Jason Swan Clark

Ignatian Spiritual Director

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

This is the UN.
Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women.
Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Hilary Cass has today said that the presentation of ‘trans children’ is ‘biological’ and compared them to people ‘predisposed to have heart disease’. There is, of course, no evidence for this.

She also used the term ‘birth registered girls’.

She is an ideologue.

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
https://t.co/HfdBR3L8tC

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

We are in a very dark place. The football World Cup is on & this council has spent tax payers money going to court to make it illegal to fly Our flag on Our streets.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨The government just voted down an attempt by the Conservative Party to cancel the puberty blockers trial.

Make no mistake about it, Labour are putting virtue signalling and ideology before the wellbeing of our most vulnerable children.

They bring shame upon our nation.

[Jason Swan Clark @jasonclark]

It is child abuse voted for by MPs

[Family Education Trust @FamEdTrust]

This is child abuse.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This whole thread is brilliant. But this is the single most extraordinary stat: if women committed serious offences at the same rate as men who ID as women do (using Scottish figs), more than 10,000 women would be in jail for such crimes. In reality there are just 77.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trans women are men. All of them. It is impossible for a woman to be a trans woman. What you propose means women losing their sex-based rights. Those are the rights under discussion.

If you want to campaign for trans-identified men to have their own spaces away from other men, have at it. But you don’t want that, which proves that your priority isn’t those men’s safety. What you want is for women to sacrifice their safety, privacy and dignity to validate men’s identities. You are, in short, a men’s rights activist who berates women for saying no to your fellow men.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

Tonight, there will be a debate and vote in Parliament on the puberty blockers trial.

This will reveal, once and for all, which of our MPs care about child safeguarding.

Receipts will be kept.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“The ABC said the op-ed didn’t meet editorial standards, they said that she (me🙋‍♀️) made mistakes including saying it is a biological fact that a man cannot become a woman.”

You could silence every woman in the world & it still wouldn’t turn men who claim to be women into women.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Scottish government has finally been dragged, kicking and screaming, into compliance with the law.

[Jason Swan Clark @jasonclark]

It is wrong

[Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder]

Blocking healthy children’s puberty is WRONG.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Essential 🧵on the BBC and the internal battle being waged over truth versus ideology 👇

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

It’s hard to understand how Andy Burnham could be the next Prime Minister when only two weeks ago he wasn’t even an MP.
The country should decide who leads the people — at the ballot box — call a general election.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Across Britain right now, farmers are shearing their sheep, bagging up the wool, and burning it. Some bury it. Some leave it to rot in a corner of the field. The wool-burning has made the odd headline as a protest, but the truth is duller and sadder. The fleece is worth less than the diesel it would take to haul it to the depot.

The numbers are grim. In recent years a kilo of British wool has fetched somewhere between twenty and sixty pence, and hill breeds like Swaledale and Welsh Mountain sank as low as ten. A whole fleece off a mountain ewe might bring thirty pence. Shearing that same ewe costs the farmer around two pounds. One Lincolnshire farmer added it up out loud: over three pounds to shear and cart a single fleece to the depot, and twenty-six pence back. So she burns them. A great many do.

Here is the part that stings. The shearing still has to happen, every year, whatever the wool will fetch. A sheep left in full fleece overheats, struggles to move, and gets eaten alive by maggots. So the job carries on purely as welfare, a cost the farmer simply eats to spare the animal, with the wool itself going on the fire straight after.

And think about what this fibre once was. For centuries wool was the engine of the English economy, the country's greatest export and the crown's main source of tax. It raised the soaring wool churches of the Cotswolds. It turned merchants into princes. To this day, whoever presides over the House of Lords sits on the Woolsack, a literal cushion of wool, put there in the fourteenth century so nobody would forget where the nation's wealth began.

Prices have lifted off the floor this past year, the first real relief in a long while. It still does not cover the shears for a hill farmer. The fibre that built England now smoulders in a heap behind the barn, and almost nobody notices the smoke.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

People with differences of sexual development are male and female. The various conditions that fall beneath the intersex umbrella are sex-specific. Klinefelter syndrome only affects men. MRKH syndrome only affects women. There is no third sex. Sex is not a spectrum, and the reason so many people with DSDs dislike the old-fashioned term ‘intersex’ is precisely because ignorant people like you use it to suggest they are hermaphrodites.

And lest we forget: the argument ‘some people are born with anbiguous genitalia, so men should be allowed in women’s changing rooms’ is one of the stupidest ever made.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Government’s jury trial reforms endanger free speech, says former judge.

When Sir Keir Starmer finally goes, his dangerous and authoritarian plan to slash our right to trial by jury must go too.

Former High Court judge Sir Stephen Mitchell has warned that the Government has created a “golden opportunity” for itself to bypass jury trials in “sensitive” cases, such as public order offences, where the rights to free speech and protest are at stake.

Sir Stephen said: “The jury remains a citizen’s best protection against ill-conceived or perverse prosecutions based either on an ill-judged assessment of the strength of the case, or on evidence of otherwise doubtful veracity.”

He added: “The role of the jury also extends to protecting citizens from freedom-restricting legislation enacted by a government to micro-control citizens’ activities in relation to freedom of speech and freedom to protest. This important protection will now disappear.”

Sir Stephen is the latest figure to warn that the Government’s plans risk undermining public trust in the criminal justice system and could increase the risk of threats against judges.

Read more below 👇

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

A reminder that Andy Burnham is a full-blown gender ideologue.

As Mayor of Greater Manchester, he oversaw £100,000 of funding for an organisation helping children to get puberty blockers.

Labour cannot be trusted on child safeguarding.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I agree with every word of Anne Fine’s introduction to this report.👇