Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧

take it you’re white and haven’t done the reading x

We were warned that the Israeli justifications for killing we saw in Gaza would come to us all.

So let’s get this right nasty racist Robert Jenrick has left the nasty racist Tories to join nasty racist Reform and the nasty racist Labour party put out a statement about how he’d opened the borders.

Gotta love UK politics makes you feel right at home here!

"protestors have human shields" the netanyahufication of america

I don't want to share any private space with a terf. They would violate my dignity because they don't mind their own business. I've said this before but I think now, more than ever, we should have separate rooms for them. Utter weirdos

Nothing will give me greater pleasure than the destruction of this iteration of the Labour party.

You’d think Labour might want to sit back and pretend to be reasonable while Jenrick and Badenoch knock lumps out of each other, but they decided to try and outflank them in the other direction by regurgitating a far right trope

We’re suing Virgin Active over their transphobic rules | Good Law Project Last summer Virgin Active banned trans people from bathrooms and changing rooms across the UK – so we’re taking them to court

Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act.

We've published the Letter Before Action.

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He’s basically given them a fiver each to get some sweets

Sting sold the songbook for $200m the tight GIT.

This man truly is an unflushable turd of British public life, isn’t he? A real four roller. A dinner party ruiner.

Thank you ❤️

Quango for Bigotry: The shameful recent history of the so-called “Equality and Human Rights Commission” We’ve been hearing a lot about the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently for all the wrong reasons. Many are wondering why a quango meant to enforce the Equality Act appears to be solel...

Quango for Bigotry: The shameful recent history of the so-called “Equality and Human Rights Commission”

Excellent piece on the EHRC from the erudite @marcusjdl.bsky.social

Jeffrey blocked out two hours a week in his calendar to stop being an abuser, blackmailer and political fixer to hang out with me, Peter Mandelson, an innocent man. We would just chat about Bronski Beat.

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use.

So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?

Fascinating watching people who celebrated the rise to power of an ex-human rights lawyer, as a sign that sensible, law-based politics had returned, now making excuses for their man’s refusal to uphold international law

yes or a nice glass of custard x

What a cowardly, lily-livered, weak, puppet, white supremacist terrorist regime supporting piece of shit

I heard Starmer described on the radio yesterday as ‘someone who cares deeply about international law’ and like… he doesn’t appear to, guys?

How Labour will improve your living standards by Behind A Paywall

Left-leaning mothers of Mumsnet are deserting Labour for Reform Louise Eccles and Caroline Wheeler Anti-immigration protesters outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, last summer. Immigration is among the biggest concerns of Mumsnet users Reform has become the top political party for traditionally left-leaning mothers, a survey of Mumsnet users found, in what has been labelled a wake-up call for Labour. The parenting forum has become a barometer for mothers’ voting intentions. Analysis of Mumsnet conversations correctly predicted the country would choose to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum. Now research shows 20 per cent of users intend to vote Reform UK in the next election, placing the party ahead of Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats. It is the first time since the Mumsnet political poll began in 2009 that Labour has been usurped by any party. Justine Roberts, the cofounder of Mumsnet, said she was surprised by the results from the poll of more than 1,000 adults, but understood “why many mums have become disillusioned” with the government. Analysis of conversations on Mumsnet found there was anger about rising taxes, failed welfare reforms, NHS pressures and the perceived effect of immigration on public services.

"Left-leaning mothers of Mumsnet are deserting Labour for Reform" [Times]

I can't stop laughing long enough to come up with something sarcastic to say about this headline.

Us gingerly opening emails tomorrow and frankly just getting on with it:

-2C by the Union Canal in Edinburgh.
Only a swan could fall through broken ice so gracefully. 🦢

Carbs with cream (pasta bake) 👌🏽

Actually he's convinced me it should be 100%:
- pop market bubbles
- no house price inflation, correction to a homes value in use not as speculative asset
- no tax avoidance by disguised remuneration, entirety of high earnings brought within PAYE
- entirety of billionaire wealth taxable

If you successfully use a big drill during a heist and then get caught you should be given

1) less time on sentance
2) a medal
3) the movie rights.

Chris Mason really should be getting far more heat that Laura Kuenssberg used to. We know why he doesn’t but the man is an absolute journalism void so deep in the politics as nerdy spectator sport upholding neoliberalism vortex it’s like an unfunny satire