Kathy O'Donnell
@kathyodonnell.bsky.social
Journalist, parent to two grown-ups, LGBT+ rights campaigner, trustee Equality Network, former night editor of The Times, Scotland. Lives in France. [she/her]
CW: use of racist 'N' words.
I have not blanked them because the context and intent is crucial.
Thank to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for this 2014 interview with UKIP founder Alan Sked, where Sked talks bluntly of Farage's racism:
I have not blanked them because the context and intent is crucial.
Thank to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for this 2014 interview with UKIP founder Alan Sked, where Sked talks bluntly of Farage's racism:
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
CW: use of racist 'N' words.
I have not blanked them because the context and intent is crucial.
Thank to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for this 2014 interview with UKIP founder Alan Sked, where Sked talks bluntly of Farage's racism:
I have not blanked them because the context and intent is crucial.
Thank to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for this 2014 interview with UKIP founder Alan Sked, where Sked talks bluntly of Farage's racism:
Here's the Health Secretary Wes Streeting explaining that a clinical trial of a safe drug used in the UK and across the world for decades is necessary in order that it can be banned.
He wants to be PM.
He wants to be PM.
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here's the Health Secretary Wes Streeting explaining that a clinical trial of a safe drug used in the UK and across the world for decades is necessary in order that it can be banned.
He wants to be PM.
He wants to be PM.
Post a movie set where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Post a movie set where you're from
When I saw this I thought it was an Onion-style gag riffing on the awfulness of the spineless and power-pleasing New York Times of recent years. I mean, "conservative feminism". That's so ludicrous that I laughed and scrolled on.
But, of course, it is real and the NYT is utterly undone.
But, of course, it is real and the NYT is utterly undone.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
When I saw this I thought it was an Onion-style gag riffing on the awfulness of the spineless and power-pleasing New York Times of recent years. I mean, "conservative feminism". That's so ludicrous that I laughed and scrolled on.
But, of course, it is real and the NYT is utterly undone.
But, of course, it is real and the NYT is utterly undone.
"But I do still jack off a great deal and that is why I don't really have the energy to even contemplate going back to work."
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"But I do still jack off a great deal and that is why I don't really have the energy to even contemplate going back to work."
Dogs are the best.
That's all I have to say.
That's all I have to say.
October 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Dogs are the best.
That's all I have to say.
That's all I have to say.
1. Although moving 70% of Britain's wealth out of the hands of top 1% would seem fair.
2. Which you're not doing.
3. But not migrants, refugees or ILR or trans people, disabled, pensioners.
4. By repeating same mistakes and not nationalising.
5. You have no idea what you're here for.
2. Which you're not doing.
3. But not migrants, refugees or ILR or trans people, disabled, pensioners.
4. By repeating same mistakes and not nationalising.
5. You have no idea what you're here for.
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
1. Although moving 70% of Britain's wealth out of the hands of top 1% would seem fair.
2. Which you're not doing.
3. But not migrants, refugees or ILR or trans people, disabled, pensioners.
4. By repeating same mistakes and not nationalising.
5. You have no idea what you're here for.
2. Which you're not doing.
3. But not migrants, refugees or ILR or trans people, disabled, pensioners.
4. By repeating same mistakes and not nationalising.
5. You have no idea what you're here for.
This is the NHS guidance dated 23 June 2025
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is the NHS guidance dated 23 June 2025
Yes, I'm not an expert on these thongs.
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Yes, I'm not an expert on these thongs.
"Do you remember that, darling? When I said I wanted to be a tampon?"
September 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Do you remember that, darling? When I said I wanted to be a tampon?"
This has worked so well for the Labour Party in the UK.
September 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This has worked so well for the Labour Party in the UK.
It's worth just zooming in for his expression. I laugh every time I look at it.
His name is Momo and we were out for a walk with his human.
His name is Momo and we were out for a walk with his human.
August 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It's worth just zooming in for his expression. I laugh every time I look at it.
His name is Momo and we were out for a walk with his human.
His name is Momo and we were out for a walk with his human.
For reference, just one branch of the peach tree two weeks ago.
August 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
For reference, just one branch of the peach tree two weeks ago.
Then I remembered this picture of voters whose human rights Labour betrayed at the expense of handing the next election to Farage.
August 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Then I remembered this picture of voters whose human rights Labour betrayed at the expense of handing the next election to Farage.
This is shameless even for the Sun, but deeply political.
Inciting people during violent disturbances to burn down hotels full of people is very, very serious. But in right wing lore (I won't call it logic) a pretty, white mum can't be responsible - and that's where the Sun has placed itself.
Inciting people during violent disturbances to burn down hotels full of people is very, very serious. But in right wing lore (I won't call it logic) a pretty, white mum can't be responsible - and that's where the Sun has placed itself.
August 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is shameless even for the Sun, but deeply political.
Inciting people during violent disturbances to burn down hotels full of people is very, very serious. But in right wing lore (I won't call it logic) a pretty, white mum can't be responsible - and that's where the Sun has placed itself.
Inciting people during violent disturbances to burn down hotels full of people is very, very serious. But in right wing lore (I won't call it logic) a pretty, white mum can't be responsible - and that's where the Sun has placed itself.
Organisers: Haha!
We invited Yarvin a ...
racist
pro-slavery
techno fascist totalitarian
because we think these ideas are really interesting and nobody ever had to die to put them back in the box.
Hahaha! We are amazing and definitely not c**ts!
We invited Yarvin a ...
racist
pro-slavery
techno fascist totalitarian
because we think these ideas are really interesting and nobody ever had to die to put them back in the box.
Hahaha! We are amazing and definitely not c**ts!
August 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Organisers: Haha!
We invited Yarvin a ...
racist
pro-slavery
techno fascist totalitarian
because we think these ideas are really interesting and nobody ever had to die to put them back in the box.
Hahaha! We are amazing and definitely not c**ts!
We invited Yarvin a ...
racist
pro-slavery
techno fascist totalitarian
because we think these ideas are really interesting and nobody ever had to die to put them back in the box.
Hahaha! We are amazing and definitely not c**ts!
You've read the M&S manager's own account. Now take a look at how it was presented in the Telegraph and Mail. Is it an accurate representation or is it skewed? Does it attribute intentions and actions without evidence? Are Rowling's claims back by any known facts? Are you being misled?
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You've read the M&S manager's own account. Now take a look at how it was presented in the Telegraph and Mail. Is it an accurate representation or is it skewed? Does it attribute intentions and actions without evidence? Are Rowling's claims back by any known facts? Are you being misled?
If you've never seen Rex, the crime-solving ex-police German Shepherd and his moody cop sidekick, you haven't really experienced television.
Franco/German drama series from the 90s, as if you care.
Franco/German drama series from the 90s, as if you care.
August 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If you've never seen Rex, the crime-solving ex-police German Shepherd and his moody cop sidekick, you haven't really experienced television.
Franco/German drama series from the 90s, as if you care.
Franco/German drama series from the 90s, as if you care.
This is the polling data by ipsos referred to.
As if it could possibly be anything other than utterly shaming for the UK.
As if it could possibly be anything other than utterly shaming for the UK.
July 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is the polling data by ipsos referred to.
As if it could possibly be anything other than utterly shaming for the UK.
As if it could possibly be anything other than utterly shaming for the UK.
This is Maya Forstater, a person frequently consulted on trans issues by government and bodies such as the EHRC and the media. She has no expertise in human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, trans lives or health.
Look at her comment. Ministers know she thinks this and still engage.
Look at her comment. Ministers know she thinks this and still engage.
July 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is Maya Forstater, a person frequently consulted on trans issues by government and bodies such as the EHRC and the media. She has no expertise in human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, trans lives or health.
Look at her comment. Ministers know she thinks this and still engage.
Look at her comment. Ministers know she thinks this and still engage.
Yes, hard when it comes to kicking refugees and trans&nb and the disabled and children in poverty in the face.
But a soft lad when sucking up to rapist-criminal fascists and the genocidal.
But a soft lad when sucking up to rapist-criminal fascists and the genocidal.
July 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Yes, hard when it comes to kicking refugees and trans&nb and the disabled and children in poverty in the face.
But a soft lad when sucking up to rapist-criminal fascists and the genocidal.
But a soft lad when sucking up to rapist-criminal fascists and the genocidal.
Is this an incitement to violence?
Perhaps the author should face charges?
Perhaps the author should face charges?
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Is this an incitement to violence?
Perhaps the author should face charges?
Perhaps the author should face charges?
Is there any Wes Streeting news today, Kathy?
Why yes there is!
He's admired by Michael Gove.
See below.
Why yes there is!
He's admired by Michael Gove.
See below.
June 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Is there any Wes Streeting news today, Kathy?
Why yes there is!
He's admired by Michael Gove.
See below.
Why yes there is!
He's admired by Michael Gove.
See below.
Kathy, is there any Wes Streeting news this morning?
Why, yes there is!
Why, yes there is!
June 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Kathy, is there any Wes Streeting news this morning?
Why, yes there is!
Why, yes there is!