Alison
@alicemerray.bsky.social
Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!)
But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. She/her. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Alison
@alicemerray.bsky.social
· Feb 1
Everything the Right does eventually boils down to other people getting hurt.
And I'm against that.
And I'm against that.
Listening to Tom Baldwin on the Two Matts podcast using the phrase 'hero voters' & slowly starting to combust.
Somebody tell Labour to take that phrase & fucking shove it. 😡
Somebody tell Labour to take that phrase & fucking shove it. 😡
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Listening to Tom Baldwin on the Two Matts podcast using the phrase 'hero voters' & slowly starting to combust.
Somebody tell Labour to take that phrase & fucking shove it. 😡
Somebody tell Labour to take that phrase & fucking shove it. 😡
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November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Violence against women and girls (VAWG) includes all women and girls in all their varieties.
Meanwhile the Guardian airbrushes violence against trans women and trans girls, and doesn't give two hoots if we're assaulted by male cops or stalked or slandered by transphobic activists.
Meanwhile the Guardian airbrushes violence against trans women and trans girls, and doesn't give two hoots if we're assaulted by male cops or stalked or slandered by transphobic activists.
CPS to train staff on ‘spectrum of abuse’ in violence against women and girls
CPS to train staff on ‘spectrum of abuse’ in violence against women and girls
Five-year strategy aims to improve casework after analysis finds domestic abuse in more than third of rape cases
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will train its staff to recognise the “wide spectrum of abuse” in cases of violence against women, after new data found that domestic abuse was present in more than a third of rape cases, and in more than eight out of 10 cases of stalking and image-based abuse.
Launching its five-year Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, the body said its main aims were to increase casework quality and increase trust in the CPS. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) includes all women and girls in all their varieties.
Meanwhile the Guardian airbrushes violence against trans women and trans girls, and doesn't give two hoots if we're assaulted by male cops or stalked or slandered by transphobic activists.
Meanwhile the Guardian airbrushes violence against trans women and trans girls, and doesn't give two hoots if we're assaulted by male cops or stalked or slandered by transphobic activists.
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Wonderful. Now Labour plan to "destroy justice as we know it".
Anything else they're going to wreck on their way out of office?
Remember: it is ALWAYS much easier to break things than to restore them. So their reckless legacy will linger long after they're gone.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Anything else they're going to wreck on their way out of office?
Remember: it is ALWAYS much easier to break things than to restore them. So their reckless legacy will linger long after they're gone.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wonderful. Now Labour plan to "destroy justice as we know it".
Anything else they're going to wreck on their way out of office?
Remember: it is ALWAYS much easier to break things than to restore them. So their reckless legacy will linger long after they're gone.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Anything else they're going to wreck on their way out of office?
Remember: it is ALWAYS much easier to break things than to restore them. So their reckless legacy will linger long after they're gone.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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I stand with Mark Kelly.
Hegseth is a drunken disgrace.
Trump is a pedophile.
This entire administration is an abomination.
#DefendersOfDemocracy
Hegseth is a drunken disgrace.
Trump is a pedophile.
This entire administration is an abomination.
#DefendersOfDemocracy
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I stand with Mark Kelly.
Hegseth is a drunken disgrace.
Trump is a pedophile.
This entire administration is an abomination.
#DefendersOfDemocracy
Hegseth is a drunken disgrace.
Trump is a pedophile.
This entire administration is an abomination.
#DefendersOfDemocracy
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If Spain can do it, why can’t we?
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If Spain can do it, why can’t we?
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“Notably, during a 90-minute long evidence session, Prescott was at no point asked to explain why his own dossier traduced a Trump quote at least as seriously as the Panorama episode to which he referred.
“But this was just one missing question among many…”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...
“But this was just one missing question among many…”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...
Michael Prescott: the BBC assassin’s woeful day in Parliament
The man whose report got rid of the BBC’s boss faced MPs yesterday, along with a group of senior BBC executives. Their appearance raised more questions than it answered
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Notably, during a 90-minute long evidence session, Prescott was at no point asked to explain why his own dossier traduced a Trump quote at least as seriously as the Panorama episode to which he referred.
“But this was just one missing question among many…”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...
“But this was just one missing question among many…”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...
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This is brutal and just shoves vulnerable broke people into homelessness.
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is brutal and just shoves vulnerable broke people into homelessness.
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Was editing a piece to not *overclaim* that Trump was behaving like a medieval king in trying to prosecute opponents and then he posts this. Well, here’s the piece: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Was editing a piece to not *overclaim* that Trump was behaving like a medieval king in trying to prosecute opponents and then he posts this. Well, here’s the piece: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
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BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
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Trump is the most corrupt president in US history, and the openness of his corruption is an essential feature of it. It's particularly bad that this comes as Trump is using state power to punish Sen Mark Kelly for correctly warning against breaking illegal orders.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Trump is the most corrupt president in US history, and the openness of his corruption is an essential feature of it. It's particularly bad that this comes as Trump is using state power to punish Sen Mark Kelly for correctly warning against breaking illegal orders.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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You are right, of course.
But I worry that this is providing a useful smokescreen for the much more serious issue of his potential links to Russia and Putin.
We cannot let this one drop - it’s crucial and urgent that we know just how deep ЯEFOЯM’s involvement with Russia is.
But I worry that this is providing a useful smokescreen for the much more serious issue of his potential links to Russia and Putin.
We cannot let this one drop - it’s crucial and urgent that we know just how deep ЯEFOЯM’s involvement with Russia is.
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You are right, of course.
But I worry that this is providing a useful smokescreen for the much more serious issue of his potential links to Russia and Putin.
We cannot let this one drop - it’s crucial and urgent that we know just how deep ЯEFOЯM’s involvement with Russia is.
But I worry that this is providing a useful smokescreen for the much more serious issue of his potential links to Russia and Putin.
We cannot let this one drop - it’s crucial and urgent that we know just how deep ЯEFOЯM’s involvement with Russia is.
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If he were confident that all his fans love it and that there are enough of them, he wouldn’t be tying himself in knots trying to deflect.
Keep punching this bruise.
Keep punching this bruise.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
If he were confident that all his fans love it and that there are enough of them, he wouldn’t be tying himself in knots trying to deflect.
Keep punching this bruise.
Keep punching this bruise.
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It really matters because Farage relies on both a veneer of public ‘respectability’ *and* an undercoat of racism to further his bid for power. He won’t get there without both. So, it’s very important that the ‘respectability’ element is justifiably stripped away.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It really matters because Farage relies on both a veneer of public ‘respectability’ *and* an undercoat of racism to further his bid for power. He won’t get there without both. So, it’s very important that the ‘respectability’ element is justifiably stripped away.
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All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
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Calling all Brits, this is a really important petition.
Please sign it!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign it!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Calling all Brits, this is a really important petition.
Please sign it!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign it!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Juries are one of our most important checks on State power, and I am very seriously concerned about any proposal to remove the right to them. This is fundamentally authoritarian.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Juries are one of our most important checks on State power, and I am very seriously concerned about any proposal to remove the right to them. This is fundamentally authoritarian.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
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It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.
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My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
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The BBC has, in the space of a few minutes, in its reporting about the innocent child victim in the Glinner case, completely destroyed any possible claim it is "too woke" or "not transphobic enough".
cc @fromtga.bsky.social
cc @fromtga.bsky.social
In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The BBC has, in the space of a few minutes, in its reporting about the innocent child victim in the Glinner case, completely destroyed any possible claim it is "too woke" or "not transphobic enough".
cc @fromtga.bsky.social
cc @fromtga.bsky.social
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In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
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What makes me furious is how many institutions and elites bowed down to Trump like he was an unstoppable god-king when they only needed to hold out for a few months
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What makes me furious is how many institutions and elites bowed down to Trump like he was an unstoppable god-king when they only needed to hold out for a few months