John Morgan

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

“So much of the supposedly pro-Palestinian sentiment – in politics, on campuses, on the streets – is fundamentally a displacement activity. Politicians & activists bereft of ideas for how to improve their own societies instead seek sanctuary in the moral glow of Palestinianism. Hence you have a figure like Harris, unpopular, unelected, directionless, devoid of ideas for how to fix Ireland’s housing crisis or its migrant crisis, who can nonetheless feel briefly important & even statesmanlike by standing before the cameras to say: ‘I recognise Palestine.’

“This is what ‘Palestine’ has become for the cultural elites of the West: a moral balm, a source of fleeting meaning, a soapbox from which they can grandstand on faraway affairs, having zero vision for closer-to-home affairs. That’s what’s most unforgivable about today’s reckless act of unwitting Hamas emboldenment – that these three leaders seem to value their own 15 minutes of virtue more than the pressing task of bringing peace to the Middle East by bringing to an end the racist army that started the current war.”

Brendan O’Neill with his usual dose of moral clarity.

https://t.co/dYX3Gp5Prq

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

https://t.co/YwcMn1YdOT

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

11/X

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

Petition: Update the Equality Act to make clear the characteristic “sex” is biological sex https://t.co/07Gtnyge0G

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Allison Bailey is a heroine to me and innumerable other feminists for refusing to abandon her beliefs and principles in the fact of intimidation and discrimination. Congratulations, @BluskyeAllison! 🎉

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

Both Sides Now from Joni Jam at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival https://t.co/vQclwXanCW via @YouTube

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

@Movie_Icons live version of "Stay" by Bowie

[Allison Bailey @BluskyeAllison]

This is excellent from Pamela Paul writing in the NYT on how both the left & right are betraying women. Her Twitter account was then suspended. This article is currently not behind a paywall. That may change. I'd read it now if I were you.
https://t.co/BpfHQiM5oY.

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

@ajoneswilkins @wser @BillyYang The coverage over the weekend was amazing on all levels, top class! I can't wait for next year as you made this classic race a must watch, so much appreciated!

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

HIRAETH - DARK MARK VS SKELETON JOE https://t.co/MtrQtgG0cl via @YouTube

[Michael Carlson @Carlsonsports]

Not nearly enough

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

The whole thing is incredible, and very clearly argued. Read the whole thing here in the English translation. It's not more than a 10 minute read. https://t.co/o3KkayyhkQ

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Here it is. This is the clip from yesterday's @CNN interview where I'm asked - for first time ever - about Brexit-Trump-Russia.

"These vital questions of national security have been interpreted as about politics. And it's not about politics. It's about power. And about Putin."

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Now @Keir_Starmer publicly misrepresents equalities law, in yet another indication that the Labour Party can no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights. But I repeat: women are organising across party lines, and their resolve and their anger are growing. 3/3

[Paul Caruana Galizia @pcaruanagalizia]

My investigation into how Evgeny Lebedev became a House of Lords member, against security services advice, shows his father is a Kremlin agent and offered to act as a backchannel between Boris and Putin over the Skripal poisonings. Producer: @gemmanewby.
https://t.co/LZw0qmwrj6

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

Screaming Trees - All I Know https://t.co/QS5HiuIcpF via @YouTube

[John Morgan @johnmorgan717]

Watch Mark Lanegan & Joe Cardamone’s “Traction / Manifesto” horror short https://t.co/oYtu1NCFCd @brooklynvegan

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

I am very much not leaving The Guardian, but I will now be contributing occasionally to Unherd. This is my first piece for them: Why I Stopped Being a Good Girl https://t.co/o3P77pqdYe

[Graham P ☮️ @gwpurnell]

Trans people aren't suffering erasure. A whole lexicon of deliberately confusing micro-identities defines who they are, and misidentification is an unspeakable horror.
Meanwhile, words that define women ARE being erased from our daily lives in the name of inclusion./3