Alice Farr

Trans people deserve compassion&respect. Women need singlesex spaces&sport 4 dignity,safety,fairness. These positions are totally compatible. GenX lefty. Pro 💉

[Alice Farr @Placeicallhome]

@evilvillain1231 Highly recommend this excellent podcast (the creator and presenter is from the US):

https://t.co/2qQ20sIOh7

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

You absolute bastards.

[NZ Media World - by Brynn Neilson @1nzmw]

The true history of New Zealand Education

Dame Elizabeth Rata is frequently vilified by the Left and Maori activists because she refuses to succumb to their ideology and instead discusses history based on verifiable historic records.

Rata's new weekly podcast on the History of New Zealand Education will likely become the seminal resource for students and educators wanting to understand New Zealand's Education development and history.

In this introduction, Rata asks:
- Why did New Zealand have one of the best education systems in the world from the 19th century to the 1970s?
- Why was that remarkable legacy deliberately dismantled? What can be done to restore quality education?

More information about Rata: https://t.co/xvLQhLsYLn

https://t.co/9s87TuNV4f

[Lord Brian Urso, Lead Guitarist of Gideons Mob @TheMobRules73]

We don’t deserve Alice

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

I was a very fortunate kid. My dad's GP surgery sat between the Dell and Hampshire's County Ground, so at weekends I could go to a game and get a lift home afterwards. It left me with a passion for both sports and a belief that sport opens a window onto who we are.

When I was growing up, the Tebbit test was a matter of intense debate. Which side did you cheer for at the cricket? For all the criticism it received, it was a test anyone could pass. If you supported England because you saw it as home, you were part of the team regardless of the colour of your skin. Born in Southampton, 10 year old me passed it without even knowing about it.

Giving the @MCCOfficial's Cowdrey Lecture on Thursday made me think about cricket's place in our national life and the current arguments about identity.

In Britain we've built the world's most successful multi-faith, multi-ethnic democracy. I was a beneficiary of it. Whatever issues people had with me as PM (and there was no shortage) my race and religion weren't among them. I could read a lesson at the King's coronation or light Diwali diyas on Downing Street with my daughters without controversy. Foreign leaders assumed these must be huge symbolic moments. For most Brits, they just weren't that big a deal.

But Britain's democratic achievement is now under strain. Some of the challenges are ones I've written about before, like Islamism, and the failure of governments, including the one I led, to adequately control immigration. But something else is going on - a risk that we start equating skin colour with nationality.

After I left office, a debate kicked off here on @X about whether I was English at all, because I was a "brown Hindu". During the election campaign I'd been shocked when footage was broadcast of someone calling me a "Paki." It was shocking precisely because it was so unusual. That kind of abuse had simply not been a feature of my political life. But the Englishness argument was stranger still. Call it the reverse Tebbit test. If you're not white, it no longer matters who you support at the cricket, because you can never be English. It's a test no non-white person can ever pass.

I have no truck with people who offend our sense of fairness and come here illegally; I spent half my premiership trying to deport them to Rwanda. I think the bar for legal migration should be high. It is entirely possible to want a radical reduction in immigration and a far more robust approach to integration, and still totally reject the attempt to turn Britishness into a DNA test.

If you're born and brought up in England and view it as home, what are you other than English? Denying people their Englishness or their Britishness because of the colour of their skin is a recipe for alienation and a two-tier society. How are children who hear this meant to feel?

Sport can play a small but significant role here. Cricket is played by nearly every major ethnic group in this country. Ask what my largely white rural constituents in the Dales and the British-Asian kids in Bradford have in common, and the answer is cricket. If cricket can produce England teams in which every kid can see themselves, the impact reaches far beyond the boundary.

As I write in @thetimes today, we must all be on the same side, cheering for the same team.

We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.

[Alice Farr @Placeicallhome]

@FionaLynch84570 @Suitandtie9999 Very interesting interview, thanks, Elizabeth Rata is a great communicator

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

There’s a word that describes the position that Ed Sheeran MUST express the correct political views publicly.

It’s called totalitarianism.

It’s the view that the totality of life and society is political, including music.

[Francis Harris @fharris2011]

“A costume that critics said was antisemitic”
Zoe Williams, The Guardian

[Jayne Moorby @JayneMoobs]

Belle & Sebastian’s gig tonight is cancelled due to a freight issue. Stuart has posted this, what a class act they are, how many bands would do this? ❤️

[Mia @mia_ex92]

Baby started crying Grandpa copied him then everything turned into laughter!

[📐 Maria Picassó Piquer ·.+'· @mariapicasso]

⚫️ Peter Falk

[Spencer Steel @spencerjsteel]

I'm perfectly willing to accept that there are performing artists who have nuanced opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and I'm absolutely positive that it's not this guy.

[Bones @FrailSkeleton]

Obesity is bad ofc, but when my patient weighs exactly 100 kilos my drug calculations are so elegant

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

He was a mensch for this. He did a lot of stupid, evil things as president. But when he had the chance to leverage public opinion against a vulnerable minority, for personal gain, he said "no". Imagine the current crop of criminals showing even this baseline level of integrity.

[Peggy Noonan @Peggynoonannyc]

Just thinking about tomorrow. This is from twenty years ago, “I Just Called To Say I Love You,”https://t.co/IEbxfmNfgZ via @WSJ

[LW @FondofBluebells]

As a parent, struggling at the time with a mentally unwell daughter who wanted us to pay for this to be done to her, (after a 2 hr zoom consultation) I will *never* forget that the #BBC gave these people airtime.

[NZ Media World - by Brynn Neilson @1nzmw]

Electoral Commission part-time staff have to learn "Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the workplace"

In our next General Election in November, all those people that are hired to take our votes, coordinate venues, and remain impartial are required to learn the Treaty of Waitangi in the workplace - a made up thing that doesn't imbue any faith in impartiality.

Dr. Muriel Newman writes:
"The Electoral Commission’s website explains: 'Chief Maori Advisor Hone Matthews leads a team which helps embed a Maori worldview throughout the Commission to honour our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Hone’s team are committed to prioritising engagement and partnership with Tangata Whenua to build trust that influences positive long-term participation in Aotearoa’s democracy.'

By establishing a partnership with iwi and adopting a Maori worldview, the Commission has profoundly deviated from its statutory role of administering elections impartially and treating all voters equally. Its use of “Aotearoa” instead of “New Zealand” further signals an activist approach rather than the politically neutral role Parliament requires."

https://t.co/lyrqVvIuer

[Jack Grove @jgro_the]

I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was doing my job https://t.co/3KuwIhpi37

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

It’s hard to imagine living a life so well that when you die, the entire world, a world that hates each other, stops for a minute to all talk about how awesome you were.

[Soda 🥤🫧 @ghoulsoda]

I DIDN’T MEAN TIM CURRY WHAT THE FUCK