Andrew Haslam

Independent Litigation Support IT Consultant

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Sophie is trying to cancel this small, not-for-profit book shop run by women because they sell a book he doesn’t personally approve of.

Can we make this post go viral and get @newsfromnowhere a lot more followers, just to spite him?

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Residents of Clacton UK shocked to discover their new MP has not visited since the election, is not intending to live in the constituency, will not open an office in the area, will not hold surgeries, will continue to live in Brussels and has already left for America.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

You can actually hear the tumbleweeds in this photo.

[Gary Neville @GNev2]

They partied , they bet on elections , they crashed the economy, they broke every public service, they destroyed integrity and honesty in public office , they paid their mates billions , they put their friends in the House of Lords, they gave their cronies knighthoods, they went into the jungle , they lied again and again, they were convicted by police, they went on holiday when they shouldn’t and they have the cheek to question Keir Starmer’s work ethic. I would never take anything for granted but I hope they are annihilated on Thursday. The worst people and government we have ever had!

P.S good afternoon all 😊❤️

[Andrew Haslam @AndrewHaslam]

@chrisdaleoxford Amazing photo, you should share it with Spring Watch

[Andrew Haslam @AndrewHaslam]

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[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Oof - Nick Boles on fire here. 🔥

Best Letter to the Editor I have read in a long time.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

@Arron_banks Are you calling me a liar to your 80,000 followers?

Below the extract from the Bar Code of Conduct, which is binding on all barristers.

You can send either an apology or contact details for your lawyers.

[Andrew Haslam @AndrewHaslam]

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[Andrew Haslam @AndrewHaslam]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Quality Street is a sign of everything in British Supermarkets, over the years you get less, and less, while paying more and more.

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

APPEAL: Officers leading a hate crime investigation following yesterday's pro-Palestinian demonstration want to identify this man.

If you can help, please call 101 providing the reference 5122643/23.

[Pea @PeaChannon]

I can’t credit the originator (can anyone help?), but doesn’t this brilliantly sum it up?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Conservative Party Home Secretary Suella Braverman, "These are hate marches"

Right: Former Co-Chair of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi, "Israel is not Netanyahu, the Palestinian people are not Hamas, and the protestors on the streets of London are neither protesting for Hamas, nor are they hate marches"

"Protests planned for weeks. They were in discussions with the Met police for weeks. The route was well away from the Cenotaph for weeks. And yet last week the Home Secteray decided to embolden and make this a political issue knowing full well what the route of the march was going to be"

"That's the way she operates, she fights culture wars. She doesn't fix things, she breaks things"

"I think Suella Braverman is dangerous and divisive. If you look at her rhetoric, it's always about pitching A against B"

"Some of my Conservative colleagues in government project as patriots but they are indeed arsonists. They’ve set this country alight. They pit community against community. They create these fires. That is not the job of a government. The job of a government is to keep us all safe. You do that by creating a sense of ease, not by fighting culture wars"

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

Hey, those benefit fraudsters are really collapsing the economy, say the Tories

(Whatever you do, DO NOT look at this pie-chart. Or show it to your friends)

[Andrew Haslam @AndrewHaslam]

@simonharris_mbd I had to repost this, not only because I agree with every single word, but also the last comment about Bluey was so true, and close to home with my Grandkids.

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

I did consider boners tbh

But ‘erections’ just felt more stark and necessarily painful

[Dr Liz O'Riordan @Liz_ORiordan]

I have no words. Thanks to the
@thetimes who led with the story about 1/3 female surgeons being sexually harassed, even raped, at work, for
publishing this letter from an anaesthetist saying we should expect it!!
This is why it is still goes on
@wpsms_org @RCoANews

Bullying should not happen. Sexual harassment is a criminal offence NOT a routine part of medical training