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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

“Nanny, have we been bad?”

Yes, yes, he may have smoked a little racism in school but he never inhaled…

UK to deport 60 delivery riders after illegal work crackdown The Home Office says the group are among 171 riders arrested over seven days in November in a national "enforcement blitz".

People don't choose to become undocumented. Providing people seeking asylum with the right to work from the outset, and ensuring there were better routes to regularisation for migrants who fall out of status, would be more effective measures than raids and deportations.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Of course it’s true that we’ve had a run of PMs of very poor character. That has been a disaster. We need to expect and demand better. Never give into doomerism.

people have been saying “europe will be unrecognisable in twenty years!” for over fifty years and by people i mean cunts

I'll respond "abolish the Home Office" to everything *anyone* does, not just the Home Office. Drop my remote down the side of the armchair? Abolish the Home Office. Deliveroo driver's ten minutes late? Abolish the Home Office.

As someone who loved the Brownies and the Guides I am shocked and disappointed that the Guiding Association feels compelled to exclude some children following the Supreme Court ruling. I have contacted them to offer my help and support.

"Russia would never attack Ireland" -people in my mentions four days ago

It’s that time of year again, where I remember how a mammogram saved my life five years go, and I proceed to hold my breath while I await my scan results. Don’t put off your mammograms, people with breasts: five minutes can make all the difference…

In addition - the vast majority of diagnoses do *not* end with someone claiming a disability benefit or entering unemployment! Most people getting a diagnosis do in fact just successfully get a reasonable adjustment from their employers or make a lifestyle change and carry on with their lives.

Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

Snowball In Heaven If Christmas isn’t the time for a kitsch cocktail, I don’t know when is. And while I have nothing against a straightforward Snowball (and I make mine with one part advocaat to about 3 parts lemonade, ...

Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is my Snowball in Heaven! You know you deserve it. ‘Tis the season, after all. www.nigella.com/recipes/snow...

Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million

First three words superfluous.

This framing of unlawful things as a mere matter of legal opinion sadly not limited to US press.

Fanny Basterbate

England and Wales, Census, 1881

Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.

Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

As in so many things, the British public is wrong.

Jane Loves Cox

England and Wales, Census, 1861

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

So the BBC did a news story on the horrible conditions in the hotels were people seeking asylum are forced to live and instead of the media talking about humanity and compassion about improving conditions and letting them work, this was the outcome:

David Lammy was right in 2020 when he called the jury system fundamental to our constitution.

Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.

We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

This is off the top of my head.

These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.

Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?

“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”

It is absolutely mind-boggling.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Thank you for the gift of finding this account. This is amazing.

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:

They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.