A boyish prank?

An MSP has been accused of placing a secret camera in a toilet at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Colin Smyth was suspended by Labour earlier this month on a separate charge of possessing indecent images of children.

Holyrood’s corporate body told staff in an email that Smyth’s building access had been revoked during an “ongoing criminal investigation”.

Maybe he can save himself by doing a lightning-fast “transition” to being a woman.

Ahead of Holyrood returning from recess next week, Holyrood chief executive David McGill contacted MSPs to say Smyth would be denied access to the building.

He wrote: “We recognise the nature of the criminal charges and the ongoing investigation may be upsetting for colleagues and

The BBC stalwart as ever.

If BBC journalists can write about "people with periods/ cervixes" etc – and they do, oh they do – they can _definitely_ avoid pronouns as a bare minimum when talking about men who rape, murder, molest children etc but happen also to claim they are women. https://t.co/wf4PYBxWH2

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) August 29, 2025

That’s the ticket. Mislead people into thinking mass shootings are something women do.

If you Google the question you get a long string of titles about explaining why women rarely (read: never) commit mass shootings. But hey, that’s no reason not to lie about it!

Tom Bateman and Max Matza reported yesterday:

The attacker, who died at the scene of

Well that’s ugly.

Trump has terminated former Vice President Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times. Mr. Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday that will end Ms. Harris’s protection as of Monday.

The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed an order extending Ms. Harris’s protection for a year beyond that, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.

Ms. Harris’s aides had asked Mr. Biden’s team for the extended protection because of security concerns. Without the order from Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris’s protection would have ended in July.

The White House memorandum, signed by

So while the Good Law Project is helping Sophie Molly’s effort to bully Sarah Phillimore it’s good to be reminded of his finest hour.

Maybe life would have remained the right way up for the "journalist who writes and campaigns on trans rights" if he hadn't called a woman "a torn-faced cow", or used a loudhailer to tell a crowd "we should all take a shite on you [JK Rowling], you heinous creepy auld bitch"? pic.twitter.com/utA87wlRuU

— Richard Dunstan (@Wonkypolicywonk) August 28, 2025

Sophie Molly Fluffy Bunny’s performance begins at 35 seconds. I found it worth viewing again to hear the venom with which he snarls “you heinous creepy auld bitch.” … Read the rest

He knows that’s not how our children are sposed to look.

RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today…and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection pic.twitter.com/svfdIqAntK

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 27, 2025

… Read the rest

I saw want to ask this question straight to his face, or at least to his social face via social media, but he seems to have had the wits to make that not easy to do.

https://t.co/UBfxzOim47

— Irene BritUSA (@irenebritusa) August 28, 2025

“Disabled people’s spaces are designed for them. I don’t think it’s right, and nobody asked their permission to take their space.”

Yes. True. Spot-on. Nail on the head. Exactly right. And you know what other set of people that applies to?

WOMEN you absolute raving buffoon. Women’s spaces are designed for us. Nobody asked our permission to take our space. We don’t think it’s right.

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

I genuinely cannot understand how he … Read the rest

The chaotic dismantling continues.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dissolved into further turmoil on Thursday when guards escorted three top officials [out of] the agency’s Atlanta headquarters during the continuing standoff with the Trump administration over whether the C.D.C. director would keep her job.

The White House said late Wednesday that Dr. Monarez, an infectious disease researcher who was sworn in less than a month ago, had been dismissed. But her lawyers, who said she had chosen “protecting the public over serving a political agenda,” insisted that she remained C.D.C. director until President Trump fired her personally.

The dispute now appears to be in the hands of Mr. Trump, who has not weighed in publicly. A spokesman

The suspense continues.

The Good Law Project have written an 82 paragraph letter to the BSB, the authors of which is not revealed. They seem curiously invested in this. Apparently to refer to Mr XX’s inverted penis as a ‘wound’ is sufficiently morally culpable to mean I have no article 10 protection.…

— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) August 28, 2025

Apparently to refer to Mr XX’s inverted penis as a ‘wound’ is sufficiently morally culpable to mean I have no article 10 protection.

I repeat: inverting your penis to line a surgically created cavity is not a ‘vagina’. It is a wound that will require persistent dilation so it does not close up. This is a fact. It is not harassment

The war is on.

The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.

Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced early Wednesday evening that Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she had not resigned or been fired. They accused HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “weaponizing public health for political gain” and “putting millions of American lives at risk” by purging health officials from government.

Junior Robert Kennedy is … Read the rest

The Telegraph:

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their [HIS] partner to death with a samurai sword.

Way to undermine what you just said, Telegraph! Y U afraid to say “his”???

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024, in what a jury found was an unlawful killing.

The couple had married in a civil partnership but reporting on the court hearing earlier this year, BBC News headlined one story “Wife killed husband with samurai sword” and began: “A woman killed her husband…”.

The BBC used the pronouns “she” and “her” throughout its coverage.

There were … Read the rest

Bad Ignorant Kennedy continues to sabotage US health care.

Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was ousted Wednesday, weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the matter.

Monarez was pressed for days by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., administration lawyers and other officials over whether she would support rescinding certain approvals for coronavirus vaccines, according to two people with knowledge of those conversations. Kennedy and other officials questioned Monarez Monday on whether she was aligned with the administration’s efforts to change vaccine policy, the people said.

Efforts to sabotage vaccine policy.

Monarez, who was a longtime

A new player arrives on the scene.

The Good Law Project and the mysterious Ms X are triers, I will give them that. I have responded.

Let me be very clear. It is not a crime nor is it automatically harassment to call a man, a man. I will defend my behaviour in any arena. I would welcome a public Tribunal hearing… pic.twitter.com/erK2nUJqRv

— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) August 27, 2025

Note: XXX and XX are the same person; the XXX was a typo.

The first thing that strikes me about this remarkable overture is the casual rudeness of “Hi Sarah” as if they were old buddies instead of complete strangers and as if the overture were a friendly one. “Hi … Read the rest

Trump says he has power without limit.

In a televised cabinet meeting that lasted more than three hours, Mr. Trump attacked Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat who has pushed back against a threat by the president to deploy troops in Chicago in an expansion of the crackdown on crime he is conducting in Washington.

“You have a guy in Illinois, the governor of Illinois, saying that crime has been much better in Chicago recently and Trump is a dictator,” Mr. Trump said. “Most people are saying, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants’ — I am not a dictator, by the way.”

Most people are not saying … Read the rest

Trump still shit-stirring in Greenland.

Denmark’s foreign minister had the top U.S. diplomat in the country summoned for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.

Trump has repeatedly said he seeks U.S. jurisdiction over Greenland, a vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. He has not ruled out military force to take control of the mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island.

You can’t just “seek jurisdiction” over other countries as if it were normal.

Denmark, a NATO ally of the U.S., and Greenland have said the island is not for sale and condemned reports of the U.S. gathering intelligence

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Who actually.

Trans activists learned early on that if you call yourself something enough times, people will start to believe it. “Fake it ’til you make it” has become the central tenet of the movement.

Fake that they’re women enough, people will eventually capitulate.

Fake being a legal clinic long enough, lazy journalists will start treating it like an authoritative source.

Fake academics have spun a citation-laundering ring, endlessly citing one another in a closed loop. “Gender identity” is the Ivies’ yellowcake uranium: a complete fiction, yet deadly enough to justify their attacks.

Even the grand, pompously titled “World Professional Association for Transgender Health” is just a rebranding of a once-puny little outfit … Read the rest

Oh come on, Beeb.

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their partner to death with a samurai sword.

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024, in what a jury found was an unlawful killing. The couple had married in a civil partnership but reporting on the court hearing earlier this year, BBC News headlined one story “Wife killed husband with samurai sword” and began: “A woman killed her husband…”.

The BBC used the pronouns “she” and “her” throughout its coverage.

A number of people contacted the BBC to complain. One wrote: “Using female pronouns to

Uh oh, trouble in paradise. Magaworld is seriously pissed off at Trump.

President Donald Trump seemingly caught his loyal conservative base off-guard and sparked backlash by saying he would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities.

That would be a departure for the Trump administration after it added new vetting for student visas, moved to block foreign enrollment at Harvard and expanded the grounds for terminating international students’ ability to study in the United States.

That is, after Trump pitched fit after fit after fit about immigration and foreigners and communists and our precious bodily fluids.

Trump’s announcement Monday adds to the confusion about the administration’s restrictive visa policies and its approach to China as the superpowers tussle over

For some reason the name Ponzi keeps drifting through my brain. Like when re-reading the Guardian piece from yesterday about Victoria McCloud.

McCloud, who is supported by Trans Legal Clinic and W-Legal, said the application was brought under articles 6, 8 and 14 of the European convention on human rights, “essentially the rights to respect for who I am, my family, my human existence, my right to a fair trial in matters determining my own freedoms and obligations without discrimination.”

See, the reason that rings the Ponzi bell is because I’ve just been reading about how “Trans Legal Clinic” is…an empty shell. It’s another “Lemkin Institute”. When people are citing empty title pages as backup you want to take a … Read the rest

Judge to Trump: No.

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an aggressive, unusual lawsuit the Trump administration brought earlier this year against all 15 federal judges in Maryland, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to limit court power in fast-moving immigration cases.

The opinion on Tuesday framed the lawsuit as a major constitutional standoff, with Judge Thomas Cullen writing the Justice Department couldn’t pursue a “constitutional free-for-all.”

The ruling from Cullen, who was appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump during his first term and brought in from another district to handle the case in Maryland, said the government lacked the legal right — known as standing — to bring the challenge and that the judges

Yosemite is not thriving.

Home to more than 400 species of animals, 1,500 species of plants, and roughly 4 million annual visitors, the park has stood, since President Abraham Lincoln first preserved it, as a radical idea: that some landscapes are too magnificent to belong to private individuals, and instead should be given to the nation.

Today, this legacy is at risk. Over the past six months, permanent staff at the National Park Service (NPS)—which is the agency that governs the park—have been cut by 24 percent. It’s the result of layoffs, buyouts, and a hiring freeze from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This year, of the 8,000 seasonal positions allotted by President Donald Trump’s budget, barely