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one of the london borough of lambeth's middlemost public intellectuals.
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An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery.
UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected
Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say
www.thetimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back
heartening to see so many people not putting up with it. hope they refound themselves as independent groups away from the bigots in charge
At least 12 WI groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
Members say more groups are likely to close, and that the federation’s decision has opened up a toxic, traditionalist culture that will deter younger women from joining.
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
heartening to see so many people not putting up with it. hope they refound themselves as independent groups away from the bigots in charge
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US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
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So, what happened is that old people love apprenticeships, so we created a payroll tax of 0.5% to fund them, but most companies don't really train through apprenticeships anymore so a lot of professional qualifications restructured as apprenticeships to take advantage of that funding.
Exclusive: Leadership and management apprenticeships are on the chopping block under plans to find savings and tilt the apprenticeship system towards young people, skills minister Jacqui Smith has confirmed https://feweek.co.uk/management-apprenticeships-on-the-chopping-block-minister-confirms/
Management apprenticeships on the chopping block, minister confirms
Government gears up to tell employers which apprenticeships 'aren't appropriate for public funding'
feweek.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
So, what happened is that old people love apprenticeships, so we created a payroll tax of 0.5% to fund them, but most companies don't really train through apprenticeships anymore so a lot of professional qualifications restructured as apprenticeships to take advantage of that funding.
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Millions will die sooner and more painfully than they needed too due to the anti scientific turn of the US government
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Millions will die sooner and more painfully than they needed too due to the anti scientific turn of the US government
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On the one hand I think there are several structural factors that have brought Orbán to a reckoning; on the other, I choose to believe the prospect of a re-democratisation of Hungary is down to Troy Parrott.
Irish striker’s late goal ended Hungary’s campaign and punctured the prime minister’s expensive sporting vision
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
February 13, 2026 at 8:14 AM
On the one hand I think there are several structural factors that have brought Orbán to a reckoning; on the other, I choose to believe the prospect of a re-democratisation of Hungary is down to Troy Parrott.
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The transphobic press have no incentive to give Labour credit for their transphobia and every incentive to push them to go further. Labour gain nothing by caving to them, and yet cave to them they will, out of a potent combination of hatred for trans people and political ineptitude.
You all saw the guidance that went out yesterday for trans kids in schools. Absolutely horrific stuff.
This is how the right wing papers are covering that news. Times, Mail and Telegraph all have it on their front page, the first two as their main story of the day.
Guardian's coverage included
This is how the right wing papers are covering that news. Times, Mail and Telegraph all have it on their front page, the first two as their main story of the day.
Guardian's coverage included
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 AM
The transphobic press have no incentive to give Labour credit for their transphobia and every incentive to push them to go further. Labour gain nothing by caving to them, and yet cave to them they will, out of a potent combination of hatred for trans people and political ineptitude.
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Babies as an antidote to women having intellectual and political lives is a tale as old as time, and anyone advocating for it is by definition a wrong 'un.
Reform candidate calls for young girls to be given "biological reality check" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check
Exclusive: Matt Goodwin argued ‘young girls’ should be explained ‘the biological reality’ that ‘many women in Britain are having children much too late in life’
www.independent.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Babies as an antidote to women having intellectual and political lives is a tale as old as time, and anyone advocating for it is by definition a wrong 'un.
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Fuck every single bit of this bigoted, regressive shit.
New School Guidance announces:
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Fuck every single bit of this bigoted, regressive shit.
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Domination is the only principle guiding the Trump movement, so the paradigmatic case of domination—gender violence—will inevitably arise as Trumpism’s core expression.
A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'
Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.
www.bbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Domination is the only principle guiding the Trump movement, so the paradigmatic case of domination—gender violence—will inevitably arise as Trumpism’s core expression.
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"kick racism up to board level in football"
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"kick racism up to board level in football"
it's self interested, but genuinely I think rowing back on the trans rights crackdown would be helpful for govt. it's low salience among most voters, but lots of centre left people know trans people personally and are disgusted by it. would also save money.
If Starmer changes tack or is replaced by someone to his “left”, the main shift will be tonal because the government has just been quite left wing. It put up taxes, spent more on public services and gave unions a load more powers
A good example of how strangely unpolitical this government is at times.
The Economist is fretting that trade union laws have been tilted (sharply!) back towards strengthening unions.
But is the government making an argument around this to progressive voters? No.
economist.com/britain/2026...
The Economist is fretting that trade union laws have been tilted (sharply!) back towards strengthening unions.
But is the government making an argument around this to progressive voters? No.
economist.com/britain/2026...
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
it's self interested, but genuinely I think rowing back on the trans rights crackdown would be helpful for govt. it's low salience among most voters, but lots of centre left people know trans people personally and are disgusted by it. would also save money.
is there a definitive history of the death of libertarian politics? used to be a kind of guy you would meet. post 2016 ceased to exist. some fully embraced far right authoritarianism, some became mainstream liberals within the left tent.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
is there a definitive history of the death of libertarian politics? used to be a kind of guy you would meet. post 2016 ceased to exist. some fully embraced far right authoritarianism, some became mainstream liberals within the left tent.
partly that many journalists and politicians don't care about sexual harassment. but also chris pincher was just a disembodied cipher for scandal. nobody knew who he was before or since, even his name just a lame pun on his crimes.
The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it
I see we're back to "Johnson resigned because of a party" and not because he employed a known sex pest, lied about what he knew, and more than half his cabinet resigned as a result.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
partly that many journalists and politicians don't care about sexual harassment. but also chris pincher was just a disembodied cipher for scandal. nobody knew who he was before or since, even his name just a lame pun on his crimes.
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Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.
what is a power play, I hear you ask? well ofc
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
what is a power play, I hear you ask? well ofc
rest in piss ❤️
BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
rest in piss ❤️
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If a Labour government just didn't spend its time using the bully pulpit to talk about what bastards foreigners are and pandering to anti-trans cranks it'd make a real difference to me. So it's relatively easy for a new leader to significantly shift my opinion. It therefore *cannot* be Wes Streeting
February 8, 2026 at 10:17 AM
If a Labour government just didn't spend its time using the bully pulpit to talk about what bastards foreigners are and pandering to anti-trans cranks it'd make a real difference to me. So it's relatively easy for a new leader to significantly shift my opinion. It therefore *cannot* be Wes Streeting
turns out knees are quite important for skiing
February 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
turns out knees are quite important for skiing
so compelled by the curling. the GB team look so Scottish. The yanks look so American and are both called Corey. When they lost one of the Coreys smashed his sweeping brush.
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
so compelled by the curling. the GB team look so Scottish. The yanks look so American and are both called Corey. When they lost one of the Coreys smashed his sweeping brush.
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all sorts of confounders in this I imagine, but drinking becoming an almost inverted social marker feels both true and is also immensely funny given the entire history of modern alcohol abuse prevention
Also interesting:
"39% of all adults living in more deprived areas said that they were non-drinkers, which compared with 16% in the least deprived neighbourhoods."
"39% of all adults living in more deprived areas said that they were non-drinkers, which compared with 16% in the least deprived neighbourhoods."
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
all sorts of confounders in this I imagine, but drinking becoming an almost inverted social marker feels both true and is also immensely funny given the entire history of modern alcohol abuse prevention
learning lessons from HS2. The government will cancel your project half way through, so add extra stupid bits on it. When they cancel the bangor-dublin leg we pretend to be angry but we still get HS3.
Absolutely tremendous work here, no notes.
(Apart from to say that this proposal is by the actual president of RIBA)
(Apart from to say that this proposal is by the actual president of RIBA)
February 7, 2026 at 10:52 AM
learning lessons from HS2. The government will cancel your project half way through, so add extra stupid bits on it. When they cancel the bangor-dublin leg we pretend to be angry but we still get HS3.
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when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.
And now @ludovicparsons.bsky.social highlights the huge increase in anti-trans articles over the last 10 years, as the number of trans journalists falls. The challenge to get positive ripples of trans lives covered, in a sea of gender critical misinformation
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
when i started working as a journalist in 2014, there were trans reporters in multiple national newsrooms. almost all have left. the high output of anti-trans articles & the near absence of articles by trans journalists are two sides of the same coin: institutional transphobia in the UK media.
all this stupid racist chat about 'ethnically english' just reminds me how we spent a decade arguing about British v English because people just pick the first box on the census
‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity
‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity
Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’
Rishi Sunak has described himself as being “British, English and British Asian” in a riposte to increasing racially charged language used by figures on the right.
The UK’s first British Asian prime minister was speaking after his identity was questioned in recent debate sparked by a claim by the podcaster Konstantin Kisin that Sunak was not English because he was a “brown-skinned Hindu”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
all this stupid racist chat about 'ethnically english' just reminds me how we spent a decade arguing about British v English because people just pick the first box on the census