Perpetual Despair
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History Masters student doing a research dissertation on trans experiences of Section 28.
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Perpetual Despair
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· Apr 21
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
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An irritated Nigel Farage said he would never racially abuse someone ‘in a hurtful or insulting way’, which raised more questions than it answered – 23 top responses.
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
An irritated Nigel Farage said he would never racially abuse someone ‘in a hurtful or insulting way’, which raised more questions than it answered – 23 top responses.
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...
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If you're a parent of a trans person, and you've read the excellent @transsafety.network article about how Wes Streeting is listening to anti-trans lobby groups like Bayswater Support Group, and you're wondering what you can do?
Join us! 💕
Transparent Action are building a positive alternative!
Join us! 💕
Transparent Action are building a positive alternative!
Transparent Action
Transparent Action are parents of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children and adults of all ages. They have come together to form a collective voice to take action in support of their children ...
actionnetwork.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If you're a parent of a trans person, and you've read the excellent @transsafety.network article about how Wes Streeting is listening to anti-trans lobby groups like Bayswater Support Group, and you're wondering what you can do?
Join us! 💕
Transparent Action are building a positive alternative!
Join us! 💕
Transparent Action are building a positive alternative!
The cash ISA limit is going to be slashed from £20k to £12k?! People with modest savings are going to have their savings raided?! You’re hardly a millionaire if you’ve got an ISA. Flippin Nora, the reasons not to vote Labour just keep on coming
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The cash ISA limit is going to be slashed from £20k to £12k?! People with modest savings are going to have their savings raided?! You’re hardly a millionaire if you’ve got an ISA. Flippin Nora, the reasons not to vote Labour just keep on coming
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
If you can sit and listen to stories like this and then go on to only listen to groups who actively abuse kids with conversion therapy tactics, you’re not interested in making trans healthcare better. You’re interested in upholding harmful practices which hurt children and cause them lifelong trauma
1 - My son and I met with Wes Streeting last year with other families. He heard the most horrific stories of children refused blockers and how it impacts them. We begged him not to ban blockers, and he promised to work with us, to have further meetings.
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
If you can sit and listen to stories like this and then go on to only listen to groups who actively abuse kids with conversion therapy tactics, you’re not interested in making trans healthcare better. You’re interested in upholding harmful practices which hurt children and cause them lifelong trauma
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Between the Free Birth Society scandal and stocking the puberty blocker trial full of anti trans medical professionals, what’s become really clear is misinformation is now so widespread that it has infected every single institution in the UK.
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Between the Free Birth Society scandal and stocking the puberty blocker trial full of anti trans medical professionals, what’s become really clear is misinformation is now so widespread that it has infected every single institution in the UK.
Well, between this and the treatment of trans people I’d say the NHS needs to be banned from accessing social media
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity
Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Well, between this and the treatment of trans people I’d say the NHS needs to be banned from accessing social media
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It’s a simple question Nigel. A simple question that you can’t answer because you know you’re caught bang to rights
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It’s a simple question Nigel. A simple question that you can’t answer because you know you’re caught bang to rights
I do not understand at all why any health provider, or even a health secretary, wants to put their name to this. It will go down in the history books as state sanctioned torture and abuse. I cannot believe this got ethical approval to run an experiment on children like this.
Young people to face ‘intrusive and distressing’ tests in NHS puberty blocker trial
Commissioned in the wake of the government’s ban on the medication, the £10 million trial is the only way to be prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS.
Commissioned in the wake of the government’s ban on the medication, the £10 million trial is the only way to be prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS.
Young people to face 'intrusive, distressing' tests in NHS puberty blocker trial
The NHS puberty blocker trial will require young people to take up to 50 questionnaires and involve hours of examinations, a clinical document has revealed.
www.thepinknews.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I do not understand at all why any health provider, or even a health secretary, wants to put their name to this. It will go down in the history books as state sanctioned torture and abuse. I cannot believe this got ethical approval to run an experiment on children like this.
Seems like something the government should be pressing hard on… 🤷🏻
Letter: "New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage. His silence on the subject speaks volumes." ~AA
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...
Brexit 'an act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism'
FIVE years since Brexit and a British Chancellor has finally called out Brexit for what it is.
www.worcesternews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Seems like something the government should be pressing hard on… 🤷🏻
Why are politicians still on X allowing themselves to be manipulated by foreign powers!?!
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Why are politicians still on X allowing themselves to be manipulated by foreign powers!?!
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NEW: Nigel Farage shakes hands with Adam Johnson, well-known 6 January rioter, at a Republican Party fundraiser in Florida, this March - as unearthed by @nafeez.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social today
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: Nigel Farage shakes hands with Adam Johnson, well-known 6 January rioter, at a Republican Party fundraiser in Florida, this March - as unearthed by @nafeez.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social today
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
If Wes Streeting really is saying that his grossly unethical experiment of a trial on trans kids is in order to justify his ban on puberty blockers then the sensible thing is to not put your kids through that trial. The so called protectors of children want to use and abuse them to justify policy.
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If Wes Streeting really is saying that his grossly unethical experiment of a trial on trans kids is in order to justify his ban on puberty blockers then the sensible thing is to not put your kids through that trial. The so called protectors of children want to use and abuse them to justify policy.
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The stacking of the puberty blocker trial with SEGM-adjacent clinicians, its dreadful design and now Wes Streeting's public admission that its purpose is to collect evidence to *back up* the ban... are all MASSIVE red flags.
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
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Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The stacking of the puberty blocker trial with SEGM-adjacent clinicians, its dreadful design and now Wes Streeting's public admission that its purpose is to collect evidence to *back up* the ban... are all MASSIVE red flags.
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
1/
Parents of trans kids in the UK are in an impossible bind.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Polish prime minister reacts
Your regular reminder that large chunks of the western left have yet to find a way to decolonise their views about other countries. Far too often the western left is rooted in superiority complexes and, yes, imperial mindsets when it comes to talking about other countries and their politics.
This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
heckle.scot
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Your regular reminder that large chunks of the western left have yet to find a way to decolonise their views about other countries. Far too often the western left is rooted in superiority complexes and, yes, imperial mindsets when it comes to talking about other countries and their politics.
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The UK press needs to get a grip and have these running all over the press until Farage is forced to confront it
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The UK press needs to get a grip and have these running all over the press until Farage is forced to confront it