Tim Sewell

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@AlistairBarrie @mrhenrymorris I'd prefer a Cadillac.

[Michael Shurkin @MichaelShurkin]

There should be humanitarian corridors. And a place to escape. Ok, a camp. Let the IDF or Egyptians screen entrants and ensure no weapons or Hamas get in but let the place be run by ICRC/UN etc. to the best int'l standards. This is all doable.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@scrapegroat Jeremy is back in his natural element of being surrounded by nodding yoghurt knitters as he expounds his superannuated, unchanging pablums.

Happy for him to continue the tweets, however, to remind us all of what we’re ‘missing’.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Accepting the reality of biology makes you a literal Nazi, but brandishing swastikas on your phone and yelling “gas the Jews” makes you a social justice activist.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@DAaronovitch I see what you mean, but in the UK, at least, they are officially designated thus. This is from the https://t.co/J8LsKzXNSk page on ‘Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations’

https://t.co/IdpfVFgrla

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

Lying liars continue to lie.

[Chris Clarkson 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇾 @ToryMemo82]

Following some pretty appalling equivocation and whataboutary from the BBC yesterday and this morning, now this from a BBC journalist.

[Gadi Shamia @gadishamia]

If you don't live in Israel or consume Israeli media, you don't know who Yair Golan is. He is a 61-year-old retired Major General in the Israel army and a former parliament MP. Spend a minute to read this story.

Yesterday, when IDF and the police were in complete chaos, Golan put on his old uniform, took his weapon, and drove into the war zone multiple times to rescue civilians under fire. He rescued two young adults hiding under a bush after 260 of their friends were murdered at an outdoor party. He answered a call from a journalist that his son was hiding under fire and simply said, "Give me his location, and I will bring him back home." An hour later, the son called his father from Golan's car.

Golan collected a small crew and went in and out of the war zone, rescuing dozens of people while exchanging fire with Hamas terrorists. He is 61, he could have stayed home, but he chose to risk his life for people he does not know.

Golan is one of the strongest voices from the Israeli left and was constantly attacked by the right wing in Israel. But when the time came, he was first fighting the barbaric attack. The same brain wiring that supports peace, is often the same wiring that drives people to do the right thing.

A true hero.

[Shiv Malik @shivmalik]

I don’t remember anyone in the UK taking to the streets and openly celebrating the deaths of Palestinians. That’s the difference.

[John Bull @garius]

Two German soldiers are hunting for a downed British airman.

"We'll never find him in this wood at night." One says, quietly.

"You're right." The other one replies, loudly. "BECAUSE I HEAR HE WENT TO ETON."

"Actually gentleman, I'm a Wyckhamist." A nearby bush replies, annoyed

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@mrjamesob I've done them hanging out of the back door in January mate.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@SharpeFiona @bhcitynews @BellaSankey @LeslieAlan @CPSUK That lot are the lowest of the low.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@PippaCrerar @StevePeers @RachelReevesMP Cue another 50 pre-GE 'retirements' from the government side of the bench.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@octo_burgerzz @christopherhope How many strangers frequent your house?

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@pinstripedline Guy has always been and continues to be a moral vaccuumn.

[Tracy-Ann Oberman MBE @TracyAnnO]

I’m going to keep going on here to counteract so much ignorance. Hamas is a death cult - anti Jewish misogynist- it has one aim to destruction Israel. It has no intention of negotiating it has no intention of making life better for Palestinians. it doesn’t care about a homeland

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

The gender debate is really very simple and finding a solution is even more so.

It is paramount to start from the (correct) premises that human beings cannot change sex and no one should be forced, through fear of legal, professional or social punishment, to indulge another persons identity.

It is also true that, in a free society, anyone can think whatever they want about themselves. For example, a man is free to think he is a woman. It is really no one else’s business (unless he makes it other peoples business). Freedom of belief is a necessary right for *everyone*.

So, there are the both sides of the argument covered, fairly.

Now, what is the solution? How does society function smoothly when one side does not want to believe that men can be women and the other side insists that they have to? What is the compromise? Is there a compromise?

The compromise certainly isn’t to force people to believe in identity or to let men who “identify” as “women” into female spaces. They are not women and there is nothing they can do to become women. Therefore, allowing men into a female space isn’t a compromise. There isn’t even a compromise in “well, if he’s had hormones & surgery, that man can be in a female space but if he hasn’t had any hormones or surgery but just says he’s a woman he can’t.” That would involve treating people with identities differently to other people with identities. Hardly fair, for both the men with identities and women.

What is a compromise is creating spaces for all demographics who need them. For example, if it is established that spaces specifically for men who claim to be women are necessary, and wanted, create them. Create bathrooms, changerooms, hospital wards, various services, anything needed. Invest in these people if you care about them so much. There is really nothing stopping this from happening.

Other than… the men who claim to be women don’t want their own services, evidenced in part by the recent announcement from World Swimming that no one entered the category especially created for “transwomen” and therefore they are shutting it down. Often, men who claim to be women say it is “othering” to create their own services for them. But that argument doesn’t hold up. When women were campaigning to get female only bathrooms & sport established in society (and women did have to fight for these rights), they weren’t saying it was “othering” to create a space specific to their needs. They understood the necessity to create spaces & categories specific to their needs.

See, we all co-exist in this colorful world together, and we do so pretty well. We all pass each other on the street, work together, sit in movie theatres together, and generally live & enjoy life in each others company. It’s just that sometimes, there are places that one wants to or needs to go that requires single-sex status. It may be for traumatic reasons, for example a woman has to go to a rape crisis center and requires it to be female-only to aid in her recovery. It may be purely recreational, like a man likes to go to a male-only barber shop to relax for some “guy time” or a woman wants a female only gym. It is only fair that these places can exist. It doesn’t mean that “women + men who say they’re women” establishments can’t also exist. They can! Nothing is stopping anyone from creating them. But in a free society, the “other side” also needs to be catered for with the female only or male only options. Trans only refuges & recreation can also exist, & do.

Basically, the solution is simply: cater to everyone. That is kindness & civility. If men who say they’re women don’t want to be catered to, that’s their choice & they’ll have to use male spaces, because they are male.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@adammocklerr Same here in the UK - people on the right genuinely puzzled and outraged that a majority of people working at [insert organisation that requires its employees to be quite clever] support the Labour Party. Must be bias, they say.

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@CarolinePenn2 Even Tories!

[Tim Sewell @TimSewell17]

@CarolinePenn2 Or maybe they do!