Sally Grover🍃💚🍃🤍💜

Adult human female. Wild gardener. Green space and wildlife not housing estates. Hounded from my home by landowner and developer. Support @communityplann1 #XX

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

This used to be Little Lyntus an ancient woodland in Staffordshire. It had stood for 400 years, part of our beautiful and vital nature.

So it was chopped down for HS2 …. Which was then cancelled!

Don’t lecture me about net zero & the environment when we are destroying the irreplaceable for profit 🔥

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

People seem to have forgotten that it rained *constantly* this year in Britain between Christmas and Easter, and again for much of May. There is no water shortage. We’ve drained and desecrated our landscapes to the extent that they are now simply incapable of storing all that rainfall for us. The water is sent barrelling down land drains, ditches, artificially straightened streams and rivers to the sea, causing mayhem as it goes, and leaving us with no water afterwards. It’s so easy to fix this. It’s called ‘natural flood management’. Put back the bogs and marshes, the ponds and wetlands, re-wiggle the streams, liberate and reconnect the rivers to their flood plains, and we’ll find we have way less flooding, fewer hosepipe bans and cleaner water. Yet all we get each winter are hysterical calls for *more* dredging and straightening of the rivers, more draining of the fields. We must be the very last country in the world to grasp this basic natural hydrology.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Transgenderism really is the biggest pile of shite to ever crawl itself out of the fucking shite bucket.

It's nothing but male privilege, male aggression, male desire, male fetishism, and it's brainwashed half of the world who think destroying women's rights in the name of men in fucking dresses is progressive.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

A small reminder very mediocre college swimmer Lia ( William) Thomas 6ft 4’ went from over 600th in U.S. men’s college distance swimming to beating three women’s USA Olympic medalists in sprinting! Males do not belong in sport for females… at ANY levels. We’re worthy of our own fair sports category.

[Right over Left Everytime @RightSide_Uk]

This is how democracy dies in small-town Britain. In Thetford, a community of just 650 souls is being steamrollered with plans to dump 1,200 illegal migrants into RAF Barnham – and when locals turn up to the “public” meeting to demand answers, the council caps attendance at 120 despite room for 300. Inside, nobody has answers. Outside, frustration boils over as British people are locked out of decisions that will destroy their way of life.
Labour’s globalist betrayal and compliant councils treat our towns like dumping grounds for failed asylum claims and economic migrants who contribute nothing but strain on housing, schools, GPs and crime rates. Two-tier Britain again: the state rigs the system to silence dissent while accelerating the invasion. Cultural incompatibility isn’t abstract – it’s these overwhelmed communities watching their resources vanish and their safety erode.
We’ve had enough of this replacement racket. Stop the boats, end the hotel and dispersal scams, deport the criminals and those who don’t belong, and put British people first. These small towns didn’t vote for this transformation – they were never asked. Remigrate, reclaim our communities, and make Britain for the British again. The anger is justified. The fight is just beginning. 🇬🇧

[Sally Grover🍃💚🍃🤍💜 @SallyGrover]

@salltweets @bindelj Thank you for all you do, Sall! So glad you had a good time and safe journey.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Government has announced that it intends to press ahead with a ban on ‘conversion practices’. On the face of it, this sounds benign: how could anyone not want to ban giving electric shocks to gay kids?

But the fact is, that’s already against the law, as are (rightly) all the other coercive practices conjured up by the phrase ‘conversion therapy’. So what is it the Government wants to prohibit? The answer seems to be ‘converting’ children who think they’re trans to being ‘cisgendered’. That’s where the impetus for this legislation has come from – with well-funded pro-trans lobby groups like Stonewall and Mermaids fully behind it.

So any parent who ‘misgenders’ their confused adolescent child, or attempts to talk them out of embarking on an irreversible medical path, could face criminal charges for trying to ‘convert’ them. And we’re not speaking about a slap on the wrist. In the draft bill published yesterday, the maximum sentence for putting “psychological or emotional pressure” on your child not to undergo gender reassignment surgery will be five years in prison.

It won’t only be parents and medical professionals who’ll be at risk of imprisonment for trying to persuade gender-confused children not to mutilate themselves. Any religious leaders who share the teachings of their faith on trans issues, homosexuality or gay marriage could also face prosecution. That’s what this authoritarian government wants to ban: any dissent from radical progressive orthodoxy on sex and gender.

Which is why the FSU has set up a petition so you can let Andy Burnham know how you feel about this anti-free speech measure. Speech is always curtailed in the name of preventing notional ‘harm’. But stopping parents talking honestly to their children about the dangers of irreverrsible medical procedures will cause actual, real-world harm. This is a fight we have to win.

✍️ SIGN THE PETITION 👇

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

This is Judge Eilidh MacDonald. She’s the judge who sentenced Joseph Wood, of Milton Drive in Buckie, to 3 years’ probation after Wood spent five years sexually abusing a little girl, starting when she was seven. He was found guilty of multiple sexual assaults at Inverness Sheriff’s Court, but MacDonald allowed him to walk away free, with just 200 hours of community service, three years’ supervised probation, and 3 years on the sex offender registry — two years less than Wood spent abusing his victim.

Eilidh MacDonald obviously cannot be trusted to mete out appropriate punishment for crimes committed against children, or to take appropriate measures to protect the public from predators. She should be removed from the bench, and held accountable in some way when Joseph Wood molests another child.

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
https://t.co/HfdBR3L8tC

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Across Britain right now, farmers are shearing their sheep, bagging up the wool, and burning it. Some bury it. Some leave it to rot in a corner of the field. The wool-burning has made the odd headline as a protest, but the truth is duller and sadder. The fleece is worth less than the diesel it would take to haul it to the depot.

The numbers are grim. In recent years a kilo of British wool has fetched somewhere between twenty and sixty pence, and hill breeds like Swaledale and Welsh Mountain sank as low as ten. A whole fleece off a mountain ewe might bring thirty pence. Shearing that same ewe costs the farmer around two pounds. One Lincolnshire farmer added it up out loud: over three pounds to shear and cart a single fleece to the depot, and twenty-six pence back. So she burns them. A great many do.

Here is the part that stings. The shearing still has to happen, every year, whatever the wool will fetch. A sheep left in full fleece overheats, struggles to move, and gets eaten alive by maggots. So the job carries on purely as welfare, a cost the farmer simply eats to spare the animal, with the wool itself going on the fire straight after.

And think about what this fibre once was. For centuries wool was the engine of the English economy, the country's greatest export and the crown's main source of tax. It raised the soaring wool churches of the Cotswolds. It turned merchants into princes. To this day, whoever presides over the House of Lords sits on the Woolsack, a literal cushion of wool, put there in the fourteenth century so nobody would forget where the nation's wealth began.

Prices have lifted off the floor this past year, the first real relief in a long while. It still does not cover the shears for a hill farmer. The fibre that built England now smoulders in a heap behind the barn, and almost nobody notices the smoke.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a stretch of the River Roding in Barking strewn with waste and detritus, a barrister named Paul Powlesland did something the British state has spent decades failing to do: he cleaned it and made it look like a river again. He now faces legal action.

Yep. He and a group of volunteers hired a digger for £1,000 of their own money and hauled more than 200 bags of filth out of the water - packaging, broken appliances, used needles, even weapons. By any sane reckoning it was a small act of public good, civic spirit at its most potent and wholesome.

For his trouble, he received a letter from the Environment Agency informing him that he is under investigation for working without a permit, an offence that carries up to two years in prison.

The same Environment Agency that found the will to come after a volunteer for cleaning a river without the right paperwork has not, on that same river, prosecuted a single one of the illegal sewage spills that have fouled it for years. Not one. It's too fat, scrofulous, and indolent to fight the sort of people who'd do this. But it has energy to spare for the man with the digger and the bin bags because they expect he's likely to be a reasonable sort of Englishman who pays his taxes and honours procedure, however unreasonable it may be, when levied upon him.

Protecting rivers? They have no interest in that.

This is the thing about our institutions that the public grasps in its bones and the people who run them never will. Our institutions fail, and the manner of their failing is the worst part of it - the bloodless, box-ticking, permission-withholding callousness of bodies that have forgotten they exist to achieve anything at all.

They should all be cleared out; every decision-making body in the building responsible for the dereliction of duty, and for daring to persecute a member of the public, must be hollowed out. The whole thing started from scratch.

Better yet, I'll tell you what an outfit like Progress will do once it gains power; we'll put people like @paulpowlesland in charge of the very body now threatening to jail him. The institutions meant to look after this country - the Environment Agency and a dozen like it - are dying of exactly the defensive, do-nothing culture that sent that letter. They need to be run by people like him who actually give a toss. People with the brains to understand the problem and the plain human instinct to go and fix it themselves, while the rest stand on the bank writing their little sociopathic missives to the ones who already did.

I don't know the first thing about Paul. I've never met him. I don't know what his political preferences are, the shape of his beliefs, what else we would agree or disagree on. None of that means a thing to me. He's a good man, and the right kind of man to make things work; and Progress is an attempt to make the country work, not a club made to serve a certain type or belief profile. A country is made to work by the people who, whatever their politics, cannot walk past a problem without trying to solve it. There are such people everywhere in Britain - on the rivers, in the schools, the wards, the workshops - and almost none of them are running anything, because the institutions have been built to keep that exact kind of person out.

Drop the case against him. Then go further: find the hundred other Paul Powleslands the country is currently ignoring or threatening, and give them the keys. Put the responsibility and the authority, together, in their hands. Britain will be cleaned up - its rivers, and a great deal besides - in no time. It will be done by the people willing to get in the water, not by the ones writing letters about permits from the bank.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

You might remember this past spring that a judge in Hampshire decided that three boys who had raped two girls, aged 14 and 15, should not go to prison. At Southampton Crown Court, Judge Nicholas Rowland handed them youth rehabilitation orders - non-custodial, served in the community - explaining that he wished to "avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily".

The children he had in mind were the rapists. The two girls do not appear to have entered his calculation at all; nor do they ever, in this, the English Judiciary's Golden Age of Misogyny.

It has taken a public petition of more than 200,000 names to force that sentence back before the Court of Appeal, where it will be reviewed next month. In the same handful of days, the Solicitor General has had to refer a second sentence to the same court - that of Vickrum Digwa, Henry Nowak's murderer. Two high-profile sentences, two high-profile referrals, one week. In both cases the same thing happened: a public that has refused to let go dragged the system into reconsidering a sentence it had been perfectly content to pass.

This is what it now takes. The courts almost never look at one of their own grotesque sentences and think the better of it. The correction, where it comes at all, comes from outside - from hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who read what was handed down, felt the wrongness of it in their stomachs, and refused to call it justice. The public has become, in effect, the country's court of appeal of last resort: an unpaid, improvised, petition-driven body that exists only because the formal one has drifted so far from the public's most basic moral instincts that someone has to do the job.

A justice system worth the name would not need marching to its conclusions by petition. It would share the public's horror at the rape of a child and act on it unprompted. Ours does the opposite: it reaches first for the comfort of the offender, and has to be shamed into recalling the victim at all. One such judgment is bad luck. A steady stream of them is a worldview - lodged deep in the institution, shared by almost no one outside it, voted for by nobody. Progress would take a flat and unfashionable position on it: that a court's first duty is to the victim and to the public it serves, and that a sentence should reflect what the crime actually was, served in full, with none of the automatic halving the public is never told about.

Those petitions are an act of decency by hundreds of thousands of people doing, in their own time, the job the state is paid for and will not do; no different in its complexion than the works of the brilliant Mr Powlesland. They should not have to. A country in which the public must mount a campaign to persuade a court that raping a child warrants a prison cell is one whose institutions have parted ways with the people they serve, and their sanity, to commit crimes against decency.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A comprehensive win for women. Will the First Minister apologise for the unlawful treatment imposed on female prisoners by his government? @ForWomenScot 👏👏👏
https://t.co/3GnmJWi1Gu

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

Lauren Edwards MP statement says “[The TIA bill] was rightly described as the safest and most robust assisted dying law anywhere in the world”

No. It was only described this way by the people trying to push it through.

Here is how others described the Bill:

1. The Royal College of Physicians said the Bill is unsafe

2. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the Bill is unworkable, and unsafe

3. The British Geriatrics Society said the Bill’s safeguards are not adequate

4. Domestic abuse charities said the Bill is unsafe

5. Organisations representing disabled people said the Bill is unsafe

6. Royal College of GPs says the Bill lacks adequate safeguards

7. Lord Stevens, ex NHS CEO, said legislating for assisted dying in the current climate of hospice cuts is “utterly ridiculous”

8. MIND says the safeguards are not adequate

9. The CLADD group at KCL (DOI) have said the Bill is “not fit for purpose”

10. The British Association of Social Workers say the Bill’s is not safe enough

Spot the pattern?

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

How many ‘trans men’ have taken records from biological men? I’m guessing none. Maybe reflect on this @parkrunUK eh?

What trans rights zealots, and their unthinking, well-meaning but naive and ill-informed enablers, don’t seem to grasp is that putting the rights of men who identify as women ahead of the rights of biological women harms biological women. It’s as simple as that.

And that’s before even getting into the debate about life-altering medical interventions on children.

The push to prioritise gender identity over biological sex is, in my view, the greatest assault on the hard-won rights of women in modern history. Generations of women fought for those rights, yet today scores of Labour MPs wake up every morning determined to advance policies that undermine them.

[Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃 @SusieTa32510601]

Does this government have any common sense? How many AI data centres do we need? They’re getting built all over the greenbelt and countryside with no acknowledgement of the huge #water and #energy consumption, and #carbon emissions generated ..the south east and east of England is already facing major water security concerns.. it’ll be the people and the environment that will suffer.
https://t.co/Qp0GytSjgl

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Today marks the 6th anniversary of @jk_rowling's remarkable and important essay about her "reasons for speaking out sex and gender issues."

It is powerful, personal—and undeniably courageous. It is as relevant today as when she wrote it.

Her experience is a case study in what happens if you challenge a rigid ideological orthodoxy. The backlash is immediate, relentless, and often vicious.

As she asked then, “So why am I doing this? Why speak up? Why not quietly do my research and keep my head down?”

I find inspiration in JK's consistent fight for the truth and her refusal to be intimidated and scared away by the online mob.

Read JK's essay here: https://t.co/uSemUTAMeq

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

In this month of Pride, one thing everyone can usefully do is this:
If you see the word "cis", challenge it, cross it out or delete it, but DO NOT cause criminal damage.
The "Cis" abomination relegates us to sub-categories of our respective sex simply to please a few narcissists.

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

Local councils have a perverse incentive to grant planning permission to convert farmland into solar arrays or data centres so they can charge and collect business rates on converted sites.
This needs to be addressed.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

117 academics have written to the University of Oxford calling on it to reinstate Dr Michael Foran’s lecture series, which was cancelled after protests by trans activists.

The activists disrupted two separate lectures by walking to the front of the lecture theatre, branding Foran a bigot and a transphobe, and calling on other members of the audience to walk out.

The Times has also revealed that the Proctors’ Office — which is responsible for enforcing “conduct regulations” and must give permission for peaceful protests that do not disrupt the “lawful exercise of freedom of speech” — allowed the protests to go ahead.

Foran — an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford whose work was cited in last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of “sex” — announced on X that he was cancelling his series on sex, gender and the law after facing abuse from militant trans activists.

A long list of academics, including Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir Bernard Silverman — a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government and Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Oxford — have criticised the Proctors’ Office for allowing the protests to proceed.

In their letter, the academics said: “It appears that the university proctors authorised and facilitated protests inside the lecture theatre and did nothing to remove miscreants.

Members of the proctors’ office, including senior figures, can be seen in videos of the disruption. The proctors have enabled the exercise of a heckler’s veto.”

The letter claims that the proctors failed to uphold the essential functions of the university and created “a hostile and degrading environment” for Foran and the students attending the lectures.

In recent years, we have seen cancel culture become deeply embedded across university campuses.

Despite the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act placing a strict legal duty on English universities to protect free speech, many institutions have ignored their responsibilities with impunity.

The letter calls on the university to reinstate the lecture series and for the proctors to “receive training to ensure that they understand their duties”.

Read more below in @thetimes 👇