and yet it’s the Victoria Wood sketch of our time. What is a Buzzball if not gypsy creams persisting

What motivates people to be transphobic is immersion in the kind of society that legitimises and breeds transphobia. It's on tv, in the papers, in social discourse. Removing a phone in school means kids will see it on laptops. Removing laptops means they'll see it on tv. @charlotte2153.bsky.social

If Epping Council won it'd have been disastrous. That doesn't mean hotels are an acceptable form of accommodation, only the other day @ramfel.bsky.social released a report into how bad conditions are in them. It's that this government's alternatives are worse 3/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Healthcare, social assistance, asylum – being a journalist in Britain is, for the most part, shaping the offical narrative to why people should live in worse conditions and be even more miserable. And if you're really lucky you might get a Press Award at the end of it

I mean that’s the whole vibe of this government

Fascism didn’t creep in solely via big obvious monsters but with the help of your dad’s sensible favourites

And nobody with any clout will pull them up on this. You will not get senior journalists or ministers explaining how their colleagues and dinner party pals have not written an amazing article or made a stunning podcast but have done actual harm and can’t see it

For the love of truth, please understand that every powerful media person trying to tell you about this phenomenon has a massive blind spot for the thing that radicalised them. Nobody is immune and if you can’t see that these people are already too far gone, you’re part of the problem

If you’re discussing the rise of a global fascist movement that is now strongly exerting itself domestically and you’re *still* wittering about the speech tyranny of the kids and the baleful influence of Stonewall, then that’s pretty wacky, folks! It looks unserious and self-indulgent at very best!

Oh from the Tory trousers catalogue

lol she can’t stop with her transphobia

Oh the massive transphobe Emma

Here it’s basically constant from November to lunar new year

Maitlis’ years of commitment and Sopel’s dinner party circuit will always bubble to the top