Beck 🦕✂️🦕

Avid reader with a library that’s taken over the house / geek for all things SF and fantasy / 2nd dan shotokan karate / Church treasurer - faith manages!

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

They should put this graph up in the public lobby area, in case any ordinary people visiting are inclined to feel intimidated by their surroundings and all the busy bustling people working there, to remind them not to be.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Pro tip: when arguing, try not to put words into your opponent's mouth that the opponent has never spoken. Try especially hard not to do this when you're arguing in a public forum where everyone can see exactly what has, and hasn't, been said.

You're angered that I use accurate language to describe the sexes, because the whole edifice of your ideology collapses if you acknowledge that sex is binary, that it is impossible to change sex, that sex has material, important consequences and that legal rights should be based on observable facts rather than unfalsifiable concepts.

You're working backwards from your preferred conclusion and you're prepared to advance nonsensical arguments to do it. Your attempts to change the meaning of the words 'man' and 'woman', to shift them into philosophical concepts, do not change material reality. I'm with Friedrich Engels: "These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world."

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

Men are still in women's prisons in Scotland. Get them over to the men's prison immediately. Like, this afternoon. They don't need a removal van. This is corrupt.

When will @ShabanaMahmood be doing the same in England and Wales? Get them out. All of them. Even the ones with their dicks chopped off. Even the ones with a bit of paper lying about their sex. https://t.co/6YXlaxtMUh

[David Collier @mishtal]

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?

[Beck 🦕✂️🦕 @ChanBec]

@IainTurner5 @britishmuseum I'm still waiting, it's been ridiculous

[Beck 🦕✂️🦕 @ChanBec]

@britishmuseum member booking process is an absolute shambles. Just got to front of the queue, waiting for it to load the website and then it kicks me to the back of the queue!!!

[Why Female Matters 🇬🇧 @whyfemalematter]

Firstly, the EHRC guidance doesn't refer to workplaces @unisontheunion

Secondly, I'm 58 yrs old & started work at 18. Until 5 minutes ago there were Male & Female spaces which worked perfectly. Why, all of a sudden, are they "unworkable"?

[Beck 🦕✂️🦕 @ChanBec]

@cityoflondon So you voted to break the law

[Lissa Evans @LissaKEvans]

@cityoflondon When I swam there this week, I saw - for the first ever time on an early-morning swim - a trans-identified man sitting in the meadows where women dress and undress. @cityoflondon has enabled voyeurism. Thanks!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

The Scottish Court of Session has just ruled that providing multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.

https://t.co/ulFHKebMK9

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Polite notice to schools still breaking the law by failing to provide single sex bathrooms: you will be sued and you will lose 👇

[GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga @GAZAWOOD1]

Same child.
Same cameraman.
Same actors.
Same scene.

Different location.

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

This is really low. Kemi Badenoch was visibly and audibly emotional when discussing the horrendous murder of Nowak on GMB. She actually said: "I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. We all matter. Enough of this nonsense…”

[Agent P @AgentP22]

Sturgeon's entire defence boils down to one claim:

"Trust my judgment on everything... except the man I worked with, lived with, defended and promoted for decades."

That's a difficult sell.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Police sacked hate crime adviser who warned the force favoured Muslims over Jews.

After complaining that officers had been ignoring the “elephant in the room” of Islamist extremism during a meeting about an anti-Semitic terrorist attack, the chairman of the policing scrutiny panel was sacked.

She was informed that she would be removed as chairman of the Bradford Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel because of her “divisive and inflammatory” comments.

She has accused West Yorkshire Police of appearing to prioritise Muslims rather than focusing on the Jewish community following last October’s attack on a synagogue in Manchester.

This follows another incident in which she was accused of “hate speech” by police officers after defending the right to criticise the Prophet Mohammed.

The former panel chairman, a retired academic in her 60s, is now seeking a formal apology from West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Sir John Robins.

The Free Speech Union is proud to be supporting her. FSU General Secretary Lord Young said the force has shown that it is “more concerned with protecting the feelings of Muslim community leaders than protecting Jews from terrorist attacks”.

The academic was approached in 2022 to volunteer on the scrutiny panel tasked with monitoring how police respond to hate crime reports. Soon after she was elected chairman, Muslim police officers began calling for her removal.

She has suggested that the letter notifying her of her removal was “for the Muslim men who complained to him to get him to shut me up - and he did as they asked”. She also said it “sounded like a threat”, as the complainants had been demanding her personal details and asking whether she had herself committed a hate crime.

Blasphemy laws were abolished in 2008. A free society must allow criticism, challenge and debate of any religion.

The police must not kowtow to those who wish to enforce an Islamic blasphemy law that prevents others from doing their job.

Read more below 👇

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

I am a legal aid barrister and earn a reasonable salary. However, costs for a defamation claim will be in the region of £1-200K for each party. I do not have a spare £1-200K.

If I lose, and therefore have to pay Maugham's costs, I will have to sell my house.

Therefore I am very grateful to everyone who has donated. If you do not wish to donate, you do not have to.

[Scarlett Johnson @scarlett4kids]

Malia Strange was forced to share the podium with a boy, AB Hernandez.

Then when everyone stepped off, she got back on…alone…standing as a first place champion…right where she belonged🏆

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

1/3

via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

[womenonlyspaces @Rangersmainly1]

I did not see some of the items as I don’t spend any time in the kitchen.