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Thoughts on this government’s approach to climate and the current heatwave?

The Reform UK leader forced a vote that failed to make financial questions disappear, only the man himself

This post has been scheduled to go up automatically on the 12th August at 12PM, the day before the by-election in Clacton.

Use this space to discuss the by-election. Results will be posted here in a pinned comment.

Subscriptions will be easier to cancel and companies will be compelled to make it clear when contracts auto-renew at a higher price, Andy Burnham has announced.

Would be interesting to see how this subreddit breaks down geographically.

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Context: this guy is a former neo-Nazi who harassed a Jewish MP back in 2016, and was jailed for it. He’s also behind some cringy YouTube channel which makes AI slop parody videos of UK politics or something? Not that that’s remotely as bad as the first thing.

There was thus a lot of outcry when this guy was selected as a candidate. The pressure seems to have been too much for the Conservatives and they have dropped him.

Anti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance – Jess O’Thomson argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights

On Friday, the High Court rejected a challenge by the anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters to police strip search guidance. Sex Matters had argued that such searches must always be based on “biological sex”. If they had succeeded, this would have required the forcible strip searching of trans women in detention by male police officers, whenever such a search might be required.