@historyrock_ I donโt believe that there will ever be any new rock bands that can compete with the bands from the past. So, there is nothing worth listening to.
My angelic, autistic 12 year old daughter Annika drew this pencil and asked me to share it with you. She gets giddy when her content does better than mine, which makes me happy.
Please share it far and wide to keep her fire for art going. We've just barely gotten it rekindled.
@bphillipsonMP, with respect, you are the last person in Britain who should be demanding anyone's sacking for saying what millions of people can see with their own eyes.
You are the Education Secretary who issued guidance allowing schools to socially transition children on a case by case basis, without parental consent, in direct contradiction of the Cass Review which your own government commissioned. The Cass Review did not treat social transition as a harmless first step. It warned against premature affirmation. You ignored it.
You are the Education Secretary on whose watch Kirklees Council issued guidance to schools warning that children's drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law. That same guidance flagged dance lessons as a potential concern over physical contact between males and females. It was framed as sensitivity training. It was the institutionalisation of everything the Batley mob demanded.
You are the Education Secretary on whose watch a teacher remains in hiding, living under a new identity somewhere in the United Kingdom, five years after showing an image of the Prophet Mohammed in a religious studies lesson at Batley Grammar School. The Khan Review, published in 2024, found he was totally and utterly failed by the school, the police and the council. He has committed no crime. He has broken no law. You have not stood at a despatch box and demanded he be brought home safely. Not once.
You are the Education Secretary who has overseen the rollout of a definition of anti-Muslim hostility through every school, council, university and NHS trust in the country, a definition your own former anti-extremism adviser Lord Walney warned extremists would use to deflect scrutiny, and which the Equality and Human Rights Commission said risks a chilling effect on free speech.
Now to your actual point. Christians, Jews, Sikhs and Hindus have indeed gathered in Trafalgar Square. Nobody disputes that. But the Chanukah menorah does not declare there is no god but the god of the Jews. The Diwali celebration does not call out across the square that all other faiths are false. The Adhan does. It declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. In a shared civic space that declaration is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a theological assertion of exclusive truth. Nick Timothy identified that distinction precisely. You have not answered it. You have simply called for his sacking, which is what this government does when it cannot answer the argument.
You govern schools in which nativity plays are cancelled for fear of causing offence while children are taken on immersive trips to mosques, dressed in Islamic garments, and taught to write Quranic verses. You govern schools in which a teacher's career can be ended for showing a historical image in a history lesson while the mob that threatened his life faces no consequence. You govern schools in which the guidance flowing from your department tells teachers that hesitation is harm and caution is suspicion.
Nick Timothy said what millions of people think and cannot say without risk of exactly the treatment you are demanding for him. That is not going into the gutter. That is doing the job you have conspicuously failed to do.
The teacher in hiding is your record. Own it.
"You govern schools in which nativity plays are cancelled for fear of causing offence while children are taken on immersive trips to mosques, dressed in Islamic garments, and taught to write Quranic verses."
@DirtyFootbaIIer First thing Zola used to do was to check the fixtures when they came out to check when he was going to take the pi$$ out of @JCarragher_23