One of the most successful political tricks of recent years has been turning disagreement into bigotry.
Question gender ideology? Transphobic.
Criticise Islamic beliefs? Islamophobic.
Voice fears about unvetted migrants arriving in small boats? Racist.
Express doubts over the success of multiculturalism? Nazi.
Sometimes people aren’t motivated by hate. Often they’re simply good people with legitimate concerns.
A free society has to acknowledge this reality.
“If, as the BBC now accepts, it’s wrong to show white people dressing up as grotesque parodies of black people, how come it’s fine – indeed, wonderfully enlightened and progressive – to show men dressing up as grotesque parodies of women?”
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🚨 WOW. This brave Christian migrant from Iran walked up and WENT BERSERK on the proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX — straight to the council's face
The whole building ERUPTED after his dire warning:
"I'm a Sharia law survivor from Iran."
"I'm TELLING YOU, this is a BAD idea and you're going to REGRET not listening to people like us who lived under Sharia law!"
"I'm here to tell you this is a DANGEROUS ideology you're allowing in your country. Every country that is Islamic now, it used to be a Christian country and we were soft Christians."
"And we allowed these people to come in, bring their Sharia law into our countries and slowly k*ll us off left and right!"
"Let me make it very clear to you. Christianity is a personal relationship with God...Islam is Sharia law. Religion and state, which is not even compatible with the American thing and when these people will lie to you, to manipulate you."
"Because whenever Islam is little, they will lie to you and tell you they come in peace. This is level one!"
"Level two is what's happening in UK right now, where you have two-tier policing, where you have the blasphemy laws, Islamophobia, racism, all this nonsense that they talk about."
"Any time you criticize Islam, they will use the race card, but every country has this disgusting ideology inside their country, including my own country, Iran, Russia, Islamophobia is another made up bullsh*t because they don't want you to criticize their death cult!"
"If you question that disgusting book, they're get k*lled over it, just like my friends were apostates imprisoned or dead right now in Iran!"
HE NAILED IT!!!
I’m a gay man and a psychiatrist.
I’ve watched the explosion of rapid-onset gender dysphoria cases, especially in teenage girls.
I’ve seen the desistance data, the comorbidities, the regret, and the sterilizing effects of blockers + cross-sex hormones.
And I have never supported medicalizing children. Not once. Never.
Kids cannot consent to infertility, loss of sexual function, or permanent alteration of healthy bodies.
“Affirmation” is not neutral care — it is an ideological intervention that locks many of them onto a medical pathway most would have grown out of.
Being gay does not require me to pretend that sex is a spectrum or that a distressed 13-year-old girl is actually a boy. It requires the opposite: protecting same-sex attracted and gender-nonconforming kids from a medical fad that pathologizes them.
I will not shut up.
Since Jason Arday, I’ve been thinking about getting into Cambridge, and what it meant.
The culmination of years of headbanging hard work. Being a “swot” at school because I handed in homework instead of being popular. Yes, in a comprehensive the choice was that stark.
Carrying Tesco’s bags full of books home from the library on the bus for weeks. Piling the books high to create a rampart around my single bed.
Telling myself, “If you read all those books you’ll be good enough to get in.”
Some of the books I read - all of Graham Greene - were not considered “literature”. Not of the first rank, dear. I didn’t know.
As much Shakespeare as I could pack in - the big 4 Tragedies, all of the comedies. All of Austen, Forster (even Maurice FFS), lots of Dickens, Anna Karenina (devastating, wonderful).
I stopped going to school because I needed to read more, much much more. To be good enough to get in.
The Head of Sixth Form summoned me and said, “If you carry on like this you’ll fail your A levels.”
Ha! She hadn’t got a clue. I was working so far beyond A levels. Besides, I had to finish all the books in the rampart. Time was running out.
So hard, the entrance papers. Translating Proust into English. How?
Then, a passage of George Eliot I recognised - thank you God! Then pretending that I’d read Oliver Twist when I’d only seen the film. I called it Oliver! in my essay. With an exclamation mark - how crass. But the dons didn’t know the musical, maybe. I don’t know.
The only lie I told to get into Cambridge. Oliver! “All we ever get is groo-ell!” A really small, forgivable lie, I think, because the work of becoming good enough was so immense, so lonely.
But the surge of pride when I made it. Good enough to get into that unattainable place.
And now, we know that same Cambridge let in someone with two GCSEs - PE and textiles. A man who lied and lied and lied.
They didn’t just let Jason Arday in, they made him a Professor, one of those scholars kids like me revered. We were in awe - imagine being taught by those great minds.
Christ, Cambridge. What a betrayal of all of us who strove so hard to be good enough to deserve you. Who put you on a pedestal, who really truly thought reading hundreds of books was the price of admission, a price you willingly paid.
So much for the brightest and the best. It’s so disgusting on every level, waving in someone utterly unworthy, barely literate for crying out loud. A man at the mercy of the English language, not its master and commander.
A know-nothing Professor, a vacuous, fashionable fraudster hired to give lectures to kids like me.
So Cambridge could look “diverse” and, in so doing, renounced its ancient power which made so many like me strive to be good enough.
Perhaps the most disturbing element in the fantasy world of (ex)-Professor Jason Arday is not his proclivity to embellish his achievements (or lack thereof) in absurd ways that were easily exposed or Cambridge University’s facile complicity in his whole scam but that a reporter at Times Higher Education, who was looking into anomalies in Mr Arday’s dodgy CV, was subjected to a four-month police investigation for allegedly harassing him. The police need to be held to account for this abuse of police power to thwart a journalist from doing his job.
Wish me luck starting my new job as a @Cambridge_Uni professor today. They were impressed that I discovered penicillin, wrote Romeo And Juliet, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and vote for the Green Party.
Foto sacada a unos 250 metros de mi casa. Tengo 2 niñas (de 3 y 7 años de edad) que he tenido practicamene que escoltar hasta el puerto porque junto con mi mujer para que las 3 se fueran a Málaga.
No es solo que en una ciudad de 80mil personas hayan entrado 50mil, no, es que van por las calles con katanas.
Ceuta no se merece esto.
Bummer! Congratulations to Argentina on their win tonight. Some excellent banter on here. 😆
On reflection, it would have been amazing to beat you on the pitch tonight and we’d have given you plenty of stick.. but similar to 1986 and Diego’s grubby right hand (nevermind 1998 and Simones lack of core strength) it doesn’t give you the win that you’ll never have. 😘🇫🇰🇬🇧
Stonewall: We intend to trash our reputation, built up over decades, and betray the trust of millions of people, who will go on believing that we're still the good guys long after we've deserted the sound principles which once guided us.
Amnesty: Hold my beer...
As a former major fund-raiser for Amnesty - I produced the first five 'Secret Policeman's Balls' - I renounce the mob who have taken over Amnesty
Amnesty used to be about trying to do something about TORTURE