Labour have rightly identified that women have long been doing feminism wrong. Feminism is too precious to be left in the hands of women, especially women who do men things. I applaud their move to install a man who knows how to do feminism properly.
Desperate stuff from a ‘senior Labour figure.’ There’s no world in which Andy Burnham as a woman is a useful metaphor. And it’s grim to imply that senior Tory women are trying to be more “male”. It’s regressive gender stereotypes. (From @spectator)
@soniasodha@spectator Labour have rightly identified that women have long been doing feminism wrong. Feminism is too precious to be left in the hands of women, especially women who do men things. I applaud their move to install a man who knows how to do feminism properly.
Attempts to bring a private prosecution against a man with dual British Israeli nationality for serving as a reservist in the IDF after October 7th have been thrown out by a judge in the most glorious way I've ever seen. The judge called it "embarrassing".
Judge Goldspring's comments are essentially that if Pro Palestinian activists wish to engage in lawfare they should at least know what the law is.
Comments from the judge include:
“This application is legally flawed, evidentially deficient, and procedurally defective. It constitutes an abuse of the process of this court, driven by an improper motive and facilitated by serious breaches of the duty of candor. The application for a summons is refused.”
https://t.co/qfsv2dv0Ik
They raise a good point – students shouldn’t only learn about European history, to the exclusion of the Muslim world.
In the name of diversity, this school should also teach about the fates of the Jewish communities living in Arab countries like Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Syria, Yemen…
Responding to Ian Dunt's blog on the @EHRC Code of Practice turned out to be a big job. Here's Part 1 of my comments. More to follow when I've recovered my strength.
"THE EHRC CODE EXPLAINED": A RESPONSE TO IAN DUNT | Part 1 https://t.co/GChUGR9s6d
Hello @warkspolice! This is @SVPhillimore posting. I too believe that Pride has been hijacked by mentally ill men in dresses gyrating in front of children. Please do investigate me urgently for a hate crime - @wiltshirepolice have all my details.
Dear @SadiqKhan
You expressed anger property in Judea was being advertised to Jews - saying it should not be allowed.
Here are adverts on two @TfL buses.
1. Company that sells property in occupied Western Sahara.
2. Land exploitation of oppressed Baloch people.
Any comment?
Cross sex hormones are not HRT. The clue is in the name. Hormone replacement treatment replaces small amounts of naturally occurring hormones that have diminished with age. Cross sex hormones don’t replace anything. They are intended to disrupt the body’s hormonal balance.
Why are those who say they support a supposed Palestine no nothing about history?
It's like a cult a trend ... in the 60/70s they waved Che flags, in the 80s it was Mandela, CND anti Thatcher, in the 90s it was climate During the 1990s and 2000s, student political trends were predominantly progressive, left-leaning, and anti-globalization. Rather than strictly aligning with traditional political parties, youth activism focused heavily on single-issue grassroots campaigns, identity politics, and international solidarity. In the latter of 2000s was BLM now its we hate Zionists Jews and Israel but no don't know where a Palestine is or was
@dickydickypand1@WeCareAboutMH@SVPhillimore "...you are trying to impress men half your age [you are] an aging women well past her best years." What are a woman's best years? It seems you judge older women by their acting how you consider age appropriate. You can't get much more sexist than that.
I am defending the rule of law in my country. That’s all I can do. Not one baby in any other country has any kind of different or better life because a man took a sledgehammer to a woman. Once you start justifying immediate physical violence in this way, you have shown yourself to be lost and morally broken and as a society we cannot tolerate this.
@bindelj@unherd "the government makes them have blood tests to make sure they are disease-free" Echoes of the contagious Dieases Acts which, apart from oppressing women (no men were tested), were useless in disease prevention.
I’m sorry if people have been having a go at you because of my tweet. Not at all the plan. I was very slightly drunk and already upset about something that had nothing to do with you. If it’s any comfort, I got it in the neck too. I’m a thin-skinned twat, apparently, even though it wasn’t my skin. I was sticking up for the writers who I adored. Obviously I shouldn’t have cited Bach/Kahlo/Moore - asking for trouble - and would have done better to go for the 10,000 blues songs written around the same 12 bar chord structure. I’ve listened to most of them and will keep doing so. Because we love what we love.
Ninth anniversary of being an MP today. Nice quiet few years, not much has gone on really, no dramas...
3 General Elections
5 Prime Ministers
9 Health Secretaries
9 Education Secretaries
7 Chancellors
1 Larry
Corbyn. Covid. Brexit. Ukraine.Lettuce. Freebies. Nepotism. Mandelson.
Mr. Davies,
For a brief, fleeting 10-15 years, WE ALMOST HAD IT. The years between 1998-2012, roughly, we were very close, when no one really gave a damn either way. I remember it distinctly. An enormous shift in attitude’s & acceptance had occurred, after the horrors of being gay in the 80’s to the early-mid 90’s.
I was NOT alone in feeling this, even amongst the upper echelons of the ‘Gay Mafia’ I used to hang around with said the same.
The original aim was EQUALITY & we were, more or less, there.
Then along came identity politics, gender ideology & Que*r Theory, which screwed everything up.
Stonewall’s CEO, Ruth Hunt, said in 2014/15, & I quote, that their shift in focus was “known to be controversial, that it would be difficult, that people would LOSE by that & that herself & the staff thought THAT WAS A PRICE WORTH PAYING.” In other words, they KNEW this would receive pushback, yet were unwilling to listen or engage with those of us who had serious concerns.
A subsequent Stonewall CEO, Nancy Kelley, called lesbians “sexual racists” for not including men in their dating pool.
Michael Cashman called for those who had questions, predominantly women, about this shift to be “defecated upon” & there was “no debate” to be had.
And NOW look where we are.
Look around at the utter mess we’re in.
If you’re going to “look at yourself as an idiot”, at least be aware of WHY you might feel that way & what part you, yourself, played in it.
You cannot cheerlead & encourage an ideology that has caused so much destruction & damage, & then pretend to be flummoxed as to the reasons WHY everything has got so much worse.
Just so we’re clear…