Edwina Askew

Political thinker, democrat and anti-woke free speech enthusiast. Former career professional. Proud Terf. WOMAN = adult human female. Follows≠ endorsements.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."

I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

I find it impossible to listen to Starmer.
He’s a low background drone like a mosquito you’re too tired to get out of bed to swat.

Anyone else?

[Democracies only exist if people vote 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Cici_RNinNYC]

@BillboardChris Teenage girls think testosterone will turn them into teenage boys, but instead it turns them into fat balding postmenopausal women with pelvic atrophy, incontinence, osteoporosis, and sexual dysfunction.

[Edwina Askew @askewee]

I just gave to Jamie Michael's cause. Who's next? https://t.co/VAPuDWR3jW

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

It is genuinely astonishing that Rachel Reeves isn’t accompanied by the Benny Hill theme at all times https://t.co/rq1NKatwHj

[Brexit Facts4EU.Org @Facts4euOrg]

Take a wild guess whose charts these are?
Have a read - the results may surprise you. You can also read a fuller version on our site, but clicking on the image is No.1..
And pls re-post!

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Gas prices are 85% down since the 2022 peaks. Bills aren't down by this much are they? The price of wind and solar are fixed under the CfD. And at the same or higher prices than generating electricity with gas.... Plus they get hidden subsidies for firming their output and for their grid connections

But if wind and solar are cheaper, how come you charge more than the price cap for your green tariffs???

[Janet Inglis @ThatAussieWoman]

When my 12yo son was being treated for an aggressive, malignant, grade 4 Medulloblastoma on his brain stem with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, an acquaintance registered her objections to me for putting him through such a brutal and intensive medical protocol. It's known as The Saint Jude Protocol and is still in use today.

She was adamant that a special green tea with a particular ingredient would do the trick and even sent me sales information so I could buy some.

I cut her out of my life.

Jonny survived and is thriving today. He's 34 and the father of my wonderful grandson.

But it got me thinking.

Maybe there should be a trial of Green Tea as a treatment for Medulloblastoma in children.

It's never been proven that it doesn't work, after all.

I wonder what parents would volunteer their children for that trial considering they have a properly diagnosed physical medical condition that requires treatment of the body.

I'm tipping zero.

I'm also tipping it would never happen.

Because it is an unethical proposal.

The treatment for children and adolescents who are distressed about their sex already exists.

It's called puberty.

Any of them who are not cured by puberty can be referred for further treatment. The psychological kind that won't damage their bodies.

I'm stunned this is going ahead in a world that is back away from GAC.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Today I wore a burqa into the Senate after One Nation's bill to ban the burqa and face coverings in public was blocked from even being introduced.

The usual hypocrites had an absolute freak out.

The fact is more than 20 countries around the world have banned the Burqa because they recognise it as a tool that oppresses women, poses a national security risk, encourages radical islam and threatens social cohesion.

If these hypocrites don't want me to wear a burqa, they can always support my ban.

Listen to my right of reply to what happened today, because I was blocked from saying anything in Parliament.

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Excellent, once again, from Jim, whom I only recently discovered.
He is a modern day John Pilger, here writing with fierce focus on the terrible, state-sanctioned, NHS run tragedy that is about to play out for hundreds of children, too young to know anything about anything.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Eight-Year-Olds as Test Subjects: The NHS Has Crossed a Line No Civilised Nation Should Ever Cross

There's a sickness deep in Britain's institutions – a refusal to learn, a refusal to stop, a refusal to put children before ideology. We were told Tavistock was the great scandal. We were told the Cass Review would draw a line under it. We were told the ban on puberty blockers was the moment the country came to its senses. Yet here we are again: the NHS preparing to put eight-year-olds on the same drugs it once called unsafe, all in the name of "research." Call it what it is – the return of a discredited experiment, dressed up as science, carried out on children too young to understand the harm and too trusting to resist.

This isn't a medical trial. It's a moral collapse. The Health Secretary bans puberty blockers for "unacceptable safety risks" and then signs off on a study that will inject them into more than 200 children. You can't square that circle. Either the drugs are unsafe – in which case using them on children is grotesque – or the ban was political theatre and the trial is the truth. In both cases, the child pays the price. Officials can hide behind clipboards and committees, but the contradiction is fatal: no civilised country calls a drug too dangerous for routine care and then gives it to primary school children.

We've seen this story before. Tavistock lived off the same delusion – that you can override biology with ideology, that you can halt puberty without consequence, that children in distress can be steered into a medical conveyor belt and come out whole. The tragedy is that we already know the results. We know the bone loss. We know the cognitive decline. We know the infertility warnings. We know that once a child is put on blockers, 98 per cent go on to cross-sex hormones. We know the detransitioners, with their broken bodies and their unanswered questions. We know the whistleblowers who were ignored. And we know the evidence Cass uncovered – "remarkably weak" to the point of farce.

And yet the NHS has learned nothing. The same worldview has crept back in through the side door. Troubled children are once again treated as experiments, not as patients. Autism, trauma, sexuality, social confusion – all pushed aside to make room for the one idea the activists will never surrender: that a child's body is raw clay, ready for remoulding. They even admit the risk to brain development, but say the greater danger is upsetting a child who wants the drugs. It is the logic of a cult: feelings first, evidence last, consequences ignored.

Then comes the darker underbelly – the smugglers, the fixers, the private clinics showing parents how to dodge UK law by flying to Dublin or Madrid. A banned drug, rebranded as "lifesaving care," administered abroad so the activists can claim clean hands at home. In 2022, Susie Green and her network turned desperation into a business model. Families pay thousands. Children get injections. The loophole gets exploited. And the state, once again, is caught flat-footed while ideology races ahead.

The truth is stark: Britain is not safeguarding children. It is feeding them back into the same machine that failed the last generation. The NHS had its reckoning – Cass exposed the rot, the courts blew the whistle, former patients lifted the lid. But instead of rebuilding trust, the system has doubled down. A new trial. New paperwork. New language. Same harm.

Puberty is not a disease. Childhood is not an illness. Troubled teenagers do not need their natural development shut down like a factory line. They need time, care, honesty, boundaries, and adults willing to tell the truth – not activists in lab coats playing God with their futures.

This trial marks a line. Not between one government and the next, but between a society that protects its young and a society that experiments on them.

"We were told Tavistock was the great scandal. We were told the Cass Review would draw a line under it."

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Next week Rachel Reeves will try to sell you a story.

In her imagination she is the heroic Chancellor battling forces beyond her control. It is nonsense.

The truth is simple: Labour are about to raise your taxes to spend more on welfare because Keir Starmer is too weak to stand up to his left wing MPs.

He promised welfare savings. Then he caved. Labour scrapped £5bn of planned cuts and are looking to add another £3.5bn by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. That is an £8.5bn welfare black hole that taxpayers will fill.

To pay for this, Reeves is lining up to freeze income tax thresholds, breaking her promise at last year's budget, and dragging millions into higher tax bands. It is a stealth tax on working people.

Even she admitted last year that extending the freeze would "hurt working people" and take money from their payslips.

Nobody voted for higher welfare spending or higher taxes. Prices are rising. Unemployment is rising. Labour have no plan to get Britain working.

We do. We have identified £47bn in savings, including £23bn from welfare reform.

We will cut spending, cut tax, and back people who work hard.

Labour are the party of welfare. We are the party of work.

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

The appaling failures of the BBC and its false reporting on Israel has been in the headlines recently. To those of us with experience dealing with the broadcaster, and to @UKLFI the revelations do not come as a surprise.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

God bless you June. I remember when you phoned me up and said you were friends with this amazing woman and that if I had any common sense I’d get in there before anyone else did.

A few years later, we are married, share 4 kids, 5 dogs and 6 chickens, and nothing and no one will get in the way of us watching murder documentaries by the fire together.

@CaliforniaFrizz annoys the woketards, because she doesn’t go on about being brown and oppressed all the time, instead she’s got a law degree and she’s after actual justice.

All I can say is that I’m glad she’s on my side, because woe betide anyone who gets on the wrong side of this one. 😰

❤️

[Dick Delingpole @DickDelingpole]

@davidyelland I've given your tweet the BBC treatment. You're welcome.

[Peter Cardwell @petercardwell]

I spoke to the @BBCNews channel earlier about the resignations of Deborah Turness, BBC News CEO and Tim Davie, BBC Director-General.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

You’d think from the BBC’s coverage of itself that this was purely a row about a single doctored Trump speech. The Corporation’s line is, more or less, “Yes, we made one error, but we are an outstanding impartial news service”.
In fact, the Prescott Report highlights structural biases across the entire news and current affairs department.
Remember that the report WAS WRITTEN BY BBC RESEARCHERS. It is not some outside Right-wing take on what should be happening.
Among many other failures, it highlights the following:
🔴 Repeated bias in the BBC’s US election coverage, over-emphasising Kamala Harris campaign issues (eg abortion) over immigration or the economy
🔴 Using partisan language when discussing those issues (eg “reproductive rights”)
🔴 Constantly exaggerating or outright inventing cases of racial discrimination – for example, falsely claiming that there was an “ethnic penalty” in car insurance
🔴 Making bogus claims about ethnic minorities having more insecure jobs
🔴 Not highlighting significant stories about the cost of asylum
🔴 Airing history programmes that give a tendentious account of slavery
🔴 One-sidedness on trans issues, with almost no space given to women’s groups opposed to the Stonewall agenda, let alone to those who had de-transitioned
🔴 Relaying Hamas propaganda, sometimes presented by openly pro-Hamas figures
🔴 Dismissing complaints about these things in an arrogant and cavalier manner
The BBC shows no sign of acknowledging the problem, let alone addressing it. It is still trying to deflect into a story about a nasty plot against public-service broadcasting - precisely the attitude that has doomed it.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Much of the coverage by the BBC and its allies this morning is utterly unhinged. This is not “a coup”. This is not “a right-wing plot”. This is not “Boris Johnson”. This is not “Robbie Gibb”. This is about a taxpayer-funded broadcaster which on everything from immigration to trans, British history to Israel, Donald Trump to our borders, has relentlessly pursued a systemically biased liberal progressive groupthink that represents no more than 15% of the country, and which is now being called out.

[Liz Kershaw @LizKershawDJ]

You stupid stupid man. You just don't get the bigger picture do you? Have you read the 19 page report into BBC bias that was published by The Telegraph?

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

JOHN CLAUSER, 2022 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER:

"I can very confidently assert, there is no climate emergency.
As much as it may upset many people, my message is the planet is NOT in peril.

Atmospheric CO2 and methane have negligible effect on the climate.
The policies government have been implementing are totally unnecessary and should be eliminated.
So far, [we] have totally misidentified what is the dominant process in controlling the climate, and all of the various models are based on incomplete and incorrect physics.
The dominant process, is “the cloud-sunlight-reflexivity thermostat mechanism.
Clouds are all bright white, and they reflected 90% of the sunlight back into space making them the most crucial yet most overlooked aspect of the climate system.
Two-thirds of the Earth are ocean. The Pacific Ocean alone is half the Earth. The average cloud cover for the Earth is 67%; about 50% over land and 75% over oceans.
I claim that the above conspicuous properties of clouds are the missing part of the puzzle."