Jane Mann

Flâneuse, jazz reviewer

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

How beautiful the water meadows were that long-ago June morning in Old Fox's village! The mists rising from the river, the almond scent of the meadowsweet, the high, damp grasses and the dragonflies, like bright enamel automatons darting between path and thicket and pool.
Hare had walked down to the banks very early, wanting to clear his head before the school exams started. He always worried so for his pupils, that wild maelstrom of scribbling in the gymnasium, as the clock ticked and the flies buzzed and irritated.
Here, there was nothing but the birds and the water. He leant against a fence to listen to their songs: skylarks rising above the barley in the fields beyond, a cuckoo and a nuthatch somewhere in the spinney, a jolly moustacheod reed bunting, a scholarly German blackcap with its fine fluting airs, a thrush singing of her lost love, two blackbirds busy and bright, and the strange reeling peal of the grasshopper warbler.
Hare wrote down a list in his notebook and thought about the noble fowls of Chaucer and how much he wished he knew their languages as Old Fox knew them, for somehow, no other tongue could conjure the beauty of a summer morning in England like a parliament of birds.

[Helen Staniland @helenstaniland]

Gender ideology has made the world go fucking insane.

[Goddess from the Gutter @XXtheSpot]

@oeogovuk @oliviabaileymp My daughter should have had exploratory therapy. Instead, at 12, she was affirmed in her male identity and is now on testosterone. She will likely be infertile and in menopause by 25.

That's what you're shouting for, is it?

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'The Old Vic, 1994' by Philip Le Bas

(Private collection)

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

Profile Pics vs Reality: A Thread

Let’s see the stubbled and entitled faces/Of the men demanding entry into women’s spaces…

And yes, I’m taking submissions. These fake photos are part of the lie we’re being sold.

1. “Steph” Richards. Just look at that head tilt, ladies!

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

Feminists: <spend the past decade painstakingly explaining the difference between sex and gender, and why definitions can't simultaneously be relational and whatever an individual says they are>
MPs:

[A London Inheritance @VanishedLondon]

On the 5th June 1983, 43 years ago today, the Space Shuttle landed at Stansted Airport. I went along to take a look and a few photos, from my post on the visit at https://t.co/lPyGE6GeX5

[Jane Mann @PaintboxJane]

.@AnnMann01892250

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Norwich's interwar and early postwar council housing: 'I can remember going into this brand new house and I can remember running about; I thought we were ever so posh or we’d come into money or something' ...
https://t.co/LtkmOnwjO3

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Norwich's interwar and early postwar council housing: 'I can remember going into this brand new house and I can remember running about; I thought we were ever so posh or we’d come into money or something' ...
https://t.co/LtkmOnwjO3

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

The Sentry
Carel Fabritius, ca. 1654

[Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1]

*except women's.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@DalgetySusan @amscanlon @bindelj I shall afford Nicola exactly the same compassion she extended to female prisoners locked in with rapists.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

Dear @jamesmurray_ldn,

I understand you’ve had an epiphany and now realise that biological sex matters.

I’m assuming, therefore, that you are about to pull the plug on your dangerous and immoral puberty blockers trial?

Please do let my lawyers know as soon as possible.

[Helen Saxby @helensaxby11]

Unequivocal statement from new health secretary @jamesmurray_ldn. He would no longer say 'transwomen are women' and he agrees with the Supreme Court judgement that women need single-sex spaces to be based on biological sex, including in the health service.
Well said 👏
#r4today

[Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi]

At least 14 males ran in the Female category in UK parkrun today.

One got 1st Female. He’s now amassed 101 1st Female finishes - 100 more than the 1st Male he got once in nearly 5 years running in the Male category.

Another was Labour councillor Kaz Self who famously tried…

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

She is not being held responsible for her husband’s crimes. She is being called to account for her deliberate frustration of the legitimate scrutiny which might have revealed those crimes. The distinction should be perfectly intelligible to anyone except the disingenuous.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨The @NSPCC poses a safeguarding risk🚨

Today, it was announced that there has been a “surge” in the number of children contacting Childline “questioning their gender”.

However, this is anything but explorative, ethical counselling. This is indoctrination.

As I have documented over the years, this is an organisation that:

-Runs message boards in which children advise each other about sourcing cross-sex hormones and genital surgery.

-Offers advice to vulnerable children on wearing breast binders.

-Tells children that, if they are left infertile after transitioning, they can always get a surrogate to carry a baby for them.

-Is run by a CEO who has said that ‘transwomen’ should be “celebrated”.

-Has a webpage which reads as a roadmap to transitioning.

-Has trans flags flying in its counselling rooms.

-Collaborated with Mermaids.

-Enlists children to make pride flags for marches.

-Sells ideological reading material through its online shop.

-Kicked me out, after 5 years of volunteering as a counsellor, because I refused to denounce biological reality.

Head of Childline, Shaun Friel, the man who booted me out, has said today that Childline will always recognise children’s “authentic selves”.

If our children are not safe contacting the NSPCC, where are they safe?

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

More accurate headline: failed infrastructure, mismanagement and lack of investment by water companies leave parts of England without water