Why?

Putin watching the news

It’s IMO one of the most remarkable marketing achievements the way that the UAE successfully marketed itself to “economically successful enough to be an attractive proposition to UAE, intellectually incurious enough not to have noticed that his dog *is* in the middle of a warzone” people.

Starmer is so smart and clever.

I think it's beginning to dawn on Americans that the reputation that's given to the BBC when it comes to inclusion is a sham. They're a fundamentally racist and reactionary institution that uses black voices to launder their reputation for libs, and it works because every lib pundit falls for it.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Look how Laura Kuenssberg refuses to examine Farage’s own specific history of hatred, despite it being at the core of his offering. In 2026, that’s not only a choice, it’s wilful normalisation.

Being Iranian is funny because you get selective sympathy from the right and the left based on who’s putting your family in danger at any given moment

It's fucking embarrassing how much people who want to sound clever about Trump end up just repeating his own bullshit hype about himself. "Oh, this is such an interesting break with his previous stance of refusing direct military intervention" no it isn't shut up.

This is and always has been the only reasonable opinion on this controversy.

On social issues specifically, Labour have shifted so far to the right that they could "move to the left" by adopting Theresa May's positions on immigration and trans rights, which is an absolutely unreal thing to be able to say of the architect of the Hostile Environment, and yet

Wes Streeting likes to say he's following the evidence - but in fact he's following the bigots. We know it and he knows it.

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)

Less than 12 hours after Nadhim Zahawi of Reform UK tested the "Greens are weaponisng sectarianism" attack line on TV, the British PM is using the same rhetoric.

Monoparty politics is real, Keir Starmer is not "a man of integrity" & the dismemberment of the Labour Party cannot come quickly enough.

A smug shitty letter from a leader who will hopefully face the effects of karma.

It seems the BBC wanted a spectacle.

They could have cut every slur. That would have preserved Davidson's dignity and kept people safe from hearing a deeply triggering word.

The BBC made a choice not to do so.

Motherfucker...

*cops burst into my house screaming "WHO fucker?!?!"*

I think this shows the difference between disability activism in the US and UK, because what do you mean you're using *that* word to describe a disabled person, whilst you're condemning slurs?

It does sound like a real-life version of that old "What if a make-a-wish kid wanted to say the n-word?" post.

BAFTAs decided to edit out when someone said free palestine but not this. got it.

It's a very complex situation that social media isn't equipped to deal with, and that's why I've largely remained silent. I feel sorry for both parties.

She knew her son was a paedophile and a rapist, and she did nothing.
She's not some saint because of her magic blood - in fact, she's just as guilty as anyone else who protects the perpetrators of such evil, and this is her legacy.

Dr Hilary Cass has criticised the medicines regulator for blocking a clinical trial into puberty suppressors for children, saying it had made "completely bizarre" claims, hadn't produced any new evidence and seemed to be responding to "political pressure", not science. The Pathways trial was paused after the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published a letter to the research team on Friday, raising fresh concerns about potential long-term harms to children. I The MHRA had previously approved the study, which aims to examine the impact of puberty suppressing hormones on about 220 children aged from 11 to 15 who clinicians believed might benefit from the drugs. But in its letter, which came after threats of legal action from parents and criticism of the trial from gender-critical campaigners such as JK Rowling, the regulator said children should only be allowed to take part after the age of 14. Cass told The Observer she was "disappointed" by the MHRA's intervention. "There are no new research findings and the MHRA hasn't presented any new evidence," she said. "It feels to me like they are responding to political pressure rather than to science." The trial was launched after Cass's 2024 review of gender services, which said research was needed since there was little evidence whether or not puberty-suppressing hormones helped children with gender dysphoria. After the paediatrician's report, the NHS stopped use of the drugs at gender identity clinics, although they continue to be used for children whose puberty begins abnormally early. Cass said the trial was necessary because "we genuinely don't know if some children will benefit or have no benefit". By raising the age limit to 14, it would cut out children who might benefit, which "will make the results invalid", Cass said. "It would make the design really, really flawed and you should not be subjecting children to a flawed study."

So Hilary Cass is now saying the medical regulators blocking the puberty blockers trials is “political not scientific”.

Waiting for a full flurry of media attention to breathlessly cover her every word and push the government to intervene and reverse course?

The BAFTA n-word controversy is a horrible situation. Truly the kind of horrifying situation people probably have nightmares about. No-one needs to hear my opinion on it. 🫡

There's no justification for this other than absolutely hating children,the disabled and neurodivergent specifically.

New member of the Leopard Eating Face Party.

Pretty sure his dislike of Hitchcock has been known for a while. He prefers the Gus Van Sant Psycho to the original.

Tarantino does not like Hitchcock. This has been well-known for a while. I can handle that. What I can't handle is him making that everyone else's problem.

I mean, they can. They're the government. They can clarify the law. Is the law biologically immutable now?