It is a genuine attempt to reduce the number of small boat crossings. Whether it will work remains to be seen. However if Labour doesn’t restore confidence in the asylum system then the risk is that Reform will sweep to power at the next GE.

Each to their own 😌

Trump does say what he means in the sense that he verbalises whatever is going on in his brain at a given moment in time. Of course he might think and say something completely different an hour later.

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

Well it's interesting that so many supposed "leftists" prefer to use a social media platform run someone who supports the far right and has called for the violent overthrow of the UK government.

The Cass review only disregarded studies that were not conducted in line with standard medical and scientific practice.

The Cass Review hasn't been descredited by any serious medical experts. What it has shown is that many of the WPATH recommendations are not backed up by any clinical evidence.

If a trans kid has cancer they are entitled to have the same treatment as any other child.

Starmer actually made his views know on Sunday morning.

Fortunately Streeting takes his advice from medical experts not anonymous posters on social media. Stopping children from getting unproven and potentially dangerous treatments like puberty blockers is not violating anyone's right. In the UK HRT has has never been generally available to under 16s.

Acknowledging that women have legal rights to single sex spaces and service is not "performative hatred" of trans people. Nor is banning the use of unproven and dangerous treatments on kids. Most people outside your very small online bubble think that Wes Streeting has been talking common sense.

You can do both. I take on the right wing conspiracy cranks when their posts pop up I my Twitter feed - which happens more and more. But then I’ll pop over here for a bit of sanity.

Why block him? He is indeed a jackass, but it’s important to hear what he has to say.

Why use that particular comparison? There are plenty of other comparisons that could be made. Better still find a novel way to describe the particular nature of the Israeli blockade.

I get regularly get false warnings. Oddly the one time I did have a hard fall the stupid watch failed to notice