Rachel Barker

outdoors, cycling, football ⚔ quirky humour, LibDem🔶

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@Moshery1971 Can we do England next? Cowardly MoJ still won't put the men where they belong. Re-designating a row of cells in a woman's prison as a "male prison" but allowing those men to mix and shower with the women is a disgusting lie

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@SkywayTuff2s The men causing these accidents are not cyclists - they are lawless bandits riding illegal motorbikes - bicycles that have been backroom modified to go 30+ mph, and ride them recklessly through pedestrian areas

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@Gadzooksy @SaraHermanw0 No, they lobby the restaurant owners, arguing that they need to stop selling bacon because it offends Muslims. That they should serve Halal meat. Then if they don't comply, the business gets it's windows put in

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@JoGu1802 The BBC

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

There is a video of a couple where the trans identifying man acts as midwife to his partner in a home warer-birth. Then, because the mother has had a double mastectomy, he takes the baby from her and puts it to his estrogen-induced breast and tries to get the poor infant to suckle

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@hertribevibe You see this a lot. The man first wants to be a woman, then he realises he wants to be the ONLY woman in the relationship so will gaslight his female partner into playing the male role

[Robert Jessel @robjessel16]

"The Green Party can now enjoy Folan’s presence as he gambols freely among his own kind, safe from the twin horrors of misgendering and public ridicule. Here he can shape governance, policy and strategy, gloriously unburdened by reality."

https://t.co/Neos3HjrhB

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

One of the strangest developments of my lifetime is that saying something obviously true can now be considered more offensive than saying something obviously false.

Institutions and media organisations that lose the ability to distinguish truth from ideological “kindness” eventually lose public trust.

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@sappholives83 The lift door opens, and that's what you see - no way is any woman getting in that lift.

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@JeanHatchet "Return to materialist values?"
A return to material reality would be a good place to start

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@lsedd @Moshery1971 It depends which way they dress their ballsack

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Yesterday whilst shopping I collapsed and was unable to get up.

An ambulance came and treated me with half an hour.

It was only vertigo, I’ve never had it before. I still feel a bit wobbly today. They gave me two large injections and I was able to return to the villa.

This is Croatia.

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@LadyRebecca_1 Well we all enjoyed getting together for the eclipse, the athletics is over. Seems like a lovely day out.

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

Richard Dawkins nails it, as you'd expect from a senior academic and liberal thinker

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@NotFarLeftAtAll No, she's right: it wasn't a campaign against that one man, it WAS a campaign against all those who use race, disability, etc to claim exemption from scrutiny, and from the normal rules, and all those who collude with it.

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@WingsScotland I still don't actually believe Izzard did it either

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@CopperCation I think he mis-interpeted her words.. She said, "you look like a right tit!"

[Claire Roberts @clur_roberts]

Today 18yo daughter got offered a place at Oxford University (4 A*) We aren't posh, we live in by postcode a deprived area, she goes to a normal state school, she's had no extra tutoring, just her own hard work and determination. Since Year 7 she's wanted to go to Oxford!

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@BasilTheGreat Not entirely random: a woman. The driver for this violence is sexual frustration. They just put a veil of religious justification over it, so they don't have to accept what they are: a sad sack of sperm that no-one wants

[Rachel Barker @RachelB97062555]

@OliLondonTV Ha, his face at the end! He's almost gopping with disgust at what he looks like, lol.