Chris Robson

Marketing Manager at Puffin Books. Would probably speak to Goblin men, Would probably buy their fruit.

[worms cited @christapeterso]

In Gender Wars Kathleen Stock says the intense controversy is ultimately whether trans women are women, and I do not think that’s true! It’s about 1) how trans people exist in society, 2) state regulation they’re subject to, and 3) how it is acceptable to treat them

[John Bull @garius]

One of the things that annoys me in a lot of the "rejoin the EU NOW!" narrative is that it falls into the same trap Brexit did: British exceptionalism.

The EU has to WANT Britain back. That won't happen until all major UK parties want in. And we certainly won't get the old terms

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Well...

I've always kind of agreed when I heard this about landlords, but now I'm sold.

Credit: @CommieXian

[Samya Bose-Rosling (She/They) @AidanTheJester]

This NEEDS to be SHARED everywhere.

People don't realise Daniel Radcliffe is actually doing something extraordinarily powerful in this video by refusing to engage with transphobes on their terms & using his platform to centre trans kids' stories & educate people directly

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

This empty centrism cannot conceive of systemic power, of the legislative, institutional, and stochastic terror threats wielded against LGBT people. In assessing the "trans debate" it has no standard but civility by which to judge the merits of "both sides."

[Philip Sim @BBCPhilipSim]

Nicola Sturgeon's core point from today's Q&A, on the trans prisons row - "there is no other group in society where we accept that the actions of an individual somehow forms a justification for taking away rights from the whole group, or not according rights to that group"

[Chris Robson @ChrisRobson1995]

@NoreenMasud I’m giving it an 80% chance of being haunted and/or cursed.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

All the conservatives yelling about queer folks grooming kids going silent when a violent misogynist they support is arrested for having kidnapped two young women really shows you all you need to know about them.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Giving nurses the pay increase they're calling for would cost around £1.8 billion per year.

Scrapping the non-dom tax avoidance scheme used by the super-rich would raise much more - around £3.2 billion per year.

The Tory refusal to pay nurses properly is a political choice.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

You don't "hate pronouns." You hate the people who are using them.

If that makes you uncomfortable, good. It should.

You either respect how people are asking you to know and name them, or you don't. But stop pretending it's about language.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

The same people who were melting down over Biden “violating the First Amendment,” even though he literally wasn’t even POTUS during the Twitter saga, are eerily silent as Trump literally called for a suspension of the entire Constitution today. Funny how that works out.

[Sean M. O'Brien @TeamsterSOB]

The fact that there are not 60 senators willing to stand up to Big Business and fight for basic rights for U.S. rail workers is horrific.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

The core privilege of being a white man is the privilege of thinking of yourself as “normal,” “neutral,” or “moderate” — effectively raceless and genderless — while everyone else’s views are skewed by their parochial perspective as a woman or racial minority.

[Literally Chad @literally_chad]

CS Lewis said somewhere that it isn’t just that his friend died, it’s that the part of him that only his friend could bring out would never be brought out again.

[Chris Robson @ChrisRobson1995]

@inkfingeredfool @Gwenelope Danny sounds lovely! Where did you get him?

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The trouble with GDP is that it is really not a very good measure. First of all it says that all that is paid for with money is good and everything else is not. So, if childcare is paid for its good. And if it is done at home, or by granny, it has no value.