Politically Enraged

Which left is the right left? What a weird question, but relevant. The world is going to hell and we're trying desperately to find tweets where someone said something bad 6 years ago- it's hardly the height of political activism, is it.  My question is a genuine one and it applies across the whole spectrum of the left: why should I back your politics if you're immediately going to hate me bec...

Roe Vs Wade being overturned is insane in so many ways it's hard to know where to start. Is it that a party that hasn't won the popular vote in over 25 years is making executive decisions that overturn enshrined right to basic healthcare for over 50% of American citizens? Is it further proof that extremism and zealotry are devouring America as it thrashes? Or is it the very real and varied stories...

Free speech at its core in the UK is the ability to critique the UK government without fear of reprisals provided you don't incite violence. It's a simple concept and a key one which is now at threat under polonium penis Dominic Raab and his diet human rights act. But so many red faced numpties across the UK think free speech is their ability to say bigoted or ignorant things without having the ne...

Boris Johnson cannot feel shame or regret: we continue to try to force him to feel it. Why? It does no good whatsoever to continue to throw ourselves at the brick wall of Johnson's pathology. We need to figure out a new play to beat the tories, because the old checks and balances don't work. It's like the tories are playing monopoly (quite literally) and we're playing chess...  Lets work out...

Joris is a fantastic activist and an all around wonderful person- every time I've ever seen his content he's always been so great at getting his point over and I recommend him to everyone.  Today we talked about anti racism, intersectional existence and political activism and Joris brought new ideas about how we need to move forward.  Joris' work is incredibly important and it's definite...

CW: This episode features the F slur.  I feel so depressed now I've recorded this episode. I thought it might be a bit cathartic to speak about this. But reminding myself of the injustice of being called a slur and the person who did it facing absolutely no consequences has infuriated me. I decided rather than just talking about generic stuff for pride I wanted to focus on the actual reality...

Britain is multicultural, and has been since we ransacked other countries to build the empire we still support to this day. Multiculturalism is another ism that's been hijacked by the right to try and frighten people into voting conservative, and conservatism is going off the deep end, more and more every day. When the usual checks and balances of governance no longer apply to the country how are...

Boris Johnson's wilful dismissal of rules has been known for years- his schoolteachers described him as a child shocked that they felt he should abide by the same rules as everyone else, he was taken to task repeatedly for his shoddy research work and even fired for lying in print. He had all the makings of a charlatan and has proved this over and over, and yet he is our sitting prime minister- th...

I started following ChampagneSocialist because it was nice to see someone talk so factually about politics in a way that was engaging- plus he has really cool hair. Nothing has changed in my stance since then, about either politics or his hair, but he's worth the follow because he's more adept than most at cutting through the utter noncery that's going on in politics now and getting right to the p...

Pregnancy is a joy for some people, a death sentence or a debilitating condition for others. But ultimately it's a biological function and one that you should be allowed to choose whether you want to have or not. The potential to create life doesn't necessarily dictate that you should, or that you would want to- we license people to drive cars despite most of us having bodies which are capable of...

Conzo is an awesome person- kind and funny, and very motivated to make the world a better place. The nordic model he's talking about is problematic in a great number of ways, and our conversation focused mainly on how important it is to destigmatise and demystify sex work. Sex work is work, and it's important that we start to look after sex workers as individuals: Conzo's entire pathos is around d...

When The Mail on Sunday (or as I like to refer to it, patterned toilet paper for the weekend) published its disgusting article about Angela Rayner I assumed- forgetting that the mail doesn't do morals- that they would rather quickly recant it and apologise on multiple fronts: one, for being misogynistic shitpipes who only seem to care about gutter press bottom line snarkery about opposition politi...

I started following Jay because he was funny, smart and eloquent in a way you rarely see people be on the internet. His gender journey has been something I've paid attention to because it's a topic close to my heart as a self-proclaimed trans ally, but it was also just refreshing to see someone getting such joy out of their journey, and sharing that with their audience. Jay's comments are regularl...

I was lucky to find Marina Purkiss on my twitter travails, and I followed her some time in 2021 after catching one of her tweets: she words things in such an incisive and insightful way: I was probably at 500 followers and tweeting about mostly nothing at the time but I knew I liked her. Marina is a wonderful speaker and has been spotted all across the leftosphere as a voice of reason whose logica...

It's always fun to film an episode with someone who you both know and like, both as an archetype and a person: smart, eloquent people are the best and OpenBookshelf is a fabulous example of someone who is smart, funny and who articulates her points perfectly. I first became aware of her via TikTok thanks to some content she'd made about the nature of politics as an entity that exists beyond our bo...

Recently I've tried to listen to both lefty and right wing voices on how things are working against us all: there are so many issues that divide us, that we're asked and told to focus on out of necessity or punditry, and it's exhausting. If the left want A B and C, the right want X Y and Z why do we never focus on all wanting D E F G H I J K L M N and none of us want P but it's being done anyway?...

Misogyny is horrific and common. That's not a debatable point, it's quite literally factual. It's everywhere, seeping into our society. I did much research on my blog post about medical misogyny and wanted to speak about it here too: because women's lives and healthcare is not up to scratch. This isn't down to some evil cabal of doctors, it's due to the long standing misogynistic thinking that &nb...

I hate the disingenuousness of calling it a "cost of living" crisis. It costs money to stay alive- what kind of a system is that. Today is just a chat around why we're like this, why we accept it and what we do to move forward... if we can. Daviemoo is a 34 year old independent writer, radicalised into blogging about the political state of the world by Brexit and the election of serial failures li...

I'm under no illusions that our lives could be worse- but why are our lives bad at all based on who we are? The west often loves to talk about how progressive it is for not openly reviling LGBTQIA people- and yet here we are, in a society where trans people are being banned from accessing healthcare, trans kids are under threat of being taken away from their parents, gay hate crimes have spiked ov...

Where to start? Ignoring solemnised promises to help countries we took weapons from, screwing over the citizens of our own country with NI hikes and more expensive goods and rent, holding us to the result of a referendum which was infiltrated by the warmonger guy... I think we have the trifecta of terrible government.  Today is my mini rant, mini explanation about how we're letting Ukraine do...

From the moment the Brexit vote was announced I had a slippery suspicion the UK would be at war with itself over defining what it meant to be British. Objectively it appears to be hating masks, liking football and being okay with corruption. Don't we deserve better than the politicians we have? Today's solo episode is just a rant about why we're being failed by politicians who think dragging a St....

Political purity in normal times is important. Standing up for what you truly believe is vital - but in these mad tory times where the Johnson cabal is rolling back democracy like a moth eaten carpet perhaps we can all find some common ground and unite against our enemies instead of fighting each other on the left as the right cackle maniacally and twiddle their cartoon moustache... no? Oh. Swell....

I first became aware of Femi because I saw him speaking at length on the impending disaster of Brexit and I've dogged his career since then, desperate to try and untangle exactly why everything headed in the direction it did. Every time I think I've sort of solved the mystery and started to understand why the UK decided to vote as it did a new firework goes off in my head, usually with Femi lighti...

Bouncebackabillyblog and I met on tiktok because his first political video came screaming onto my page one day, and I knew we'd get on famously. The political chat group I was already in welcomed him in and he became a fixture immediately. He's been a daily check in and has become a close friend since then, and we were excited to finally sit down together for this chat about how the most sensitive...

I met Supertanskiii on tiktok- I'd been voicing my views on the madness of British politics and one day one of her videos caught my eye- there was someone else spinning the sorry tale of British politics with humour, wit and swearing: I was infatuated. She followed me back pretty quickly and before long we slid into each other's DMs. It could be the start of romance, except Tan and I both think me...