The government being pissed off with the EHRC feels cathartic, and I hope it might augur good news for trans rights

Tony Blair acting like a colonial viceroy for a Trump led American empire is a particularly ghoulish prospect

yeah polling like this would suggest otherwise - the difference in Trump sympathies between Reform and all other parties is very stark!

Odd framing in this analysis in The Guardian. He just won ~85% of the vote, the party is already with him!

Some tried to force an entryist narrative with Corbyn in 2015 with regards to £3 registered supporters, but Corbyn won convincingly with full existing members too. Not to get complacent, but I wouldn't be surprised if a similar outcome emerges here too.

It took a major news organisation outside of the UK (NBC in the US) to correctly translate "dignity" and "clarity".

This was Starmer's stated position on the SC ruling just last month, completely doubling down. Unless your conversations with him shifted him from that, I don't see how your attendance improves things for trans people, and instead just looks like pink washing for the government.

The once Blairite dream of OMOV delivering party leaders from their faction has never been more over. Even after a mass exodus from Labour and Starmer shutting out the left, those that remain in the party still favour those positioned at least on the soft left of the party overwhelmingly.

Oh c'mon, it's clearly untenable for their actions to be appalling and intolerable and yet for us to continue to provide them with weapons to commit those very same actions!

I don't agree with this part, as that would presumably still needlessly put us in a worse place than prior to the SC judgment.

But still, good to see someone of her stature call out how people are misinterpreting it.

This recent snippet from The Guardian makes me doubt Rayner

I had been inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt compared to most on the Labour front-bench, but if this is true and she is "worried doing anything woke", I can't see her making good decisions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This part sounds quite promising! There's a bit further down too where it suggests there's significant pushback from within staff at the EHRC itself about the interim guidance.

"Read the tea leaves" that we're a nasty, right-wing government and anyone expecting anything resembling social justice from us can fuck off

Such a weaselly answer from Starmer - a supreme court ruling does not prevent you from having your own opinion on this, and the court was not ruling on the general question of whether trans women are women, but on how it pertains to the Equality Act.

Yay this has arrived, very excited to read!

First book of the year! It was quite good, like a YA Ministry of the Future, but from the perspective of a kind of annoying young guy rather than the head of an international agency.

Focuses more (as the cover suggests) on the right wing backlash against GND measures too.

This article does suggest there's some truth to it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

If we are being haunted by the ghosts of 1976, perhaps we can resurrect the Alternative Economic Strategy in response 👀

Met this cute cat at the tills yesterday!