United Kingdom

“Guys, we’re going to save 50 billion buy cutting all support to disabled people”

His family said they were “in shock” to have lost him, adding a “campaign of misinformation” had been too much.

Nearly jumped out my skin a few minutes ago when sirens started blaring. The emergency alert system just triggered, with this generic message about wildfires.

We were asked by our members to write to Amnesty International UK over the withdrawal of its reports on the UK’s anti-rights movement and its subsequent apology to gender-critical organisations.

The Prime Minister stressed that some criminals will have to be let out of jail early to prevent the ‘prison system collapsing’

According to infrastructure guy Simon Ludlam on a recent podcast, the U.K.’s Greenlink Interconnector was rerouted after “hundreds of calls, I mean, hundreds of calls” from Harry Potter Adults who were angry that the power cable would allegedly disturb the fictional location of the fictional grave of Dobby, the fictional formerly enslaved elf who was offhandedly freed by the fantasy series’ dimwitted but wealthy protagonist as a sort of prank on his private school enemy’s family, and who subsequently suffered both the social rejection of his still-enslaved fellow elves and the continued indifference bordering on contempt of his human idol, Harry Potter, before ultimately being killed while heroically rescuing Potter and several of his fellow human slave owners. […]

The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are already rising fast enough to meet the government’s current target.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage triggered a byelection when he quit as Member of Parliament amid an investigation into his finances. Avneet Dhillon explains what led to the probe, and why his main challenger in the race is Count Binface — a candidate dressed as a giant trash can.

The campaign highlights a visible show of support for trans and non-binary people at a time of significant worry about access,

Wes Streeting, the gay former-health secretary of the United Kingdom who extended the country’s indefinite ban on gender-affirming care for youth, was appointed to a new role as Defense Secretary last month. He is now opening up about the massive uptick in homophobic abuse he has seen since taking on his new position, even as LGBTQ+ community members criticize him for his transphobic policies.

Senior Home Office leader surveyed 916 Chinese students in the UK for his doctoral research.

Could an intergalactic space warrior become the #UK’s newest member of #parliament?

Bev Craig, who succeeded Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester Mayor last month, was twice asked whether she would back Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ‘guidance’ recommending that trans people use either gender-neutral facilities or those corresponding to their sex assigned at birth. According to reports, she stopped short of giving a direct commitment.

Broadcast regulator Ofcom has launched investigations into anti-LGBTQ+ attacks on GB News following complaints by Good Law Project and 15,000 members of the public.

In a recent interview on Times News, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Yvette Cooper, stated that under the new legal framework following the EHRC Code of Practice and the Supreme Court’s judgment in FWS v SGM, trans patients may be placed on single‑sex NHS wards according to their “sex assigned at birth.” Her justification was terse and emphatic: “The law’s the law.”

Didn’t know the first one ended, let alone the fourth.

Transparent Action, a parent-led initiative in the UK, sent the government a report detailing how kids were faring in school under different policies regarding trans students. The group urged the government to use 2026’s Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance (which sets out legal duties for schools) to protect trans children. The ministers never responded, and now the new guidance will ostracize and harm trans children.

Organisers are tying the campaign to the 60th anniversary of London’s first Pride march, which took place in 1972

Interestingly, they don’t ban the glasses outright. Just not recording with them. More difficult to enforce I think.

It seems wildly racist for the conservatives to say “Not enough social housing? Just evict people we view as lesser”.

The senior investigating officer in the PC Andrew Harper case has told BBC Breakfast he is “appalled” that two of the killers will become eligible for early release.

Support for Welsh independence has been as high as 41% in previous polls, with support for Plaid rising year-on-year

After two years of legal limbo, activist Paula Akpan has finally been cleared of criminal damage charges linked to a Scotiabank protest

He didn’t land the candidacy he wanted, but a convicted former neo-Nazi still secured a role advising the Tory party on extremism

A new exhibition celebrating the lives and experiences of trans people is set to open at Queer Britain in London this week.

Nearly 13,000 toilets and more than 5,000 changing rooms may need changing under the Supreme Court ruling