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
@finl3y.bsky.social
· 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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New Survation poll. Have Reform peaked?
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New Survation poll. Have Reform peaked?
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
RFM: 29% (-5)
LAB: 22% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+1)
GRN: 11% (+3)
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Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
This is absolutely pathetic.
It’s not the fault of the centrists in Labour, it’s not an antisemitism smear, it’s entirely the leadership who have zero interest in anything beyond their own egos and power. This demonstrates how bad they have always been
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It’s not the fault of the centrists in Labour, it’s not an antisemitism smear, it’s entirely the leadership who have zero interest in anything beyond their own egos and power. This demonstrates how bad they have always been
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day
Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is absolutely pathetic.
It’s not the fault of the centrists in Labour, it’s not an antisemitism smear, it’s entirely the leadership who have zero interest in anything beyond their own egos and power. This demonstrates how bad they have always been
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It’s not the fault of the centrists in Labour, it’s not an antisemitism smear, it’s entirely the leadership who have zero interest in anything beyond their own egos and power. This demonstrates how bad they have always been
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March
Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An extraordinary thing, this.
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.
Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Badenoch said Reeves acts like she’s still at school and then followed up her comment with “she started it”
And on this day in 2025, the quality of our politicians have finally been demonstrated to be no better than people in your local Facebook group.
And on this day in 2025, the quality of our politicians have finally been demonstrated to be no better than people in your local Facebook group.
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Badenoch said Reeves acts like she’s still at school and then followed up her comment with “she started it”
And on this day in 2025, the quality of our politicians have finally been demonstrated to be no better than people in your local Facebook group.
And on this day in 2025, the quality of our politicians have finally been demonstrated to be no better than people in your local Facebook group.
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Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Three weeks ago I marked nine years on Testosterone.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
I didn't celebrate it then because I was in the middle of a multi-month battle to be allowed to stay on it, despite not producing my own hormones and simply wanting to remain on the exact prescription I'd had for nine years without any problems.
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This exchange from a September oversight hearing with Kash Patel hits different. It’s almost like when you have an FBI director who spends all his time trying to impress a girl while being the Presidents revenge puppet that things start to fall apart.
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This exchange from a September oversight hearing with Kash Patel hits different. It’s almost like when you have an FBI director who spends all his time trying to impress a girl while being the Presidents revenge puppet that things start to fall apart.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
Literally a day after workers are going to pay more tax, Peter Kyle feels businesses need more protection.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Literally a day after workers are going to pay more tax, Peter Kyle feels businesses need more protection.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
This is an incredible story. The propagandist Leavitt now has to go through what this administration is putting countless US citizens through. I wonder how she’ll spin it.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
Woman With Ties To Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Family In ICE Custody
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who was brought to the U.S. as a child and is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, was arrested near Boston earlier this month and taken into ICE custody.
www.forbes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This is an incredible story. The propagandist Leavitt now has to go through what this administration is putting countless US citizens through. I wonder how she’ll spin it.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This was 31 years ago and while we can think about how much progress has been made, we can also see how little progress has been made with attitudes
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This was 31 years ago and while we can think about how much progress has been made, we can also see how little progress has been made with attitudes
This is very, very interesting and helps demonstrate pretty strongly that political consensus online is not the same as political consensus offline.
Also, Reform voters are mostly angry white men who are disenfranchised - it’s almost like a better model of masculinity might actually help 🤔
Also, Reform voters are mostly angry white men who are disenfranchised - it’s almost like a better model of masculinity might actually help 🤔
Finally got round to giving @benansell.bsky.social's latest. It's also one of his very best - especially if you want to understand the extent to which Reform voters (often talked of as 'the people' and, apparently therefore, representative of all UK voters) are real outliers, culturally-speaking.
Odd Ones Out
Mapping Britain's social values and the marginalisation of the 'anti-woke'
benansell.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is very, very interesting and helps demonstrate pretty strongly that political consensus online is not the same as political consensus offline.
Also, Reform voters are mostly angry white men who are disenfranchised - it’s almost like a better model of masculinity might actually help 🤔
Also, Reform voters are mostly angry white men who are disenfranchised - it’s almost like a better model of masculinity might actually help 🤔
I’d say the budget has been a success go if these papers are upset. I’m going to be paying more which irks me when I feel it should come from higher ups but it’s also a sliding scale of redistribution of wealth. I’m not enamoured with Labour but as budgets go it’s the best of a lot of bad choices
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I’d say the budget has been a success go if these papers are upset. I’m going to be paying more which irks me when I feel it should come from higher ups but it’s also a sliding scale of redistribution of wealth. I’m not enamoured with Labour but as budgets go it’s the best of a lot of bad choices
I’m sorry but if you can afford to live in Richmond, you are wealthy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I’m sorry but if you can afford to live in Richmond, you are wealthy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trans person was also assaulted by having a bottle smashed over their head on the tube. Ever think that the hostile anti-LGBT rhetoric we’ve been hearing from politicians who work with hate groups like Sex Matters are to blame?!
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A trans person was also assaulted by having a bottle smashed over their head on the tube. Ever think that the hostile anti-LGBT rhetoric we’ve been hearing from politicians who work with hate groups like Sex Matters are to blame?!
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
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Dystopia defined:
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
Fox News and Palantir have built three main tools to improve efficiency.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Dystopia defined:
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...
So if you have a £20k ISA, £8k of it will have to be invested… in a globally unstable economy… hmm
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So if you have a £20k ISA, £8k of it will have to be invested… in a globally unstable economy… hmm
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John Major, "Populism is no longer a fringe problem of a few outlandish politicians. It is now mainstream and professional"
"We should recognise the threat it poses to democracy"
"Democracy has a lot to lose"
"Established political parties need to defeat populism, not copy it"
"We should recognise the threat it poses to democracy"
"Democracy has a lot to lose"
"Established political parties need to defeat populism, not copy it"
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
John Major, "Populism is no longer a fringe problem of a few outlandish politicians. It is now mainstream and professional"
"We should recognise the threat it poses to democracy"
"Democracy has a lot to lose"
"Established political parties need to defeat populism, not copy it"
"We should recognise the threat it poses to democracy"
"Democracy has a lot to lose"
"Established political parties need to defeat populism, not copy it"
That is how you deal with threats to democracy. If there are credible hostile threats, the right thing to do is make sure it is duly prosecuted and seen as a threat to the majority
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
That is how you deal with threats to democracy. If there are credible hostile threats, the right thing to do is make sure it is duly prosecuted and seen as a threat to the majority
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas."
Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas."
Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.