Gray
@grahambrighton.bsky.social
Gardener, Lego fan. LGBT.
Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove
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Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should & should not apply to. Because none of us then has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by those in power
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The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should & should not apply to. Because none of us then has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by those in power
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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BTW, I’ve heard more overt racism in the past week than I heard in the previous 10 years, if anyone is wondering how things are going in “normal Britain”.
Well done everyone: we’ve made racism acceptable again.
Well done everyone: we’ve made racism acceptable again.
Can we go back to responding to racism and antisemitism with disgust and opprobrium please?
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
BTW, I’ve heard more overt racism in the past week than I heard in the previous 10 years, if anyone is wondering how things are going in “normal Britain”.
Well done everyone: we’ve made racism acceptable again.
Well done everyone: we’ve made racism acceptable again.
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Whispers "perhaps the problem is *you* Graham... and not all your many ex friends."
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Whispers "perhaps the problem is *you* Graham... and not all your many ex friends."
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The owners of the Daily Mail must thank their lucky stars every day their readership is too stupid to think “hang on…ten years ago you said Brexit would make this country boom…& now it’s getting more sh*t by the year…& your proposed solution is put those people who brought the sh*tness into power.”🤔
December 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The owners of the Daily Mail must thank their lucky stars every day their readership is too stupid to think “hang on…ten years ago you said Brexit would make this country boom…& now it’s getting more sh*t by the year…& your proposed solution is put those people who brought the sh*tness into power.”🤔
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What is also beyond parody is that the place @dailymail.co.uk chooses to highlight the gulf between booming Poland and failing Britain is Sunderland - a city famous for being the first to declare for Brexit. Shouldn’t it be thriving by now?
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What is also beyond parody is that the place @dailymail.co.uk chooses to highlight the gulf between booming Poland and failing Britain is Sunderland - a city famous for being the first to declare for Brexit. Shouldn’t it be thriving by now?
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Amazing piece…so funny….”when we told the Poles to go home we didn’t mean it literally”
Amazing, the @dailymail.co.uk manages to publish an entire lengthy feature bewailing (!!!!) the exodus of Poles from Britain without once mentioning Brexit. Apparently this outcome (which is surely exactly what they campaigned for in 2016) is all the fault of Keir Starmer.
mol.im/a/15379789
mol.im/a/15379789
The great exodus: How Poles are ditching UK for their booming homeland
New statistics reveal that while 7,000 Poles arrived in the year ending last June, 25,000 returned home: a net outflow of 18,000. The UK's total Polish population has shrunk to 750,000.
mol.im
December 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Amazing piece…so funny….”when we told the Poles to go home we didn’t mean it literally”
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… thumped to the edge of its life. The Bishops tried to stop ‘Holy Catholic Ireland’ being destroyed by the ‘promotion of unnatural acts’.
Nowadays you can get a feel for it when you listen to politicians & media talk about trans ppl. They even use the same tired old conspiracies.
Nowadays you can get a feel for it when you listen to politicians & media talk about trans ppl. They even use the same tired old conspiracies.
December 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
… thumped to the edge of its life. The Bishops tried to stop ‘Holy Catholic Ireland’ being destroyed by the ‘promotion of unnatural acts’.
Nowadays you can get a feel for it when you listen to politicians & media talk about trans ppl. They even use the same tired old conspiracies.
Nowadays you can get a feel for it when you listen to politicians & media talk about trans ppl. They even use the same tired old conspiracies.
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WTF?
Ireland: Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns.
www.rte.ie/news/prim...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.rte.ie/news/prim...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns
The National Gender Service (NGS), which provides healthcare for transgender adults, is closing its waiting lists due to a lack of resources, Prime Time has learned
www.rte.ie
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
WTF?
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ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
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Bigotry is not a working class value, and it's awfully condescending to assume that it is.
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bigotry is not a working class value, and it's awfully condescending to assume that it is.
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The USA can fuck right off.
I'd much rather go visit other countries that actually make me feel valued.
I'd much rather go visit other countries that actually make me feel valued.
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The USA can fuck right off.
I'd much rather go visit other countries that actually make me feel valued.
I'd much rather go visit other countries that actually make me feel valued.
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
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Fired but not charged?
Cops protect paedophile cops.
Parents who think cops in schools make their kids safer are fools.
Cops protect paedophile cops.
Parents who think cops in schools make their kids safer are fools.
A VPD officer met a teen girl at a Vancouver high school. He later had an intimate relationship with her, which was abusive.
He was investigated and fired, but an advocate says the incident shows the need for more transparency. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
He was investigated and fired, but an advocate says the incident shows the need for more transparency. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
VPD Officer Was Quietly Investigated over an Abusive Relationship with Teen | The Tyee
A police watchdog report does not reveal the officer’s name or the school where he met the teenage girl.
thetyee.ca
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fired but not charged?
Cops protect paedophile cops.
Parents who think cops in schools make their kids safer are fools.
Cops protect paedophile cops.
Parents who think cops in schools make their kids safer are fools.
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Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
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"The rise in support isn’t just about polls. Polls measure opinion. What we’re seeing is something deeper, a shift in political culture itself." @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the New Statesman.
Real change is coming. Are you in? Join today ⤵️
Real change is coming. Are you in? Join today ⤵️
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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🚨BREAKING: The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal dismisses the case against Carter-Ruck's Claire Gill, in a shock decision that could give the green light for lawyers to continue to push the boundaries of what constitutes abusive litigation. #SLAPPs
📣 Today the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal will hear an application on behalf of Claire Gill, a partner at the libel law firm Carter-Ruck, to strike out proceedings commenced against her by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for allegedly making an “improper threat of litigation”.
‘Send a clear message’: Carter-Ruck’s dirty tactics on behalf of $4bn…
Stunning new documents lay bare law firm’s attempts to silence whistleblowers and cast doubt on police probe
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal dismisses the case against Carter-Ruck's Claire Gill, in a shock decision that could give the green light for lawyers to continue to push the boundaries of what constitutes abusive litigation. #SLAPPs
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As Spotlight’s Helen Taylor told @tbij.bsky.social today, the Tribunal’s ruling appears to give the green light for libel lawyers to act as guns for hire & shows an alarming complacency about public concerns about #SLAPPs, particularly when it comes to legal tactics used to silence victims of fraud.
Carter-Ruck lawyer cleared of all wrongdoing in her work for…
Tribunal goes as far as to praise the professionalism of Claire Gill, who had been accused of threatening a whistleblower
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
As Spotlight’s Helen Taylor told @tbij.bsky.social today, the Tribunal’s ruling appears to give the green light for libel lawyers to act as guns for hire & shows an alarming complacency about public concerns about #SLAPPs, particularly when it comes to legal tactics used to silence victims of fraud.
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But in our view, this is a fundamentally flawed understanding of the ethical framework that governs the legal profession, allowing a client’s interests - no matter how dubious - to override other professional duties that safeguard the public interest:
Lawyers claiming to act in the public interest should be more transparent
Lawyers should be prepared to justify their actions when claiming to act in the public interest, says a leading UCL law professor in a new report, that cites both the Post Office Horizon and Harvey Weinstein scandals.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
But in our view, this is a fundamentally flawed understanding of the ethical framework that governs the legal profession, allowing a client’s interests - no matter how dubious - to override other professional duties that safeguard the public interest:
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Is it
- He has no principles and will lie and use people to get what he wants
- He has turned the Labour party in to a home where bigots and racist are comfortable.
- He has done nothing to improve people’s lives
- He has sold the UK to America and Big corps
- He is an empty suit
- He has no principles and will lie and use people to get what he wants
- He has turned the Labour party in to a home where bigots and racist are comfortable.
- He has done nothing to improve people’s lives
- He has sold the UK to America and Big corps
- He is an empty suit
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
The Prime Minister can only re-establish authority if he learns to command the message
www.newstatesman.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Is it
- He has no principles and will lie and use people to get what he wants
- He has turned the Labour party in to a home where bigots and racist are comfortable.
- He has done nothing to improve people’s lives
- He has sold the UK to America and Big corps
- He is an empty suit
- He has no principles and will lie and use people to get what he wants
- He has turned the Labour party in to a home where bigots and racist are comfortable.
- He has done nothing to improve people’s lives
- He has sold the UK to America and Big corps
- He is an empty suit
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UK politics currently seems to have two certainties: "Brexit was a mistake and closer relations are in both the UK's and the EU's interest" and "Farage will be the next PM". Go figure. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Reform now UK’s largest party after Labour membership collapse
Nigel Farage hailed the ‘milestone’ moment as leaked figures revealed Sir Keir Starmer’s party had lost 100,000 members since the general election
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
UK politics currently seems to have two certainties: "Brexit was a mistake and closer relations are in both the UK's and the EU's interest" and "Farage will be the next PM". Go figure. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
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We’re betraying the very people who put their lives on the line for our agendas, just because the West is once again having a nervous breakdown over immigration.
Germany drops promise to resettle hundreds of Afghans
Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary ‘there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We’re betraying the very people who put their lives on the line for our agendas, just because the West is once again having a nervous breakdown over immigration.