Born & raised 1st 25 years Glasgow; Devon since 1984.
Did housing&benefits/SSATs/legal/media stuff. Didn't wheesht.
You can take the boy out of Pollok etc.
Fatwa incoming, for all the gang at Ladybird Books.
Keep an eye on the comments below @ladybirdbooks’ post on Instagram from the time 5Pillars tweeted their dog-whistle. I expect it’ll get fruity now.
Yoela Chen was on her way to a family wedding. She stopped at a petrol station and a Palestinian man approached. He was making sure she was Israeli and then his cell shot her to death. Marwan Barghouti ordered it. Funded it. That’s who Zack Polanski wants to free. Shameful.
It's 1045am. Any sign of a @UniofOxford statement dealing with the moralistic little authoritarians using the heckler's veto (the proctors allowed them in we're told?) to deny the lecturer, the students, the public the right to exchange reasoned arguments on university premises.
@LoinDuTribu That's bullshit and you know it. They didn't loudly disagree, they stood up at the front of his lectures and took it in turns to recite abusive remarks about Michael Foran, not engaging with the material he was presenting at all.
@Manda_Ponium The BBC did cover the story of Andrew Way ... and then immediately edited the story to take out the fact that he was both a Pride founder and a drag queen
https://t.co/H9ekseYyTg
As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride.
This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP.
Inclusion! WOO! 🙄
The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life.
That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature.
And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement.
The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law.
Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together.
You know... Normal things.
The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included".
What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings.
Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work.
How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement?
Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes.
Somewhere along the way after the TQ+ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship.
The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all.
I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype.
If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this.
The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.
The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.
'Mr Fib' John Swinney has made a conscious decision to respond to Murrell’s conviction by flogging the “one bad apple” line. That line cannot hold when it’s plain to see the fruit bowl was full of maggots.
Column today: https://t.co/VO7Wv8L5gu
🚨 DISINFORMATION ALERT 🚨
This 👇 is simply untrue and is scaremongering from Sarah Rees MS of @Plaid_Cymru.
The EHRC Code restricting opportunities to housing, healthcare and social care???
It’s just as well that Senedd Bill to make lying in office isn’t coming into play for a few more years.
Paging @akuareindorf
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In the UK, 11 trans people have been murdered since 2000.
In the same country, from 2009 - 2021, 16 women were murdered by serving or retired police officers. Not killed by officers in the line of duty — flat out murdered.
In 2022 alone, 11 British women were killed by male strangers. 12 were murdered by their own sons; 150 British women have been murdered by their own sons since 2012.
On average, a woman is murdered by a man in the UK once every 72 hours.
Where is the Day of Remembrance for the women murdered by their own sons? By their husbands, their fathers, their brothers? By serving police officers?
In the last 25 years, there have been nearly twice as many trans-identifying murderers than there have been murder victims - 20 murderers, versus 11 victims — and yet we’re told to believe that this is a genocide, while our own dead go ignored and unnamed.
These people are, per capita, the safest demographic in the UK, with a homicide rate of 0.38 per 100k (for women, it’s 0.50 per 100k, and for normal men, it’s 1.23.) but we’re supposed to believe that they’re being physically exterminated? Or is genocide another one of those words that has deliberately been stripped of its meaning, like “woman” and “female”?
Who gains when people are conditioned to roll their eyes at the word “genocide”? When “woman” has no meaning in law or policy? What is the end game here?
Who remembers this?
Taxpayers foot £55,000 bill to 'prepare' civil servants for Salmond inquiry hearings as they 'suffered collective memory loss'?
https://t.co/SxWZxZEMgc
The £400,000 question is: Why would anyone oppose more scrutiny of a massive embezzlement scandal?
All Pete Wishart is doing is putting party interests ahead of public accountability.
Ireland has been welcoming the Russians en masse and allowing them to own and export massive industries on their soil. An extremely embarrassing and pathetic situation in 2026.
https://t.co/6G9LVDBTxx