Jamie Angus

@speakoutsister So about 1 in 421 olympic women competitors are about to be excluded despite being sexed as female at birth! Oh and they will have to pay to be excluded! 🤔😢🙄 Here's the data from the last time…

Intersex women aren't males.

If only trans women had been banned during your race, so you could have come in 5th place instead of 5th place

A superb bit of political communication. Telling a personal story that will resonate with millions. Explaining the cause of shared problems without being didactic. Then offering the beginnings of a shared solution. A class act in every sense of the word.

Btw this is why

It is at least pretty funny that the new Harry Potter TV show is basically one big fundraiser for bigotry and child abuse and MAGA chuds are still furious that they allowed people who aren't quite white enough.

@PompeySteph It affects women sexed as women at birth but with a DSD far moreas it will exclude them. IIRC Many of those are women of colour… 😢 Women will be the ones hurt the most not trans women! 🙄

The main headline on Global News at 2:00 PM was confirmation that trans women were banned from the Olympics. Given that only one has competed in the last twenty years and she came last, I just laughed out loud. Ffs, there is a WAR going on!

show me any other party that would release a video like this. no? something so beautiful and eloquently put, only the greens are a party of full inclusion; no matter your race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc. green is the party of acceptance and love. we all need more of that

It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us. When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens. Join us - join.greenparty.org.uk

@bbcquestiontime @BBCiPlayer @BBCSounds @BBCNews @BBCOne x.com/i/status/20350…

@Danimalish Never liked HP when it came out, now have no desire to ever engage with it. Will never watch or read anything connected with her. And I’m sorry for the pain it must cause to see people openly endorsing her work.

Your brains going to implode buddy.

You could have a cis woman assault another cis woman in a woman’s only space You could have a trans woman assault a cis woman in a woman’s only space You could have a cis woman assault a trans woman in a woman’s only space You could have a cis man enter a woman’s space to assault a trans or a cis woman The goal is to end violence against women, not to exclude and marginalise trans woman We cannot use fear to justify bigotry We must stand against misogyny, violence and transphobia

I’m not a teacher. Thank you for proving my point.

Saw two adolescent boys absolutely terrorizing a family of geese across a huge public park lawn. No reason. Just for fun. Scaring them. Chasing them. Trying to kick them. I was fifty yards away. “Hey! Leave the geese alone!” Nothing. “Hey!!! Stop chasing the geese!!!” They looked at me and hesitated. Then kept going. I summoned the spirit of every soul brutalized by men and said “LEAVE THE BIRDS ALONE!!!!!!!” The entire waterfront park stopped and the boys RAN to their dad. I am at the point where I have zero embarrassment for calling out men of every age for their actions. Whatever sickness men have, it starts young. It starts taking pleasure in the distress of others. I simply won’t stand for it. And parents! The fuq ya’ll doin with these boys????????

In another spirited attempt to murder the concept of irony, JK Rowling expresses her shock that public figures supported "univedenced claims" (read: the overwhelming global medical concensus and testimony of virtually everyone recieving care) instead of her personal feelings.

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

Please don’t stop speaking about this. The queer community HAS to come together to support Indian queers as much as possible when their own government is silencing them.

I really can’t get over how even after everything, no one is really willing to admit that a lot of people in the UK are in-fact socialists. Not social democrats, or anything else, just actual political socialists.