Duncan Hothersall

Supporting trans rights does not mean opposing women's rights. Supporting women's rights does not mean opposing trans rights. Please think about whose interests it serves to turn those who should be allies against misogyny and transphobia into each others' enemies instead. #LGBWithTheT #always

But also, isn't it increasingly toxic because we frame immigration as something inherently negative, and forget it also brings value. And freedom of movement is a reciprocal right, so everyone can benefit from it.

I mean it's all ludicrous, but did you notice he referred to "Darth Bader" here?

Incredible how deeply the United States has debased itself by putting people who are the embodiment of ignorant racism in positions of power. What this particular ignorant racist apparently doesn't realise is if you write that number down as 500,000,000 you're actually using *Arabic numerals*.

There is no human on earth more easily or predictably baited than this man.

A leaflet through the door from a boiler cover company, auspiciously close to when our boiler cover needs to be renewed, which offers a raft of tempting savings offers, underneath which the small print says "Prices based on our £95 excess products, and savings based on our £0 excess products." Hmm.

Advertising whistleblowers have just released a damning exposé of their industry's role in "incentivising and enabling" online hate /1

Pretty dire news in the middle of Scotland's housing crisis. Between April 2025 and March 2026, a further 18,028 new homes were added to Scotland's housing stock, 8% fewer than the previous year and the lowest since 2014-15 (excluding the COVID-19 period).

No you see AI won’t replace jobs it will simply make the jobs easier

The video being widely shared from @mary1kathy.bsky.social with the caption "NYPD arresting an ICE goon for trying to steal someone off the streets of NYC. RESPECT!!!" is an AI generated fake. Please don't share. Disinformation that you like or agree with is still disinformation!

Sounds like these other parents had Genuine Concerns™. Turns out the gender critical campaign handbook can be applied to any situation where bigoted people want to control the lives of others.

Is this weird, patronisingly spoon-fed presentation typical of US TV news? Or is this programme intended for children?

Friends don’t let Richard Murphy anywhere near a megaphone or column

We welcome Lula’s victory in Brazil. But we should also not pretend that narrow victories over the Far Right are causes for major celebration. Politics is in a dangerous place.

It’s just gaslighting now. I see Labour are still tolerating undeclared private donors funding judicial reviews against trade unions by their elected members.

Bridget's never going to believe it when she finds out what this Labour government's women and equality minister did to trans people.

I'm at my parents being forced to watch some sort of football results programme and holy fuck footballers are hot.

This BBC News article bothsides things by *randomly bringing Tonia Antoniazzi into play and extensively quoting her handwringing* just days after she literally posted that she objected to a trans person simply existing and being in her presence.

If you’re wondering why so many SA survivors don’t report, Amy Acton reported when she was 9-years-old and now it’s being used against her by Vivek Ramaswamy in an attack ad. That’s why.

So Scottish Borders Council has *quadrupled* parking charges in Galashiels. From 50p for 2 hours it's now £1 for 1 hour. That's a hell of an increase! (And yes, I realise Edinburgh pals will be laughing at this with some justification...)

I’m trying to square this with the funding for FWS which stripped all trans people (inc those born with female reproductive organs) of their previously rights in the 2010 Equality Act.

One thing to note about Rowling's latest essay is that she says there has been a marked downturn in people accessing her anti-trans legal fund. She puts this down to more businesses seeing things her way, but the truth is that the "gender critical" movement has lost a lot of cases in the last year.

100%. There’s only one type of adult that benefits from children being kept ignorant of sex education.

The child abusers rights groups really do seem to be proliferating lately.

Ashley Pollard was jailed in 2019 as part of an armed robbery gang that targeted businesses with female employees, seeing them as soft targets. The gang attacked nine shops and a travel agent, terrifying the very community AFE claims to defend. The judge described the gang as “not intelligent”.

In Salford, over 45 homes have been targets of racist vandalism. Former deputy leader of the far right Britain First, Ashlea Simon, has ran a campaign of identifying and filming supposed HMOs on social media. Simon now runs her own group, All for England. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/22/a...

Duncan - you need to look up what Scottish Forestry get up to with planting schemes in Southern Scotland and it is not much different. All passed by the system but if the system is broke…. parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/12/17/s...

Hmm. So they bought this land explicitly to build datacentres, they submitted plans through the Finnish construction permit system, and those plans were approved by the local authority. I'm struggling to understand how the removal of the trees can therefore come as a shock to anyone.

That would be because the BBC's cyber correspondent studied English at Loughborough.

Royal British Legion has launched its 2026 poppy appeal, and Reform politicians have decided that's the firing gun for the annual game of poppy policing. Always amusing that it's the fascists who want everyone to be forced to wear a symbol in remembrance of when we last beat the fascists.

A few years after the first Pride Scotland I was being chatted up by a chap who asked if I'd been to Pride that year, and then proceeded to tell me he'd been closely involved in setting up the original event. I hadn't the heart to tell him I was the very worst person to try that line on. 😂

I think the Bank of England can probably relax.

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

It's never been about protecting girls or sport.

See those bastards at Ford making cars and expecting customers to pay for them, shower of shite so they are.