Why is it that electricity prices keep going up when the cost of generating it should be going down from renewables?

Gas prices I can maybe understand. But electricity?

Don’t care. JP Morgan can fuck off.

Also I’m pretty sure that that’s an empty threat, like millionaires saying they’ll leave.

That’s why we’re cutting disability benefits

- Conservatives, (Forced) Labour

London has seen a spate of ​antisemitic attacks ⁠in recent months, including the stabbing of two Jewish men

Hmmm… I don’t like how those stabbings are being used here. Especially given what happened in context.

Still, it’s good this man is behind bars.

Most of the coverage here is by all the dodgy right-wing papers. In fact, no left leaning paper is covering this story. Not too surprising given how this is being used to justify broader crackdowns on free speech. That said, not covering it at all is not great either.

Thank you for taking the feedback 🙂. Yeah sorry I didn’t realise PIP was not explained. As others have said it’s Personal Independence Payment and it’s basically an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.

At the moment it’s very hard to get and many mental health conditions have recently been excluded by the (Forced) Labour government to “get people back to work”, even though that doesn’t make any sense.

While I get the joke, I think it’s a little insensitive.

That’s good. I went for a walk in the Wye valley in Wales many years back and I’m happy it’s getting some protection.

Rivers in Ecuador, Canada and New Zealand have been granted legal personhood in recent years, and the House of Lords is considering a proposal by the former leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett, to change nature’s legal status from objects, property and resources to subjects with inherent rights.

I’m not sure why you’d need rivers to have personhood to be protected. I guess that might just be a result of weird legal frameworks.

Last year, the Ouse, which runs through East and West Sussex, became the first river in the country to have its rights formally recognised.

Is this really a UK first then? Maybe I’ve just misread.

I reviewed the original guidance and while this is a miniscule bit better, its still basically saying “ban trans people from single-sex spaces”.

They’re saying that businesses and whole hospital wings will need to be built just to house them, but of course there is no legal requirement to do so and no funding from the government will ever be provided for this.

What theh really want is for trans people to vanish from public life.

“The supreme court was very clear … if you are providing separate toilets for women and men, that has to be on the basis of biological sex.”

Wrong. An obvious lie.

I know someone who has researched this extremely deeply, and they will tell you that the EHRC has been infested with transphobes since around 2020. Most non-transphobic staff has left since then, leaving a thoroughly rotten organization.

An FOI they filed found that while they communicated thousands of times with anti-trans hate groups like Sex Matters since 2020, they didn’t record a single set of meeting minutes with trans advocacy groups since then. Not once.

The current goal for some trans activists is to get the EHRC to lose its accreditation as a human rights organisation with GANRI, and there’s plenty enough evidence to do that. I just hope it will happen in time before this guidance becomes law.

We need more people to drop Labour, as although more Labour defectors went to Greens, significantly more councilors elected were Reform. That’s presumably because the vote was split.

(The above numbers may be a little out of date)

❤️Columbo my love❤️

Disgusting.

Labour under Kier Starmer is so concerned with appealing to far-right voters that he is happy to kneecap human rights in the process.

Get. Them. Out.

Davies’ Women’s Sports Union, alongside the conservative advocacy group ADF International, has now issued letters to 10 organisations. They contend that these bodies are in breach of the law and are failing to adequately protect women and girls by permitting male-born competitors to participate in their events.

parkrun allows competitors to identify by gender rather than sex.

The webpage states: “We feel this is aligned with us as a health and wellbeing charity that provides non-competitive, socially-focused physical activity, and allows people to identify in the way they feel most appropriate and comfortable.”

These pressure groups obviously have no leg to stand on, and are blatant transphobes. Go fuck yourselves bigots.

When the people’s survival is based on charity and not state welfare, that’s a failed society.

TLDR; He’s a spineless, brown-nosed man who stands for nothing.

He developed a reputation as a low-maintenance operator who leadership rarely had to worry about.

Grain of salt as this is from the Telegraph, but:

In an interview with Talk TV in 2022, Mr Murray, who was then a shadow treasury minister, was repeatedly asked to define what a woman was.

He replied: “I believe that trans women are women.”

Sources told The Telegraph that Mr Murray’s view has since changed and that he is committed to protecting single-sex spaces in the health service.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/15/trans-women-are-women-new-health-secretary-said/

It’s very sad that people in extreme poverty are being abused by the far-right. Somehow convinced that their problems originate from immigrants and not the lack of welfare.

From what I’ve heard a lot of the time they don’t even necessarily believe any of it. It’s just grifting for money.

Some random man in Bangladesh or something.

Other times it could be genuine far-right agitators trying to get Reform or other parties elected.

They really can barely keep it in.

The judge, in fact the whole process was obviously biased against the defendents. How exactly is this a fair trial? The whole thing stinks to the high heavens.

It’s funny how mf will say “Israel has a right to defend itself” but when someone says the same about Palestine that makes you a terrorist supporter 🤔

Prof David Strain, the chair of the BMA’s board of science, who led the review, said the Cass report’s methodology was robust and the BMA was no longer opposed to any of its 32 recommendations.

You mean the widely ridiculed Cass report? The one that everyone who supports trans rights says is terrible?

At the very best, it is a mixed bag. At worst, it’s a disgrace. No one in their right mind calls it “robust”. I think the union leaders need firing.

A good video on the matter: https://youtu.be/zI57lFn_vWk