Anja-B19

I’m a woman - I said NO 🟥. Lesbian ally. Pronouns - Nope/Not happening.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

I put a YES sticker on the metal pole outside the garden of our house on the 1st of September 2014. I scraped it off today. 💚🤍💜
I will never forgive and I will never forget.
#NoToSelfID
#WomenWontWeesht
#WomenWontSubmit
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#GRRScotland
#EQA2010

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@ErinJon05 @rosscolquhoun @scotgov It’s not the 11th hour of the 11th day until tomorrow. I despise Swinney, I think he’s a mealy mouthed, traitorous bastard, but folk commenting on 11am being an issue are wrong.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@ManWithNoX @WingsScotland Where? Why does that matter? And WTF!

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@Woman4W @myopinion93 @KemiBadenoch That’s a gross oversimplification of the situation. Debswana is actually owned 50:50 and Botswana is currently renegotiating their share of De Beers. You’ll be happy soon when the UKs interests in Africa diminish as China, that great advocate for human rights, takes over.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@KemiBadenoch It isn’t. Dissolve the Commonwealth now. Leave them to their own devices.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

So are @Deloitte crooks?

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

From @BBC: Police in Cyprus have opened an investigation into the financial affairs of Roman Abramovich, following revelations by BBC Panorama that accountancy firm Deloitte helped falsify documents to hide his wealth and evade tax. https://t.co/7oinBP8DCE

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@Jules6360 @heraldscotland If Hamilton goes the SNP will replace him with a cowardly sycophant, you thinking of applying?

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@FabSueBowman @attackdogX Wouldn’t it be better to deport her and leave her family. That way she’ll spend the rest of her life seeing what she gave up and she’ll never be able to live with them unless they voluntarily leave. In which case they’d blame her and not the government.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

No Tommy, I’m ashamed of fuck all. 😡 Fuck Hamas.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@ThePosieParker Years ago I really wanted to attend, I was desperately looking for something that focused on women, prioritised women, and brought some kind of sisterhood. Boy was I looking in the wrong place.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

No it doesn’t @RosieDuffield1 but mark my words, no matter what @andyburnham does, if he is responsible for the lifetime medicalisation of children, he will be remembered for nothing else. We won’t forget and we won’t forgive.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

I want you all to know this.
There are 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet the one MP chosen by @UKLabour to Chair the Bill Committee for the controversial, dangerous and dismally bad draft legislation, the Conversion Practices Bill, is Alex Barros-Curtis. Until July 2024, when Alex was given a very safe Labour seat in Cardiff, he was the Head of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in London. This was a department set up to investigate complaints against members of the Labour Party. Complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, abuse, and of course latterly, mostly women holding legally-protected 'Gender Critical' (sex realist) beliefs. Alex oversaw the investigation of hundreds of members who liked or tweeted gender critical or feminist views. I was one of them. He investigated me, as a sitting Labour MP, for 13 months.
13 months to 'investigate' one like of one tweet. I had a great lawyer, one of the names we're all now familiar with, and I had to crowdfund to pay for his (excellent) work.
They first tried in 2020. But the screenshots crudely attached to that passive aggressive, threatening-sounding email from LP admin staff were so risible that I replied that it was too ridiculous for me to waste my precious time on. They left it. Years of Starmer bumbling and stuttering through interviews about whether he had spoken to me, whether he supported me, etc followed. My feminist sins continued apace.
And then I 'liked' a tweet by my GC comedian friend @Glinner. He had mocked Eddie'Suzy' for comparing his choice to wear traditional women's clothing, fake plastic breasts and nails, to those being persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. I found his sarcasm, as a award-winning comedy writer in the face of such offensive narcissism amusing and so 'liked' it. I found it absurd and obscene that Izzard, an extremely privileged and wealthy man, who openly changed his 'gender' at will, should write himself into history falseley as someone who would have been oppressed due to a circumstance beyond his control. We all know the groups who were tortured, starved and killed...
There is obviously more to my story, I will tell it all, it's just one chapter of the years of spiteful abusive and bullying practices meted out to me by the Labour Party managers. Not those who'd achieved office on merit, or even unexpectedly, but those in the club, often having failed to be elected themselves.
So Barros-Curtis who we were repeatedly told led 'the many *independent* inquiries into women members and MPs like me, now often stands as a trans-rights activist on the Labour backbenches. He has also been gifted the role of Chair of this Committee and is a huge supporter of this Bill. And I am not a part of the Bill Committee, although plenty of TRA MPs are. Does that sound like the democratic scrutiny of legislation to you?

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

I couldn’t reply directly to you but I couldn’t not comment. I am so very sorry Katie. My heart goes out to you and your family, his friends and all who loved him. xx

[Dr Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2]

So I don't have to write it twice. He was 14. I usually mute my phone and don't get notifications but have set replies to only people I follow to avoid the ghouls.
My daughter M and husband G and I are being looked after well by friends.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@citizentommy Was it written by the UN? The same UN that employed UNWRA staff who were actively involved in the 7th October kidnappings? We know which side you’re on Tommy, you don’t have to keep reminding us.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

Epic, as you’d expect.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
https://t.co/BfxVLo0AD1

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇬🇧 UK Politicians FLEE the House of Commons in Parliament

Why?

Because a Debate Session was out to begin around the safety of Women & Children whom are about to be subjected to an ARMY of over a 1,000 unknown Military Age Fighting Men (many with Barbaric attitude towards Women) all dumped into their tiny village of Piddington - orchestrated by the same Politicians seen fleeing.

Never let them try to convince you that they care about British Women & Children ever again.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

An amendment to the sporting events bill was defeated by Labour voting against it. @louie_french (and I as I suggested it in The Lords) Conservative shadow sports minister wanted int. events brought to this country to insist the female category is protected as the ioc does, & the uk Supreme Court ruling stipulates .. sadly Labour doesn’t seem to care if our girls get fair sport

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@BritishGas I’ve just had a 16% increase in my home cover. Go to cancel online & state “price” and the advisors are too busy to help me. Put cancel for “other” reasons and the advisor will be with me in a few minutes. I really HATE when companies treat me like an idiot. 😡

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@bookingcom what is the point in building up Genius points when my pricing is regularly more expensive than booking through Trivago? Very disappointing. Am I being conned into thinking my loyalty to https://t.co/Ba9oqJaY7G means something?

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨JUST IN: BBC AI chief previously jailed for immigration offences after al-Qaeda manual found.

• An Algerian migrant who was once found in possession of an al-Qaeda training manual is now principal data scientist in the Responsible AI division at the BBC.

• Hicham Yezza was working at the University of Nottingham in 2008 when the document was discovered on his computer; he and a colleague were arrested under the Terrorism Act but released without charge after he said it had been sent for printing.

• He was then rearrested under immigration rules and sentenced in 2009 to nine months in prison for an offence related to his claim of having permission to remain in Britain; he served five months and is now a British citizen.

• Before joining the BBC he worked as an editor and later as an Al Jazeera consultant, and held editorial roles at the corporation including as a Middle East and North Africa expert.

• Prior to his BBC employment he posted online about the occupation and apartheid in Israel and described rockets fired from Gaza as resistance.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

This is incredible.

An Algerian Hamas supporter who became an illegal overstayer in Britain, lied to immigration officers about it, and went to prison for it, is now in a senior role at the BBC.

Because the Tories and Labour failed to deport him.

Hicham Yezza has a long record of supporting Islamist violence.

He was arrested in 2008 for possessing an al-Qaeda terrorist training manual.

He came to Britain on a visa that expired in 2003. He stayed anyway. When immigration officers caught up with him, he told them his passport with the visa stamp had been stolen. They found it in his flat.

A jury convicted him of deception. He was jailed for nine months.

Then he won his appeal against deportation, and was later handed British citizenship.

Now he’s the Principal Data Scientist in the BBC’s “Responsible AI” division, helping to decide how AI shapes what BBC News tells you.

Before that he worked at BBC Monitoring, briefing BBC journalists on the Middle East.

Can you guess what kind of briefings he gave them?

He should never have been allowed to stay. Under Reform, people like him never will be.

Under Operation Restoring Justice, we will detain and deport anyone who broke into our country.

Our borders will mean something again.

[Anja-B19 @LibInd2Day]

@BBC @BBCNews @BBCWorld is this true? 😡
#DefundTheBBC
#DefundTheBBC
#DefundTheBBC

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

A man jailed for immigration deception after a judge condemned his “deliberate, extended manipulation” of the system is now the BBC’s principal data scientist for Responsible AI, helping shape how the corporation uses AI and how news is represented through it.

Hicham Yezza (picture here with Moazzam Begg, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee) was sentenced to nine months in prison in 2009 after falsely claiming he had permission to remain in Britain. He had overstayed his visa by more than five years. He later successfully appealed against deportation and is now a British citizen.

Before joining the BBC, Yezza also described Hamas rocket attacks as “resistance”, accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and called it an apartheid regime built on stolen land.

He founded the pro-Palestinian Ceasefire magazine and later joined BBC Monitoring in 2021, where The Telegraph says he produced reports concerning Gaza.

His current BBC role involves guiding responsible AI policy and developing benchmarks for how AI assistants represent public-service news.

There is an extraordinary contrast here.

When the Asserson Report used AI alongside data scientists and other researchers to analyse millions of words of BBC Israel-Hamas coverage, the corporation responded: “We have serious questions about the methodology of this report, particularly its heavy reliance on AI to analyse impartiality.”

Yet the BBC now entrusts a senior role in determining how AI should approach and represent news to someone who had publicly expressed such strongly anti-Israel views before joining it.

The BBC says Yezza’s controversial statements and immigration case pre-date his employment, that he has not breached its social-media rules while working there, and that he stopped working for Ceasefire when he joined. So that's all OK then!

An extraordinary background — and an extraordinary contrast in the BBC’s attitude towards AI scrutiny of news.