XLCChelt Long Form

On October 1st, I posted a message to my followers on Twitter and Mastodon, asking my trans and LGBTQ+ followers if anyone has ever written to Ofcom - the regulator for TV and radio in the UK - asking them for justification for allowing our right-wing 'news' channels - GB News and TalkTV - to get away with their constant agitprop against groups protected under the Equality Act 2010, and how they are acting in any way 'balanced', and not 'targeting' these groups? You can find a few in-depth blogs I've written related to this, with fuller context. Having received some favourable responses, later that day I put my money where my mouth is (without ever saying so online) and spent quite a long time typing out a 'complaint' off the top of my head on the Ofcom website. I didn't actually want to complain, as I know Ofcom are protecting these channels and their output, either for fear of their audiences, or because they like it, or someone above is tellin...

A belated Happy New Year to anyone who reads this. It's going to be enough bad one for most of us, and especially those outside the majoritarian group, as the ruling class will continue to abuse minority communities as the distraction they need for the masses to not notice their quality of life continue to go downwards, along with the continuing economic and environmental collapse, steadfastly driven by those in power to extract even more wealth out of and away from the majority of us. In that light, I wanted to belatedly respond to Patrick Strudwick's piece in the i , published on December 31st, 2023, titled "Inside the 2023 Tory war on LGBT rights". If you know from my previous blogs, and posts on Twitter/X (urgh), Mastodon and now Bluesky, you can probably already guess that after reading it, I have some opinions on it. The article interviews both politicians and also political strategists. And I will highlight some parts I dispute below. Please go ahead and read t...