Jae Hetterley
@jaehetterley.bsky.social
dilettante (cook, Doctor Who fan, transport, theatre, philosophy)
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The mediaeval London Bridge in the context of the modern city. Art by Julian Hoffman Anton and David Fletcher.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The mediaeval London Bridge in the context of the modern city. Art by Julian Hoffman Anton and David Fletcher.
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I love this recurring bit where journos try to ask Starmer what motivates him and his answer is always something lofty that bears no relation to his policies
Keir Starmer Observer interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social articulates opportunity for young people as his defining mission for his government
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I love this recurring bit where journos try to ask Starmer what motivates him and his answer is always something lofty that bears no relation to his policies
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This immediately makes me wonder what Rory was like as a teenager…
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This immediately makes me wonder what Rory was like as a teenager…
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this sounds like a joke but it's really not.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
There are only about 30 TERFs in Britain, but most of them have newspaper columns.
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
this sounds like a joke but it's really not.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
'gender critical' is a tiny movement but the ppl involved are all in powerful positions and have megaphones.
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I mean how many more times and in how many ways will Keir Starmer tell a huge part of his former voter base to fuck off
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I mean how many more times and in how many ways will Keir Starmer tell a huge part of his former voter base to fuck off
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is a useful place where the leftist cranks can go while the Greens and a post-Starmer Labour Left get on with it
I hope Your Party keeps going for at least the next ten years
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It is a useful place where the leftist cranks can go while the Greens and a post-Starmer Labour Left get on with it
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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
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Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
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Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This is largely because a) he's actually thought long and hard about it b) he has a consistent view of how the world can be improved c) he understands blue Labour are utter idiots
It was good to hear Ed Miliband making an explicit case on #Today this morning that reducing inequality should be a core objective of economic policy.
He's much the most persuasive advocate of the government's economic strategy, & of the philosophical case for things like the workers' rights bill.
He's much the most persuasive advocate of the government's economic strategy, & of the philosophical case for things like the workers' rights bill.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is largely because a) he's actually thought long and hard about it b) he has a consistent view of how the world can be improved c) he understands blue Labour are utter idiots
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Keep seeing everyone reference Joyce Carol Oates critiquing EM but had not seen the post itself and it is as cutting as one can expect from a writer witb a grand career & a world start shit poster. Weild class in a way that got under his skin as well.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Keep seeing everyone reference Joyce Carol Oates critiquing EM but had not seen the post itself and it is as cutting as one can expect from a writer witb a grand career & a world start shit poster. Weild class in a way that got under his skin as well.
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Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first
September 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first
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Borough High Street / London Bridge is a great example of unfair allocation of roadspace. Look at all these pedestrians crammed onto tiny footways.
August 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Borough High Street / London Bridge is a great example of unfair allocation of roadspace. Look at all these pedestrians crammed onto tiny footways.
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Andy Burnham has made his leadership pitch – my piece on why his “popular left programme” is a challenge to Starmer. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Andy Burnham has made his leadership pitch
The Manchester mayor’s “popular left programme” is an unashamed challenge to Keir Starmer.
www.newstatesman.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Andy Burnham has made his leadership pitch – my piece on why his “popular left programme” is a challenge to Starmer. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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READ - v Important 🧵👇🏼
This will be my thread concerning my FOIA Request to the EHRC. I think I got some actually worthwhile files, but I'll start with sharing the files so that other people can get their eyes on them.
They provided considerable correspondence between EHRC staff and antitrans orgs.
They provided considerable correspondence between EHRC staff and antitrans orgs.
For what it's worth, this is what I'm waiting for them to respond to.
They're supposed to respond in 4 days. My expectation is that they will give themselves an extension, or deny it with some excuse:
They're supposed to respond in 4 days. My expectation is that they will give themselves an extension, or deny it with some excuse:
May 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
READ - v Important 🧵👇🏼
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The EHRC was captured by transphobes under the Tories and Labour could have appointed a new head but they did not, because they are also transphobic. Bigoted shits, the lot of them.
April 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The EHRC was captured by transphobes under the Tories and Labour could have appointed a new head but they did not, because they are also transphobic. Bigoted shits, the lot of them.
I know there are bigger problems in this country that impact me personally more directly at the moment but this is also insane www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast
Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I know there are bigger problems in this country that impact me personally more directly at the moment but this is also insane www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
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Anyone who attends a rally is now an 'activist', apparently, so their views can be neatly dismissed.
‘One hell of a turnout’: trans activists rally in London against gender ruling
‘One hell of a turnout’: trans activists rally in London against gender ruling
Thousands gather in Parliament Square in a show of unity after supreme court judgment
After last week’s supreme court decision, activists had been worried that trans people might become fearful of going out in public in case they were abused.
They weren’t afraid in London on Saturday. Thousands of trans and non-binary people thronged Parliament Square, alongside families and supporters, waving baby blue, white and pink flags to demonstrate their anger at the judges’ ruling. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Anyone who attends a rally is now an 'activist', apparently, so their views can be neatly dismissed.
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You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"
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It's still illegal to discriminate against you for being trans, but is legal to discriminate against you for any expression of that transness is a frankly absurd interpretation of the law and it's extremely evident none of these people sincerely think trans people should exist.
I see that the Labour re-appointee for the EHRC chair is insisting trans people use mythical, segregated third spaces as a way of existing in society
Not sure she understands the "Human Rights" part of the name. But tbf the supreme court didn't either
Not sure she understands the "Human Rights" part of the name. But tbf the supreme court didn't either
April 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It's still illegal to discriminate against you for being trans, but is legal to discriminate against you for any expression of that transness is a frankly absurd interpretation of the law and it's extremely evident none of these people sincerely think trans people should exist.
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There's maybe no photo that better defines this ghastly era than these people celebrating the right to deny shelter to homeless trans women in the name of female empowerment.
April 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There's maybe no photo that better defines this ghastly era than these people celebrating the right to deny shelter to homeless trans women in the name of female empowerment.
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A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
April 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
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I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.
April 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.
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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create