Euan certainly is illiterate for a purported “journalist”.

“deminish” “dissolutioned” – he needs to repeat second grade.… Read the rest

Wasn’t the BBC supposed to be getting over this? Learning better? Getting a clue about the relentless campaign to shove women aside? Stop mocking and insulting women? Stop obsessing about one tiny demographic while ignoring half of all human beings?

I thought it was, but apparently the drag desk did not get the memo.

Top of the page is a huge photo of four men in drag.

It’s been nine months since the Dragonfly Lounge’s stage lights first went on, the music played and its doors opened to everyone in Colchester. It is an inclusive LGBTQ+ bar and community space that hosts drag cabaret, live music and space for local producers to showcase their crafts.

Co-owner Jo Palmer-Tweed describes

Hahahaha classic Trump.

Trump offered praise for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday after the two men met for the first time at the White House to discuss the growing issue of affordability.

While the Republican president and the Democratic mayor-elect have hurled searing attacks at each other in the recent past, they repeatedly shrugged off those words while appearing side by side in the Oval Office.

At one point, when Mamdani was asked for the second time about having called Trump a “fascist,” the president gave him cover. “That’s OK, you can just say yes,” Trump said after Mamdani began to respond. “It’s easier than explaining it.”

Trump also appeared to backtrack on his prior threat

Trump is smitten.

Zohran Mamdani visited Trump today at the WH, and it did not go the way most Republicans thought it would. Trump has always recognized and fawned over star power, and that is exactly the way he treated Mamdani. Fox reporter to Mamdani: “You referred to Trump as despot… Trump interrupts: I’ve been called much worse than a despot. So it’s not that insulting.”

Ok then. We’ll call him the despot from here on out.

Trump: “I tell you, the press has eaten this thing up. I have had a lot of meetings with the heads of major countries, nobody cared. The biggest people come over from other countries and nobody cares but they did care about

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Other minds.

There’s something about gender expression and magical thinking that seems remarkably consistent across cultures, at least in boys, if not as often in girls. Males who exhibit atypically feminine interests or behaviours are often deemed to have extra-mystical souls. They’re more connected to the spiritual world than other men and women. They’re often made out to be shamans, or priests, or are assigned to ceremonial or ritual duties. They aren’t treated as entirely human.

It accidentally exposes how primitive the thinking is among “gender identity” believers: for all the trans activists’ window dressing about spectrums, they still envision men and women as essential castes. Men and women are material after … Read the rest

Watching this stirred up a question for me – not a new question, but one that never really gets answered so probably never will.

Helen Webberley gave wrong-sex hormones to a twelve year old child…

This is what evil looks like…pic.twitter.com/svbSRAZzAW

— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) November 20, 2025

The question is not about the fluffy teddy bear conspicuously at her elbow.

(But now I mention it what is that fluffy teddy there for? What she’s talking about in the clip is her having been struck off for giving blockers to children – so why remind everyone of herself & children by having a teddy sitting next to her like a support animal?)

The question is about what she and … Read the rest

More on the descent:

Trump has yet again suggested that his political opponents deserve to be executed. And yet again, he’s basing this argument on a rather novel legal theory and a dubious interpretation of the facts.

A half-dozen congressional Democrats cut a video this week urging members of the military not to obey unlawful orders that Trump might issue. Trump then responded by issuing a series of social media posts suggesting these members had committed sedition and possibly even deserved to die.

Trump went from saying they should be arrested, to re-posting someone who said George Washington would “HANG THEM,” to saying “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

But unlawful orders really are a thing and they really … Read the rest

Another lurch downward.

Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behaviour, punishable by death”, after they released a video urging US service members to refuse unlawful commands.

“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???,” Trump wrote on social media.

No. Not lock them up. Lock you up. You’re what’s dangerous to the country and the world. Illegal orders are the short road to war crimes. You aspire to be a war criminal; decent people don’t aspire to that.

The six lawmakers, all of whom have served in the military or intelligence community, called the remarks dangerous and said they amounted to threats against

Ooh Novara Media has a new recruit. They are welcome to him.

Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has defected to the Greens, marking a “profound” shift in British politics as Zack Polanski’s party looks to replace Labour at the ballot box. Russell-Moyle was suspended from the Labour party in May 2024 after a complaint about his behaviour that he described as “vexatious and politically motivated.” “Lloyd and tens of thousands like him have not left the Labour party; the Labour party has left them,” Polanski said.

The Green party has surged in popularity and its membership has exploded to over 150,000 since Polanski became leader in September, pledging to supplant Labour as the go-to party for progressives.

Wellll not … Read the rest

Bristol is another battlefront.

The conflict goes back to July 2022, when Bristol City Council passed a motion to “recognise and affirm trans men are men, trans women are women”.

Why stop there? Why not pass motions that say trans children are children, trans rabbits are rabbits, trans apples are apples? Why not just stamp everything “trans”?

It was concerns like these that led Stephenson and several others to join the Women of Wessex. “We wrote to the council, we attended meetings, we showed them legal evidence that the motion was unlawful. We did everything we could.”

But their efforts seemed to fall on deaf ears – until spring of this year, when the Supreme Court ruled that “woman”

The Beeb has learned nothing.

Award declined after trans women not included

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.

Cycling UK, a charity promoting the sport, has compiled its 100 Women in Cycling list for the last nine years, but this year decided only to include biological women following the recent unanimous UK Supreme Court ruling defining a “woman” and “sex” in law.

Or to put it more truthfully and clearly: but this year decided to include only women rather than women plus men who call themselves women.

The label “biological women” is absurd. There is no other kind.

Claire

Trump plays yet another round of No YOU are.

Trump has accused a group of Democratic lawmakers who served in military or intelligence roles of “seditious behaviour” over a video they made telling those currently serving that they must refuse illegal orders. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Thursday.

No Don. They get to do that. You on the other hand do not get to issue illegal orders.

“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”

Thank you for asking. No.

Six Democrats on Capitol Hill, led by senator Elissa Slotkin, on Tuesday released

We want more extinctions, not fewer. Stamp out those species!!

The Trump administration presented a new plan to roll back regulations in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Wednesday, a move experts fear will accelerate the extinction crisis if adopted.

The proposed changes would allow the federal government more power to weigh economic impact against habitat designations, remove safeguards against future events – including the impacts from the climate crisis – and rescind the “blanket rule” that automatically grants threatened species the same protections as those designated as endangered.

Under the plan, newly listed animals and plants could face years without protections as details in tailored regulations are ironed out, delays that would only be exacerbated by the deep

Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look

And?

It’s not as if before 2010 or so there were guards at the doors of every public single-sex space demanding to see our papers. That’s why men who were determined to spy on women in the toilet were often able to get away with it, and it’s also why they could face charges if they didn’t run fast enough. It was an imperfect system but it was certainly better than this one where we have to welcome men in our changing rooms and potties. We know what they look like, don’t worry.

The guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was handed to ministers

Huh. Even BBCers don’t like the BBC.

The Tim Davie-appointed director of BBC Sport has been warned of “very low” staff morale amid suggestions his controversial reforms are breaching employment law.

Complaints were shared with Alex Kay-Jelski after he sent an internal memo saying those unhappy with change, and their options, could seek voluntary redundancy.

Aka if you don’t like it here you know where the door is.

A recent email to staff from Kay-Jelski that mentioned redundancies alongside options including training and extra support has further unnerved staff. “If the thought of more change is something that concerns you or you feel the direction we’re heading in is not the right fit for you, please have an open

Oliver Brown talks to Sharron Davies:

For a decade, Davies has been preoccupied with the pursuit of fairness on a different front, becoming a relentless advocate for women’s right to their own category in sport. Where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was seduced by the activist fallacy of “trans women are women”, Davies had no qualms about pointing out that they were, in fact, men, using the immutable advantages of male physiology to deprive female athletes of records and titles. It has often felt a lonely fight, with many governing bodies more inclined to appease militant trans lobbyists than to protect half the population.

And, to expand on the point, with many governing bodies more inclined to bully … Read the rest

Trump angrily rebukes journalist for being mean to the nice murdering Saudi bigwig sitting next to him.

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to… pic.twitter.com/uhh8VjFy20

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 18, 2025

… Read the rest

Occupy Democrats reports:

NPR scores massive victory against Trump — CPB FORCED to restore $36 million deal after judge shreds their excuse.

Donald Trump’s crusade to kneecap public media just suffered a massive legal humiliation — and it’s one that exposes the breathtaking corruption behind his attempts to silence reporters who refuse to bow to him.

On Monday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting quietly crawled back to court and agreed to revive a $36 million contract with NPR — the very contract it killed after intense pressure from the Trump White House.

This reversal didn’t happen because CPB suddenly rediscovered its mission. It happened because a federal judge all but laughed CPB’s defense out of the courtroom.

Judge Randolph

BBC still banging the same stupid drum. Bang stupid drum, win stupid prizes.

A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.

Oh yay, good for her, how very plucky and brave and stand your ground-y. Women are such greedy sluts; of course they shouldn’t have prizes just for them.

Cycling UK, a charity promoting the sport, has compiled its 100 Women in Cycling list for the last nine years, but this year decided only to include biological women following the recent unanimous UK Supreme Court ruling defining a “woman” and “sex” in law.

Claire Sharpe, a cycling guide and coach

Larry “women are stupid” Summers is back in the news.

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he sought guidance from a longtime associate: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.

In a sequence of texts and emails between November 2018 and July 5, 2019, Summers turned to Epstein for advice on his pursuit of the woman. Epstein was quick to chime in with assurance and suggestions, describing himself in one November 2018 message as Summers’ “wing man.”

How cute and amusing.

Wednesday’s documents also revealed messages where Summers, whose speculation that innate differences between men and women could drive women’s underrepresentation in science contributed to the