Ian Woolgar

Whig.Lapsed Anglican.Politics. Sailing. Social Mobility Mentor. College Governor.Improving Cook.Traveller for fun and for a living.

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Omit possibly 😂

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

@DPJHodges And more to come, no doubt. With many more women in politics these days the scope for family relationships is greater. And of course such lists usually admit other ronantic relatiknships, especially secret affairs and gay relationships kept secret.

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Way back when, I asked the headmistress of a nursery school whether children were ‘introduced’ to books. I was told no because to do so would be unfair to children without books at home.

[Emily Carver @CarverEmily]

Surely a joke?!

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Surely ‘phallacy’?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.

'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.

If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.

Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.

Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Francesca Albanese is a Hamas mouthpiece.
She must be dismissed.

[David Paton @cricketwyvern]

UK trade data for 2025 published yesterday. We now have 10 years of data since the EU ref & 5 since we left the customs union.

Remember the OBR forecast Brexit would reduce UK trade by 15% (hence their forecast of a 4% hit to productivity).

Let’s see how that is working out …

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

@emilyhewertson Please don’t go anywhere. The future’s no longer David Cameron’s - it’s yours.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Every single day, we remember.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

What happened when we challenged @KemiBadenoch and @RicHolden to film an announcement video inside a British race car?

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

this is very fine. Me too Jew

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Boris?

[Daniel Finkelstein @Dannythefink]

Interesting theory. Churchill? Apparently not. The Duke of Wellington? Palmerston? Alec Douglas Home? How about excluding bigots who don’t know any history, instead.

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

😎

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

Off for a night out in Sadiq Khan’s London.

With the appropriately named @misspaulalondon .

Do you like my dress?

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Outraged at what???

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Rugby League Ashes

Eng vs Aus at Wembley Sat!

20 will carry the St George’s flag on to the pitch in Michaela uniform🥳

Mr B showing inner-city kids what rugby is.

On X, some ppl outraged.

What is wrong with some ppl.🙄

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Me 2

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

Well, I cried

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

With thanks to @UNWatch and @HillelNeuer for the opportunity to tell the @UN_HRC what a disgrace it has become.
@UNHumanRights

[ConservativeHome @ConHome]

From @emilyhewertson: I tried my hand at TV's Big Brother and was evicted first, just because I was a Tory https://t.co/U2abxmFB6w

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Tomorrow on @TheRestHistory - Europe's first female celebrity, and the most gorgeous woman in British history.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Hello, what figures are you using?

Ed bought wind at £82/MWh last year and is set to pay up to £117/MWh this year. That’s before all the extra costs, and on twenty year contracts.

Gas is £55/MWh.

Our children will pay the price of fools who put ideology before cheap energy.

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Presumably Ed has @HackneyAbbott doing the costing?

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Hello, what figures are you using?

Ed bought wind at £82/MWh last year and is set to pay up to £117/MWh this year. That’s before all the extra costs, and on twenty year contracts.

Gas is £55/MWh.

Our children will pay the price of fools who put ideology before cheap energy.

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

@Keir_Starmer The Labour Party’s culture over the past few years has bought this upon us particularly under Corbin. These exhortations ring hollow as a consequence.

[Ian Woolgar @Nelson1798]

Too little too late.

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

Footage is being shared online showing clashes between officers and protesters in Whitehall earlier this evening.

We have provided an update, including details of arrests made, in the short statement below: