse to concede the political one, so are just going to smash and brutalise in the hopes people will shut up.

And a greater move towards gender neutral facilities, which would be the obvious solution to this (literal) shit show, seems to have disappeared from the discussion.

It's almost as if segregation is the intention.

In almost every public "women's" toilet, there's a sign that says that "male attendants may be present" to clean them at any time. Therefore, they aren't women-only spaces.

Unless you're going to segregate your cleaning staff as well, even a designated Women's toilet isn't a single sex space.

This M&S farce is completed staged.

The transphobes picked M&S because they knew a shop for middle class mums and grannies would instantly cave without question.

They want to eradicate trans people from society. This is how they will achieve it!

I say no!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

It seems another reason for choosing M&S is that it, as we’ve seen in Rowling’s call for a boycott, it allows them to glom this onto their previous bugbear about M&S changing rooms - whose momentum had previously sputtered to a halt - in an attempt to revive that and make it one single issue.

“He switched off his phone and said, he wants to sleep.”

A devastating time for AJ management and journalists, many breaking down in uncontrollable tears, on air, as they continue to report on the targeted killings of their colleagues in Gaza by the IDF.

email to me: Our disabled son has CP and bladder spasms so urologist is recommending Botox treatments and we read your article and are concerned about the presence of mRNA in the Botox. Is mRNA in all brands? How can we know if it is in there? Is there a safe brand you recommend? He has to have this so what do we do? Thanks

my reply: personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor. but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed. I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking. but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research. best of luck!

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

"Anas al-Sharif.. he became the face of what was happening in the northern part of Gaza because he was one of very few journalists to stay [there] during the worst part of the bombardment there.. Al Jazeera has been heavily targeted throughout the war"

Nicole Johnston reporting

I dont personally feel like you owe me anything but you do owe the lgbtqia+ community, especially the trans community, an apology for allowing this moral panic to escalate through your party and your leadership

And now this backstabbing

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research has found. The study found that when using Google’s AI tool “Gemma” to generate and summarise the same case notes, language such as “disabled”, “unable” and “complex” appeared significantly more often in descriptions of men than women. Continue reading...

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds

I’m becoming convinced that the reason they keep making the White House look like Mar-a-Lago is that he’s slowly losing his memory and they keep trying to put him in places that seem familiar.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

Trans staff banned from working. - a Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request details regarding Police Scotland's policies and practices concerning the designation and management of single-sex toilet facilities. ...

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tran...

Asked the normal questions to police Scotland

I think hating this Labour government and Starmer and everyone involved in it, is the only good and correct position to have

Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.

Centrist Dads like Pete are why we can’t have nice things.
You can’t “both sides” genocide.
You can’t “legitimate concerns” anti trans bigots.
You can’t concede an inch to fascism.

"More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in Vietnam. Israel has targeted journalists and their families. Yet journalists in mainstream UK media have shown a shocking indifference to the plight of journalists in Gaza and the West Bank."
- Peter Oborne
SOAS, 30 October 2024

Watching videos of police dragging away grannies for holding an anti genocide bit of card, thinking about the time the Met buried reports that one of their officers was a predator, then after he used police ID to kidnap, rape & murder a woman, they then arrested women for holding a vigil for her.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

An Israeli missile attack on a press tent near al Shifa hospital has killed a whole team of journalists:
Al Sharif
Mohammed Qreiqeh
Ibrahim Zaher
Mohammed Noufal
Moamen Aliwa

This has to stop.The international community HAS to step in.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

Musk's Tesla applies to supply power to British households If approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem, it would allow the US firm to take on the UK's dominant suppliers.

No. In God's name, please no.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

E.U. nations must recognize legal gender changes across bloc, top court rules The court sided with Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a transgender man who sued his home country of Romania for refusing to accept the gender identity changes he initiated in Britain.

Top E.U. court rules that member states must recognize gender identity changes - “Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity,” the court said in a news release accompanying its ruling.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

A reminder: you cannot have gay rights without women’s rights, trans rights, disability rights, etc. We have secured our rights as gay folk to live and love without moral persecution by working in solidarity with other marginalised groups to challenge narrow ideas about bodies, gender and sexuality.

RIP the legendary Biddy Baxter, formidable and pioneering Editor of Blue Peter during its heyday...😥