Michelle Smith

Politics, finance, law...civilised society. MBA LLB

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@thecarolemalone Vike.

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@BBCNews @itvnews @SkyNews @GBNEWS

[Carole Malone @thecarolemalone]

OMG!!!!!!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm sorry the fact that I made a lot of money and use some of it to help defend women's rights makes you feel so angry and inadequate. On the bright side, you seem to have a nice dog, unless that's a stock photo.

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@ELonMuskNewssX Yes

[Red Line Report 🇺🇸 @RedLineReportt]

How many would want to watch?

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

Yes.
Who Agrees?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'The most dangerous moment in a woman’s life is when she stands up to an abusive man. Some [trans activists] appear to be itching for a confrontation; it is clear that someone could get seriously hurt... Refusing to speak is taking sides.'���️@polblonde
https://t.co/qHGTpKDy2R

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@RadioGenoa White secular women are afraid to walkinMuslim areas in Western clothing!😡😡

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Adolescence is tosh. What's doing real damage to teenagers is Starmer's spiteful Pol Pot hatred of anything aspirational or that requires effort

https://t.co/7rv3Q4Fdca

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@jk_rowling April Fool?

[Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott]

🤢 WHAT the hell?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I feel nothing but sympathy for some of those who kept silent while the gender wars raged around them. I’ve had literally thousands of emails on this subject and some of the most desperate have been from people who risk their livelihoods and face persecution and harassment if they speak up.

That said, I have zero sympathy for academics who did nothing to prevent illiberal and authoritarian activism stifling debate, freedom of speech and academic enquiry at their place of work. Defending those values is fundamental to academic life and you didn’t just fall short, you disgraced yourselves. Your inaction and cowardice enabled a campaign of persecution against one of your own that shamed @SussexUni.

There are times in life where we are confronted by clear moral choices, when there is no middle route. Either you stand up for freedom of speech and belief - yes, even up to the point of causing offence - or you bow down to a totalitarian culture that relies on intimidation and threats to sustain itself.

It’s deeply depressing to think that a university requires a punitive fine to make it wake up to the fact that it’s abandoned basic liberal values, but the OfS has at last drawn a much needed line in the sand. I wouldn’t bet against more monster fines to come, though. The University of Sussex is far from the only institute of learning where a culture of fear has been allowed to flourish.

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@RupertLowe10 You both need to shake hands and bring this to a close.

[Baroness Foster DBE #FreeIran🦁❤️ @jfoster2019]

@MichelleDewbs @VirginActiveUK Clearly @VirginActiveUK

don’t understand the law ..

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@jk_rowling @IndiaWilloughby Imagine this in refuges and women’s private spaces.
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[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@TalkTV @JuliaHB1 Mad hatter!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The people who most need to read this won’t get past the first paragraph. The rest of us sit wondering how we’ve reached the point where a journalist from a once-respected newspaper is consciously peddling arrant nonsense out of blind allegiance to an ideology.

[Michelle Smith @Michell93127596]

@VivekNewsX Yes…yes…yes!