Angie Patten

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

This week I spoke in the Lib Dem debate in the Lords on foreign interference and dis/misinformation. Not sure they were too happy when I traced back the weaponisation of these concepts to 2016, when they were used to explain away and discredit Brexit voters. The elite war on misinformation is now being turbo-charged as panic sets in to contain a turbulent public who won't just acquiesce to PR versions of policies or be bullied by name-calling.

[Daisy @DaisyIsNotHere]

8 years ago today, I voluntarily had my breasts sliced off. The worst, most evil thing I have ever done. I remember my grandmother called me crying the night before begging me not to go through with it. She asked me, “has your heart turned to stone?” It had. I did it anyway. I do not share my story to try to evade responsibility or blame others. I did it. Dr. Alison Shore just held the knife. I was encouraged by peers and professionals, but at the end of the day, it’s my fault. I am the reason why my breasts are gone forever. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

I’m 5 weeks post breast reconstruction, but I still won’t be able to feed any future babies. And as I get used to these new “breasts,” I remember how my original ones felt. It’s not the same at all. Let my story be a cautionary tale to all trans-identified people. All of you are potential future detransitioner, and while there is life after detransition, dealing with the irreversible consequences is nothing short of devastating. It’s been 8 years and I still curse my past self for making this horrible, selfish, downright stupid decision.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

No.

1. You can't change the constitution by some words in the sovereign grant

2. He is Defender of the Faith and Head of the Church of England. Those are his obligations. His duty.

A King who will not do his duty is no King.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

I am absolutely disgusted by The Daily Mail’s headline.

They didn’t “romp”. He plied her with alcohol and raped her, and she took her own life.

The headline is as disgusting as the sentencing.

[Rael Braverman @raelbrav]

How, exactly, is this fair?

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

So Shabana's plan to stop illegal migration is...to just let everybody in?

This mad plan will let "community groups" sponsor migrants, meaning more chain migration - and if people can't get in legally, they'll cross the Channel anyway.

They'll do anything but secure the border.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

No, no, no!!
You don't get to apologise for a poorly judged Tweet.

Its a serious criminal offence, now known to be a Cat 1A charge.

Straight to prison with you, NO BAIL, no mitigation!

I didn't make the rules! 🤷‍♀️

[Rebecca Paul MP @Rebecca_SPaul]

This Conversion Practices Bill should chill everyone to the bone. Good parents trying to explore or challenge a desire of their child to transition could be criminalised. Terrifying state interference in families.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

I see that the government conversion practices draft bill wants to criminalise “conduct causing someone to believe that they ... do not have a transgender identity”. I know for fact my book Material Girls did this for hundreds of young people, cos they told me.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

So the Labour Party, with 403 MPs, couldn't find a single one that they thought was up to being Prime Minister and had to get Andy Burnham back into Parliament...

And now they can't find a single MP up to being Foreign Secretary so they have to recruit an ex MP living in the US.

Says a lot about the quality of talent on Labour benches, doesn't it?

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Labour MPs posing as gay rights warriors like they're Fred Sargeant online when they're literally going to criminalise a parent who says to their child "you're just gay, perfect as you are, you don't need puberty blockers" is proper doing my head in today.

[Ben Cooper @bencooper]

It is pretty funny that the Tories, who don’t give a damn about identity politics, have been led by several women, a man of Indian descent, and now a black woman - whereas Labour who are obsessed with identity politics have entirely been led by white men.

[Robert Jessel @robjessel16]

"Dad, why did you let me do it? I was a CHILD!!"

Because the government said they'd lock me up for five years if I warned you not to.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

Here is my full interview on GB News about the monstrous ‘Conversion Practices Bill’.

It is worse than I ever could have imagined.

It criminalises talking and poses an existential threat to parental, therapeutic and religious freedoms.

We must not allow it to become law.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Bit spiteful.

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

Lisa. This is a disgrace. Facilities can be hired immediately as many other boroughs have done before. This lack of capacity is nothing new and can be dealt with easily and with respect to families.
What is not new is some manager whose job it is to get this done not doing it in time and with respect.
Disgraceful.
A Trust in failure at every level…..such a shame for the good people of Nottingham.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

9000 GIDS patients 2000 given puberty blockers yet when these clinics were asked for the data & follow up info they refused to supply it. This is a scandal of epic malpractice proportions. It’s why the Tavistock was closed down after whistleblowers spoke out. Don’t do new experiments, find that data

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

This isn't news. It's an asinine anecdote about a petulant Education Secretary outraged that Kemi Badenoch dared to describe her accurately. The real story is the 13000 pupils Phillipson's envy has forced into a creaking state school system. So naturally the BBC isn't interested.

[Ed McGuinness @EJ_McGuinness]

What was your position on @AngelaRayner calling Tories scum?

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

It’s interesting what the BBC thinks is important enough to cover and what it does not…

Just flicked through the website, nothing on conversion therapy, puberty blockers or the 60k+ migrants the Home Office has lost.

But Kemi not apologising for an accurate description of a terrible minister - not only merits a story but gets tweeted by BBC as well.

Odd priorities.

Scrap the licence fee.