Mark Aston

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@owenjonesjourno The only oppressed minority anyone can identify in & out of at will. 🤷‍♂️

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@KonstantinKisin For people to look at the country being invaded, by Darth Putin and think that UKRAINE was the bad guy in all this is astonishing.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@sharrond62 Look at that face though!

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@zarahussain999 @Nigel_Farage The only thing harmed in that crash is someone's no-claims bonus, get a grip.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

We can’t say we’re shocked that Andy Burnham has sacked Bridget Phillipson as Education Secretary.

One of her first acts as Secretary of State was to torpedo the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 (HEFSA) — arguably the most consequential piece of free speech legislation in the past 15 years.

She reversed the commencement orders that would have brought the Act’s most important provisions into force, including the vital complaints scheme.

Rather than asking Parliament to do so, she bypassed it through ministerial fiat. The Free Speech Union challenged this in the High Court on two grounds: first, that it breached the sacrosanct constitutional principle that a minister cannot defy the will of Parliament; and second, that she had failed to carry out an adequate impact assessment.

Days before the case was due to be heard, Bridget Phillipson partially U-turned, announcing that she would commence most of the key provisions — and she duly did.

We then became embroiled in a long-standing dispute over who had won the case. That mattered because it determined who would pay the legal costs.

The High Court decided that the Free Speech Union had won and ordered the Government to pay our costs.

Importantly, when Phillipson announced her partial U-turn, the Free Speech Union offered to settle if the Government paid £80,000 — around a quarter of our total legal costs.

Pretty fair, no?

Well, the Government refused. The Free Speech Union believes this was because Phillipson did not want to admit she had reversed course.

The High Court has now ordered the Government to pay all of our costs. Bridget Phillipson’s hubris has cost taxpayers around £200,000. Combined with the Government’s own legal costs, the total bill exceeds £500,000.

That also means we now have the resources to challenge Phillipson’s successor, Lucy Powell, should she attempt to reverse any of the commencement orders that bring HEFSA into force — including the much-needed complaints scheme for academics, university staff and visiting speakers, which is due to come into force on 1 September.

Hear from @SpeechUnion General Secretary Lord Young of Acton 👇

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

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[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@DreyfusJames We are all in hell together listening to that racket.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@CaraPac46808618 @MetroUK It literally is either one, or a combination of the following: deception, delusion or social contagion.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@CaraPac46808618 @MetroUK The solution is to stop with the trans charade. No one is born in the wrong body.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

78-year-old Ann Widdecombe was bashed on the head repeatedly with a hammer until she died.

Palestine Action is advertising "direct action" training for people who want to take up militant action using hammers.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@merky_canvas @Lfromthenorth If you can simply identify into an oppressed class, it isn't an oppressed class. I can't believe this needs to be said.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@BBCNews This is happening because gender-deceiving, cheating men tried to ruin women’s sports (in case you were wondering who to blame).

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@WingsScotland What a suitable example of why women don't challenge these nut jobs when they enter their spaces.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@esjesjesj She was so happy she chopped her tits off. 🤷‍♂️

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@Glinner He seems to have a self-imposed forced ignorance on anything other than his baked-in worldview. How can he not have known about the weaponisation of the word nazi to denigrate all right-wingers (yesterday’s centrists)? What a tool.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@0Calamity @thetimes Trans rights are privileges they were never entitled to. ‘Rights’ of men to enter spaces for women & children where they’re vulnerable. ‘Rights’ of men to be in women’s sports & women’s prisons. These ‘rights’ you speak of is just sexual predation & you can get fu**ed.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty UK was already smearing feminists as 'anti-rights' back in May, according to @thetimes. It appears that, far from being an accidental slip up or an editorial error, the latest defamatory report accurately represents Amnesty UK's deep-seated hostility to all organisations that believe sex is real and important in contexts such as same sex attraction and healing after sexual violence and trauma.

Those who've been defamed are owed an explanation of why Amnesty claimed to have withdrawn the report because of its 'language' when, per @thetimes article, it had already expressed exactly the same beliefs, in the same language, months previously.

Many of the organisations Amnesty has attacked are grassroots campaigners with a tiny fraction of a gigantic, well-funded international NGO's resources. The defamatory report has already had serious consequences for a service supporting women at the most vulnerable time of their lives, as detailed by Beira's Place lawyers in the legal letter sent two days ago. The withdrawing of the report cannot undo the harm it has already done and is continuing to do.

If Amnesty is under the illusion that the women's, children's and gay rights organisations it has attacked will be unwilling to go to court, they have made yet another massive error of judgement. They underestimate both the solidarity that exists between the targeted organisations and my willingness to support legal action, not just on behalf of Beira's Place, but for all women's and LGB organisations falsely branded 'anti-rights.'

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@Heccles94 Trans people ARE single sex, numbnuts, HOWEVER they delude or deceive themselves & others. Gender ideology is a fuckin’ low point for humanity & no mistake.

[Mark Aston @macduffintosh]

@SkyNews These places, businesses, that ditched single sex toilets need to sue organisations like Stonewall that told them, incorrectly, that it would be progressive to allow (for example) gender deluded/deceiving men to use women’s toilets.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

This is what they tweeted the day I lost my employment tribunal in 2019 and it was wrongly declared that gender critical beliefs were “not worthy of respect in a democratic society”