Lee Hurley
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Writer. Media critic. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. DailyCannon.com Co-founder transwrites.world. Trustee @essehouse.bsky.social. The Trans Agenda is currently on a break as I research trans history - transagenda.info
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Little min thread on what is happening with the postponed elections if you don't really know what's happening, like me, and just went 'wtf?!!'
This is because many, many councils are redistricting at the end of the year, and will have to do full new elections next year. Elections cost a lot of money to run, so councils have been given the option to not have to do elections twice in two years (normally once every five)
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Little min thread on what is happening with the postponed elections if you don't really know what's happening, like me, and just went 'wtf?!!'
🚨 LBC News with a brief breaking piece that Steve Reed has told MPs that 29 council elections scheduled for May this year will be postponed
January 22, 2026 at 12:04 PM
🚨 LBC News with a brief breaking piece that Steve Reed has told MPs that 29 council elections scheduled for May this year will be postponed
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January 22, 2026 at 10:58 AM
This is paywalled content. People pay actual money to read this stuff.
"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday falsely claimed that President Trump did not repeatedly mix up Iceland and Greenland"
He did it at least 3 times and it is on video.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
He did it at least 3 times and it is on video.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Karoline Leavitt falsely claims Trump didn’t mix up Iceland and Greenland at Davos
The president mistook Iceland for Greenland four times during a Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos
www.independent.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:24 AM
"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday falsely claimed that President Trump did not repeatedly mix up Iceland and Greenland"
He did it at least 3 times and it is on video.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
He did it at least 3 times and it is on video.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
"Hamas were born with rifles in their hands" Donald Trump
January 22, 2026 at 10:20 AM
"Hamas were born with rifles in their hands" Donald Trump
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I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and have experienced some major cold snaps but this is the first time I've heard about exploding trees.
January 21, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and have experienced some major cold snaps but this is the first time I've heard about exploding trees.
I know someone struggling to get funding to fund their own job working at a charity that actually helps the community. They have about 2 months to find it or they're out of a job, yet these people just open up and get millions thrown at them.
3 employees and 5 trustees , yet recently gotten a couple million , you get the picture register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-s...
KINDRED SQUARED - Charity 1190581
Charity details for KINDRED SQUARED - Charity 1190581
register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 AM
I know someone struggling to get funding to fund their own job working at a charity that actually helps the community. They have about 2 months to find it or they're out of a job, yet these people just open up and get millions thrown at them.
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3 employees and 5 trustees , yet recently gotten a couple million , you get the picture register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-s...
KINDRED SQUARED - Charity 1190581
Charity details for KINDRED SQUARED - Charity 1190581
register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 AM
3 employees and 5 trustees , yet recently gotten a couple million , you get the picture register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-s...
Mail headline is "Massive rise in women prescribed medication for ADHD, study reveals"
Guardian headline: 'use of ADHD meds has more than tripled!! 😱😭🚨'
Article details: barely anyone who might need the meds has access to them 🤷🏻♀️
Article details: barely anyone who might need the meds has access to them 🤷🏻♀️
January 22, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Mail headline is "Massive rise in women prescribed medication for ADHD, study reveals"
Starting to see "I lost 10 stone with weight loss jabs and now I've put it all back on" articles appearing in the right wing rags
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Starting to see "I lost 10 stone with weight loss jabs and now I've put it all back on" articles appearing in the right wing rags
"Why I believe this is the year cryptocurrencies will go mainstream – and become as solid an investment as gold" Will Nutting, Daily Mail
January 22, 2026 at 8:45 AM
"Why I believe this is the year cryptocurrencies will go mainstream – and become as solid an investment as gold" Will Nutting, Daily Mail
"If the Right doesn’t unite, Britain will be destroyed by a Frankenstein coalition of hard-left loonies" full page Jacob Rees-Mogg column in the Mail today.
January 22, 2026 at 8:44 AM
"If the Right doesn’t unite, Britain will be destroyed by a Frankenstein coalition of hard-left loonies" full page Jacob Rees-Mogg column in the Mail today.
If you take the combined articles in the Times and the Mail, 25% of kids starting school don't know what a book is, can't feed themselves, or use the toilet.
1,000 teachers and 1,000 parents were apparently polled by Kindred Squared. I don't know who they are.
1,000 teachers and 1,000 parents were apparently polled by Kindred Squared. I don't know who they are.
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
If you take the combined articles in the Times and the Mail, 25% of kids starting school don't know what a book is, can't feed themselves, or use the toilet.
1,000 teachers and 1,000 parents were apparently polled by Kindred Squared. I don't know who they are.
1,000 teachers and 1,000 parents were apparently polled by Kindred Squared. I don't know who they are.
It's amazing how many notable men die and get obits in The Times compared to women. I guess notable women just live forever.
There's a woman in the obits today, I think that's the first this week.
There's a woman in the obits today, I think that's the first this week.
January 22, 2026 at 8:27 AM
It's amazing how many notable men die and get obits in The Times compared to women. I guess notable women just live forever.
There's a woman in the obits today, I think that's the first this week.
There's a woman in the obits today, I think that's the first this week.
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It's also such bollocks. He's got staff and accountants.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 AM
It's also such bollocks. He's got staff and accountants.
"Nigel Farage has blamed his failure to declare £380,000 of income from TV and speeches on “severe growing pains” since becoming an MP and the fact that “I don’t do computers”." [Times]
January 22, 2026 at 8:22 AM
"Nigel Farage has blamed his failure to declare £380,000 of income from TV and speeches on “severe growing pains” since becoming an MP and the fact that “I don’t do computers”." [Times]
"British Army veterans who served in Northern Ireland are facing a wave of prosecutions after MPs voted to scrap their legal protections. Labour MPs voted last night to reverse a Conservative-era law that granted immunity to those accused of wrongdoing during the Troubles." [Times]
January 22, 2026 at 8:20 AM
"British Army veterans who served in Northern Ireland are facing a wave of prosecutions after MPs voted to scrap their legal protections. Labour MPs voted last night to reverse a Conservative-era law that granted immunity to those accused of wrongdoing during the Troubles." [Times]
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The tenor of the Westminster debate over the legacy of the NI conflict is utterly dehumanising and othering. The only people who matter are "our veterans" - not people **in the UK** who were harmed through what, in multiple cases, has been established to be unlawful action by the armed forces.
January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The tenor of the Westminster debate over the legacy of the NI conflict is utterly dehumanising and othering. The only people who matter are "our veterans" - not people **in the UK** who were harmed through what, in multiple cases, has been established to be unlawful action by the armed forces.
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New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions
"just protecting children"
January 22, 2026 at 7:23 AM
"just protecting children"
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My partner’s son is going into a tech high school in sept because he wants to keep going with his Blender/video work (yes I’m proud & yes he’s amazing at it) but he’s working on a decade old laptop we’re trying to replace. Running like $500 short of something that’ll last 4 years.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:29 PM
My partner’s son is going into a tech high school in sept because he wants to keep going with his Blender/video work (yes I’m proud & yes he’s amazing at it) but he’s working on a decade old laptop we’re trying to replace. Running like $500 short of something that’ll last 4 years.
ko-fi.com/caelan
ko-fi.com/caelan
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being such a noted defender of women in sport, i'm sure tnt sports presenter laura woods will be appalled, what with her priority of protecting women.
January 21, 2026 at 8:14 PM
being such a noted defender of women in sport, i'm sure tnt sports presenter laura woods will be appalled, what with her priority of protecting women.
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you do not, under any circumstances, have to say a certain marseille player has "got that swagger about him" on a live tv broadcast.
January 21, 2026 at 8:12 PM
you do not, under any circumstances, have to say a certain marseille player has "got that swagger about him" on a live tv broadcast.
He's been an asshole about trans people for years
Dragon's Den star suggests 'pervert' men pretend to be trans to access female spaces
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.thepinknews.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Dragon's Den star suggests 'pervert' men fake being trans to access female areas
Former Dragon’s Den star Duncan Bannatyne has claimed that “pervert” men pretend to be trans to access female spaces.
www.thepinknews.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:50 PM
He's been an asshole about trans people for years