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[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Secretary of State responsible for the media has quit X — along with her department — because of what she says is the spread of misinformation, dubbing the platform a danger to democracy.

Despite professing to be a champion of free speech, Lisa Nandy also turned off comments on her post.

Lisa Nandy has served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the most authoritarian government in modern British history.

If she truly believes in free speech, was she not concerned that around 30 people a day are arrested for allegedly “offensive” social media posts? Why was she in the House of Commons only last week spearheading government plans to dictate what content citizens see online?

And if Lisa Nandy cares so deeply about democracy, why was she so quiet when the Government sought to cancel a significant proportion of this year’s local elections?

Most concerning of all, Lisa Nandy — a close ally of our next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham — would, if she remains in post, likely be the minister charged with leading the Government’s campaign against Britain’s free press, acting on the wishes of Burnham and Hugh Grant.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said: “DCMS is supposed to counter and deal with misinformation, not run away because it’s all too much.”

Read more below 👇

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The most chilling line in the Shabir Ahmed case isn’t that he raped children.

It’s that, 14 years later, parole judges say he still refuses to accept guilt, still believes it’s “acceptable to sexually abuse children”, STILL poses a high risk of reoffending – and the state’s response is: “sorry, automatic release, nothing we can do”.

This isn’t justice.

This is a bureaucracy so obsessed with sentence formulas and legal autopilot that it will knowingly release a self‑declared danger to children rather than admit the system it designed is broken.

When a man is too unsafe for parole but “safe enough” for compulsory release, that isn’t law – that’s moral bankruptcy dressed up as procedure.

[Biology in Medicine @biologyinmed]

@Mr_Pilchard @AnonInclusive @millihill Men can produce secretions from the nipple, induced by cross sex hormones and drugs. Babies sometimes produce milk-like discharge shortly after birth.
This is not lactation.
When a man attempts to suckle a baby, consider in whose interests he is doing this.
It’s not the baby’s.

[WRN Norfolk @WRNNorfolk]

Norfolk County Council Adult Social Services also have a problem collecting sex based data. It doesn't collect sex data.
Who approved this revised question and answers? "What is your gender?" has the options Male, Female or the dog's breakfast of "Living in a gender that is different from the one assigned at birth."

It's bad in a different way compared to the County Council 2024 pharmacy survey (on the right below) but still useless for sex based data analysis on the info provided by carers for vulnerable adults.

Sex based data is essential, Ian Wake, Director of Adult Social Services. Collect the right data, high quality, robust data on sex. It is critical to effective policymaking.

Note: No-one is "assigned a gender at birth". The Sullivan Review recommended against using the phrase ‘sex assigned at birth’. This phrasing is inaccurate and misleading, as sex is determined at conception and typically observed in utero or at birth.

@WomensRightsNet @SexMattersOrg @ProfAliceS

[David Ford @saltairebkshop]

A conference that shouts for the death of a country's young people, and giggles about it, shows us all its dark soul. Quite a contrast with the Nova exhibition which mourns the deaths of many young people and celebrates their lives

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

How about just concentrating on reducing the terrible decisions made, the empty courts when we have such backlogs and I could go on. However Lammy is just obsessed with diversity!

[Lin 🇫🇮 @Lfromthenorth]

"Management fully integrated her with young offenders despite being placed in the secure accommodation for social welfare reasons."

So she wasn't even a violent offender herself. Yet she was placed as the only girl on a ward with 15-17 y/o male violent offenders.

THIS IS WHY SINGLE-SEX SPACES AND CHILD SAFEGUARDING MATTERS!!!

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Lisa Nandy had no problem using X when it helped Labour get elected. She's posted on here over 10'000 times in total since 2009.

Now she's in government, facing far greater scrutiny, she's suddenly decided the platform is the problem.

After being Community Noted multiple times and turning off replies to many of her posts in the last 12 months, walking away from X looks less like a principled stand and more like an attempt to avoid criticism.

If you're in public office, scrutiny comes with the job. Running away from it is spineless.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Sultani Bakatash, 29, groomed a 14-year-old girl online on Snapchat before inviting her and a friend to his flat in Georgina Court, Bolton, on Dec 6.

There, he plied both 14-year-olds with alcohol before raping them while they were unconscious, Bolton Crown Court heard.

🔗:https://t.co/b6dKqMGnjk

[Genspect @genspect]

A great piece by Kathleen Stock on one of the fundamental problems with the proposed Conversion Practices Bill.

The bill treats “gender identity” as an innate, immutable human trait—but where is the evidence? There is no objective test, no biological marker, and no scientific consensus that gender identity is an inborn, lifelong characteristic. Yet the law assumes a person’s declaration reveals an enduring truth, despite many young people later desisting or detransitioning. Criminal law should not be built on contested concepts or unproven assumptions.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

This is an absolute scandal. The Foreign Office is spending £45 million over three years training LEBANESE police.

What the hell?

Bravo Richard Tice for speaking up for British taxpayers.
Enough with the suicidal empathy!
@TiceRichard

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The Conservatives are coming back!

It was brilliant to meet our fantastic members from across Yorkshire and the Humber. The energy, enthusiasm and commitment to our party’s future was incredible to see.

It’s a privilege to lead this party. Our members are why I’m so optimistic about what we will achieve together.

We’re building something special, and we’re only just getting started.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Worth a repost

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

This is Sumaya. She has been locked up at home for 1749 days, banned from going to school or university by the Taliban.

She pleads the world to listen. She begs Afghan girls to try & learn any way they can at home, so that they can rise and stand up for their basic human rights.
Still UN silent, world leaders silent 💔

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Important to remember that Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed worked for many years as a Welfare Officer in Labour-run Oldham Council.

[Katherine Deves 🇦🇺 @Katherine_deves]

Julia Gillard is a liar

She is in damage control mode

She is trying to diminish the role that she played in destroying women’s rights in this country in 2013 by claiming “it was a different time then”

No Gillard, I’ve read the Parliamentary papers and there were plenty of submissions made to your Senate inquiry that sounded the alarm on all the problems that we are having today - male predators and male opportunists weaponising law and policy to get access to female spaces, sports and services, and to punish and censor those who object

No fair minded Australian is going to believe her lies

She must apologise to the people of Australia for the damage done, and in particular to the many women (and men) who have been fighting this for years, often at great cost to themselves

Hold this former politician to account

#Australiafirst #auspol

[Sarah @Sarahw9111]

The hardest thing for me right now is for the last 11 years I’ve had to stay silent just so I could give all my abusers the right to a fair trial.

In the last 2 years I’ve been in 3 trials my last one been only in February.

Before my last trial I was just looking forward to freedom something I’ve never known, last year my health started to decline and in December I had to go for more test on my heart.

In January my cardiologist told me I needed a 4th open heart surgery and as soon as possible I begged and begged them to let me get this last trial over and they wasn’t sure that it would be possible.

They then admitted me into hospital for 4 days to put me to sleep to run even more test I sat on my hospital bed and cried and begged to give me a letter to say I was fit enough to stand trial.

My team have been with me since the beginning and knew how important this last obstacle was to me and agreed to do the letter on conditions that if I felt my heart couldn’t cope I’d have to go straight to hospital…

I got to that trial with riyasth Hussain and I sent that monster straight to prison for 20 years I then went to the sentencing and read my victim impact statement out while I stood in the box I walked past him I was a foot away I glared into his eyes showing him he couldn’t hurt another child or woman again !

I then got my hospital appointment for my open heart surgery met with the surgeon who told me I might not make it out alive because of how my heart is and at that moment my heart was stuck to my sternum which makes it even more dangerous before they could even try and fix my heart I took this on the chin and said let’s go for it.

The fact that I woke up from this surgery was a miracle but me been me I always put up a good fight…

I was finally free all I had to do now was when I was ready and fit enough was to put all the lies about my sister to bed .

I’m 10 weeks out from a surgery where my surgeon didn’t even know if I was gonna make it.

I’m now slapped with another fight the one I didn’t even this people was dumb enough to even consider.

We now have to fight for our freedom again our government is wanting to let out some of the most dangerous monsters.

You literally can’t make this shit up.

Not people that do petty crimes or some hurty words. CHILD ABUSERS !

I’m sure the whole of the county would feel safer with thieves on the streets and people that say some hurty words then monsters that abuse, rape and tortured childlen like me and thousands up and down the country!!!

I’m not gonna sit back and let this happen and i know the whole county stands with all of us survivors!!

This doesn’t just affect survivors of the past and present but this will affect all future victims of these crimes and it’s not ok !!!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Women have fought (and are still fighting) the single biggest land grab on their rights in my lifetime. Some have sacrificed their livelihoods and safety to combat a pernicious ideology that has infiltrated elite institutions, including government.

Women have been persecuted, harassed, smeared, roughed up and forced to take employers to court for discrimination. They've suffered severe detriments purely for believing what the Supreme Court has ruled to be reasonable and correct: that women are a definable biological class that has specific rights under the law to which males, however they identify, are not entitled.

Do these politicians have any shame? They sided with the persecutors, the issuers of death and rape threats, the violent men demanding access to women's and girls' protected spaces, including domestic abuse shelters, rape crisis centres and prison cells. Will any of them issue an apology or admit that they made a serious error in siding with well-funded activist groups lying about what the law actually said, and which had measurable, severe impact on some of society's most vulnerable women?

As another public wave of death threats is issued against women because of the Supreme Court ruling, their silence has become deafening. I'm just one of millions of women disgusted by the lack of accountability or remorse. We will not forget.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

This is a disgusting lie. We all watched the footage.

A young man was attacked by 4-5 people, @BrumPolice assaulted then arrested victim and let his attackers walk free.

IT WAS FILMED!

I hope the poor lad presses charges against the police and sues them. He will win.

[Family Education Trust @FamEdTrust]

The Pakistani ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang was judged “unsafe” to release into the community just 20 months before he was freed from prison.

Shabir Ahmed – who was jailed for 22 years for 30 child rape offences – was rejected for parole in October 2024 because of his risk of reoffending and refusal to engage with rehabilitation programmes, according to documents.

It was the third time Ahmed, 73, had been turned down for release by the Parole Board after refusing to accept his guilt and exhibiting “risk factors”, including a belief that it was “acceptable to sexually abuse children”. He had also attempted to seriously injure another prisoner.

However, the Ministry of Justice had no option but to free him on Thursday after 14 years in jail because his 22-year sentence had a fixed automatic release date two-thirds of the way through.

This is shocking - his victims deserve better than have him back in their community!

https://t.co/87P23JVbLI