Andrew

Iconoclast, impatient, blunt, ever curious, vocal, means well, homosexual #IStandWithJKRowling #SexNotGender #IStandWithLesbians #IStandWithLGBAlliance

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

I’ve known @Glinner since ‘94, where I had a small, but reoccurring role in his sitcom “Paris”. I was a complete unknown, & yet I have NEVER, to this day, forgotten his kindness, generosity & attention.

It’s rare, believe me.

Don’t confuse tenacity, self-defence & an unshakable belief in doing what’s right as a weakness of character.

Thank you, Graham.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Absolutely

[Helen Duignan @HelenDuignan2]

A man named Jacob Engelsman will address a conference on breast feeding in Galway. (Engelsman is pictured below, with his forearm penetrating a large fish.)

Engelsman is an activist for men who want their nipples sucked by babies for sexual gratification.

Engelsman is a specialist in inducing “lactation”(chemical pus) in men with a breastfeeding fetish. His work includes ‘Inducing Lactation for Kinksters’, ‘Lactation for the Rest of Us: A Guide for Queer and Trans Parents and Helpers’ & contributions to adult kink & BDSM events.

The Galway breast-feeding conference will be hosted by the HSE-funded Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland.

Do you agree with babies being used for sexual gratification? Do you agree that in funding this event, the state is condoning the sexual abuse of babies by fetishist men? Do you support this?

Let them know.

@HSELive @HsehealthW @CarrollJennifer @DailyMail #ChestFeeding

[wicklowwomen4women @wicklowwomen4w1]

The creeping normalisation of behaviours that were once considered shameful continues apace. Ireland has crossed a new line though, with a national conference for lactation consultants hosting a man who specialises in helping men lactate for "curiosity, fun, or sexual gratification". If this is not the thing that wakes people up, what on earth will it be? Does it get much worse than this? Read and share: https://t.co/cib9eUll7C

[Joni Mitchell @jonimitchell]

Recommended reading 📖

“Joni Mitchell’s Blue,” written by Professor Lloyd Whitesell of the McGill Schulich School of Music.

Photo by Jean Grand-Maitre

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Government is pressing ahead with a conversion therapy ban so broadly drawn that parents, therapists and even religious leaders could face prosecution for ordinary conversations about sex and gender.

At the FSU, we do not believe parents should face up to five years in prison for having important conversations with gender-confused children, or for attempting to dissuade them from embarking on dangerous, irreversible and life-changing medical pathways.

✍️ Sign the petition to tell Andy Burnham that this assault on free speech must be dropped 👇

[White Girl ✊🏻 @WhiteGirl_FL]

A black female thug assaults a White woman simply standing on the sidewalk.

She confronts her about George Floyd, tells her she looks like a man, and asks if she’s trans.

She assaults the White woman multiple times, threatens her, and tells her where she can and can’t go.

There’s much more, but I’d get flagged for hate speech if I typed it out.

Kudos to this White woman (I was absolutely shocked) for sticking up for herself and standing toe to toe with the black thug.

We can make a choice to not tolerate this behavior.

We don’t have to live this way.

[Andrew @TerfIslander]

@WomenReadWomen Done. Wishing you the very best and thank you so much for the work you do, Genevieve.

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

“I’m a raging Zionist!”

We went to Golders Green to ask Jewish people if they’re Zionists.

This is what they had to say.

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

They didn't do it for JK Rowling. They didn't do it for Kathleen Stock. Or Anne Widdecombe. Or the Scottish girls defending themselves from groomers. But they want to legislate to limit the number of articles written, for a conman who set police on people who questioned him.

[Robert Jessel @robjessel16]

Today I learned about Cathleen Quinn, who had to serve an extra 5 years in prison because she complained about a trans-identifying male inmate perving on her.

https://t.co/6GlPTHRbNa

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

This is Banaras Hussein. He was the leader of the Rotherham grooming gang, and he’s now been released.

Hussein was convicted of raping 15 girls for ten long years, starting when they were 11.

He threatened to kill them and their families.

He ripped out the fingernails of girls who tried to escape.

Hussein was found guilty on 55 separate counts.

That was just 9 years ago. Now he’s a free man - in a country where you can get two years for a tweet.

There are no plans to deport him.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Government introduced an official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — which has had a chilling effect on free speech.

Since its publication in March, the definition has been weaponised — as the FSU warned it would be — to silence those who legitimately criticise, debate, challenge or mock Islam. It amounts to a de facto Islamic blasphemy law.

The FSU exposed that all five members of the Working Group tasked by Angela Rayner, the then — and now newly reappointed — Communities Secretary, with drafting the definition had troubling links to Islamist organisations. These included the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND, organisations with which successive governments have adopted policies of non-engagement due to their extremist views.

It has now been revealed that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government deleted all the responses to the Working Group’s five-week Call for Evidence.

This is shocking. It means the Government has effectively reintroduced Britain’s blasphemy laws 18 years after Parliament voted to abolish them — for Islam alone — and then deleted the evidence that would allow the process to be properly scrutinised.

The public will rightly have questions. The lack of transparency is alarming.

Was there ministerial direction to delete these responses? If so, which minister gave it? What have they got to hide? And could Islamist extremists really have been allowed to help draft this new, state-sponsored Islamic blasphemy law?

Serious questions must be answered.

Read Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy’s letter to the Interim Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 👇

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Maugham is using the money raised by the Good Law Project to defend my claim. I wonder how many who donated to Professor Arday realise this. I wonder how many of their donations will be funnelled directly to Maugham’s defence of his attempt to make me a public hate figure.

We aren’t any where near the door of a court yet but I am now very keen to see how he stands up to cross examination.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

This is a real post by the Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition...

"Celebrating trans lactation, two-spirit & chestfeeding"

You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Please remember that the LGBTQ+ community is all about love, empathy, and inclusivity but not for young dads who are murdered for exercising their freedom of speech. If Charlier Kirk said that women cannot have penises, he is preaching hate. But this show is not about hate. It's a celebration of...his death. Grotesque degenerates.

[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.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down.

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

STATEMENT: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) was troubled to see academics smeared from the stage at last night’s vigil for Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square.

As reported by several national media outlets, Diane Abbott MP claimed that “other professors” had waged a three-year “vicious campaign” against Arday because they “just didn’t believe that a black man should be a Cambridge professor”.

That is a serious, categorical imputation of racist motive, and those familiar with the controversy could reasonably have understood Abbott’s remarks as referring to a small, identifiable group of academics known to have raised concerns about Arday’s work.

Unfortunate though it is to revisit those events at such a desperately sad moment, we feel obliged to restate what the factual record — much of it established publicly long before Abbott’s remarks — shows about one of those academics whom CAF is supporting.

David Harris, Professor Emeritus at Plymouth Marjon University, first raised concerns about Arday’s doctoral thesis and subsequent peer-reviewed publications in May 2023. A sociologist with a longstanding interest in how ideas from the critical theory tradition are used in empirical educational research, Harris encountered Arday’s work amid the publicity surrounding his appointment as Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge two months earlier.

Harris privately raised concerns with Arday about what he called “puzzling similarities” in reported data, repeated passages and possible failures of attribution. His covering email concluded simply: “I would welcome any response.”

This was not, in other words, a “vicious campaign”, but an emeritus professor engaging closely with another scholar’s published work, identifying apparent problems and asking that they be examined. Several of Harris’s concerns subsequently resulted in corrections to Arday’s published work.

When it emerged last month that Arday had reported Harris to the police for harassment, CAF warned of the chilling effect of invoking the law against awkward scholarly criticism, exposing academics who test published claims or raise questions about research integrity to allegations of criminal wrongdoing and prolonged police investigation.

That same chilling effect arises when Harris’s scholarly scrutiny is retrospectively recast by a senior parliamentarian as racial animus before a large public gathering and amplified through the media.

The scholarly community has traditionally governed its own standards, and its ability to continue doing so depends upon academics being free to ask difficult questions about one another’s work, even where those questions may prove embarrassing or reputationally damaging. Without that freedom, the processes through which scholarship corrects itself and academic standards are maintained cannot properly function.

In those circumstances, CAF will be writing to Ms Abbott asking her to withdraw or correct her remarks and making clear the seriousness with which we regard them. Should those remarks cause him serious professional or reputational harm, including any loss of academic title, status or institutional privileges, we will ensure that he receives appropriate specialist advice on any legal remedies that may be available to him.

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

“Today of all days is very much a day for white people to listen and not to speak”

Continues to do a speech 🤦‍♂️

Jolyon Maugham was the only white person to speak at the Jason Arday vigil

Utter virtue-signalling narcissist