David Price

There are 3 kinds of people in the world, those who are good at counting, and those who are not. pronouns er/no.

[Stella O'Malley @stellaomalley3]

The chilling effect is most clear when you look at what happened to Ken Zucker.

In 2015 Dr Ken Zucker got sacked from his position since 1981 as clinical lead of the gender services in Canada. When Zucker was taken down, he was known to be the most respected world expert on gender issues in kids. Consequently, clinicians across the world immediately silenced themselves.

The thinking was that if trans activists could take down Zucker then they could take down anyone. I’ve heard GIDS clinicians from the Tavistock describe how the news of Zucker being sacked caused shockwaves at GIDS.

Zucker later won $586000 in compensation from the clinic but the damage was done.

The same chilling effect happened when the @IrishTimes pandered to trans activists in the student union in 2021. Journalists across Ireland released that if the Irish Times were toeing the line, then it’d be a brave fool who went against this.
(From then on I became blacklisted from the Irish mainstream media but luckily my work was valued elsewhere).

Then the following summer, June 2022, Joe Duffy allowed himself to be silenced by @rte and that was the death knell to free thought about trans issues in the Irish mainstream media.

Again the thought process was that if Joe Duffy could be silenced - and he could - then anyone could be. Just like Ken Zucker with gender therapy, the impact sent shockwaves through Irish journalism.

Sadly, rather than having the integrity to admit they’ve been silenced, the Irish journalists now try to keep their self-respect by pretending that they just have other more important things to write about.

It’s insult upon injury but this is where we are

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Bluesky won’t be included in the under-16s social media ban.

Twitter/X will be.

This is clearly a political decision, nothing to do with child safety.

[The Machine Stops🦇🦇🦇 @appears_mental]

Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, are rushing to the defence of foreign nationals working in Belfast hospitals.
In 1987 the IRA murdered 20-year-old Marie Wilson who was a nurse in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

[The Countess @TheCountessIE]

Please read this thread if you have children in an Irish school.

As parents you have the legal right to be kept fully informed of what your child is being taught. Schools cannot act without parents’ involvement. Teachings must reflect parents’ moral and religious values.

See our guide https://t.co/fDVMH3hiOd for advice on how to approach your child’s school if you have concerns.

Parents need to step up and advocate for their children before it’s too late.

[David Thompson @NewsLetter_Pols]

The current dynamic between the third sector in devolved governments isn't exactly healthy.

Stormont 'co-designs' policy with these groups.

Government funds lobbies, lobbies propose policy, Government gives some or all of their asks, lobbies endorse policy, Government happy♻️

[David Price @ebronite]

@NewsLetter_Pols This, 100% this is the rot the blob is infected with.
Lazy and stupid.

[John James @JohnJamesNI]

NEW: “Pride”organisations across Northern Ireland have banned all political parties from their festivals.

They are annoyed at politicians who will not authorise dangerous drugs being pumped into children - many of whom will grow up gay. They also want men in women’s spaces.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

Hello all. A quick update from me.

My sex screen assay is progressing well.

I promised rapid: I can detect SRY from a cheek swab in about 30 minutes. I am currently testing whether I can drop it to 10 minutes without compromising reliability.

I promised cheap: The current cost per assay is about £2. I am currently testing whether I can drop this to below the pound line, and it’s very promising.

I promised accessible: The assay could be run by any grassroots sports coach, school nurse, and my Mum.

I promised on-site: This is where my lab efforts are currently focussed. I’ve always held “from the UK to Uganda” as a principle, and ensuring easy deployment is crucial. I’m currently learning a lot of materials science…

The other main push is setting up various blinded, larger-scale tests. This will require lots of form filling.

If anyone wants to help me hit my final budget target, my crowdfunder is here.

[Liberal Voice for Women @LibVoice4Women]

There are now 132 current signatories of EDM 240 to disapprove the EHRC guidance. Please click below for help emailing your MP about this.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

The conclusion I draw from the Early Day Motion that more than 130 MPs are entirely relaxed at the prospect of continued unlawful sex discrimination seen in recent judgments like the Darlington Nurses and LS v NHSE. As an experienced equality lawyer that sadden me greatly

[Sara @SeeRedWoman1]

Pogrom has a specific meaning. It refers to organised, state-sanctioned mass violence against a minority, historically Jewish communities, with official complicity.

What happened in Belfast on Tuesday was serious, criminal and wrong. It was not a pogrom. Using that word here is historically illiterate and politically reckless, and Matthew O’Toole should know better. This is exactly the kind of inflammatory framing that makes it impossible to have an honest conversation about what actually happened and why.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

“New rules” @EmilyThornberry?

It’s statutory guidance. Surely you know the status of statutory guidance? Surely you understand it’s not law? And that if it’s blocked the law will simply remain the law? Incredible if not.

[David Price @ebronite]

An excellent upsum which I thoroughly recommend. It unfortunately flags up the poor quality of our political and journalistic class.
https://t.co/69bNRe0UHL

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

He's not bothered about child sexual exploitation on Pornhub, OnlyFans, Roblox, or any of the countless platforms where children are groomed, abused, and exploited. He's not demanding tougher sentences for predators. He's not demanding the closure of sites that profit from sexual content children can access. He wasn't particularly interested when the BBC spent decades covering for prolific celebrity nonces or when LBC parade around government psyop whore Bonnie Blue.

What he cares about is @X.

Because X is where people get news, compare notes, share evidence, and discover that what is happening in one town is happening in another. From Penzance to Portugal - we are one.

The pretence is that this is about "misinformation" and "encitement", but the actual target is the means by which ordinary people communicate with each other.

They've tried destroying our pubs and our churches and communities - where we congregate and talk and unite. But we found somewhere else, so that has to be destroyed too.

What they forget is that the British were organising long before mobile phones, the internet, social media, television, radio, or newspapers.

For a thousand years we organised rebellions, uprisings, protests, petitions, and resistance movements armed with little more than word of mouth, churchyards, market squares, pubs, and messengers on horseback.

The Iceni managed it.

The Cornish managed it.

The Levellers managed it.

The Chartists managed it.

The people who fought the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, and every other power that tried to impose itself upon them managed it.

If people are angry enough, they will find each other.

They always have.

[David Price @ebronite]

@JocastaMoney @supertolerant Have the @BBCNews @BBCNewsNI ever used the word beheading in a news report?
I remember well the @bbc news report on the death of Charles I and the minor stabbing injury he received after racially abusing and misgendering Olivia Cromwell.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Please remember that you must not express your feelings about the Belfast atrocity until the political establishment has told you exactly how you are supposed to feel. That's how it works now.

[David Price @ebronite]

@nickwallis @InsideTimeUK I don’t know how you keep across so many issues but well done, so few journalists will do difficult stories. In Northern Ireland we have a man in our female prison thanks to our woke justice minister.

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

Looking into the placement of male prisoners in the female estate and came across this @InsideTimeUK letter from a female lifer in HMP Styal complaining about the special treatment afforded to female prisoners who declare they are trans:

https://t.co/fvGhSPzNGb

[Irish Jewish Voice @Irishchutzpah]

A perfect letter published in Irish Times today:

Ireland, Israel and boycotts
Sir,
– I am disturbed by the furore about Ireland’s forthcoming Uefa Nations League fixtures
against Israel on September 27th and October 4th. Anti-Israel sentiment seems to me uniquely
obsessive in this country, amplified in media and public discourse to a greater extent than
elsewhere outside Israel’s traditional enemies.
Particularly disturbing is the inconsistency of outrage. Last week 28,981 people attended
Ireland v Qatar at the Aviva Stadium. Qatar shelters and finances the leaders of the Hamas
terrorist group, which waged a sickening attack on Israel, and the worst pogrom on Jews since
the Holocaust, on October 7th, 2023 .
In 2021 the Guardian newspaper concluded that more than 6,500 migrant workers from India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar on construction sites for the
2022 soccer World Cup. Yet there was no protest against Qatar in the Aviva.
Nor are there signs of opposition to the Ireland cricket team’s planned five one-day
internationals against Afghanistan in August, despite the appalling human rights violations of
the ruling Taliban. Women and girls are being systematically erased from public life, education
and healthcare in Afghanistan.
We saw no protests outside the Iranian Embassy in January and February when, according to
international media, about 30,000 civilians were murdered in just three days after protests
against the brutal regime.
Iran sponsors Hizbullah, whose terrorists murdered Pte Seán Rooney in Lebanon in 2022. Iran
and Hizbullah propped up the Al-Assad regime in Syria during the civil war of 2011 to 2024 in
which nearly 600,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed.
I was shocked to see the new Iranian Ambassador being welcomed by President Catherine
Connolly at Áras an Uachtaráin last month.
The civilian death toll in Gaza is a tragedy, and informed criticism of Israel is valid, yet I have
heard few voices criticising Hamas for using innocent Gazans as human shields, refusing them
shelter in their underground tunnels, and operating militarily in schools and hospitals.
What message is Ireland sending to the wider world? That we shrug off the brutalities of
Hamas, Hizbullah, Qatar and Iran while obsessing about Israel, the world’s only Jewish state
and home to half the world’s remaining 16 million Jews, who make up just 0.2 per cent of the
global population?
The continued focus on the forthcoming matches, not least in the Dáil which surely has more
urgent issues to grapple with, feels unbalanced and frankly somewhat unhinged.
Irish people can claim all we might that anti-Semitism and Israelophobia are not the significant
problems I believe them to be in our country, but we should not be surprised if much of the rest
of the world begs to differ.
– Yours, etc,
DR PETER BOYLAN,Ranelagh,

[David Price @ebronite]

I just supported this case! https://t.co/iV06khrVby via @CrowdJustice