This is appalling. Any sexual or violent assault committed by male predators released after serving only half their sentence will lie at the government’s door. They are yet again sacrificing the safety of women and girls to political expediency.
The Green Party is shamelessly pursuing its authoritarian agenda.
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, has demanded that it’s time we “sorted out the press” and advocated greater state regulation to stop what he calls “misinformation”.
This is coming from the same man who once claimed that he could enlarge women’s breasts through hypnosis and who believes that women can have penises.
A free press is a central pillar of our democracy and a key means of holding those in power to account. It is also a vital mechanism for testing ideas — even unpopular and contentious ones.
This authoritarianism is not just coming from the top of the party, but from the grassroots too. An emergency motion in favour of state regulation of the press has been endorsed by 89 members ahead of the party conference in the autumn.
On top of that, a Green Party canvasser reported journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti to the police, accusing him of harassment because he dared to challenge their views when THEY knocked on his door.
Nor can we forget that Zack Polanski thought it was entirely appropriate for the Met Police to arrest Graham Linehan over three gender-critical posts on X.
This push for censorship should concern us all — not least Green Party members, who may well come to regret calling for greater government control of the press should Reform UK win the next election.
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It appears that the leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, does not understand the importance of a free press.
A free press is a vital component of a democratic society — and Britain has a proud history in this regard.
The Green Party leader has now demanded that it is time we “sorted out the press”, citing “misinformation” about the climate.
That sounds rather ominous — and authoritarian.
Despots seek to bring the press to heel when they are unable or unwilling to engage in debate.
This is chilling rhetoric from the leader of a mainstream political party.
🚨POLICE DESTROY BODY CAM FOOTAGE
This incident from last year saw two Police Officers investigate a CHILD for social media posts
WELL GUESS WHAT! THEY'VE "LOST" EVERYTHING
Pocket Notebooks - DISAPPEARED
Bodycam Footage - LOST PROBABLY DELETED
They've even REFUSED to give the officers names for 'data protection'
They even said to the child's mother "Can you turn your camera off, you can have my bodycam footage afterwards" hoping there would be no record of this incident
UK Police are corrupt to their core
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📣🚨 DAVID LAMMY HAS BEEN SACKED AS JUSTICE SECRETARY AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER.
The former Justice Secretary tried to curb our right to a trial by jury in the biggest assault on English liberty — particularly free speech — in more than 800 years.
If Lammy had got his way, more people would have found themselves behind bars simply for exercising their right to free speech.
Let’s hope Lammy takes his authoritarian and sinister plan with him on his way out.
Farewell, @DavidLammy 👋
@melfrar You clearly are an absolute ignorante of why Achilles sayvthatvand the meaning of Hades in ancient Greek mythology
Shut your mouth rather than display your ignorance
Most people complaining about the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey don’t fully understand what they’re objecting to because it's deeper than they realize: As such, I'll explain.
The unease they feel runs deeper than superficial complaints about “realism” or skin tone. What they can't articulate is their objection to universalizing the particular; an error characteristic of philosophical liberalism.
The Odyssey is not a universal story. It is not a detachable “hero’s journey” that can be stripped of its cultural origins and modernized for contemporary audiences. Its power lies in its particularity. The audience must do the work of closing the gap; the text does not come to us.
The values that animate it, xenia (reciprocal guest-friendship), oikos (the household and its obligations), mētis (cunning intelligence), kleos (glory), and timē (honor), are not interchangeable with modern liberal abstractions. They are embedded in a specific ancient Greek moral and social world. They are not timeless “human themes” floating free of context.
This is why the Odyssey functions today primarily as an educational text rather than popular entertainment, as it once did. It belonged to the moral universe of ancient Greece. It does not belong to ours. Its value lies precisely in its alienness: it forces us to encounter a distinct way of thinking about justice, loyalty, hospitality, and human excellence.
When critics complain that an adaptation “isn’t realistic,” they are grasping for the most accessible language to express a deeper discomfort. What actually bothers them is the erosion of cultural fidelity; the required deracination for modern audiences stripping it of its required context, which in turn strips it of all of the value that it contains. A universal Odyssey has no value.
In attempting to globalize the Odyssey, they erase what remains of an already dead culture; killing even its ghost. Ancient Greece is gone, yet we have preserved its artifacts and stories not because they resemble us, but because they are different. The point of engaging with them is to contend with what is foreign, not to replace it with comforting modernity.
Ancient Greece is remarkable, horrifying, marvelous, repulsive, and admirable all at once. It is not a culture we would want to inhabit, but it is one from which we still benefit by struggling to understand it on its own terms. Turning it into a generic vehicle for contemporary sensibilities performs a kind of reverse alchemy: it transforms something rare and demanding into something familiar and undemanding, thus making gold into lead.
@freddiesayers I eant to see the full force of the law. Even more when Labour with lose and I will rejoice as woke idiots will be arrested.
Then after a 8-9 years we can start to make a common ground to avoid policing speech.
Only then