@AllisonPearson If only there was more newly qualified staff like nurses, midwives, paramedics...oh wait, THERE ARE!! Loads of young people, fully qualified, up to their eyes in student debt, ready and willing to work but no vacancies for them in the NHS. My daughter is one of them.
@BBCBreakfast If only there was more newly qualified staff like nurses, midwives, paramedics...oh wait, THERE ARE!! Loads of young people, fully qualified, up to their eyes in student debt, ready and willing to work but no vacancies for them in the NHS. An absolute disgrace.
Jesus attended Hanukkah celebrations (John 10:22).
Jesus was a victim of unjust violence (John 19:16โ18).
Jesus wept at the death of a fellow Jew (John 11:35).
#JesusWeepsForBondi
@amolrajan please ask the health minister what he intends to do about all the newly qualified paramedics from universities, who are up to their eyes in student debt and can't get placed in a job.
@uuponline Fireworks? That's a priority for the UUP? When our health service is not fit for purpose (speaking from personal experience) and you're worried about how fireworks affect dogs? Give me strength...
@mariacaulfield@itvpeston Paramedics too. It's an absolute disgrace which the public generally aren't aware of. So many young graduates, up to their eyes in student debt, itching to get started and no jobs available yet. My daughter is one of them.
Over two million impressions today for my interview with the remarkable Eli Sharabi who survived 491 days with Hamas
Triumph of the human spirit faced with fathomless cruelty.
Read here ๐
https://t.co/PBBq3Kw4VE
It is "unacceptable" that people are still waiting too long for a cancer diagnosis and treatment in Northern Ireland, a Cancer Research spokesperson has said. https://t.co/FI1pXPRDq5
The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace.
'Diversity officer' Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn't bother consulting the 1992 regulations guaranteeing single-sex spaces when she told a trans-identified male, Dr Beth Upton, to use the female changing room at the hospital where he was working. Bumba justified this decision with comments that I assume sounded really clever and convincing, inside her own head.
'I donโt know anything about Bethโs body. I didnโt at the time. I donโt now. I donโt need to know. But it wouldnโt be something that I would ever have the information of exactly what she is made of, biologically.'
Kate Searle, a consultant in emergency medicine, backed Bumba up, expressing outrage on the witness stand that anyone would be so insensitive as to ask about Upton's chromosomes.
โI could only imagine how upsetting and invasive a question that would be for Beth, and also not relevant to a colleague to ask another colleague. Beth identifies as female, and it does not matter what her chromosomes are to her.โ
In Bumba and Searle's world, a belief that gender identity trumps biological sex is proof you're intellectually and morally superior to women like Sandie Peggie, so I'd imagine it's come as a shock to discover, in a blaze of public and press scrutiny, just how idiotic and cruel they appear to people outside their dinner party circle.
When Upton, a 6' tall, 28-year-old ex-rugby playing male, claimed that a petite 50-year-old female nurse was making him feel 'unsafe', his word appears to have been taken as gospel. Searle, Bumba and management fell over themselves to coddle the middle-class doctor who shared their voguish post-modern views on gender. What did Sandie matter? She's just one of those ghastly uninformed bigots who still thinks sex is real and important - so embarrassingly gauche and simplistic! Whisper it - she probably drinks red wine with chicken, too.
According to @tribunaltweets, an emotional Searle blurted out on the stand 'I am kind.' This is not something genuinely kind people need to say. Genuinely kind people don't find themselves compelled to explain in court why they helped whip up a witch-hunt against a woman whose only crime was wanting to change her clothes without a man watching.
Well, the nurse who was supposed to shuffle off in disgrace wasn't having it. Sandie Peggie refused to be sacrificed on the altar of elitist ideologues who believe themselves to be higher and better than she is. She fought back, for herself and for every other woman who's currently being silenced, persecuted and punished by a smug management class that preens itself on its virtue while imposing rampantly misogynistic policies on its workforce.
Sandie Peggie is a heroine. The woman NHS Fife thought they could treat abominably without any consequences to themselves has succeeded in shining the brightest spotlight yet upon the brain rot and compassion deficit suffered by supposedly intelligent people when they embrace gender identity ideology. Women everywhere owe her a debt of thanks. Whatever the outcome of this tribunal, Sandie Peggie has already won.
After my very brief appearance in a video by the (c)rap โbandโ Kneecap as they took to the stage at Glastonbury, I broadcast my thoughts on them and the antisemitic Bob Vylan on my @TalkTV programme.
There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate.
1. You're a man and I'm a woman.
2. You've been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn't become well known until I was well over 30.
3. I've never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain.
4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.
For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services. That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don't stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don't have the money/influence I have now.
You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.
Lastly, I'm a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.