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Ah here now..
#Fairplayforwomen
#IStandWithJKR
#Notourcrimes
#WeWillBeHeard

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Adam,

I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.

But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.

I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.

I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.

Here’s a list.

She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.

She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.

She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.

She was appointed to the Privy Council.

After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.

Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.

She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.

She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.

She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.

Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.

She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.

That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.

Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.

Do you understand the reduction involved in that?

You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.

That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.

It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.

Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.

I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.

But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.

Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.

She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.

Bernie.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'

From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.

Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'

As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.

Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

Trevor Phillips just tore apart Keir Starmer’s disastrous time in office.

“How did a man who won a landslide victory in 2024 become so disliked by so many people so quickly, that even his own party’s candidate in Makerfield promised to get rid of him?���

Phillips begins by noting that Starmer “lacks the common touch” and “he obviously made mistakes. The winter fuel debacle for example”.

In a scathing verdict, he went on to explain:

“I think what did for Starmer is he promised to put country before party and on every occasion he had the chance to keep his word, he broke it.”

“The country wanted the two child cap on benefits, the party hated it. The country said it was time to cut welfare and boost defence, the party said that was unconscionable. The country cheered when the Pakistani-heritage Home Secretary said she’d demand more from migrants before they’d be allowed to settle permanently. Party activists called her un-British and racist.”

“In each case the prime minister chose the party, blamed someone else for his change of heart, ministers, advisers, civil servants, and threw them under the nearest bus.”

A brutal but accurate takedown of a prime minister who betrayed the country he was elected to serve. Spot on, @TrevorPTweets 👏

[Erik Dale 🇳🇴 @EuroDale]

A small village of just 800 people in Palestine is set to receive 3,750 Jewish settlers, outnumbering the locals 5:1.

This is genocide! 🤬

Oh, they're Africans being moved into an English village? Then it's totally fine 🤗

[Fintan Cox @fintancox]

Ireland are playing Afghanistan this week in cricket, where are @sinnfeinireland where are the soc dems and the alphabets calling for a boycott and a march down o connell street, its shows you just what a hypocritical country we are, its pathetic actually

[gript @griptmedia]

Detective Garda Gary Moran told Raid Bouchaker during an interview: "When you attacked these children, ok, when you went to stab them with your knife, Leanne [Flynn] protected them. So when you thank God for them not dying, don’t bother, you can thank Leanne."

https://t.co/Ra0wDDhD3e

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

Today we learned more details about the attack on three young children outside a creche in Dublin.

We already know that the Algerian Muslim responsible packed his belongings, grabbed his passports, and brought it all to a mosque on Talbot Street where they agreed to look after it.

Then he started hunting children.

Today it was revealed he initially planned on targeting another group of kids, but changed his mind because they were older and physically stronger than the kids he eventually attacked.

He waited, and instead attacked five and six year olds, the most vulnerable targets be could find.

When their teacher intervened, he stabbed her too, then went back to trying to kill the kids.

Why did he do this?

He said he was angry because he was denied a welfare payment.

[gript @griptmedia]

People Before Profit refuse to answer a Gript question about the Triple Lock, refusing to speak to @Ben_Scallan and dismissing the question through their press officer.

An Irish Times journalist then repeats Gript's question, which Paul Murphy immediately answers.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

It's all just so absurd when you think about it.

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Irish Jewish Voice @Irishchutzpah]

If the UN is saying this much imagine how bad it really is.

So @rtenews what you got to say?
So @MichealMartinTD what you got to say?

Sorry, i forgot it’s
#NoJewsNoNewsIreland

Its a total and utter fallacy to call Ireland Pro Palestinian

[Susanne Delaney @SuzieD755164]

What we have to decide is will we keep accepting the following type of crime:
Barbaric beheadings and castrations of gay men (sligo) attempted beheadings (more than one county), sword murders (Dundalk), a little girl left blinking as a means of communication and trapped inside her own mind, unable to speak of her trauma (Dublin, over an Algerians grievance with social welfare), a Persian woman being dispossessed of their head (Galway; and her young children left totally alone) probably for refusing to wear a hijab (and her abuser moved to an unsuspecting town, like priests of old), murders in towns that haven't seen one in 125 years (Clifden, and even then it was during the war of Independence), a man forced to their knees on a sunny afternoon in a nice spot, made to beg for their life and filmed, then choked strangled and beaten to death (Dublin; lured under false pretences), Gardaí and priests stabbed by jihadists (Galway and Dublin) a women being stabbed 11 times in the neck, almost beheading her, and completely severing her only means to cry for help (her voicebox...Offaly) while on a scenic run, a 17 year old Ukrainian being stabbed over 100 times (and had eyes gouged out) over the smell of bacon (Dublin) in unregulated "care". By a Somalian adult who was allowed to pose as a child and is being tried as a child. A 10 year old child raped at an IPAS hotel (Dublin) after mysteriously arriving there at 1 am when she was supposed be under the care of the state, girls being gang raped while in care (as per a UCD report), several verified attended kidnappings of children, and 8 year old girl sexually assaulted by a delivery driver in the middle of the day (Dublin), 3 people stabbed in the neck on their own respective door steps in the middle of the day (Dublin).

I could honestly go on and on and on and on. All verifiable cases. Easily googled. Reported in the mainstream. Now tell me who and what is destroying Ireland (and the UK and beyond). People who carried out these crimes. People like you who welcome them and call us hateful for being horrified. You need to stop now. Ok? Enough is enough. Your game is up.

[Libby20 🇮🇪 💜💚🤍 @EDays20]

@alandeane @griptmedia It could easily be scheduled that they have their appointments one after the other. You get put in a queue as you arrive with your file, easy to space them. No the patients and translators were all chatting in the same language.

[Irish Israeli 🇮🇪🇮🇱 @TheIrishIsraeli]

Delighted to see more and more opinions like this. Paddystinians have had the floor for way too long, people are finally seeing the hypocrisy in their sham of a movement

[gript @griptmedia]

The woman living in an IPAS centre who died in violent circumstances and was found with “serious neck injuries” in Clifden was the mother of two children attending primary school in the area.

The suspect was known to her and is a foreign national.

https://t.co/ycWFMGTu0M

[Kosher @koshercockney]

These people are ridiculous. Taken just hours apart

[Irish Jewish Voice @Irishchutzpah]

Letter in todays @IrishTimes which tackles the flotilla activists histrionics and the predictable response from @MichealMartinTD @HMcEntee @rte et al

Sir, – Micheál Martin’s hysterical over-reaction to the Israeli detention of Irish citizens participating in the Sumud flotilla embarrasses Ireland on the international stage yet again. These people were not innocent holidaymakers suddenly snatched at sea, but political provocateurs who desperately sought arrest and detention by Israeli forces. This event should be treated as the publicity stunt that it was.
The real injured parties here are the ordinary Israeli and Irish taxpayers who have to pay for the arrest and repatriation of these middle-class narcissists. The best way for this Government to stop the genuinely shocking humiliation and mistreatment of Irish citizens would be to focus on the homelessness crisis in Ireland, or the ever-growing hospital waiting list, and ignore the self-indulgent gimmicks of the anti-Israeli lobby. – Yours, etc,
DR DAVID WOODS,
Dept of Classics,
University College Cork.

[Libby20 🇮🇪 💜💚🤍 @EDays20]

@Irishchutzpah As a Catholic Irish woman all I had to see was Shani on that truck and I knew what side I was on, Shiri, Ariel and Kefir too, RIP to them all.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Muslims all over Europe are freaking out after Sweden made a historic and courageous decision: it will no longer use the term “Islamophobia,” coined by the Muslim Brotherhood, because it is a politically manipulated concept aimed at silencing criticism of Islam.

Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard announced that her government will push the European Union and the United Nations to stop using this fraudulent term.

The concept of “Islamophobia” was deliberately designed to equate legitimate criticism of Islamic doctrine with racism. It was weaponized to shut down discussion about core Islamic texts containing commands to wage war, rape, and subjugate non-Muslims.

Sweden just recognized what millions of Europeans already know: criticizing a religion that openly calls for the murder and sexual enslavement of non-believers is not a phobia, but basic common sense and self-preservation.

This is a massive blow to the Islamist lobby across Europe.

Do you agree with Sweden’s decision?