It’s like inviting people over for dinner and then insisting you want to buy their children.

Here was newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney making his first visit to the Oval Office to see President Donald Trump, who has spent months musing about turning America’s northern neighbor into the 51st state.

It didn’t take long for a reporter to ask about what was on everyone’s mind. Trump said he was still interested in annexing Canada, describing the border between the two countries as nothing more than an arbitrary line.

Well that’s true of a lot of borders. The exact spot where they’re drawn is sometimes “an arbitrary line” as opposed to a river or a canyon or an ocean. … Read the rest

Well, that’s clear enough. Message received.

Is it the end of the road for stupid language games?

The NHS must use “plain English” in guidance for women and transgender people, Wes Streeting has said.

The Health Secretary stressed that women should not be “excluded or erased” in an effort for the NHS to be “trans inclusive”, such as by referring to “people with cervixes”.

He criticised the “totally misguided attempts” of NHS managers to be inclusive by removing the word women, which has included phrases such as “birthing people” and “chestfeeding”.

Misguided, idiotic, and profoundly contemptuous of women. You don’t be “inclusive” by erasing the female half of humanity.

Asked about NHS language on cervical screening, Mr Streeting said

The very best most compassionate people support trans ideology.

Don’t worry, they also call her a cunt – no misogynist insult is neglected.… Read the rest

People are celebrating Magdalen Berns’s birthday today.

Magdalen deserves a plaque. One day, this might happen but for now, there’s this (with thanks to @Richard66173180) — pic.twitter.com/3rpcTH5ZwU

— The Attagirls (@TheAttagirls) May 6, 2025

Here is a guest post of hers from January 2016:

Guest post: Let them call me whorephobic… Read the rest

What’s wrong with this claim?

According to the Proud Trust, an LGBT+ charity that goes into schools, being a ‘trans woman’ is no different to being a ‘tall woman’ or a ‘French woman’.

Even after the Supreme Court judgment, children are being ideologically indoctrinated.

Yet, the government does nothing. pic.twitter.com/an6WMt92fz

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) May 6, 2025

The indoctrination is wrong, as James says, but what else?

It’s a ridiculous childish lie, that’s what. “Trans” is not an adjective like “tall” or “French.” It’s not even an adjective, in fact. It’s just a negation. It could be replaced with “not.” (“Not” is not an adjective.)

Trans is not a kind of woman, trans is a sneaky word that people use … Read the rest

Oh no oh horrors queer Australians are staying home.

Queer Australians are axing travel plans to Washington DC’s World Pride festival, as Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting LGBTQ+ rights leads to fears of discrimination at the US border and potential attacks.

He isn’t actually targeting lesbian and/or gay rights though. I hate him as much as you do but that lede is just a lie. It’s the usual lie, the one that pretends lesbian and gay rights are the same as purported trans rights, when they’re not even close. Purported trans rights are about being believed and endorsed and pampered and worshipped as women if you’re men and men if you’re women. There are no such rights. There is … Read the rest

Ugh god this fucking guy.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told President Trump on Tuesday that Canada “is not for sale,” nor will it be.

Trump has repeatedly threatened Canadian sovereignty, but Carney’s Liberal Party staged a political comeback by rallying against Trump’s annexation threats.

“Never say never,” Trump responded, to which Carney repeatedly said: “Never.”

Don’t you tell me not to say never you disgusting bullying pea-brained pile of shit.

No doubt that’s what Trump has said to women as he slammed them up against a wall and tore at their clothes.

Ahead of the meeting, Trump criticized Canada-U.S. relations on Truth Social. During the meeting, though, he said, “regardless of anything, we’re gonna be friends with Canada.”

That’s the ticket! Harass the scientists until they get fed up and leave. Who needs scientists? We want advertisers and PR geniuses and movie stars, not scientists.

As the Trump administration slashes support to research institutions and threatens to freeze federal funding to universities like Harvard and Columbia, European leaders are offering financial help to U.S.-based researchers and hoping to benefit from what they are calling a “gigantic miscalculation.”

“Nobody could imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies of the world would eliminate research programs on the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ appeared in its program,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Monday.

One of the former great democracies. We’re one of the crappier … Read the rest

From Antiques Roadshow to…

1/ Hello and welcome to the a neutral BBC show in which we discuss "Are terfs complete scum?". In this episode, we'll begin crossing live to a terribly sad transvestite (TST) who cannot play in women's sport because of evil terfs. I began with the question "are terfs evil?"

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 5, 2025

3/

BBC Drone: "Well, there you have it. A compelling and, some reasonable people might say disgusting display of hatred by evil terfs. For balance we will now cross to a drag Queen"

Drag Queen: "Hi"

BBC Drone: "How evil are terfs in your view?"

Drag Queen: "Very"

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 5, 2025

5/

Sharron: "Pretty

Axios is in a swivet.

Transgender and nonbinary people across the U.S. are navigating an upended sports landscape — on top of additional rollbacks of their protections and civil rights — following President Trump‘s February executive order banning trans athletes from women’s sports.

Same old lie. The issue is male athletes in women’s sports.

“If you can dictate my identity on a sports field, why can’t you then dictate my identity in different areas of public life?” asked Sydney Bauer, a rower, runner and journalist who covers sports and LGBTQ+ rights.

Stupid question. Stupid framing. Stupid choice of words. Nobody’s “dictating” anyone’s “identity.” Some people are pointing out realities and the areas where they make a difference. Nobody … Read the rest

You have got to be kidding.

Fears Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry

Trump’s WHATS???????

Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on movies made outside the US could wipe out the UK film industry, ministers have been warned, as they came under immediate pressure to prioritise the issue in trade talks with the White House.

100%! Tariffs! On movies!!!

Well hey, at that rate, how about 100% tariffs on foreign books, too? Retroactive, of course. Make it hurt to buy a copy of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Lucky Jim, The Needle’s Eye, Alice in Wonderland, The Origin of Species, The Rise Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – just think of all … Read the rest

Here’s another stupid thing:

Statement on Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010

We are leaders of centres, research groups and networks, of scholarship, teaching, learning, and expertise in gender, feminist, women’s and sexuality studies across the UK. We are dismayed by the recent Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.

Oh I see, they’re expert leaders and leader experts. They know things. They have expertise. They know more than we peasants and nose-pickers do.

This judgment, which states that ‘sex’ for the purposes of the Act refers to the ‘sex of a person at birth’, was handed down after a refusal to hear any testimony from

Oy oy oy.

Trump admits not knowing anything.

Donald Trump said “I don’t know” when asked if he needed to uphold the US constitution when it comes to giving immigrants the right of due process as he gave a wide-ranging TV interview broadcast on Sunday.

Let’s be very clear. This isn’t some guy waiting to pay for his cigarettes at a 7/11, this is the fucking chief executive of the whole large bossy globally-busy country. He is supposed to know this stuff. Just for a start, he swore an oath to do exactly that, not once but twice. He swore an oath to uphold the constitution and says he doesn’t know if he needs to uphold the constitution. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Then he announced an Australian DOGE.

I think a lot of people were dabbling in conservatism because they’d been alienated by the left’s creeping dogmatism. But with Trump 2.0 everybody realized no matter how badly the left had been tainted by extremism — and all of us in the gender trenches have the scars to prove just how bad it got — the right is dangerous, too, so much so that it’s become an existential threat to democracy.

I’m furious at the Liberal party. I’m furious at the CBC. I’m furious at pretty much all of Canada’s progressive apparatus. But I’d rather work to repair it than to see the conservative apparatus take … Read the rest

JKR has one of them there long post items on TwitterX, and as usual it’s a good read.

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These…

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 3, 2025

These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.

An elitist badge of virtue or a desperate measure for the sake of avoiding punishment. We don’t know which are which, of … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Trump boosts the other team.

Peter Dutton is the first opposition leader to lose his seat. As late as January all the polls were predicting he would be the next Prime Minister with a sizeable majority. Then he announced an Australian DOGE to be headed up by a woman wearing a MAGA hat, an uncosted plan to build 7 nuclear power plants around the country, sacking 47,000 unspecified public servants, and most tellingly, insisting that women would be forced back into the office instead of working from home, and if they didn’t like it, they could quit or job share.

He would announce a policy today only to reverse the announcement … Read the rest

There’s a lot that Trump doesn’t know, but whether or not he has to adhere to the US Constitution shouldn’t be one of them.

President Trump — when asked if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution on “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” — said, “I don’t know,” but added that his lawyers “are obviously going to follow what the Supreme Court said.”

Dude. You can say you don’t know what’s on the menu for dinner tonight, but you can’t go saying you don’t know whether you have to uphold the Constitution or not. It’s like not knowing how to apply the brakes when you drive a car.

The response came after a series of questions regarding the

Of course they do.

Transgender footballers plot to flout ban and play on

Transgender women and their allies have threatened to flout the ban on those born male playing in women’s football in England.

Telegraph Sport has been shown WhatsApp messages from those involved in a women’s league plotting to ignore a ban announced by the Football Association following last month’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.

Fae Fulconis, who plays for Hackney Women in the sixth tier of the female game, told The i Paper: “I’m going to fight this ruling. If they want to ban me, then they can physically come and get me off the pitch.”

What does that sound like?

Oh yes: rape.

It sounds … Read the rest

What do we get in return?

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in a disastrous night for his conservative rivals, as voters chose stability over change against a backdrop of global turmoil inflicted by US President Donald Trump.

Australia’s return of a left-leaning government follows Canada’s similar sharp swing towards Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, another governing party whose fortunes were transformed by Trump. The loss of Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton’s seat mirrors that of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

I’m happy for Australia and Canada, I really am, but the price is too high.… Read the rest