Tony Bird

Gender clinic waiting list 'far too long' says coroner after teen's death Camden's Tavistock Centre has been criticised by a coroner but its specialist clinic for children and young people closed down last year

The UK’s Trans healthcare scandal isn’t a complex issue

Her death was preventable

It was the result of a complete failure by cisgender policymakers and clinicians who willfully ignore expert warnings and lived experience

They are responsible for a system built to delay, deny, and destroy hope

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Screenshot of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) stock summary on October 7. The closing price is $1,191.06 USD, up +27.75 (2.39%) for the day. The day’s trading range shows a low of $1,177.46 and a high of $1,201.36. Previous close was $1,163.31. Market cap is $506.11B, P/E ratio is 50.75, with no dividend yield. The 52-week high is $1,341.15 and the 52-week low is $677.88. A line graph shows intraday stock price movement, peaking above $1,190 before settling at the closing price.

Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows.

Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

A Tory leader can't be challenged in their first year.
That's up for Badenoch on Nov 2nd.
Whether the Tory MPs have the stomach to swap her for someone who'd be just as awful is another matter

Sunset view up the Thames. The buildings are in silhoette. The sky is blue at the top fading into grey then peachy orange. A boat is motoring up the river

Sunset from Blackfriars Bridge while walking home earlier in the summer

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

I'm already a member - but the chance to be part of "a threat to the right that they never saw coming" makes me want to join all over again

After visiting the Global Sumud Flotilla captives in Israel’s Ketziot Prison, one of the occupation’s most notorious facilities, Adalah legal counsel Lubna Tuma described the mistreatment and denial of basic rights that they had been subjected to...

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The way you've captured the light in this is just perfection x

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

“we’ve got a good relationship with the developer” you are the LABOUR PARTY you have got NO BUSINESS having a “good relationship” with a private developer

The Green Party just voted to reform trans healthcare. What does this bold new policy look like? Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

What we're calling for: - The end of segregation in trans healthcare. - Ending the torture of conversion therapy. - Moving the NHS to an informed consent model. - Expanding the range of funded transition care. - Access to affirming healthcare for trans youth. - NHS support for people who seld-medicate or use private care. - Real support for detransitioning people. Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

How we get there: - Closing the existing Gender Identity Clinics and supporting GPs with training and funding to care for trans people. - Lifting the politically motivated ban on 'puberty blockers'. - Starting a government funded, trans-led, inquiry into past NHS treatment of trans people. - Including & prioritising trans expertise in independent care reviews. - Passing a trans-inclusive ban on 'conversion therapy'. Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

We don't have to accept the status quo. Trans greens logo in the middle with the text "Trans Greens" with "Greens for Trans Liberation" underneath. Why not read the full policy? Link in the next post. Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.

Every time is potentially nap time

irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social Reform voters are largely Tory voters. What will gain Reform the election is Labour voters decamping to the Lib Dems and the Greens. Good work! 7 October 2025 at 06:52

There’s a lot of this about. Stop trying to guilt the left into voting for a Labour Party that hates us and shapes its policies towards people that hate them

The Green Party wants to Abolish Landlords.

The question on everyone’s lips:
What does that actually mean?

Here’s motion proposer @sallonsax.bsky.social talking to @turnleftmedia.co.uk about just that!

LOVED telling the story of Wealden Greens. Can't wait to bring real hope & real change to the whole of Sussex & Brighton as Mayor. @rachel4sussex.bsky.social

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

The @transgreens.bsky.social and ourselves have revamped our Teemill website where the #ElectTheDolls t-shirts that we had at conference are now on sale.

Do check it out: lgbtiqagreens.teemill.com

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Comes to something when I find myself agreeing with Chris Philp. But every bit of this is correct.
"Keir Starmer lied to get power. He lied to the Labour party about what he believed in, he lied to the country about what he would do, and he lied to himself that he was up to the job."

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

I joined the Greens in June. Conference last weekend felt like a kind of homecoming. I’ve been adrift these last few years, mourning Alice, despairing at a ruling class that seems intents on heaping misery on all minorities. In the depths of grief hope wasn’t enough, but now it breaths life into me.

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Zack Polanski: I'm a Jewish Mancunian. Our grief cannot be used to silence protest The answer to bigotry cannot be to shut down protest

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Shine On - Jody Dubrowski 20th anniversary vigil. 15th October, Clapham Common bandstand. Arrive 5.45pm, vigil 6pm. All welcome.

Jody Dubrowski was murdered in a homophobic attack on Clapham Common 20 years ago.
There will be a vigil held on the Common on the anniversary next week - to honour his memory and the memory of all those who have died as a result of hatred and ignorance.

Omar Hayek, MSF occupational therapist, smiles and gives a thumbs up as he supports a patient.

💔 This is Omar Hayek. He was a kind man, the sole provider for his family, & one who brought the highest level of professionalism to his work as an occupational therapist for @msf.ca.

This morning, Omar became our 14th colleague killed in an #Israeli attack.

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

And the answer is Ofcom did nothing.
No sanctions. No fine.
Just a telling off
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