As I was waiting for the train to go to Manchester Pride I got talking to an a woman who was also going. She’s influencer doing a thing for HBO and will be on one of the floats. All paid for. She’s married to a man.
We got on well, I gently introduced JK a Rowling into the convo and how I thought her and Dolly would’ve been able to have a real good convo and how they would have a lot of respect for each other
She was a bit surprise when I said I was very much on JKR’s side when it comes to sex V gender, but she was happy to keep asking
We boarded the train together, but she was travelling first class. I helped her zip up her dress which was very tricky and sounded like a skit as we both went “Yes! Yes!” when I finally got it all the way up (no pun intended!!! 😆)
Then we said our goodbyes and I found a seat in second class
And it struck me how a straight woman backed by a huge brand will be dancing on a float at Pride, while I’m a gay man who feels nervous about showing my face because I won’t sell out homosexuality
This is Pride in 2026
Leila Abolhasani, 43, a mother of two, is about to be executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran for taking photos of a supermarket on fire on her way home.
Meanwhile:
British PM Andy Burnham? Silent.
French President Emmanuel Macron? Silent.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez? Silent.
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni? Silent.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz? Silent.
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin? Silent.
Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre? Silent.
Canadian PM Mark Carney? Silent.
@AntSpeaks@koshercockney Yes you can be non-visibly brown. Jews are often ethnically (heavy airquotes) brown in the sense that they’re potentially gonna be a target of malicious, radicalised f***wits despite “white” skin. C’mon: there are enough outrageous statements on X to be occupied 24/7 without this
My trans positions are VERY CONTROVERSIAL because they are so dead moderate they make both cocaine-fueled extremes angry.
✅ Yes, most children are being overmedicalized. But rare true trans children deserve help or they psychologically shatter
✅ No, trans women do not belong in professional sports. But it’s hateful to call them men.
✅ Trans women are not automatically women. But with hard work and medical intervention, most of us can have fulfilling lives where people perceive us as women.
✅ Self-ID must end. Women’s feelings and safety matter, so if you cannot use the ladies non-disruptively - don’t.
✅ If you can’t understand why women should never see a penis in a locker room, you’re mentally still a man.
✅ We need research to figure out what is happening with this explosion of non-binary identities. They are not trans, and it’s medical malpractice to give them transsexual healthcare.
✅ You have to do the work to be percieved as a woman. Far left politics cannot do this work for you.
I promise you. The overwhelming majority of the public agrees with all of this. If trans people will go back to the non-insane positions of ten years ago, things will get better.
@KaizerNYC@GovernorPataki Gov Pataki said it was “Islamist terrorists” who committed 9/11, and you immediately felt attacked. That says more about you than it does about him.
Truth matters in a free society. Sanitizing September 11 dishonors the nearly 3,000 people who were murdered, the first responders who ran toward danger and every family that still carries the pain of that day. No institution should be afraid to tell the truth.
The enemy within - here in the UK.
"LBC has infiltrated an online forum used by Islamic State supporters to share detailed instructions on starting wildfires, exhausting emergency services and avoiding detection by police and forensic investigators, just weeks after millions of people across Britain were sent an emergency warning over the country's extreme wildfire risk."
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My son came to me with some news.
He told me Dolly Parton had died and I said I knew.
And then he got quiet for a second and said she loved me. She used to send me a lot of books.
I had to just look at him for a moment.
He was talking about the Imagination Library. The program where Dolly sends books to children every month from birth until they start school. Millions of kids across the country get these books.
My son believed that Dolly Parton personally knew him. That she had specifically selected each book, thought about him individually, put it in an envelope, and mailed it to our house every single month because she loved him specifically.
Not as part of a program. Not as one of millions of children. But because she and my son had a personal relationship and she was devoted to his literary development specifically.
And honestly when you think about it from a child's perspective that's not even an unreasonable conclusion. Books showed up every month with her name attached. She clearly cared. Why wouldn't she know him personally.
I didn't have the heart to fully correct him in that moment.
Because also he wasn't entirely wrong. She did love him. She loved all of them. She just loved a lot of children at once and had a very efficient system for showing it.
Rest easy Dolly. My son misses you personally.