Alex Segre

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[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

The affordable housing tax on new builds in London is larger than the cost of actually building the house.

[David Collier @mishtal]

I cannot remember a time when a blatant lie has spread across the world in the same way the genocide smear against Israel has.

It is so obviously untrue and yet has become an unquestionable truth for millions. Even being used as an excuse to attack Jews.

It's frightening.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

No you are not. You are not even an ‘anti Zionist’. You are simply a fraud. 
Only a few years ago when you were a Lib Dem you solemnly promised voters that a vote for you was “a support for Israel”. 
You were a 34-year old man, not a child. You left the Lib Dems a year later purely and simply because they didn’t select you for a parliamentary seat. 
If they had, you’d still be promising that a vote for you is a vote for Israel. You are a despicable, malignant fraud who would toss your own mum under a bus for a few extra moments of political relevance.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“It’s shocked every lawyer who’s seen it.”

Dan Neidle explains the injunction granted to Russell Brand and his then-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith against a woman who tried to make allegations against him.

@DanNeidle

[Mish @Mish_K_]

Every single person needs to listen to this.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.

I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.

She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.

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[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Now Russell Brand's been convicted of rape, we need to talk about Sylvie Berki. Because she can't speak for herself.

In 2014, Ms Berki said she'd been assaulted by Russell Brand.

But if she talks about it, even now, she risks jail.

[John F Kennedy JR @johnfkjuniorq]

This is Bill Maher at his best.

Maher dragged Patton Oswalt out of his bubble and forced him to confront the brutal reality of the UK’s immigration crisis.

He exposed the horrifying details of Muslim grooming gangs, while Oswalt tried to play dumb.

Maher didn’t let him.

MAHER: “What’s going on in England right is a lot of that.”

OSWALT: “What’s going on in England?”

MAHER: “Again, not in the bubble…a lot of violence, protests, immigration.”

“Andrew Sullivan, for example, says places that my grandfather would not even recognize anymore as British.”

“Like, immigration is great, anything can be too much. It’s become ‘Islamicized’ to put it briefly.”

Oswalt tried to hand-wave it away.

OSWALT: “Anything can be too much, but a lot of times the way that things are framed and represented, is also amplified so that they can make their point.”

Maher hit him with the bombshell.

MAHER: “But do you know about…the grooming scandal?”

OSWALT: “No.”

MAHER: “See, that’s a big story!”

He then laid out the details the left refuses to confront:

“I’m talking about Pakistani men, who were immigrants, who were grooming poor, impoverished White girls, mostly, and making them into prostitutes and sex slaves.”

“Like really nasty shit, that would pass for more normal in a traditional Pakistani society, where women are not considered equal citizens.”

Maher then delivered his most devastating point:

“And if you don’t understand that, and that gender apartheid is the number one issue that you woke people should be concerned with, but seem not to be, then right away we’re not really seeing the world as the same way.”

“I’m seeing it much more clearly.”

“Gender apartheid should be your NUMBER ONE issue, if you really care about oppression, like a lot…I’m talking about hundreds of millions of the world’s women.”

“And it’s mostly because of the tenets of Islam, to be perfectly honest about it.”

“In the interest of DEI, they are allowing practices that are so illiberal—which is the great irony—this is the LEAST liberal thing you could be is treating women as a second-class citizen and getting away with shit like this.”

[Mr. Make It Happen @SupportThaNawf]

We have to say “Mississippi” after each number

[John Anderson AC @JohnAndersonAC]

Dan Schueftan gives an honest defense of the Israeli conflict in Gaza.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

One of the pro-Pals who smashed up millions in defence equipment today says we’re in the “imperial core” and must “destroy the imperialist war machine”. She thinks we’re in Star Wars doesn’t she.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A lot of us were very willing to have a debate without heat, @stonewalluk, and the reason that never happened wasn't because gender critical feminists didn't want one.

While we were trying to get you to listen to our concerns, your former CEO was telling a BBC boss that gay people not wanting to include the opposite sex in their dating pool was 'sexual racism'. While we were pointing out the homophobia inherent in gender ideology, Stonewall ambassador Alex Drummond (a bearded, heterosexual man who'd had no surgery and taken no cross-sex hormones but liked wearing skirts), was going into schools to talk to students about his 'lesbian' identity. @BluskyeAllison, who actually is a lesbian, was subject to unlawful discrimination at her place of work for tweeting: ‘Stonewall recently hired Morgan Page, a male bodied person who ran workshops with the sole aim of coaching heterosexual men who identify as lesbians on how they can coerce young lesbians into having sex with them. Page called [it] “overcoming the cotton ceiling”.’

When the UK Supreme Court upheld women's right to single sex spaces, you issued a statement expressing your unhappiness about the ruling. In her report on your unhappy influence at the University of Essex, you were found by barrister @akuareindorf to have misrepresented the law as it related to women's rights: '[Stonewall have] stated the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is’.

In 2018, you publicly advised schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers, in spite of the fact that you aren't a medical charity and that there was already credible evidence that puberty blockers are neither irreversible nor harm-free. Meanwhile you produced your own educational packs, recommending a children's book, for ages 5-9, in which the parent 'is neither a man, nor a woman – they’re non-binary.' In July 2022, Stonewall sent out a tweet that read ‘Research suggests that children as young as two recognise their trans identity'.

@thetimes has reported how you've sought to control the language used by NHS trusts and government on their social-media accounts. Organisations would get points from you for replacing commonly understood words with ideologically approved terms, eg, 'birthing parent' instead of 'mother'. https://t.co/Z2LGs2J9KQ

In short, you took a maximalist position on gender identity ideology, which you attempted to enforce by diktat. You refused to acknowledge that you'd hitched your wagon to a cause that, unlike civil rights, gay rights or women's rights, sought to strip rights from others. You sought to curtail everyone's right to freedom of speech and belief by controlling what it was permissible to think and say, through the management and political class. You have argued against women's and girl's rights to their own spaces, their sports and to assemble without men. Your former CEO tried to shame gay women/men into dating the opposite sex if the latter claimed to be female/male.

Your mantra was 'no debate' because, like all totalitarians, you preferred slogans, bullying and infiltration of powerful institutions to talking to opponents. You appear to have had no concern for the lowly people your ideology was harming: gender confused kids, female rape victims, female prisoners, regular people hounded and investigated at their places of work for refusing to accept the new mandates on sex and gender issued from on high.

Your 'activism' has been a disaster for those trans-identified people who really do just want to get on with their lives in peace. You have besmirched the name of an organisation many of us were once proud to donate to, the charity that was partly responsible for securing the legal right of gay people to marry, which a lot of us thought would never happen in our lifetimes. The milquetoast words quoted below do not erase a decade of gender activism that has been disastrous not only for individuals but for society as a whole.

There was once a debate to be had, but until you acknowledge the direct harm you've caused, it is no more possible to debate you than to persuade a person in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis that they are not, in fact, the reincarnated Christ.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

I wonder how Al Jazeera got all this exclusive Hamas footage of them planning 7 October 🤔

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Who is she? This is spectacular.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The electorate aren’t goldfish. Our memories are long enough to recall June 2024, when you declared that trans-identified men with penises should be able to use women’s public bathrooms. It took a Supreme Court ruling to force you to uphold women’s rights, and now you pose as our bold champion? Please.

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.

Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.

Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.

When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish.

She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.

She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.

The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.

Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

First time back in Tel Aviv since this hall wasn’t filled with images of hostages.
I’m here to cover the election which has been billed as one of the most important in Israel’s history.
There was a moment when the plane landed (after everyone applauded which they always do) and we were on the coach to get to the terminal.
An older Jewish Israeli lady stood up and gave her seat to an Arab Israeli lady who was carrying a baby in her arms - it was a reminder of how far the real Israel is from the visions of haters.
On Tuesday nearly 2million Arabs in Israel will have a chance to vote in this election. They are the only Arabs in the Middle East who get to vote.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Government review: We are seeing an alarming rise in Jewish children being racially abused and harassed at school.

The British Left: I don't believe this, how much of that abuse & harassment targeted towards children is actually just legitimate criticism of the state of Israel?

[David Collier @mishtal]

Things BBC Verify have not tried to verify:
Hamas tunnels under hospitals
Terrorists dressed as Journalists
Terrorists dressed as Doctors
NGOs sending money to Hamas

Things BBC Verify have looked at:
Dozens of empty claims smearing Israel

Anyone else notice a pattern?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Why is the media working so hard to avoid showing any Palestinian flags in the riots in France?