Eleanor Bearpark

One of the ordinary folk

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Happy to say I have no idea who most of the people in this BBC self-promotion video are, including the presenter. If they'd tried, they couldn't have made the point better - that the modern BBC does very little for me.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This wasn't allowed in public incase it offended anyone. So please don't retweet it. Thanks 🙏https://t.co/1stbtsNZG1

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Is there anything more persuasive of what's wrong with the BBC than it using half time of the World Cup final to show a propaganda video paid for by the licence fee to tell us why we need to pay for the BBC?

[Alyona @askaya]

White people who apologize for the actions of their ancestors to appease people who hate them are the biggest cowards and retards on Earth.

[Caine @CircusSSCaine]

having a flag for what kind of sex you like is kind of weird and retarded, actually

[Martin @aksjefokus]

This is a quite good analysis, and should also illustrate the issue with VAR.

The ref and VAR can now pick and choose exactly what team to win.

The financial incentives FIFA has to send through the bigger nations is too big.

Infantino out. Something has to be done.

[Tommy Henham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @yalding1066]

Black footballer stands there while tens of thousands of England flag bearing white far-right racists sing his name. Look and learn @Keir_Starmer and @MayorofLondon you dumb fucking morons. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Fútbol Noruego @NoruegArg]

Gracias ❤️

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Dear Norway fans,

Thank you & I’ll say it again… you have been, beyond any argument, the most extraordinary supporters at this entire tournament.

From a country of five and a half million people, you crossed oceans, packed out stadiums, dressed American streets in red and white and transformed every single fixture into a carnival of noise, pride and unshakeable joy.

Three decades away from football’s biggest stage, and yet you returned carrying no sense of entitlement: only pure, infectious energy.

Your team repaid every ounce of that devotion, reaching a first ever World Cup quarter-final in the nation’s history, smashing straight through the old ceiling of the last 16 that had stood since 1938 and 1998. a stunning knockout of Brazil to even get there (a nation Norway have somehow never lost to across World Cup history).

The Viking Row wasn’t just a celebration for your own players. It moved rivals. It captivated neutrals. It swept up the entire watching planet.

England brought the run to a close. But nothing can erase what unfolded here. The finest chapter Norwegian football has ever produced. Walk away with your heads held high.

Thank you, Norway. For the emotion. For the history you carved out. For the row we’ll be talking about for years to come. Unforgettable. 🇳🇴

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My response to Afzal Khan, a Labour MP, who has reported me to the parliamentary authorities for my criticism of various barbaric Islamic practices, our rape gang inquiry report and my appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Another bad week for women in Britain is there any other now? a mother & her daughters murdered according to the BBC 'was a nice man who loved his family'. Rape Gang survivors asking the public for support because their torturers & rapists have been released early from jail. An elderly conservative woman politician murdered in her own home a leading political broadcaster describes her as 'old maid & 'virgin' & a #bekind Transwoman hopes she was handcuffed to her bed & tortured. All of this is male violence, the women are diverse the men are same they hate women.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

I cannot remain silent on this.

The Pope’s decision to do this now, right as Europe is witnessing yet another wave of murders of its citizens by migrants (think of Louis, Christian, Henry, and the countless others) cannot be dismissed as a mere public relations blunder.

It is a painful slap in the face of the Christian native peoples of Europe and all those who lost their children and loved ones as a result of mass migration.

Where is the Church’s charity and compassion toward them?

Why do we not hear a word from the Pope about the 250,000 white British girls who were raped?

Why do we not hear a word about the attacks on Europe’s Churches and Christian communities?

Why do we not hear a word about the millions of Europeans who are unsafe and estranged, fast becoming a minority in their own homelands?

The Church’s silence regarding the threats European Christians face is already deafening. Combining it with telling Europeans that they must do more to “integrate and protect migrants”, is adding insult to injury.

As a new Catholic, I have generally tried to refrain from critiquing the Pope, for we do not lightly challenge the father. This, however, is not a matter of dogma or infallible teaching. The Pope has chosen to make a political and pastoral statement on migration, and on such prudential questions the faithful may legitimately form and express their own judgment.

And my opinion on this is clear: Europe does not have a moral obligation to house the entire world, especially not when it comes at the cost of civilizational destruction.

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Dear Norway fans… you are, without question, the finest supporters this tournament has seen.

From a nation of just over five and a half million people, you travelled across oceans, filled stadiums, painted American streets red and white and turned every single game into a festival of noise, pride and pure joy.

28 years away from the World Cup stage and you returned not with entitlement, but with energy. Not just with noise, but with meaning.

The Viking Row didn’t just inspire your players. It inspired everyone. Opponents. Neutrals. The entire watching world.

The quarter finals. You deserve every single second of it. Keep going. Keep rowing. Norway, the world is behind you. 🇳🇴

[Quinn Holden 🏴‍☠️ @QuinnTheCelt]

Police are not exempt from the legal standards for lawful use of force.

There was no necessity, it wasn't proportional it also wasn't reasonable for the officer to assault the victim.

You say the person was charged for assault on a police officer, however he was responding to seemingly unlawful force by the police, given the charges it seems they weren't arresting or detaining him for anything else.

So why did the officer use force on him?

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

The Brum lad who was assaulted, punched in the back of the head, immediately assaulted by police might be okay due to all the attention the case is getting.

But how many white guys are sat in jail right now due to Police anti-white bias who are innocent?

Hundreds? Thousands?

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Policing is done on the basis of who the police are afraid of.

At the moment they’re not afraid of us.

[Tristan Tate @TateTheTalisman]

Fire this woman.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Definitely don’t share this video of them forcing the man into the car backwards and then becoming aggressive when he (obviously) doesn’t fit.