Michael Duggan 🎗️

For a Labour Party that recognises that it can only win and do good from the centre of politics; for NATO, 🇮🇱, 🇪🇺, 🇺🇦,🎗️ & 🇬🇧 and, forever, Chelsea FC

[Michael Duggan 🎗️ @MarcelD63]

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[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

In the UK, 11 trans people have been murdered since 2000.

In the same country, from 2009 - 2021, 16 women were murdered by serving or retired police officers. Not killed by officers in the line of duty — flat out murdered.

In 2022 alone, 11 British women were killed by male strangers. 12 were murdered by their own sons; 150 British women have been murdered by their own sons since 2012.

On average, a woman is murdered by a man in the UK once every 72 hours.

Where is the Day of Remembrance for the women murdered by their own sons? By their husbands, their fathers, their brothers? By serving police officers?

In the last 25 years, there have been nearly twice as many trans-identifying murderers than there have been murder victims - 20 murderers, versus 11 victims — and yet we’re told to believe that this is a genocide, while our own dead go ignored and unnamed.

These people are, per capita, the safest demographic in the UK, with a homicide rate of 0.38 per 100k (for women, it’s 0.50 per 100k, and for normal men, it’s 1.23.) but we’re supposed to believe that they’re being physically exterminated? Or is genocide another one of those words that has deliberately been stripped of its meaning, like “woman” and “female”?

Who gains when people are conditioned to roll their eyes at the word “genocide”? When “woman” has no meaning in law or policy? What is the end game here?

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[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

William Hague says an Oxford University lecture series on gender law should continue, despite protests staged by trans activists.

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[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

Don’t be fooled that radical trans activism is over

https://t.co/tNrxi9onVP

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

@afneil If people want larger state, better funded public services, etc., I'd much rather they argue for higher taxes than to indulge in the fantasy that you can just do it by taxing the rich.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

The activists who disrupted the talks given by @michaelpforan may have had a little short-term success in stopping him carry on. In the longer term, however, they can be sure that more people will now hear and read his talks than before. That’s how these things work.

Furthermore, every action of this kind is counterproductive in a broader sense. In displaying the belligerence and intolerance of the gender identity zealots, it bolsters the movement that promotes freedom of speech and the restoration of sex-based rights worldwide.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

There's a really easy way for students to avoid hearing stuff they don't like: don't go to the lectures. And a way to prevent disruption of academic freedom: kick the perpetrators off campus 👇🏽

[Brendan May @bmay]

In my Oxford days I recall protests against platforming people like Holocaust denier David Irving. He was clearly a mad spreader of vile disinformation. Now a serious academic faces the same fate, for believing crazy things like a man being unable to get pregnant.

Sheer idiocy.

[Dominic Sandbrook @dcsandbrook]

Very exciting @TheRestHistory planning meeting for the next six months. Really looking forward to recording some absolute bangers...

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somalian to referee at the World Cup finals, has been dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.

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[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

"In line with previous FIFA events, a host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and who is admitted into their country." 3/3

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

"FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr Artan’s status will not be changed at present. 2/3

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

Statement:

"FIFA can confirm that match official Omar Abdulkadir Artan will be unable to train and officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the United States. 1/3

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Apologies for using Oxford-ese without explanation.

The proctors are not the security guards. https://t.co/MDVITbJ6iq

My understanding is that the proctors took the decision to allow protests inside the lecture theatre. If that is correct, it is extraordinary.

The protesters are not helped to understand that their behaviour is wrong when they are given permission by people in authority. And security guards are unlikely to be able to intervene if the proctors have given permission.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I don't care if there aren't many people at a university lecturer's lectures and if not many people are involved in their disruption. Such disruption is a profound insult to the institution. Any student engaging in it should be disciplined.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

This man was banned because of his nationality and for no other reason. FIFA did nothing to help him, not even lodge a protest. Ugh https://t.co/6ayCu4CPd9