Caroline Macklin

MUFC, music lover, hiker, learning guitar. Originally w/c, politically right of centre. RT’s are not always endorsements. Pronouns ‘gorgeous and fabulous’ #XX

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

I have to ask: why? In fact I would go further: why the fuck? https://t.co/kIHur2m2Dn

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

We're in court next Tuesday to challenge abusive police searching guidance. The law which governs police searching requires an officer of the same sex, no exceptions. But the gender ideologues have tried to find a loophole

[Matthew Lesh @matthewlesh]

A typical government response — rather than address what’s actually driving public frustrations they want to blame social media for spreading “illegal content” and encourage censorship.

The Online Safety Act already requires that platforms prevent users encountering or remove swiftly priority illegal content, which includes provoking violence or stirring up hatred. Platforms are expected to remove that content at a much lower than usual legal standard, namely, anything that platform can ‘reasonably infer’ could be illegal.

Tightening up these rules even further during a moment of national crisis risks legitimate political speech being removed from platforms, as they try to avoid the risk of large fines and jail time for executives.

[Francis Harris @fharris2011]

@NavyLookout @SRAikenUUP It doesn’t really matter as long as we ensure the country is left undefended and over-extended
Need to keep our eyes on the prize here

[Larisa Brown @larisamlbrown]

Healey effectively rules out publishing the DIP on Friday, saying "when we publish really significant reports from defence, we respect parliament". This means it is coming Monday at the earliest. Starmer at G7 after that

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

My constituency MP (Labour) has signed this EDM expressing disapproval of the EHRC’s draft code of practice recently laid before Parliament. I have written to her in these terms to express my dissent.

[Joo @JoosyJew]

The ex-associate editor of The Guardian, with his usual “I’m just asking questions” shtick.

No Michael, after repeatedly stabbing and slashing the victim across the face, the sawing motion across his neck and throat was simply a traditional, ceremonial tickle dance.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

One for Prevent

[#Marcher @MarcherReborn]

I don’t get the furore around the banned Somali referee. If your country’s on the govt banned list and you’ve personally failed vetting (which he has !!), then hard luck. The Somali league is no better than pub team standard, so what exactly is he going to bring to the party?

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

"It's better to define all women by gender stereotypes than by sex because if you do the latter, some of them might briefly, accidentally be defined by gender stereotypes"

[Damian Counsell @DamCou]

9:02am: Oliver Kamm sends his good wishes to Zeteo.

3:04pm: One of the Zeteo team is caught lying about a Jew.

Whether you're Owen Jones, Lord Sugar, Jolyolyolyn Maughaugham, or Oliver Kamm, the secret to maintaining Internet-comedy-character status is timing.

[Thomas Godfrey @thomasgodfreyuk]

The number of asylum seekers getting taxpayer-funded support in Northern Ireland has gone up by 161 per cent in five years, from 912 to 2,379. That is a significantly higher growth rate than England (102%), Scotland (39%) and Wales (13%).

[Tony Dowson @TonyDowson5]

Astonishing

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Next up, it says people who have already been promised a jury trial now won’t get one.

The Committee rightly says this is unfair.

It will undermine trust in the justice system.

Everyone deserves a fair trial.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

It also says magistrates’ courts will not be able to cope with the increase in work.

Labour’s vague plan to expand capacity in the magistrate’s court is undeliverable.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

The trial of the Algerian-born man accused of stabbing three children outside a Dublin crèche has begun.

The mother of a five year old victim has described her injuries:

[Tony Dowson @TonyDowson5]

"Migration is a national security issue, says terror watchdog

"Jonathan Hall warns Sudanese asylum seeker’s alleged knife attack in Belfast has ‘huge ramifications’"
https://t.co/uqwWYhQYtm

[Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa]

EXCL: The Green Party has received a damning audit of its workplace culture and pay to staff by Unite the Union.

A staff survey found that 47 per cent of workers for the party are struggling financially and 46 per cent believe they are underpaid.

Among the workers, 30 per cent were unsure whether they wanted to stay in their job, while 14 per cent intended to leave.

Unite also warns that ‘salaries remain considerably below market rates for comparable roles in the campaigning and political sectors’.

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Jimmy Corry has lived on this Belfast street for 13 years. Now he’s homeless. He’s lost sentimental items forever, including his dad’s possessions.

He told me that he shares the anger many feel about the attack on Monday night but that burning down houses won’t solve anything.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Just a pity you haven’t increased defence spending to cover the cost of this necessary 14% pay rise. You’re taking it from other parts of the defence budget, further hollowing out our military, which started under the Tories.