Dr Barbara Jacobs

81. Author - 14 all genres, PhD Autism +2xFirsts.MSc Psych. Academic, Ag Aunt, journo. broadcaster, Left. Award winner.Wool Scouse. Going blind.

[Johann Spischak @SDGMasterglass]

"They THREATENED My family if I pursued ISRAEL"

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Even Jeremy Vine is now asking questions about where Farage and Reform are getting their money from.

Reform are finished.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

On the UK's new secret propaganda cell the Hybrid Threats Directorate

Do you think the poor old British media can come up with all these lies about Iran, the IRGC, Russia and China all by themselves?

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

Myths, Musk And Monumental Nonsense

Elon Musk promising a “historically accurate” Odyssey is rather like a billionaire insisting he’s found authentic evidence of unicorns. Proving that limitless money still can't purchase a dictionary, a history book, or a shred of self-awareness.

[Annie McGinley @annie_mcginley]

An oldie but still a goodie...

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What is happening in Palestine is not a “conflict.” Call it what it is: occupation, apartheid and genocide.

[Johann Spischak @SDGMasterglass]

Espana no mira hacia otro lado.
Sancionar a quienes defienden la justicia internacional es poner en riesgo todo el sistema de derechos humanos.
La UE no puede permanecer de brazos cruzados ante esta persecucion.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Your going to jail Mikey.
You and the rest of the self-serving, traitorous political establishment pricks betrayed your country...

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @TedUrchin]

Musk being banged to rights.
London is safer than ANY city in the US, and most cities in Europe too. Fact.
Musk is a nuclear grade shit-stirrer.

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

Yup!

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

How would she know ANY of the 'so many' have??

[Brian Tweedale @BrianHTweed]

She’s at it again.

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

The weirdest thing here is that Judaism is matrilineal, but patriarchal. That's to keep the line be purely bloodline. BUT men in this 'ethnicity' give children THEIR surname, and they can marry all women who 'convert'. Think it through, There is no ethnicity here.

[Johann Spischak @SDGMasterglass]

The irony is hard to miss Overall, more than half (55%) of all U.S. Jews state that being Jewish is NOT about practicing Judaism - that it's primarily about ancestry and culture. Moreover, in Israel, which is home to about half of the world's Jewish population, approximately

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

The Settler’s Selective Memory

Elon Musk: born from the spoils of European settler-colonialism, now clutching his pearls over immigration, as if irony hasn’t just dragged him across the floor kicking and screaming.

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

Iran Issues Threat to UK

Iran has declared RAF Fairford a legitimate target, putting Britain at greater risk for Trump’s reckless warmongering.

Andy Burnham talks about de-escalation while his actions do the exact opposite by allowing the US to use British bases to bomb Iran.

"The UKs attempt to keep a distance from Americas war with Iran whilst still letting US B1 bombers use British bases is wearing thin." - Jeremy Bowen

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

Why are groups fighting for rights of women and girls (and about time too!!) but leav boys, and gay and trans people out of it, when a HUGE % abused in churches, sports, care homes, Public schools, +by partners. ALL vulnerable people. Anything else denies equality. Protect ALL

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

Could someone please tell the Evangelicals in the USA and Elon Musk what Zionisrs think of Jesus. And please inform them that muslims think that Jesus was the second greatest prophet who should be honoured and revered by all Muslims.

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

As female, everything you say about the Right pretending to support us is evil. But, the most important issue is mental health provision. There are people who will damage or kill others if there's no mental health care for sick men. They act out. Recent killings show this.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

I make no secret of the fact that I found Anne Widdecombe’s views abhorrent, nor will I deny that I believe Reform UK incites division and hostility. But did she deserve to have every woman’s worst nightmare happen to her? No. She did not.

The key takeaway is this: you don’t stop male violence by encouraging more hatred and division. Once you normalise that, society itself begins to unravel. There was already an epidemic of male violence long before politicians started fanning the flames for political gain.

The leaders of Reform and Restore create unease and unrest because they profit from it. They point fingers. They deflect. They exploit despair and anger. Time and again, they have manipulated some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Britain. In doing so, they have contributed to an environment in which women, gay people, trans people and people of colour face greater hostility and, potentially, greater risk of violence.

Does that mean I think Anne Widdecombe was to blame for what happened to her? Again, no. No woman deserves to be brutally murdered by a man. It is one of the oldest, deepest fears carried by women, and tragically, it is not an irrational one.

I’ve received unspeakable threats despite not being a politician, simply for talking about politics. The police do nothing. The police are yet another institution women are forced to fear. Women are not safe anywhere, not even in our own home. I’ve lived alone. I know how vulnerable you can feel, simply because you’ve dared to have a voice as a woman. I’ve lain awake in bed wondering whether the noise downstairs was a man, radicalised by social media, fuelled by misogyny, entitlement and rage, finally acting on one of those threats. Anne would have likely done that countless times.

The price women pay simply for existing is fear, the price they pay for having a voice or agency is even higher.

While I found many of Anne’s views, particularly those regarding other women, abhorrent, that does not mean she asked for this. Men who inflict horrific violence on women rarely need an excuse. The fact that they can is often reason enough. Male violence is not limited to one culture, a political viewpoint, a particular religion or one race. It is endemic. No woman should have to die to prove this point but many more will unless action is taken.

Do I think Reform and Restore should be defenestrated? Absolutely. But at the ballot box. Because we’re not fucking animals. And because the working class should have more respect for itself than to let a handful of old Etonian pricks decide who we are.

The best revenge is to recognise who your real enemies are, then quietly leave them to their riches, their private jets and their mansions. The more irrelevant they become and the less divided we are, the less power they hold and the less money they make.

Two things are true:

No woman deserves what Anne Widdecombe endured.

The likelihood of women enduring male violence has markedly increased because of the hateful, violent and divisive rhetoric of figures like Farage or Lowe.

Reject them. They’re not on your side.

[Dr Barbara Jacobs @DrBarbara1]

Not a test. Just interest. In the 1962 to get into English BA, you had to know the meaning of the following -
preposition, conjunction, present participle, allegory, limerick, sonnet, onomatopoeia, caesura, allegory, metaphor, zeugma, literality, adjectival clause, metre,
OK?