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[Elaine Miller | Venus Envy @GussieGrips]

@MerchedCymru However, pretending these people don’t exist, ignoring their suffering and denying them help looks very like transphobia to me.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

6/ So I ask rhetorically, has the Government given any thought whatsoever as to how a bill which will prosecute parents for not using new pronouns or similar possibly be reconciled with well established family law and basic Article 8 human rights.

[Ronni Nicole #KPSS @RonniNicole1]

"Q Manivannan owns a £250k 'luxury' house in India... despite Greens' war on second home owners
And the hypocrisy doesn't stop there, as another new Greens MSP is a LANDLORD and rents out her second home in Glasgow"
https://t.co/dMQrTJw8I8

[Robbie Travers @RobbieTravers]

@Gillian_Philip That Baroness Lawrence pressured & lobbied those in positions of power not to invite Neville Lawrence, the father of her murdered son, to his memorial, was the final straw for me. What an extraordinarily callous action to pursue & she went about it very publicly at Westminster.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Ruth Hunt once disgracefully lied to a room full of people and said 50% of children denied puberty blockers attempted suicide.

That alone should frankly disqualify her from public life. She is a key architect of the gender ideology movement in the UK and an absolute disgrace.

[SaveGlasgowNow @HelpSaveGlasgow]

Here's Glasgow before the SNP dragged it into the gutter,
And before rampent illegal migration cursed our city,
Just for anybody who never experienced it
It wasn't perfect but it was a whole lot better than the social midden we have today.
https://t.co/WECUCoYAFK

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Mahmood's New Law Will Not Move Shabir Ahmed an Inch. Pakistan Has Made Sure of That.

Shabana Mahmood will stand up on Monday and announce that Britain has found a way to close the loophole that has kept Shabir Ahmed on these shores. It is a fix over half a century in the making, and it will change almost nothing.

The 1971 exemption that has sheltered Ahmed since his release was always the easier of two problems. Parliament can rewrite its own laws. It cannot rewrite Pakistan's. And Pakistan has no intention of taking him back regardless of what Westminster does. Islamabad disputes that Ahmed is even still its citizen, and has linked any deal over his return, and that of two fellow ringleaders, to a demand that Britain extradite Pakistani political dissidents living here, including a former cabinet minister who would likely face persecution on arrival. This isn't a technical dispute about paperwork. Islamabad has set a price, and Britain cannot pay it without abandoning people to the very regime they fled.

So the loophole was never really the wall. It was the excuse that let both governments avoid saying so. This matters because it reframes what Mahmood is actually doing. She is fixing the one part of this failure that was hers to fix, and leaving the harder truth, that Ahmed may simply stay, untouched. A perfect law passed on Monday still cannot force a foreign government's hand. The Government itself admits as much, briefing that a domestic fix is "confident" while the outcome "is now down to" negotiations with Islamabad it does not control.

Look further back and the loophole starts to look like the last link in a much longer chain, not the first cause. Police failed to tell Oldham council about a serious allegation against Ahmed in 2005. He was arrested in 2008 and freed without charge after a prosecutor decided his victim's evidence was "not credible." He went on offending for two more years before a different prosecutor, Nazir Afzal, finally reopened the case in 2011. A council review later found "serious multiple failures" that, had they not occurred, might have stopped him years earlier. The 1971 Act failed Ahmed's victims last. Everyone else failed them first.

Even prison could not resist him. Ahmed served part of his sentence as an appointed "equality representative," a title Afzal himself likened to putting the wolf in charge of the sheep. The same instinct that let a convicted child rapist run a grooming gang while working as a welfare officer for vulnerable children followed him behind bars and handed him a badge there too.

Chris Philp is right that Labour has adopted, days late, a fix the Conservatives proposed first. That is a fair political jab, but it is also beside the point. Both parties are now competing to close a door that was only ever half the problem. Neither has said plainly what happens if Pakistan simply keeps refusing, as it already has with two of Ahmed's co-conspirators.

Andy Burnham inherits this the moment he takes office. His test was never going to be whether Britain can rewrite one clause of a fifty-five-year-old statute. It is whether his government is willing to use every lever it actually controls. Visa sanctions on Pakistani nationals would be felt immediately and widely, far beyond the handful of officials involved in this case. Suspending or redirecting the tens of millions in aid Britain sends Pakistan each year would cost Islamabad more than any statement of regret has so far. Trade and diplomatic pressure, applied consistently rather than threatened once and dropped, would signal that Britain's patience has limits. None of these levers is comfortable to pull, and each carries its own cost. But a government willing to rewrite domestic law in days should be equally willing to say plainly whether it is prepared to use the tools that might actually work. Passing Mahmood's bill will let ministers say they acted. It will not tell Rochdale whether Ahmed is actually leaving.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Well, well, well... who could have guessed? Oh, that's right pretty much anyone with their eyes open.

[Lolo at the lochs- Repeal the GRA @LLochs85296]

@redrumlisa To frame the victims as responsible for their own murders. "If only she hadn't upset him..." "He couldn't live without the children...". Just ignoring that violent narcissists would burn down the world rather than have their ego's dented. Power and control not kind and loving.

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

For the love of God, did we not already roundly whack this stupid, girl-crushing genderism in schools & sports?
Do we have to do it all over again and, if so, why?
Which half-baked blancmange(s) is/are responsible?
Please, someone let me know.

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Anyone hear this story on the BBC Radio channels today - they played an interview from a guy who knows the suspected murderer who said he 'is kind and loves his family & daughters' why does the BBC do this? Its an insult to women & girls. Men who murder women & girls are not nice family men.

[Alan @A1an_M]

I see the Big Pharma fans are now focusing on what is or is not a "safe level" of folic acid in flour.

It's irrelevant. It should not be in flour AT ALL. The small number of people who are folate-deficient to the extent they might give birth to a child with a neural tube defect can, and should, be targeted specifically. We shouldn't be medicating the entire population with uncontrolled levels of pharmaceuticals that THEY DON'T NEED.

Here's what the government says the problem actually is:

"Despite longstanding UK public health advice recommending a daily supplement of 400 micrograms of folic acid before conception and during early pregnancy, uptake remains suboptimal, particularly among younger women and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds"

So they are admitting that their previous policies have failed, but rather than fix them with better targeting policies, they are now medicating the entire population.

It's a bit like the debate over Bovaer in the feed of dairy cattle. The "safe level" argument was irrelevant there, too. It should not be there AT ALL.

Cow burps are not causing global warming!

Folate deficiency in men, children and older women is not causing birth defects in babies!

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

the SNP policy puts a cap on the number of Scottish students able to study at University. It doesn’t open the opportunity to everyone, it excludes a great many.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You don't seem very good at big words, Tony, so I'll summarise this for you. The Mayo Clinic found testicular abnormalities in boys on puberty blockers which, they theorise, may mean an elevated risk of testicular cancer.

Girls put on Lupron (a puberty blocker) for early adolescence suffered seizures and bone thinning in adulthood as a result. These side effects have been known for many years now, but the pharmaceutical industry has found a wonderful new market for these powerful drugs, thanks to trans activism.

I understand that you and your ilk prefer to call other people 'retards' and 'cunts' for actually reading the studies rather than rushing to deny anything that disturbs the slogan repetition they call thinking, but try working a bit of factual evidence into your discourse. You never know, it might even get you laid.

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

‘Trans segregation’?Despicable lie.
EHRC Code safeguards women’s spaces from males. Your ‘outing’/risk hysteria = blackmail to erase female rights. Shame on 165 captured MPs. @BridgetPhillipsonMP Enforce it.

[Annemarie Ward 💜 @Annemarieward]

Today I received a message from someone outside Scotland's recovery community that genuinely moved me. They saw the video below and offered to help people travel to the UK Recovery Walk in Bradford, asking for no recognition, no thanks and no publicity. Their only concern was that nobody should miss out simply because they couldn't afford the journey.

It reminded me that recovery doesn't just belong to those of us with lived experience. It also belongs to the people who quietly stand alongside us, believing that everyone deserves the chance to be part of something hopeful.

The reality is that travel costs are a genuine barrier, particularly for people travelling from Scotland. If you've been thinking about supporting the Recovery Walk but weren't sure how, sponsoring someone's train ticket, petrol costs or coach fare is one of the most practical ways you can help.

If you'd like to make a contribution, no matter how small, every penny will go directly towards helping people who would otherwise be unable to attend.

And if you're someone who wants to come to the Recovery Walk but the cost of getting there is putting it out of reach, please get in touch. Thanks to this generous act, we've been able to start a small travel fund, and we'd love to help where we can.

This is what community looks like.

Bank details: Name: FACES & VOICES OF RECOVERY UK
Bank: The Co-operative Bank
Sort code: 08-92-99
Account number: 67447936

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

The ‘optics’ of banging up mums and dads for trying to stop their kids being pumped with puberty blockers … that’s going to be amazing.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Funny

[James Barbour @Honeythedog1]

SNP faces court action from donors demanding repayment of independence funds https://t.co/3YUiN5Lsw4 no wonder the corrupt incompetent SNP can’t give us the financial strategy to make Indy work. Their strategy? Just steal other peoples money and call it your own! #SNPout