There are no stupid questions apart from "why do you care?"

BREAKING: Iranians unfurled a banner during the Iran-New Zealand World Cup match of the 42,000 Iranians massacred by the Islamic Republic in January.

Iranian people remind America that it's a shame to show the flag of terrorism on US soil. The flag of a regime that murdered Iranian protesters, the flag of a regime that targeted the US soldiers and shot down US helicopter and fighter jet. Good thing that Iranian people will remind the world where the moral compass is.

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced. Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available. The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it. The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed. Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows. The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses. Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

BREAKING: The assisted suicide/euthanasia industry is about to announce that they are bringing back their Bill to Parliament. We MUST keep fighting. This Bill is an unprecedented danger to the elderly, disabled, and other vulnerable groups.

A woman with bright purple hair came in to my work today. She would have blended with the TQIA community but I still complimented her on her choice of hair colour and pointed out the tone was one of the suffragette colours. She told me she has been teaching her daughter about the Suffragettes and other feminist women and then asked me if I knew women’s rights were under threat and had I heard of a case called Tickle versus Giggle? I said I had, that I found the fact Tickle won despicable, and she launched in to a 10 minute rant about self ID and her disgust with Labor and the Greens, who she used to vote for. I didn’t say anything, just let her vent. Then I invited her to our rally on the 4th of July. I work in a tiny satellite town an hour from Melbourne. If gender ideology has women riled up out here then TERFs have won in the court of public opinion. If Labor wants any chance of staying in government, or if the Libs or One Nation want a crack, they better give women our rights back!

“Woman”. No. Men who commit sexual offences against women but who claim to be women are men. Male sex offenders who get off on assaulting women and no doubt get a sexual kick out of imagining themselves as women and donning women’s clothes. Don’t insult us by calling them women.

Here we go again... rather than working to ensure a 'good death' for all by funding end of life care, yet another misguided MP is pushing for assisted suicide Thankfully my @BBCOne documentary explaining mine & others opposition is still on @BBCiPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…

Stories like this make me think that somewhere along the line, I actually died and went to hell. How did so many of my old colleagues and friends stand for this man against their own daughters? How could they happily see my career destroyed on his behalf?

No one voted for a state-funded death service. It was in no party’s manifesto. The PMB/free vote convention is being used to force through radical social change without a popular mandate, while allowing political parties & their leaders to wash their hands of all responsibility.

Labour MPs: the local election results are a disaster. We're incredibly unpopular. We need a new leader. Also Labour MPs: let's have another go at passing unsafe legislation that puts the elderly, victims of DV & the disabled at risk of death.

This one of the worst House of Commons in living memory. The enthusiasm of some Labour MPs for encouraging vulnerable people to end their lives is frankly shocking.

it is genuinely scary how the ‘gay men aren’t oppressed / never had to fight for their rights compared to other groups’ myth has propagated online, when it has no historical basis and no benefits for the wider community

Use of the term ‘inclusivity’ nowadays instantly signals that women are being excluded.

Every Pride season, a familiar narrative appears: LGB people are victims. Things are terrible. Send money. The reality is more complicated, and more interesting. Britain has some of the strongest legal protections for LGB people in the world. Civil partnerships. Equal marriage. Hate crime legislation. Adoption rights. Employment protection. These were fought for, won, and they’re real. What is also real: those protections are being quietly eroded in areas most people don’t notice. LGB-only spaces being legally challenged. Young gay and lesbian people being fast-tracked to medical treatment. The specific needs of gay and bi men – particularly around chemsex – being swallowed into an LGBTQ acronym that doesn’t serve them. LGB Alliance isn’t in the business of telling people things are hopeless. We’re in the business of being specific about what’s actually happening and doing something about it. That’s a different kind of Pride. lgballiance.org.uk

This bill is deeply flawed and poses a genuine threat to the most vulnerable in our society. I will be voting to defeat it.

Can I ask - do you agree with the bill’s original sponsors that these are good reasons for the state to offer people an assisted death?

Can I ask if you agree with the bill’s original sponsors that these are good reasons for the state to offer people an assisted death?

Why is it that when Tom Daley talks on TV about knitting everyone nods and smiles sycophantically, but when Henry Cavill talks about Warhammer everyone on talkshows laughs and smirks. Both are harmless, craft hobbies which bring enjoyment to millions & excellent for mental health

Top ten responses so far from Labour MPs: —Antonia Bance: “Head in hands” —Ian Byrne: “Grim” —Ashley Dalton: “Very sad…deeply flawed and unsafe” —Florence Eshalomi: “Where to even start’” —Allison Gardner: “An insult to parliament that this bill has been brought back” —Rupa Huq: “Last thing we need” —Adam Jogee: “Insane stuff” —Emma Lewell: “Absolutely dismayed… A deeply flawed and dangerous bill” —David Smith: “Very sad news indeed… I can’t think of a more divisive issue” —Kirsteen Sullivan: “I cannot believe we are back here again. With no humility about the concerns raised previously”

This attempt to ram through Assisted Dying worrying for a life and death situation A private members bill seems inappropriate when rigorous scrutiny needed Every Royal college and disability charity has expressed concerns eg mission creep and I worry about ethnic minorities