A frothing Tory's "political activism" is often just common sense. e.g. it's OK to be gay, trans people exist and that's OK...

While of course I teach these values in basic fucking human decency to my child, I have no problem in it coming up in the classroom, especially if there's a marginalised child in the class.

Just because some adults like to bully marginalised people, it doesn't mean their kids should be able to get away with bullying in school too.

And that's not even mentioning that teachers also shouldn't be "impartial" around basic scientific concepts like climate change and vaccines...

Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(

Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn't autistic, there'd be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She's a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.

My son had a book called "You're Called What?!" which featured a tasseled wobbegong, alongside other animals such as the Shovelnose Guitarfish, Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm, and the Aha Ha.

"I can't believe that I got doxxed fleeing my home country to avoid prosecution... after making a career out of doxxing people fleeing persecution in their home country!"

The last Austrian that did big damage to the world would beg to differ

You're not technically wrong, but it's a nuanced issue and people should treat it as such rather than black and white.

Sunak saying "no one can change sex" without any qualifying statements is just designed to inflame and divide people.

Valve are a private company, so Microsoft can't just barge in and buy it up.

Considering the investment Valve has poured into Linux because Gabe doesn't trust Microsoft enough to have his business rely on Windows, I'd be pretty shocked if he decided to sell up to Microsoft.

Weird that they went to kernel 6.5 which is already a year old, rather than going to the LTS version 6.6 which is still in support.

This is so fucking disappointing. Labour are already running high in the polls but are busy running around giving me reasons to not vote for them.

I can't imagine anyone would be compelled to vote for them based on this either, except the super-rich. Announcing this shit is so utterly pointless.

I voted for the Lib Dems during the New Labour years and it looks like I'm heading back that way.

Wow, I haven't been keeping up with MIA outside the music, but I feel like I'm missing a few steps between her pro-immigration music and endorsing far right US politicians.

It's the classic far-right tactic of going around saying the most insane and impractical plan they can think of, so anything slightly less bad is viewed as reasonable by comparison.

It's not used as a healthcare metric. This is just debunking reports that a healthcare policy was directly causing an "explosion" in suicides.

https://www.itv.com/...

Rishi's parents worked as pharmacists at the pharmacy pictured.

I thought 800m was 800 miles at first... 800 metres less impressive.

Even though being anti-fascist is an obvious virtue, I presume it's to avoid the appearance of prosecuting the rioters for political reasons. Starmer wants to make it purely about the lawbreaking rather than their political aims.

I don't disagree that it wasn't a reasonable protest and those responsible should be prosecuted for the criminal damage etc... but to list them as a terrorist group because of one non-terrorising action is a tad ridiculous, counter-intuitive, and the optics for the government are terrible.

Measures like Google Family Link already exist if parents choose to use them.
I don't think legislation restricting what young people can do online would necessarily help. It's illegal for kids to take drugs and drink alcohol yet it still happens. Whatever measures are put in place, there's usually a way around.

Apparently the sign is real but put up by "vandals"

Ahh. Until I saw this, I was trying to figure out what Captain Kirk had to do with sniping.